Format: Paperback Publisher: Doubleday ISBN: 9780385538039 Pages: 240 Price: 557 INR ‘A billion husbands are about to be replaced.’ Should you be worried? Not unless you are Palahniuk’s working staff. Making five dollars an hour and unable to pay his bills, Chuck Palahniuk had to say goodbye to learning journalism and greet workers daily at...

Format: Paperback Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 9789350292259 Pages: 274 Price: 350 ‘Tyrewala’s insightful introduction greatly enhances the reading experience… The collection is astonishingly diverse… Tyrewala’s anthology offers a sampling of brand-new authors and a superb introduction. It might provide a fictional contrast to Katherine Boo’s ‘Behind the Beautiful Forevers’.’ – Library Journal. It’s quite a...

Format: Paperback Published by: St. Martin’s Paperbacks ISBN: 978031299046 Pages: 424 Price: 399 INR ‘Reilly hurls readers into an adrenaline-drenched thrill ride … impossible to put down!’ – Orlando Sentinel What many people are not aware of is that ‘Contest’ is Matthew Reilly’s first novel. The inspiration for him to pen this debut down came...

Format: Paperback ISBN: 9789381626184 Pages: 194 Price: 250 INR Growing up and staying trapped in a large bubble of prosperity, all we care for these days are the petty things in life. No wonder state of being presently is so pathetic. We are like dogs chasing tails. The only difference being the tail is money....

Publisher: Puffin Classics Format: Hardcover ISBN: 9780141331119 Pages: 208 Price: 250 INR I found this thin book by chance at a local library, amidst titles like ‘David Copperfield’ and, funnily enough, ‘Aesop’s Fables’. With a brown hardbound cover, this made for a very different, but not quite an interesting read in the one hour that...

Published by: Penguin Format: Paperback ISBN: 9780749953133 Pages: 370 Price: 699 INR ‘Brilliant! Rich with fully formed characters and stunning psychological drama, this heart-gripping novel will keep you riveted from first page to last.’ – Jeffery Deaver. The joy of reading a book years after you first come across it knows no bounds. The mark...

Format: Paperback Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics ISBN: 9780140274172 Pages: 117 Price: 299 INR ‘One of those books that marks a reader’s life indelibly.’ – William Boyd. ‘Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don’t know.’ A long time ago, Camus summed up ‘The Outsider’ in a sentence which is extremely paradoxical: ‘In our society, any...

Publisher: Orion ISBN: 9781409110972 Format: Hardcover Price: 295 INR Pages: 400 “Nobody writes action like Matthew Reilly.” – Vince Flynn. To say Matthew Reilly is the king of action would be an injustice to a few dozen writers capable of doing the same around the world. But to put in a more slighted way, Reilly...

Published by: Puffin Format: Paperback ISBN: 9780141339252 Pages: 577 Price: 550 INR Seven half-bloods shall answer the call. To storm or fire the world must fall. An oath to keep with a final breath. And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death. It’s a strange feeling, this. Melancholy might be the perfect word to...

Published by: Rupa Publications Format: Hardcover ISBN: 9788129134554 Pages: 214 Price: 399 INR “Buddhadeva Bose possessed an independent-mindedness regrettably missing today. He is not only many writers in one; here is a personality in whom we find the trajectories of many writers.” – Amit Chaudhari A collection of seven short stories and two one-act plays,...

Published by: Anchor Format: Paperback ISBN: 9781400032815 Pages: 272 Price: 199 INR It was a lazy Monday afternoon and I couldn’t help but turn the pages. I just wanted to finish it off. Chuck Palahniuk had lost me somewhere in the middle, possibly in one of the many rooms of the Waytansea Hotel. By the...

Published by: Anchor Format: Paperback ISBN: 9780385722223 Pages: 233 Price: 900 INR When I got to know that Chuck Palahniuk had dabbled his hands in the area of non-fiction, it didn’t come as much of a surprise. His journalistic nudges never left him, as is evident in the numerous details he provides in all his...