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Bombay Tiger Kamala Markandaya Kamala Markandaya, author of the classic Nectar in a Sieve, published ten novels in all, the last of which appeared in 1982. For the next two decades, till her death in 2004, she lived a life of near anonymity in the outskirts of London. But she hadn’t stopped writing; shortly after her death, her daughter discovered the complete draft of a new, unpublished novel: The Catalyst: Alias, Bombay Tiger.

Set in the 1980s, Bombay Tiger tells the story of Ganguli—mercurial and larger-thanlife—who arrives in Bombay with little more than ruthless ambition, and becomes the city’s biggest industrialist. A Citizen Kane-like figure—destined to become one of the most memorable protagonists in Indian fiction—Ganguli is emblematic of a changing India, post the era of high socialism, beginning to be transformed by private enterprise. This sweeping novel, poignant and comic by turns, traces his dramatic rise and fall, his loves and losses, and his eventual redemption.

Gloriously rich in incident and character and marked by Markandaya’s deep humanity, Bombay Tiger is the work of a major writer at the height of her powers. Its posthumous publication is a literary event of the greatest significance.

ISBN: 9780670 081080 Viking Rs 495

Format: Royal Hardback Publication: January 2008

pp: 352

The newly discovered, previously unpublished novel

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Nectar in a Sieve The million copy bestseller ISBN: 9780670 081424

Viking Rs 295

Raghu Rai’s India Reflections in Colour Raghu Rai ‘I believe that the photographer’s job is to cut a frame-sized slice out of the world around him so cleanly that if he were to put it back again, life and the world would continue to move without a stumble.’

Raghu Rai

Here are the finest of the unforgettable pictures taken by India’s most distinguished photographer, Raghu Rai. The staggering display of photographs has been taken from moments in his travels around the country, freezing people, places and moments that are characteristically Indian and yet universally identifiable. Each image is characteristically Rai, sometimes loving, sometimes analytical, but always concealing Rai’s own point of vantage. Each individual photograph will prompt the viewer to ask himself: where was the photographer himself when he recorded the image?

‘It is my personal opinion,’ said Norman Hall, Picture Editor of The Times, London, in 1970, ‘that he has an individual way of seeing things and reproducing them as images on bromide paper which is unsurpassed by any photo-journalist in the whole wide world.’

It has been a long journey for Raghu Rai. And for the last forty years, he has recorded all that invited his unique gaze on his many stops along the way, adding up to a collection long due a retrospective.

In this lavish production of photographs, awash in colour, those fans of Rai who enjoy his wider palette will find him at his most versatile. It is a silent demonstration, but an eloquent one, of what photography—and India—is all about.

ISBN: 9780670 999262

Format: 12” x 16” Hardback

pp:168 (75 photos)

Viking Rs 5995

Publication: February 2008

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Raghu Rai’s India: Reflections in Black and White ISBN: 9780670 058334

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Contemporary classics from one of the most acclaimed writers in the world

The Shadow Lines

The Calcutta Chromosome

Amitav Ghosh

A Novel of Fevers, Delirium and Discovery

S a h i t yya a A w a rrd d Akk a d e m i A Aw Winner 1 989 19 ‘This is how the language should be used... This is how a novel should be written.’

Amitav Ghosh Winner of the A rthur C. Clark e Arthur Clarke Awar d ard ‘A fascinating and seductive writer!’

Khushwant Singh ISBN: 9780670 081813 Format: Demy Hardback pp: 288 Viking/Ravi Dayal Rs 395 Publication: February 2008

The Times ISBN: 9780670 081899 Format: Demy Hardback pp: 264 Viking/Ravi Dayal Rs 395 Publication: February 2008

Now available from Penguin in association with Ravi Dayal Publisher

In an Antique Land

The Circle of Reason

Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh

‘An astonishing and profoundly exciting book. It is the coming together of scholarship, history and anthropology, with literature... intellectually thrilling, compelling.’

‘A novelist of dazzling ingenuity.’

San Francisco Chronicle ISBN: 9780670 081905 Format: Demy Hardback pp: 472 Viking/Ravi Dayal Rs 495 Publication: February 2008

Book Review ISBN: 9780670 081912 Format: Demy Hardback pp: 344 Viking/Ravi Dayal Rs 495 Publication: February 2008

Coming soon from Penguin India: Amitav Ghosh’s new novel Sea of Poppies

The Ibis Trilogy, of which Sea of Poppies is the first book, is a tremendous work, genuinely epic in scope and vision. It combines with effortless mastery the drama of individual lives with the big themes of history. It does what the greatest novels do: accommodate almost every aspect of human experience in one sweeping narrative.

