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The man behind the ‘Wow’ products

On stands. Soon to appear on our shelves. Watch for its arrival.

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Hot Stuff

Some new arrivals on our shelves:

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Hot Stuff

Seen on our racks, some new books:

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High flying reader

Nope, we ain’t referring to any  new gizmo with capabilities of text to speech and all that funda. On a flight to Bangalore, we chanced upon this gent reading books the old fashioned way, completely immersed in the world that Haruki Murakami spun. Gives a new meaning to the word ‘inflight reading’ we think!

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Newbies all

Some of the new books on our shelves, in particular, by Indian authors: In this context, Outlook magazine, in their July 18th issue, dedicated a cover story on Indian authors making a big splash on the literary scene. Please click on this link to view the article.

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Man Booker International 2011 Prize Winner announced

The Man Booker website  has just announced: Philip Roth is today announced as the winner of the fourth Man Booker International Prize at a press conference at the Sydney Opera House. Roth was chosen from a list of 13 eminent contenders. The Man Booker International Prize, worth £60,000, is awarded for an achievement in fiction on [...]

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Missing the New India?

Abigail Licad at the California Literary Review writes on the new book by Bharati Mukherjee, Miss New India: “…..Miss New India will provide much new material for academics to investigate and wrangle over, and in this way, is likely to be an enduring work among intellectual circles. But whether the novel will have mass appeal is [...]

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Far East Review?

Indian Writing in English (IWE) never had it so good. We have a Naga writing in English with 2 books. Susan Waten, in the Morung Express, writes about two books by a Naga writer “Laburnum for my Head” (Penguin, 2009) and “These Hills Called Home: Stories from a War Zone” (Zubaan & Penguin, 2006), both by [...]

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Of this & that

The Hindu Literary Prize 2011 is announced Charles Nicholl in the Guardian, writes about RK Narayan and the magic of Malgudi Lo & Behold, David Davidar is back in a new avatar – the top honcho @ Aleph!   Indian publishing’s poster boy is back. David Davidar, the man who virtually invented market-facing English language [...]

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Fantasy Fiction

Read enough on Harry Potter? Who next, you ask? Here’s your answer.

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