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Author: Itisha Peerbhoy
Publisher: Penguin Books
Year: 2014
ISBN: 9780143423089
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I had an attack of conscience when I flipped past the books I had read over the past few months and nary could an Indian name be found among them. So, in an attempt to be better informed about my cultural zeitgeist, I took one for the team (WILDCATS!)
Author: Stephen Alter
Publisher: Aleph Book Company
Year: 2015
ISBN: 978938306404
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A son of American missionaries, author of ‘Becoming a Mountain’ – Stephen Alter was born and brought up in India. Despite living all over the world, he calls Mussoorie – a small hill station in the foothills of the Himalayas, home.
Author: James Paterson & Maxine Paetro
Publisher: Random House
Year: 2015
ISBN: 9780099574279
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In Unlucky 13 The Women’s Murder club convene again to solve the gruesome belly bomb killings while an old villain is set to take out her revenge!
Author: Chandan Nandy
Publisher: Rupa Publications
Year: 2014
ISBN: 9788129134
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The Night It Rained Guns is a journalistic account about the Purulia Arms Drop that took place in December, 1995.
Author: Khushwant Singh (Author), David Davidar (Editor), Mala Dayal (Editor)
Publisher: Aleph Books
Year: 2014
ISBN: 9789383064755
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“99” is not a genre-redefining book by any stretch of imagination but it gets its basics correct as an anthology. Couple that with the natural dynamism of Singh’s writing and you get a good bedside companion for many a long winter night.
Author: Sudha Murty
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Year: 2014
ISBN: 9780143422259
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The Mother I Never Knew contains 2 novellas about men searching for mothers they never knew they had.
Author: George R. R. Martin
Publisher: Bantam Books
Year: 1998
ISBN: 9780553381696
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After a kingdom starts to fall apart, the second installment of his addictive A Song of Ice and Fire series has author George R. R. Martin getting his characters fighting one another to claim the Iron throne.
Author: Bani Basu
Publisher: Random House India
Year: 2014
ISBN: 9788184005721
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Bani Basu is the Sahitya Academy Award winning author of novels like The Marble Salver, Twenty One Steps, The Birth of the Maitreya etc, all of them written in Bengali. Her latest offering is The Fifth Man which has been translated into English by Arunava Sinha.
Author: R.K. Narayan, Illustrated by Lavanya Naidu
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Year: 2014
ISBN: 9780143333258
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Malgudi Schooldays is a new, illustrated edition of Swami and Friends, meant to appeal to younger children.
Author: Gayathri Ramprasad
Publisher: Random House India
Year: 2014
ISBN: 9788184005196
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Not a greatly written book (Ramprasad is no Rushdie) but a greatly wrought life. Not of a mighty philosopher, nor of a gifted poet, but of one unknown and born common; of a child, daughter, girl, sister, lady, wife, mother, human, conqueror of mental-illness.