Publishing June 2008

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Billions of Entrepreneurs How China and India Are Reshaping Their Future and Yours Tarun Khanna For the first time since the rise of Western capitalism, entrepreneurs in China and India can ignore New York and London—and still build companies worth billions. Thanks to social and economic revolutions, Asia has captured the best minds and money from all around the world.

In Billions of Entrepreneurs, Tarun Khanna uses on-the-ground stories and thorough research to show how China and India are embracing the world on their own distinct terms. Entrepreneurs are powering change through new business models and bringing hope to countless people. Through intriguing, often provocative comparisons of triumphs and travails in both countries, the author illuminates such critical areas as: • The challenges of governing 2.4 billion people with entrepreneurial tendencies • The need for information accessibility, transparency, and reliability • The balance between private property rights and public interests • The need to encourage and fund indigenous enterprise • The role of overseas Chinese and Indians in development back home • The rise of medical tourism and the inequality of health care This book reveals how such differences will influence China’s and India’s future development as well as what the two countries can— and must—learn from each other today. A compelling account, Billions of Entrepreneurs paints a vivid picture of how China and India are reshaping business, politics, and society around the world.

ISBN: 9780670 081486

Format: Royal Hardback

pp: 368

Viking Rs 595

Publication: February 2008

What the Customer Wants You to Know How Everybody Needs to Think Differently About Sales Ram Charan More than ever these days, the sales process often turns into a war about price—a frustrating, unpleasant war that takes all the fun out of selling. But there’s a better way to think about sales, says bestselling author Ram Charan, who is famous for clarifying and simplifying difficult business problems.

Instead of starting with your product or service, start with your customer’s problems. Focus on becoming your customer’s trusted partner, someone he or she can turn to for creative, cost-effective solutions that are based on your deep knowledge of his values, goals, problems, and customers. This powerful book will teach you how to gain a deeper knowledge of your customer’s company, including costs, values, and how decisions really get made; how to help your customer improve margins and drive revenue growth; how to focus on your customer’s customers; how to work with other departments in your own company to customize better solutions; and how to make price much less of an issue.

Someday, every company will listen more closely to the customer, and every manager will realize that sales is everyone’s business, not just the sales department’s. In the meantime, this eye-opening book will show you how to get started.

ISBN: 9780670 081851

Format: Demy Hardback

pp: 192

Portfolio Rs 295

Publication: January 2008

Coming soon from Penguin India: Superstar India, the new book by Shobhaa Dé Shobhaa Dé’s new book, eagerly awaited after a short hiatus by her countless fans, society and the press, is a departure from anything else she has ever written. Pitting her own age—an unbelievably young 60—against that of independent India, Dé dissects what the country has done for her and the rest of its people, its historical failings and equally historical glory.

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Gently Falls the Bakula

Book of Humour

Sudha Murty

Ruskin Bond

‘Shrikant was restless... Holding a bakula flower in his palm, he was wondering why he was fascinated by this tiny flower, that was neither as beautiful as a rose nor had the fragrance of a jasmine or a champaka. And yet, it was very special to him. It held an inexplicable attraction for him.’

Shrimati and Shrikant are neighbours and star students of their school in the small north Karnataka town of Hubli. It leaves no one in surprise when they come first and second respectively in the final Board exams. Soon Shrikant discovers he is strangely attracted to Shrimati, a plain-looking yet charming person, who always does better than him in the exams. Shrimati too falls in love with the amiable and handsome Shrikant and the two get married. Shrikant joins an IT company and starts rapidly climbing the corporate ladder. He works relentlessly and reaches the pinnacle of his industry, while Shrimati abandons her academic aspirations and becomes his uncomplaining shadow, silently fulfilling her duties as a corporate leader’s wife. But one day, while talking to an old professor, she starts examining what she has done with her life and realizes it is dismally empty...

Gently Falls the Bakulais the story of a marriage that loses its way as ambition and self-interest take their toll. Written nearly three decades ago, Sudha Murty’s first novel remains startlingly relevant in its scrutiny of modern values and work ethics.

A delectable offering from a writer who not only knows how to make us laugh but also knows how to laugh at himself.

ISBN: 9780143 103776 Penguin India Rs 150

Format: B Paperback Publication: February 2008

pp: 176

Now in Paperback

A View from the Outside Why Good Economics Works for Everyone P. Chidambaram ‘Chidambaram illuminates the crucial interface between economics and politics… his style is simple, austere, impressive… there is much that I enjoyed in this book.’

