Fiction

When Norman Partridge moves to Little Bacon, a pretty country village, he proves to be a kind and helpful neighbour and is liked by everyone. Initially it didn't seem to matter that no one knew anything about his past or how he managed to live so comfortably without having to work. Six months before, John Gladstone, a wealthy bank-robber had escaped from custody. Gradually, however Partridge's neighbours begin to ask themselves questions. Was it mere coincidence that Norman Partridge had the...

Thomas Maple lives on Criystal Palace Road with his Verity. He worka for a firm of bank note engravers. However, the dollar bills he shows Wentworth Gold are forgeries, perfect except for the missing Treasury sign. When Verity meets her new employer, she develops serious misgivings, and arriving back home she can hear a menaching voice. What power do these men hold over her uncle? Who is the mysterious he? She hesitates, then follows them. Edgar Wallace was a soldier, poet, correspondent,...

What the Sufi Said revolves around the love and marriage between Mamooty, a Muslim and Karthy, a Nair Hindu. Herein, we see sex without guilt or vulgarity. We see pantheistic pagan traditions asserting themselves over members of all communities-as Mother Goddess for Hindus, as the Beevi and Jarum for the Muslims. Specifications of WHAT THE SUFI SAID 01 Edition (Paperback) BOOK DETAILS Publisher RUPA PUBLICATIONS INDIA PVT LTD. Publication Year 02/01/2002 ISBN-13 9788171676941 ISBN-10 8171676944...

Shuka Saptati or Seventy Tales of the Parrot is a famous cycle of stories in Sanskrit literature. The tales are told by a pet parrot to its young mistress to distract her from going to a lover while her husband has gone abroad. These irreverent, sometimes ribald, always uninhibited accounts of illicit liaisons, ensuing complications and clever escapes are set amidst the common life of towns and villages in India as it then was. Specifications of SHUKA SAPTATI: Seventy Tales of the Parrot...

Fiery, naive, unconventional, silly - Ria Rathore is one eighteen-year-old who has strutted through her well-heeled life brimming with confidence. In a conservative city like Ahmedabad she often ran the risk of being branded 'improper'. With a father who spoils her silly, Ria always got what she wanted until she comes across Radha Chatterjee, her English professor at Spencer College. One Afternoon is a poignant bildungsroman of a bratty teenager's journey to womanhood. Specifications of ONE...

From traffic control to Customs hall, from the airport manager's office to lay-over apartments in 'Stewardesses' Row' the rooms are filled with men and women whose private pressures and passions match the fury of the blizzard that sweeps across the runways outside... For seven hours of suspense, a blocked runway, suicide, pickets, an aerial stowaway, pregnancy, smuggling, mass demonstrations, and a psychotic with his home-made bomb build to a nail-biting climax... FOR DELIVERY ALL OVER THE...

A translation of the Bengali novel Yubok Yubotira, first published in 1967, The Youth is remarkable for its realistic portrayal of the lives of a group of young men and women and their strife to find the meaning of their existence. In his foreword to the second edition, the author writes that this was a kind of a journal of the lives and times of his friends and by extension, the youth around him. The confusions and inner turmoil of the characters, captured in vivid detail, are powerfully...