Cometh the Hour
By: Jeffrey Archer
Publisher: Macmillan
Pages: 420
Price: Rs 599
This sixth and penultimate addition to the Clifton Chronicles series continues with the Cliftons and the Barringtons in the 1970s—their family fortunes and travails, love affairs, political and business dramas. Archer continues his storytelling magic to create characters of spellbinding substance, and readers can count on his surprising twists and shocking conclusion.
The Girl Who Ate Books
By: Nilanjana Roy
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 356
Price: Rs 499
Bringing together writers across generations—from Khushwant Singh to Arundhati Roy—The Girl Who Ate Books gives us a ringside view of the theatre of Indian writing in English over several decades, and especially the last two. Written in the author’s understated but unfailingly elegant style, this is an essential collection for those who live to read and read to live.
New Songs of the Survivors
By: Yvonne Vaz Ezdani
Publisher: Speaking Tiger
Pages: 220
Price: Rs 350
Drawing primarily on recollections from the survivors and descendants of Burma’s once-thriving Goan community, this book is the first attempt to write an oral history of the ‘Forgotten Long March’—one of the biggest and most harrowing migrations in recent history. These heartwarming memoirs are a testimony of their courage.
Of Love and Other Sorrows
By: Ashok Chopra
Publisher: Penguin
Pages: 258
Price: Rs 599
A memorable volume presenting the major works of ten modernists—from Gunter Grass to Nadine Gordimer—who have made a definitive impact on literature and history. This is a work marked by scholarship, eloquence and erudition. The author’s sincere and sensible treatment of the subject has made the narrative eminently readable.