Meghnad Desai in Indian Express

The columns, originally published in the Indian Express and the Financial Express, reflect the views of Chidambaram, finance minister between 1996 and 1998 and again from 2004 onwards, on a range of issues that remain important regardless of the government in power. Far more than mere reactions to developments during that period, Chidambaram provides the reader with an extraordinarily clear understanding of the problems underlying the Indian economy—and its politics—and ways of solving them.

‘There is a lot of wisdom in this book, as well as entertainment.’

Playful tigers, ‘ghosts’, elephants, crows and old favourites like Uncle Ken, Miss Bun, the author’s slightly eccentric grandfather and Bond himself weave in and out of the pages of this wildly eclectic, thoroughly delightful and absolutely irresistible anthology featuring previously unpublished pieces like ‘Respect Your Breakfast’ and ‘Uncle Ken Goes to Sea’ as well as beloved classics from Bond’s books.

Marked by the signature charm and subtle wit of one of India’s best-loved writers, Ruskin Bond’s Book of Humour will make even the hardened among us crack a smile.

ISBN: 9780143 063438 Format: A Paperback pp: 288 Penguin India Rs 195 Publication: February 2008

Gurcharan Das in Outlook ISBN: 9780143 063759 Portfolio Rs 395

Format: Demy Paperback Publication: March 2008

pp: 360

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Red Sun

To Uphold the World

Travels in Naxalite Country

The Message of Ashoka and Kautilya for the 21st Century

Sudeep Chakravarti In 1967, Naxalbari, a village in West Bengal, became the centre of a Maoinspired militant peasant uprising guided by firebrand intellectuals. Today, Naxalism is no longer the Che G u e va ra - s t y l e revolution that it was.

Spread across 15 of India’s 28 states, it is one of the world’s biggest, most sophisticated extreme-Left movements, and feeds off the misery and anger of the dispossessed. Since the late 1990s, hardly a week has passed without people dying in strikes and counter-strikes by the Maoists—interchangeably known as the Naxalites—and police and paramilitary forces.

In this brilliant and disturbing examination of the ‘Other India’, Sudeep Chakravarti combines political history, extensive interviews and individual case histories as he travels to the heart of Maoist zones in the country: Chhattisgarh (home to the controversial state-sponsored Salwa Judum programme to contain Naxalism), Jharkhand, West Bengal, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh (where a serving chief minister was nearly killed in a landmine explosion triggered by the Naxalites). He meets Maoist leaders and sympathizers, policemen, bureaucrats, politicians, security analysts, development workers, farmers and tribals—people, big and small, who comprise the actors and the audience in this war being fought in jungles and impoverished villages across India. What emerges is a sobering picture of a deeply divided society, and the dangers that lie ahead for India.

ISBN: 9780670 081332 Format: Demy Hardback pp: 320 Viking Rs 495 Publication: January 2008

Bruce Rich To Uphold the World is Bruce Rich’s deeply illuminating and thought-provoking exploration inspired by the writings and lives of two of the greatest figures of ancient India—Ashoka and Kautilya. Ashoka provides a unique example of a world ruler—his empire at the time was arguably the world’s largest, richest and most powerful multiethnic state—who tried to put into practice a secular state ethic of non-violence and reverence for life, which he also extended to international relations. Kautilya, one of history’s greatest political geniuses, wrote the world’s first treatise on political economy, the Arthasastra, which proclaims accumulation of material riches as the chief underpinning of human society. Through the retelling of mythical and historical accounts, Bruce Rich distils the message of Ashoka and Kautilya to help us uphold our world in the twenty-first century. A unique blend of historical and political narrative combined with reflections on contemporary society, the international environment and human rights, To Uphold the World is particularly timely, because it puts forth a truly original perspective and thinking on our responses to the political, economic and ethical challenges of globalization.

ISBN: 9780670 999460 Viking Rs 495

Format: Demy Hardback Publication: January 2008

pp: 344

Competing with the Best Strategic Management of Indian Companies in a Globalizing Arena Rajnish Karki When after forty years of licence-permit-raj India opened up its markets and took its first tentative steps in the global economy, no one could have imagined that in less than two decades Indian companies would be in a position to shape the global marketplace. With a sea change in their capabilities, beliefs and aspirations, Indian companies today come across as confident, aggressive and world class as they self-assuredly take over multinational giants like Corus. The closest analogy would be to Japanese companies of the early 1970s, and their potential impact on the world of business in coming decades could be as much, if not more. For this, Indian companies need to evolve original approaches, rather than depend on borrowed ideas, to engender inimitable and sustainable advantages in the global marketplace.

