2025 Goodreads Choice Award Finalist for Readers’ Favorite Historical Fiction
“Andrea Catalano draws a tender, intimate portrait of a marriage and a bold defense of an independent woman ahead of her time.” —Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code
A gripping and intimate novel based on the true story of Margaret Jones, the first woman to be found guilty of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Massachusetts.
Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1646
Thomas and Margaret Jones arrive from England to build a life in the New World. Though of differing temperaments, cautious Thomas and fiery Margaret, a healer, are bound by a love that has lasted decades. With a child on the way, their new beginning promises only blessings.
But in this austere Puritan community, comely faces hide malicious intent. Wrong moves or words are met with suspicion, and Margaret’s bold and unguarded nature draws scorn. Soon, Margaret is mistrusted as more cunning woman than kind caregiver. And when personal tragedies, religious hysteria, and wariness of the unknown turn most against her, even the devotion Margaret and her husband share is at risk.
Inspired by actual diary entries and court records, The First Witch of Boston is at once the riveting story of a woman unjustly accused and a love story set amid the political and social turmoil of both Old and New England. Harrowing, and with a deep understanding of the human heart, history is brilliantly imagined.
In the heart of Bengal, Kali is an overwhelming emotion spanning religion, history, myth, gender, culture, art, environment, and so much more. She is felt and feared, loved and lived. She is also widely misunderstood. Social misinterpretations have morphed inherited beliefs into superstition and stereotype.
But Kali is no single story, even within Bengal. And Kali consciousness is a vast landscape, experienced through symbols, instincts, rituals and nature, too intense to comprehend in one lifetime.
Koral Dasgupta studies myth, memory, and lore — tracing the popular avatars and names of the goddess. The Legends of Maha Kali from Bengal (Vol. 1) revisits the purpose, perception and presence of Mahamaya, Chamunda, Shyama Maa, Dakhina Kali, Maa Tara, Bama Kali, among others, through an evocative collection of stories that weave philosophy into narrative fiction.
Here, love pulls up a chair—
unhurried, luminous, willing to stay just long enough to be remembered.
Love rarely arrives all at once. It lingers in a glance across a tea shop, a forgotten train ticket, shared silences, partings, and the quiet miracle of two souls meeting.
In Seven Shades of Love, Debashis Chatterjee traces love through affection, desire, companionship, separation, vulnerability, growth, and freedom, revealing how love transforms, deepens, and quietly sets us free. These are poems to return to, for those quiet moments when memory, longing, and hope unexpectedly find their way back to you.
From the #1 bestselling author of The 5AM Club and The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari comes a profoundly moving story about becoming fully human in our technology-filled, distraction-driven world – and discovering what’s most important to a life of happiness, wonder and purpose.
Meet Niko, a talented coder who seemingly has it all: social status, luxury goods and a sleek, high-rise apartment. His world is filled with technology designed to make him more productive, relevant and successful. But lately, Niko’s days blur together. His life is a rush of busyness, leaving him flooded with pressure and empty of joy.
When Niko’s estranged grandfather, a billionaire tech titan, suddenly dies, Niko must confront a painful past. At the funeral, Niko encounters the cemetery caretaker, who stuns Niko with a simple observation: ‘A life can be impressive and still be unlived.’
The Gardener presents Niko with an unusual offer: meet at dawn and join him in his work at the graveyard. The invitation strikes Niko as odd, but, as he observes the Gardener and his plain clothes, with a peaceful face and hands worn from laboring in the sun, something deep and honest pulls at him.
In the weeks that follow, Niko begins to shed the restless craving and lack of fulfillment had marked his life. He learns the joys of slowing down, the wisdom of simplicity, and original lessons from human lives beautifully lived. He discovers nature and its teachings for the first time in years. And he stops seeking the approval of others and behaving artificially – recognising that being true to one’s self is a great source of power and that the past is not a burden, but a valuable guide. But just as Niko embraces in his newfound path, the outside world threatens to bring it crashing down.
Returning to the parable form of his massive global bestsellers, Robin Sharma in The Robot and the Gardener shows us that our greatest worth comes not from optimizing ourselves into oblivion and rushing through our days but from remembering what makes us human and honoring the gifts hidden within every life.
Some stories end with love. Some begin with a lie.
Having successfully penned Aisha and Rohit’s story, Aditya stumbles upon a case that he cannot forget.
At the centre of it is the ambitious, career-oriented Aarav, and the carefree Rhea. When they cross paths at an examination centre, love blossoms as it usually does, but ends in a way you could never have imagined.
