2013 was a good year for Indian bibliophiles. Several eagerly-awaited books hit bookstores, only to fly off the shelves; Jhumpa Lahiri’s Lowland, Manuscript Found In Accra by Paulo Coelho, Preeti Shenoy’s The One You Cannot Have, Sycamore Row by John Grisham. The Booker Prize this year was widely hailed as “The best shortlist in a decade”. Indian literary festivals proliferated, with some cities hosting two or even three!
Author: Rahul Pandita
Publisher: Random House
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9788184000870
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Publisher: Random House
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9788184000870
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Shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award 2013 in the non-fiction category, Our Moon Has Blood Clots tells the oft-ignored stories of Kashmiri Pandits, forced out of their homelands and with no end in sight to their struggle.
Author: Rohit Gore
Publisher: Grapevine India
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9789381841280
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“Who is the first person flashing in your mind when you hear this book’s title, The Guardian Angels?”
Imagine a ‘Brobdingnagian’ picking you up by your shirt all of a sudden, and placing you in the middle of a monsoon-time Mumbai pulsating in its bustling spirit? A surprisingly-delightful teleportation it would be. This is how you’ll feel when you flip through the starting pages of Rohit Gore’s The Guardian Angels.
Author: Patrick Suskind
Publisher: Vintage; Later Printing Edition
Year: 2001
ISBN: 9780375725845
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“There are scents that linger for decades.” It is these scents of 18th century Paris that author Patrick Suskind dedicates his novel Perfume to. Exploring the psyche of an unusual psychopath, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, Suskind weaves a tale of a man frighteningly disconnected from humanity, lost in single-minded pursuit of “the fleeting realm of scent.”
Author: Tarquin Hall
Publisher: Arrow Books (Random House)
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9780091937423
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In his fourth offering, Vish Puri sets out on a quest to solve what seems like a simple case of kidnapping and ends up excavating a completely new conspiracy of shocking magnitude that puts his life in peril.
Whether you are a Scrooge, a Grinch or a firm believer in the power of stockings, Christmas is a holiday which never fails to envelop you with its magic and the warm, emanating smell of plum cakes. With a holiday in the middle of the week, the crisp chill in the air, a cup of hot chocolate with floating marshmallows and a good Christmas-sy book, the holiday cheer cannot fail to put you in the perfect mood. With that thought in mind, here is a list of our top 5 Christmas books we urge you to read this Christmas under that warm blanket which keeps beckoning to you.
Author: Priya Narayanan, Illustrated by Sunita Mitra
Publisher: Leadstart Publishing
Year: 2012
ISBN: 9789381576342
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Teased by his friends, the stars, because he has a dark patch, the moon is shattered. He asks Mitu for help. Mitu in turn approaches Dhobi Kaka. At the end of a nocturnal adventure, the moon is spotless white. The moon is mighty pleased when he meets his friends, but very soon he is back to being dirty. This time, however, the moon realises that there is more to life than appearance. The moon and his friends get together in a satisfying ending.
Author: Preeti Shenoy
Publisher: Srishti Publishers
Year: 2011
ISBN: 9789380349305
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Life is What You Make it is a fictional best seller by author Preeti Shenoy. The book is the story of Ankita Sharma, a girl in her twenties. It focuses attention on a little known disease- Bipolar disorder.
Author: Lauren Weisberger
Publisher: Harper Collins
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9780007498062
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Eight years after quitting her job at The Runway, Andrea Sachs is back as a successful magazine editor with a solid marriage and a little baby girl when Andy’s formidable former boss Miranda Priestly resurfaces in her life, driving her to the edge. Will she be able to handle her this time?
Author: Ross Reck
Publisher: Westland
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9789383260096
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