Creative Writing, Fiction

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

It would be appropriate to call this collection of short-stories Mumbai Dreams, as the seeds for most of the stories were sown there. These short stories strike an interesting balance between the characters and their experiences and vividly expres...

The Explosive, controversial story of a young middle-class Indian, whose quest for the spiritual life takes him through the paces of ashram life—where caste-prejudice, power struggles and deception go hand in hand with self-revelation. Torn betwee...

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...

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.