A young doctor. A shocking accusation. A love that was never meant to
end this way.
As Aditya digs deeper, he finds himself pulled into a dangerous web of love, betrayal, power and deception—where the truth may be far darker than anyone imagined.
Known for his heartbreaking and bestselling romance novels, Aditya is back with another gripping read, returning to a world where love can heal, destroy and sometimes leave wounds that time cannot erase.
Old stories resurface.
New secrets emerge.
And some truths come at a devastating price.
When love is punished by destiny, can forgiveness ever be freedom?
A gripping sequel to the bestselling Until Love Sets Us Apart, this novel takes readers deeper into its world, connecting old wounds with new betrayals and uncovering secrets that refuse to stay buried.
When love is punished by destiny, can forgiveness ever be freedom?
Devavrata stands on the brink of becoming Bhishma. Amba’s humiliation hardens into vengeance. Dhushasana steels himself for an act that will scar history. Bhima waits for the moment to strike Kichaka. Karna wrestles with the consequences of using the all-powerful Shakti on Ghatothgacha. Abhimanyu contemplates before entering into the Chakravyuha on the Kurukshetra battlefield.
These are not stories of gods and heroes. They are stories of desire and doubt, rage and love, ambition and guilt—of ordinary human emotions colliding with extraordinary destinies.
In this extraordinary retelling of the Mahabharata, Mahakshana, Arun Krishnan steps inside the minds of the men and women who shaped Bharatavarsha, capturing them at the instant when choice becomes destiny.
An irresistible novel of fame, power, beauty and truth – and a blazing renovation of the form.
A little while ago, I told the actor M that I was thinking of writing her autobiography. She liked the idea. She’s a good sport. Would you just make it up? she said.
The film star M is one of the most recognizable faces of our time. Her image is everywhere. It has been like that since she was a child.
With such fame, her life has the appearance of freedom: people are instantly obliging, spaces are altered to accommodate her, time can be rearranged. M may live in the same places as real people. She may meet her friends or collect her children from school or walk her dogs as they do. But it seems the rules of reality have melted away.
Now, a writer has decided to pay close attention to M’s life, in the hope of understanding who she really is. It is hard not to feel ugly next to M, hard not to feel insignificant. But what truths-about the very experience of living-might this proximity allow the writer to briefly capture? Is M to play a character in the book, or is it the writer who is acting the role of M?
In this astonishing, explosive novel, Rachel Cusk hunts for the nature of truth without ever swerving away into self-deceptions. She investigates who we are, and pretend to be, at this late stage of modern life when we are hypnotized, more and more effectively, by the images we see everywhere. She shows us that the real value of life might lie not in beauty but in ugliness; in having a self that has survived the violence of the world. Life of M is a beautiful piece of music, audible in a world of noise and spectacle.
‘[Cusk] is a disciple of the truth, and she helps us to see – Lucy Jones, Independent
‘Roll up, wave a flag and join the crowds to watch Rachel Cusk continue her relentless march through life. – Irish Times
Raghav is a brash but brilliant young psychiatrist in search of the ultimate case study. His quest leads him to the rumoured-to-be-haunted haveli of Kalipur, where one unsettling night changes everything.
Determined to uncover the truth behind what he witnessed, Raghav begins digging into the haveli’s dark past. But its inhabitants are hiding secrets of their own—and the deeper he goes, the harder it becomes to tell what is real and what is not.
Soon, Raghav is no longer just racing to finish his research paper. He is fighting to hold on to something far more precious: his own sanity.
The National Defence Academy (NDA) is where sleep is optional, pain is compulsory, and the shortest distance between two points is usually a punishment run.
Meet the boys who arrive dreaming of uniforms, glory, and adventure. The Academy, however, has other plans. After three years of ragda, impossible instructors, spectacular blunders, questionable decisions, unforgettable friendships and stories that will be retold for decades, they discover why every ex-cadet swears he’ll never go back. And spends the rest of his life wishing he could.
Welcome to the Academy.
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Across decades and cities, A Good Family traces the lives of three generations of Indian women shaped by love, silence, and the weight of expectation.
From Chitra, uprooted from Kerala to a Delhi she never learns to call home, to her daughters Shuchi and Yamini, and finally to Tara, who grows up carrying what remains unspoken, this is a story of what families build, and what they quietly break.
As respectability, duty, and denial shape their choices, each woman must confront the cost of belonging to a family, to a place, and to herself. A Good Family is a deeply observed, unflinching portrait of how love, trauma, and silence echo across generations.