Competing with the Best bridges the theory and the practice of strategic management, focusing on under-explored yet globally significant aspects of Indian companies. Using the narrow-angle of eight case studies and the wide-angle of patterns and trends at aggregate level, it identifies four viable and effective configurations for Indian companies and describes the process of transformational and incremental changes.

ISBN: 9780670 081783 Portfolio Rs 450

Format: Demy Hardback Publication: February 2008

pp: 256

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The Untold Charminar

Eating India

Writings on Hyderabad

Exploring a Nation’s Cuisine

Edited by Syeda Imam

Chitrita Banerji

Hyderabad is a city once ruled by the world’s richest man who invested most lavishly in his state, most shabbily in his wardrobe; it holds stories of a courtesan who fought wars, counselled prime ministers, sang her own verse and enthralled luminaries who mattered; of a chief minister who transformed it into a hi-tech hub; and of a sports star who brought the young glamour of India to every tennis court in the world.

Home as much to the Golconda as to Jacob, the 187carat diamond used as a paperweight by the Nizam, and to rock landscapes two and a half million years old, Hyderabad is a city that forever mixes cultures, cuisines, religions and languages. Here, Persian turned alloy with Telugu, Marathi and Arabic to yield a special version of Urdu, Dakhini. And here, as Andhra mingled with Telangana, a smiling mildness has survived, disarming at every turn, just as grace under pressure, regardless of gender, is unfailing.

In The Untold Charminar readers will discover a city they will want to explore, as Sarojini Naidu, Sir Mark Tully and William Dalrymple rub shoulders with Ian Austin, Meenakshi Mukherji and Anees Jung, regaling you with their feast of hard facts and hearsay; as each foreign visitor shares his story through Narendra Luther; as the filmmakers Shyam Benegal and Nagesh Kukunoor paint their vivid memories of home; as poets, not just the maverick Makhdoom and Gaddar, raise their voices in song; as statesmen, academics and aficionados hold forth on the completely different Hyderabad each experienced.

In Eating India, award-winning food writer Chitrita Banerji takes us on an extraordinary journey through a national cuisine formed by generations of arrivals, assimilations and conquests.

Travelling across the length and breadth of the country—from Bengal to Goa and Karnataka, via the Grand Trunk Road, then northwards to Amritsar, Lucknow and Varanasi, on to Bombay and Kerala— Banerji discovers a civilization with an insatiable curiosity, one that consumes the old and the new with eager voracity.

Weaving together myths and folklore associated with food, the people and their culture, the author narrates captivating accounts of life in the subcontinent. Eating India is also peppered with fascinating titbits from India’s history. At different points in her journey, Banerji shows us how restructuring old customs and making innovations is what India is all about: food in India has always been and still is fusion— one that is forever evolving.

Certain to enchant anyone enamoured of Indian food and culture, Eating India is a heady blend of travelogue and food writing.

‘Banerji [is] one of the most evocative of Indian food writers, blending an exact understanding of techniques with an abiding curiosity about the many human stories behind the art of food.’

ISBN: 9780143 103707 Penguin India Rs 395

Format: Demy Paperback Publication: March 2008

pp: 376

Delhi Metropolitan The Making of an Unlikely City Ranjana Sengupta Independence, four million refugees from Pakistan and the overwhelming presence of visible and invisible power that flows from New Delhi being the capital have transformed it from the unruffled imperial town it once was to the fearsome metropolis it is today. And yet, says Ranjana Sengupta, this largely unloved city deserves to be loved. Delhi is home to the most diverse population of any city in the country. The unceasing influx of migrants has unleashed new urban architectures of opulence and deprivation. Different groups have set up their own, different universes, and these manage to coexist, not unhappily. And somewhere between the futurist Gurgaon skyline and the proliferating slums, alongside the march of the Metro and the refurbishment of Khan Market, lie Delhi’s unsung sagas—the memories, the passions and the unspoken expectation that the city will change lives. Delhi Metropolitan tracks the changes from the time ‘going to CP’ was almost the only leisure activity for the middle class, looks at the subtle reinventions of government colonies and the shining new suburbs, and inspects the footprints of ‘Punjabification’. Have all these actually managed to colonize this extravagant, indefinable and unlikely city?

