The Mulberry Courtesan by Sikeena Karmali In 1857, the shadows are falling thick and fast on what is left of the Mughal empire. The last emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, is a broken, bitter man in his eighties who has retreated into religion…
Aleph to Publish The Hippie Trail by Dr. Sharif Gemie and Dr. Brian Ireland About the book: This is the first detailed history of the Hippie Trail in the 1960s and 1970s. Going beyond the dozens of personal memoirs and…
CELEBRATE THE SPIRIT OF FIFA WORLD CUP 2018 WITH THESE FASCINATING READS FROM BLOOMSBURY Ever pulsating world of football, a dense network of super rich magnates who own the soccer clubs; origins of English premier league; a charismatic manager…
HOME FIRE by Kamila Shamsie wins 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction BLOOMSBURY INDIA is proud to announce that our author Kamila Shamsie is 2018 winner of Women’s Prize for Fiction At an awards ceremony in Bedford Square Gardens in central London last night, Wednesday…
Bloomsbury to Publish You’ve Got the Young Girl by Sreemoyee Piu Kundu What if the wrong girl is the one right for you? About the book: On a sultry night, on a deserted lawn overlooking a moonlit Taj Mahal, two strangers make passionate…
Bloomsbury to Publish Sita’s Curse by Sreemoyee Piu Kundu Somewhere, behind close doors, in her solitary world; somewhere under the sheets with an indifferent lover; somewhere, is a woman who will not be denied… About the book: Trapped for fifteen years in…
Bloomsbury to Publish Faraway Music by Sreemoyee Piu Kundu A liberated, dynamic and successful writer, Priya has everything she has ever wanted, until she’s revisited by her past… About the book: Faraway Music is the story of a young Bengali girl, and her…
Pan Macmillan to Publish Rafina by Shandana Minhas Genre: Fiction Literary Contemporary Fiction – Novella Imprint: Picador India Hardback Price: Rs 450 172 pp Brilliantly observed, delightful and heartbreaking, this is the story of seventeen-year-old RAFINA and her big dreams…
Rupa to Publish Dare Dreamers by Kartik Sharma About the book: India’s first start-up of superheroes with a mission of saving lives is here to kick ass. Rasiq is riding the highs of life thanks to his successes as an investment banker. But his…
Rupa to Publish Unfettered Wings by Sana Munir About the book: From the barren dust bowl of Nushki, a small town in Balochistan, to the posh white marble bungalows and magnificent mansions of Lahore, this book captures vignettes of the lives of Pakistani…
Rupa to Publish The Kaafir’s Love by Abhisar Sharma About the book: Two dramatic incidents shake up the tenuous peace in an Old Delhi neighbourhood—a terrorist commits suicide in Jama Masjid and an influential trader is shot near the same spot. As simmer…
Rupa to Publish Politics for a New India by Shriprakash Singh About the book: This book may be treated, but with precaution, as indigenization of political science in India. This book is a modest attempt to seek an identity for Bharatiya Ways of…