Man of Glass

Tabish Khair is an acclaimed poet and novelist whose recent novels have been shortlisted for the Encore Award (UK) and the Crossword Prize (India). Translated into various languages, his works include Where Parallel Lines Meet, Babu Fictions: Alienation in Indian English Novels, The Bus Stopped, Filming: A Love Story, The Glum Peacock and The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness: Ghosts from Elsewhere.

Man of Glass is the first collection of poems by Tabish Khair in a decade, following the critically acclaimed Where Parallel Lines Meet (2000). In the three sections of this new collection, Khair draws upon three writers from across centuries, cultures, literary genres and languages: Kalidasa and his fifth-century Sanskrit play The Recognition of Shakuntala, Asadullah Khan Ghalib and his early nineteenth-century Urdu ghazals, and H.C. Andersen and his Danish ''fairy tales''. All three are united not only by Khair''s chosen language of creativity, English, but also by a concern with reflecting about life and loss, identity and indoctrination, humanity and divinity, and the nature of things and being.

Drawing subtly upon the past, Khair engages powerfully and movingly with many issues and events, particular and perennial, of vital concern to the reader today: immigration, Afghanistan, terror, love, loss, death, human duplicity, faith, prejudice, the Iraq War, genocide…

ISBN: 9788172239794
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Delhi Calm

Vishwajyoti Ghosh avidly pursues his interest in comics, illustrations, art and films. His comics are regularly published in various journals and anthologies, both in India and abroad. His most recently published work includes contributions in two international anthologies, When Kulbhushan Met Stockli and Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption, and Times New Roman and Countrymen, a set of picture postcards on contemporary classifieds. Delhi Calm is his first solo graphic novel.

Imagine waking up one morning to learn that all your rights as citizen have been suspended this moment onwards. Imagine living the way the State tells you to – being told how, where and when to laugh, live or love. Imagine constant surveillance – all your acts, words, thoughts watched, all forms of expression subverted for the purpose of nation - building. ‘Work More, Talk Less’, yell microphones as you walk down the streets... But don’t lose heart – the trains are on time!

Democracy dies in the hearts of democrats before it dies in the hands of a dictator'' - William Penn

India, mid-1970s. A time of democracy ruled with an iron f ist. In this landscape of turmoil and unrest tours the Naya Savera Band, dreaming of ‘change’ and stoking the f ire of rebellion with music. But as reality intrudes and hostilities underlying the common dream rear up, idealist and poet VP, scholarly Master and ever-pragmatic Parvez drift away from each other... until their paths cross again in Delhi, in the middle of the biggest civil crisis to ever grip the nation. Once again, the trio f ind themselves reluctantly uniting against their common enemy – the State. Will they escape the ever-watchful eyes of the government? Will their dreams of an egalitarian, socialist democracy come to nothing? Will the Naya Savera Band raise its voice in song again? Find out in Vishwajyoti Ghosh’s graphic re-imagining of one of the most seminal moments in the history of Indian democracy.

ISBN: 9788172239398
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Sence And Sensibility

Jane Austen (1775-1817) was extremely modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature's most famous women writers. She is the author of Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey.

Fiona Stafford is a Fellow and Tutor in English at Somerville College, Oxford. Tony Tanner was a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Professor of English and American Literature at Cambridge.

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.

''Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward''s manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat.''

Spirited and impulsive, Marianne Dashwood is the complete opposite to her controlled and sensible sister, Elinor. When it comes to matters of the heart, Marianne is passionate and romantic and soon falls for the charming, but unreliable Mr Willoughby. Elinor, in contrast, copes stoically with the news that her love, Edward Ferrars is promised to another.

It is through their shared experiences of love that both sisters come to learn that the key to a successful match comes from finding the perfect mixture of rationality and feeling.

ISBN: 9780007350797
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The Complete Chronicles of Narnia

Clive Staples Lewis, born in 1898, wrote many books for adults but the Narnia stories were his only works for children. The final title, The Last Battle, published in 1956, won the Carnegie Award, the highest mark of excellence in children’s literature.

The Narnia Chronicles, first published in 1950, have been and remain some of the most enduringly popular books ever published. The best known, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, has been translated into 29 languages!

All the Chronicles are bound together here in one magnificent volume, with a special introduction by C.S. Lewis''s stepson, Douglas Gresham. The original illustrations, always first-class, have been rendered outstanding by the wonderfully detailed addition of colour.

ISBN: 9780007100248
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The Indian In The Cupboard

The Indian in the Cupboard is the first of five gripping books about Omri and his plastic North American Indian – Little Bull – who comes alive when Omri puts him in a cupboard

For Omri, it is a dream come true when the plastic American Indian he locks into the old cupboard comes to life. Little Bull is everything an Indian brave should be – proud, fearless and defiant.

