Creative Writing, Fiction

In Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq’s years as a j...

Newly married Tara struggles through the formative years of advocacy, attempting to balance her roller coaster professional and personal life. She soon discovers that material success matters, yet selfless pursuits often yield greater satisfaction...

The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr., a seminal guide to the art of writing, distils the essential rules of grammar, usage and composition into a concise, practical manual. Originally published in 1918, this book offers timeless advice on c...

'Writing was my truth, my god, my everything. I could not leave it for anything.' With these words, Manoranjan Byapari points to how writing is as important to him as breathing. How I Became a Writer: An Autobiography of a Dalit is the translatio...

The book is a collection of very interesting and readable pieces of narrations/short stories earlier published by the author in different reputed newspapers. Most of these pieces have India’s local backdrop as their themes which revolve around com...

Man-Eaters of Kumaon, The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag, and The Temple Tiger and More Man-Eaters of Kumaon, the three classic collections of Corbett's hunting stories, which vividly bring to life the drama and beauty of the jungle and its wil...

The Tale of Shivran is a gripping blend of action, adventure and deep emotional exploration, set in a world where mystical stones and ancient powers hold the key to saving or destroying humanity. The story begins with Anika, who experiences a stra...

What histories do objects like coins or gems help us to trace? How can we read photographs and paintings? How do fictional tales, imaginative biographies, basic lexicons, or accounts of Sufi masters code intellectual worlds and reveal cultural and...

About the Book May 1992. In Russia, Boris Yeltsin is showing millions of Communists the spectre of capitalism.Yugoslavia is disintegrating. United Germany is confused about whom to include in its Olympic team—east? Or West? Poland, Czechoslovaki...

Jealous of the ‘success’ of his hardworking farmhands, the rich farmer cuts off access to their land; a free gift won by a working-class family is appropriated by their rich employer who feels his status entitles him to such benefits, a teacher fi...

Sweeping through the fascinating terrain of two epochs, the Baby Boomers (born between 1946–1964) and the Gen Zs (born between 1997–2012), Wi-Fi and Wisdom: Connecting with Teens takes a close look at fascinating aspects of both generations—from t...

Winner of the Amazon India Popular Choice Debut Book 2025 Award. From one of India's most-loved creators comes something new to fall in love with. Avani's favourite thing to do is bury her nose in romance novels, but, honestly, life can't be trust...

Labyrinth takes you on a roller-coaster ride about teenage rage and love poured out in words and illustrations. It comprises poetry to express and impress, to feel in love and the feeling of falling out of love. Conjuring a sense of 'heriath' and ...

About the Book Drawing on years of experience of writing, teaching and publishing, this book offers essential tools for writers interested in honing their craft. Whether you're a poet, non-fiction writer, novelist, journalist, student or simply a ...

About the Book Thousands upon thousands of books have been written about Immanuel Kant since his death. None, let’s be clear, have been quite like what we have here. In Party Fun with Kant, Nicolas Mahler tells the story of Kant and his fellow s...

About the Book In seventh-century Arabia, Prophet Muhammad's grandson, Imam Hussain,sacrificed his life and his family members and companions in the desert ofKarbala, Iraq, to resist the debauched ruler Yazid. In twentieth-century India,when the c...

"With a Mantoesque aura pervading this collection of stories from across the great divide of 1947, the reader becomes complicit in fiction's inimitable capacity to subvert established "truths". A tribute to the power of story-telling, this is a he...

Dalit stories translated fro the Telugu. Stories born out of oppression, discrimination,happiness, sorrow, insults. Stories that expose the lives of Madiga women, the most opressed among Dalits in Telangana. The stories reveal the subtle discrimin...

Breviaries, books of standard religious readings for particular denominations, are a familiar genre with a long pedigree. But you’ve definitely never seen a breviary like this one. The Sex of the Angels is a playful, often ironic take on the brevi...

This practical introduction for first time researchers provides a bridge between how to conduct research and the philosophy of social science, allowing students to relate what they are doing to why. It does not provide a set of rigid recipes for s...

A casual interest in God when one is in feverish hurry to earn money, prestigious places in social hierarchy and pursue pleasures can never lead one beyond the frontiers of mind. This book refers to a dimension which many of us are not aware. It i...

With the publication of her two volumes of Kashmiri verse titled Reshyi Maalyun Meon (1998) and Veth Maa Chhe Shongith (2003), Bimla Raina emerged as a talented poet in Jammu and Kashmir. Her verses are mostly cast into the form of quatrains, whic...

This work is a translation of Hijab Imtiaz Ali's work 'Adab-e-Zareen' (1936) that contains 47 pieces of short writings that, although Ali herself categorized as short stories, are more in the nature of prose-poems that dwell on metaphysical themes...

