The Fugitive
By: John Grisham
Pages: 250
Publisher: Hachette
Price: Rs 299
Theodore Boone, teenage lawyer and courtroom hero, is on a class trip seeing the sights of Washington DC when he becomes embroiled in the hunt for an accused murderer, alongside the FBI. Theo knows he’s getting in deep and things could become dangerous.
35 and Sexless in Ahmedabad
By: Robin David
Pages: 213
Publisher: HarperCollins
Price: Rs 325
This is a darkly comic story about a lonely man’s quest for real connections in times of virtual connectivity —a misfit artist’s alienation in a conservative city. When psychologists and Google fail him, he embarks on a Kafkaesque journey to find answers.
Baluta
By: Daya Pawar
Translated by: Jerry Pinto
Pages: 299
Publisher: Speaking Tiger
Price: Rs 350
One of the first Dalit autobiographies to be published, Baluta, by Marathi poet Daya Pawar, caused a storm with its candour and depiction of the cruelty of the caste system. This is the first English translation of this classic of Indian literature.
S#!T Called Board Exams and Terrorism
By: Jitendra Jain
Pages: 182
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs 195
Assam. The 1990s. Two 16-year-old boys are preparing for their Board exams. The world outside is on the verge of a collapse with an ongoing insurgency and constant bandhs. Things take a turn for the worse when one of them gets kidnapped.
Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey As Told By Christian
By: E L James
Pages: 576
Publisher: Arrow
Price: Rs 499
Christian Grey exercises control in all things; his world is neat, disciplined, and utterly empty —until Anastasia falls into his office. He tries to forget her but is swept up in a storm of emotion he cannot comprehend and cannot resist.