Palm’s Foster Home for Peculiar Stories

Title –  Palm's Foster Home for Peculiar Stories  Author – C.G. Salamander Publisher – Jellyfish Publication Genre – Fantasy Pages – 264 Price – INR 250 ISBN – 978-9-3519-6553-4 Synopsis - Book-1 : Nigel the last Brit in India: There is chaos and pandemonium in the streets of Madras, and it is up to Nigel (an officer of the Imperial Police) to restore …

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Yes, My Accent Is Real

Title –  Yes, My accent Is Real  Author – Kunal Nayyar Publisher – Simon & Schuster UK Genre – Memoir Pages – 242 Price – INR 375 ISBN – 978-1-4711-5561-1 Blurb on the back of the book - Of all the charming misfits on television, there’s no doubt Raj from The Big Bang Theory — the sincere yet incurably geeky Indian-American astrophysicist …

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Karna’s Alter Ego

Title –  Karna's Alter Ego Author – Surendra Nath Publisher – Dream House Publication Genre – Fiction Pages – 232 Price – INR 175 ISBN – 978-93-84180-11-9 Synopsis - Karna, the ill-fated hero of Mahabharata. Many feel he deserved to win. If only luck had favored him... 5000 years later, we have a man named Vasu, who is much like Karna – illegitimate …

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Baat Niklegi Toh Phir

My relationship with Jagjit Singh dates back to my infancy. My parents, my elder brother and my maternal grandfather have been lovers of his music, that's why falling for his compositions came naturally to me at an early age. The delicate charm in the way the words leaned on the tune and the profound poetry …

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After The Crash

Title –  After The Crash Author – Michel Bussi Publisher – Hachette India Genre – Fiction Pages – 386 Price – INR 399 ISBN – 978-1-4746-0204-4 Synopsis - On the night of 22 December 1980, a plane crashes on the Franco-Swiss border and is engulfed in flames. 168 out of 169 passengers are killed instantly. The miraculous sole survivor is a three-month-old …

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