But being in charge of a real, live, human being is a heavy responsibility, as Omri soon discovers. And when his best friend, Patrick, is let in on the secret, he soon realises that life-changing decisions lie ahead.

ISBN: 9780007309955
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The Kingdom By The Sea

Guaradian award winning novel about courage, friendship and war. Reissued into the Essential Modern Classic list.

When a bomb during an air raid destroys Harry''s home and kills his family, he knows that he is all alone in the world and has only himself to rely on. Anxious that he will be sent to live with his fussy Cousin Elsie he goes on the run across the war-battered land of North East England, his only friend in his journey a stray dog that he meets on the beach. Will Harry ever find a place to call home again, or will he be on the run forever?

ISBN: 9780006730141
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Dynasties of India and Beyond – Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh

Although the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty alone has hogged the world’s attention so far – because of its uniquely dazzling dominance and durability – it is not the only one within India, leave alone the neighboring countries of South Asia and beyond. Indeed, the number of clans striding the political stage in the region is rather large. The Senanayakes and the Bandarnaikes were entrenched in Sri Lanka well before Indira Gandhi first became India’s Prime Minister in1966. The Bhuttos of Pakistan – father Zulfiqar more than daughter Benazir – have left their imprint on their country, now once again under military rule with a civilian façade. In Bangladesh politics revolves around the two competing dynasties, one led by Sheikh Hasina, the orphaned daughter of the new nation’s founder-President. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and the other by Khaleda Zia, the widow of General Ziaur Rahman, its first military ruler.

The plethora of books on the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty have concentrated almost exclusively on the life stories of Jawaharlal Nehru, his daughter Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv Gandhi who, among them, ruled the country for thirty-seven of the first forty-two years since independence. But none of the chroniclers has tried to explain why the dynastic dispensation has taken such firm roots in this part of the world or why people vote for dynastic leaders time and again. The question whether the dynastic phenomenon is a passing phase or is here to stay also remains unanswered.

Inder Malhotra’s book fills this glaring gap and does so objectively and sensitively. He puts the rise of dynasties in the newly independent countries of South Asia in historical perspective, drawing attention to the dynasties that had flourished in the old, established democracies in earlier centuries. As he analyses, why in the Asian milieu, democratically-elected dynasties are likely to last much longer than they did in the West.

This book is not only a perceptive study of the remarkable and complex phenomenon of dynastic rule but also a fascinating account of the India subcontinent’s social and political history during the second half of the twentieth century.

ISBN: 9780007180127
Author: Inder Malhotra
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Clear And Present Danger

Colombian drug lords, tired of being harassed by US law enforcement agents,have assassinated the American Ambassador and the visiting head of the FBI.Their message is clear: leave us alone. But they have pushed too far. Thedecision is made to send undercover into Colombia. Back in the USA, men armedwith the most sophisticated tools their country can devise prepare to take thefight to the enemy. But does anyone know who the real enemy is? Jack Ryan andCIA field officer John Clark must find the answer. They expect danger fromwithout - yet the greatest danger of all may come from within.

ISBN: 0006177301
Author: Clancy, Tom
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Broken Soup

An intriguing, compelling and moving new novel from the award-winning author of Finding Violet Park. When the good-looking boy with the American accent presses the dropped negative into Rowan''s hand, she''s sure it''s all a big mistake. But next moment he''s gone, lost in the crowd of bustling shoppers. And she can''t afford to lose her place in the checkout queue – after all, if she doesn''t take the groceries home, nobody else will. Rowan has more responsibilities than most girls her age. These days, she pretty much looks after her little sister single-handedly – which doesn''t leave much time for friends or fun. So when she finds out that Bee from school saw the whole thing, it piques her curiosity. Who was the boy? Why was he so insistent that the negative belonged to Rowan? ISBN: 9780007291250 Author: Jenny Valentine Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India For more information, please visit www.indiabookmart.com

Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment

Deepak Chopra is the founder of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing. He has been a bestselling author for decades, and his writings have sold millions of copies. Visit the author online...

ISBN: 9788172236793
Author: Deepak Chopra
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Asylum, USA

Meet Noshir Daruvala, twenty three year old, engineering student struggling to make ends meet in Chicago, USA, hoping for a green card before he gets deported to Bombay, who offers Barbara, a gorgeous redhead, ex-Playboy bunny, all American women, a thousand dollars to marry him so he can become a citizen of the USA, its a marriage of convenience, and Barbara has a live in lover who continues to live in as a part of the deal. Familiar story? Maybe, except that Barbara's lover is a woman.

ISBN: 8172234015
Author: Desai, Boman
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Collins Good Grammar

ISBN: 9780007208678
Author: Not
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