In this edition of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus (1604), Kitty Datta, author of Natural Magic (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965), provides a long introduction relating the play to the life and thought of the Renaissance and Reformation, includ...

Henrik Ibsen was one of the most influential men of the theatre in the twentieth century. The plays Pillars of Society (1877), A Doll’s House (1879) and Ghosts (1881) constitute a series. All three plays document a process of emancipation by ordea...

The Oxford School Shakespeare,a well-established series, has set the standard for many years and the new editions have even clearer notes, explanations and photographs of stage productions.

The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist who has come from the provinces to conquer Paris but is conquered instead by the flaws of his own genius. Set in the 1860s and 1870s, it is the most auto...

Narrative Fiction and Death: Dying Imagined offers a new perspective on the study of death in literature. It focuses on narrative fiction that conveys the experience of dying from the internal perspective of a dying protagonist. Writers from Victo...

So you've always dreamed of a career in publishing... but you don't know where to start or how? You're holding the key in your hands!Using insider information, How to Get A Job in Publishing is the newly revised edition of the classic text for you...

Glaubst du noch an Hoffnung?Cathrin kehrt an den Ort zurück, an dem ihr Leben geprägt wurde: Madames Waisenhaus. In dem festen Glauben, von allen verlassen worden zu sein, bäumt sie sich ein letztes Mal gegen ihre Feinde auf und schwört Rache....

Harichandran is the story of the story of Indian mythology.

Godaan is a masterpiece of Indian literature that explores the complex themes of social inequality, rural life, and the struggles of the marginalized. Written by Munshi Premchand, this timeless novel takes you on a poignant journey through the li...

Der sogenannte Orientzyklus ist eine Serie von Romanen des Schriftstellers Karl May. Durch Wüste und Harem (1895 umbenannt in Durch die Wüste) ist der erste Buch in der Orientzyklus. Karl Friedrich May (1842 - 1912; eigentlich Carl Friedrich May...

Dr. Ted Duffy ist ein renommierter Kinderonkologe in Boston. Er ist siebenunddrei ig Jahre alt, mit seiner Arbeit verheiratet und mit Leib und Seele Arzt. Die einzige Verschnaufpause in seinem kräftezehrenden Job sind die gemeinsam mit seinen Fre...

Erst ein folgenschwerer Hundebiss, dann ein schwangerer Teenager ... Am Ende seiner Karriere nimmt die Scheidung dem einstigen Star-Musiker Jeff nicht nur seine Millionen, sondern auch die geliebte Tochter. Er baut sich in seiner Heimat Kapstadt e...

Michiru Kita's a weak-spirited girl who has a hard time saying what's on her mind. One day, she notices mysterious, ring-like markings around the necks of two of her classmates, Chika Akatsuki and Shito Tachibana - two boys who miraculously surviv...

"Bradbury, all charged up, drunk on life, joyous with writing, puts together nine past essays on writing and creativity and discharges every ounce of zest and gusto in him."--Kirkus Reviews "Zen and the Art of Writing is purely and simply Bradbur...

This is the gift your girlfriend will remember for the rest of her life! You have the amazing opportunity to ditch that whole 'flowers and chocolates' cliché, and impress your girl with a book personalized by you! Fill the book with anything you ...

The Instant New York Times BestsellerShortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, loss, and forgiveness from the critically acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award-winning a...

Dreams collide with reality at the center of the movie-making capital of the world, in this pithy, rueful, and tender collection of linked short stories, that explores the lives and relationships of a group of characters drawn to Hollywood by thei...

Reading Brynn's poetry is like reading the diary you never took the time to write. She starts by confessing how she never told the truth in her own childhood diary, to telling the completely candid tale of her lost lover and her journey to finding...

The mythical Philosophers stone is said to transform base metals to gold when touched by it. So is with this book. Anyone touched by the energy of this book is bound to get transformed in unexpected pleasant ways. The text of the book are not made...

Prose is the elegant recording of words to create stories that convey setting, characters, plot and climax. Poetry, especially in the case of Yearnings, is the translation of emotion into words. This collection is unyielding in its examination of ...

From "one of China's most successful writers" (The New Yorker), two masterful novellas exploring the stigma of mental illness, the sacrifices made for family, and the desire to leave behind a personal legacy

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Finnley McDougall's boring schoolboy life in Seattle gets turned upside down when Great Uncle Hugh gives him a most unusual gift - a scruffy, rude, bad-tempered Scottish rock creature called Wullie who brings danger and disaster with him wherever ...

Best laid plans are going to get wrecked when a reclusive football star is forced to live with a reluctant nanny. A standalone novel. Each book can be read separately and out of order. Cam DeSantis' life is a mess. How else would you describe lo...