Creative Writing, Fiction

Anand is a suspicious, slightly obsessive, eleven-year-old child who thinks that adults are more often than not more crazy and irresponsible than c...

Blood Sweat and Tears is a novel guaranteed to appeal to the romantic readers, irrespective of their age or the generation or era they belong to. I...

The century-old Hotel Calcutta run by an Englishman, is under threat from land sharks who want to raze it and build a shopping mall. As the staff s...

Laila Ke Khutoot: The Letters of Laila

Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri probes the human condition in indifferent city streets and turbulent forests, looking at forms of love and betrayal, with th...

When one dies, one wants to go to Heaven. Right?Wrong!!!That is what St Peter tells the assembly of gods as he explains the falling market share of...

The film-script of The Quest (Moner Manush) is much more than a biography of Lalon Fakir. It reveals the stages of a simple young man’s emergence a...

Nineteen forty-two, Delhi. A young Bengali England-returned journalist finds himself in the capital as the controversy over the Cripps Mission gath...

A curfew was imposed that barred more than two people from meeting on the streets of Amrapur. The policemen had their fingers on the triggers, read...

Delicately and sensitively, the author guides her protagonist in her search for inner strength as she accepts both the beauty and the pain of her p...

The story of a man and his relationships with his mother, wife and girlfriend—set against a rapidly changing Indian landscape. The unique insights ...

New York City-based writer, Shaili Kapoor, is shocked to find out about her mother, Meena Kapoor’s, death. Meena had drowned herself in Pashan Lake...

Two murders, divided by several centuries. Is there a link between these two? This exciting book has received the first prize (General Books—Englis...

Dilliz Boyz has cameo descriptions of Delhi—its psyche and social fabric woven into the main storyline in a beautifully knit, seamless pattern. It ...

Translated from the Bengali original, the book raises many socio-political, moral and feminist issues. The protagonist embodies the tension of the ...

The narrative of this brilliantly structured book moves on a parallel course between the past and the present, between rural Bengal and modern Kolk...

This multi-layered story moves from the past to the present. Abha, Rekha and Simran pass through the portals of Delhi University on a roller coaste...

The book deals with the experiences of Robert, an American professor, who meets and falls in love with Anara, a young Kazakh girl. Robert invites A...

This book is an insight into what goes on in the minds of children. Written by a twelve-year-old, it is a testimony to the author’s creativity and ...

Most of Jim Corbett's books contain collections of stories that recount adventures tracking and shooting man-eaters in the Indian Himalaya. This vo...

A personal perspective on the challenges of living through a global pandemic. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Michael Krüger was suffering from se...

A tragicomic novel that explores deep-seated tensions and social violence in Haiti. After committing an irreparable crime, the narrator of The Em...

A Fine Thread and Other Stories is a collection of sixteen translated stories originally written in Tamil by the acclaimed author Jeyamohan. Each s...

The tales in Guilt Trip and Other Stories reveal an unbridled exuberance of appetite which mirrors women’s hungering for lost opportunities, the st...

A beautiful and timely collection of poems written during the pandemic. The poems in Alice Attie’s new volume, Bending into the Light, are poised...

A beautiful collection of poems from various styles and genres by France's foremost poet, Yves Bonnefoy. Praised by Paul Auster as “one of the rar...

A bold and adventurous work of literature that explores the relationship between reading, writing, sex, and death. The first book in Pascal Quign...

Poems from a boisterously out and open queer voice from Taiwan. Ko-hua Chen’s Decapitated Poetry was the first explicitly queer book of poems pub...

Fictionality offers an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this field of increasing critical and theoretical interest. Bringing together t...

A man walks out of a bar and is later found dead at the wheel of his car. On the basis of a few overheard remarks and his own observations, the nar...

An explosion shatters a peaceful evening at the India Gate lawns in New Delhi. In London, two Muslim clerics are murdered. Police discover the tor...

Rethinking Human–Animal Relationship engages with animal studies, a growing interdisciplinary field that reveals the deep human unreason and moral ...

Borders change kindoms empire and evening entire civilization rise and fall. You will see the entire history of political scenario, no matter how b...

Revisiting Sadeq Hedayat’s Blind Owl: Writings on a Modern Persian Novel is a commemorative volume of thirteen scholarly articles on the Persian no...

A brilliant collection of micro-fiction, reflecting our fragmented times. With quirky humor and wry insight, Swiss author Judith Keller’s micro-f...

The first English translation of Yves Bonnefoy’s account of his life as a traveler. The Wandering Life is a poetic culmination of Yves Bonnefoy’s...

The Blue Light is an autobiographical novel in chapters and vignettes that travels through memory, time, and language. Hussein Bargouthi tells his...

A strong and courageous novel that deftly tackles psychosis. In Melbourne, Australia, a woman in her late thirties is diagnosed with her third epi...

Traditional African narrative forms combined with European modernism. The stories comprising The Healer, Marek Vadas’s first collection, which wa...

A trenchant, darkly humorous, and unsentimental look at Calcutta society. Set in Calcutta in the mid-1980s, Truth/Untruth is a fast-paced thriller...

A literary glimpse into the early decades of independent India. Drawing influences from Indian folktales, French existentialism, and the Bengali H...

A breathtakingly imaginative futuristic crime thriller. Decades into the future, Indonesia’s crowded capital city is underwater. A mysterious nov...

The extraordinary life of Zhuang Zhou sits halfway between fable and philosophy. “It was twenty-five centuries ago in the land of Song, between th...

An engaging exploration of romance focusing on disparate ages of lovers. Sunday evening, Tegel Airport, Berlin: A woman strikes up a conversation ...

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