ISBN: 9780143 063100 Penguin India Rs 250

Format: B Paperback Publication: January 2008

India Today ISBN: 9780143 063094 Format: B Flexiback pp: 352 (with 15 b/w illus.)

Penguin India Rs 350 Publication: January 2008

pp: 264

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New in Penguin Classics

The Absent Traveller

The Co-wife and Other Stories

Prakrit Love Poetry from the Gathasaptasati of Satavahana Hala

Premchand Translated by Ruth Vanita ‘Premchand is India... If you haven’t read Premchand, you have missed out on a lot.’

Selected and translated by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra ‘They read beautifully. The translations are witty, terse, spare, memorable. At last the Gathasaptasati has found a translator.’

The Hindu

A.K. Ramanujan

The Gathasaptasati is perhaps the oldest extant anthology of poetry from South Asia, containing our very earliest examples of secular verse. Reputed to have been compiled by the Satavahana king Hala in the second century CE, it is a celebrated collection of 700 verses in Maharashtri Prakrit, composed in the compact, distilled gatha form. The anthology has attracted several learned commentaries and now, through Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s acclaimed translation of 207 verses from the anthology, readers of English at last have access to its poems. The speakers are mostly women and, whether young or old, married or single, they touch on the subject of sexuality with frankness, sensitivity and, every once in a while, humour, which never ceases to surprise.

The Absent Traveller includes an elegant and stimulating translator’s note and an afterword by Martha Ann Selby that provides an admirable introduction to Prakrit literature in general and the Gathasaptasati in particular.

ISBN: 9780143 100805 Penguin Classics Rs 175

Format: B Paperback Publication: February 2008

pp: 120

Considered one of the greatest fiction writers in Hindi, Munshi Premchand (1880–1936) wrote over three hundred short stories, a dozen novels and two plays over a prolific career spanning three decades.

Though best known for his stories exposing the horrors of poverty and social injustice, he wrote on a variety of themes with equal facility—romance, satire, social dramas, nationalist tales, and yarns steeped in folklore.

The Co-wife and Other Stories brings together twenty classic tales of Premchand which provide a glimpse of the author’s extraordinary range and diversity. While some cast a harrowing look at poverty, reflecting Premchand’s sympathy with the underdog, others expose human foibles without being judgmental and tackle gender politics in a humorous and ironic manner. This collection also includes an imaginative foray into historical fiction, a nostalgic look at childhood, a comic exploration of the theme of women’s autonomy, and stories that reveal the writer’s profound empathy with animals.

Ruth Vanita’s sensitive translation captures the power and beauty of Premchand’s language, conveying the nuances of the original and bringing to life the author’s inherent humanism.

ISBN: 9780143 101727 Penguin Classics Rs 250

Format: B Paperback Publication: February 2008

pp: 304

The Shattered Thigh and Other Plays Tales of the Ten Princes Bhasa

Dandin

Translated from the Sanskrit by A.N.D. Haksar

Translated from the Sanskrit with an introduction by A.N.D. Haksar

A selection of the earliest existing plays b amatist in classical byy a major dr dramatist Sanskrit.

Bhasa’s works were considered lost and it was only in the beginning of the twentieth century that some of his plays were recovered. Six of these, which form the present collection, are based on the Mahabharata, which provides a thematic unity to the plays.

A won derf ully det ailed sociological wonderf derfully detailed account of an import ant age in ancient important In dia.

India.

The Dasa Kumâra Charitam is a prose romance recounting the exploits of Prince Rajavahana and his nine companions. Its colourful tales of adventure are notable for their ironic humour, amoral outlook and uninhibited descriptions of contemporary life and manners.

ISBN: 9780143 104308 Penguin Classics Rs 200

Format: B Paperback Publication: January 2008

pp: 160

ISBN: 9780143104223 Penguin Classics Rs 250

Format: B Paperback Publication: January 2008

pp: 216

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The Blind Pilgrim

Meanwhile, Upriver

Bapsy Jain

Tales of the Watermelon and the Little Hanuman

‘One does not choose this kind of life. This kind of life chooses you...’

Lately, Lucky Boyce’s life has seen nothing but trouble. Her marriage to the wealthy and charming Vikram Singh has ended on the cruel grounds of infertility and, along with it, her career as a successful entrepreneur, once reputed for transforming an ailing export house into a profitmaking venture.

Defeated, and desperate for respite, Lucky arrives in New York, where her quest to tidy up her life begins with promise. A voluntary assignment as yoga instructor to inmates in a prison opens up a world where she can make a difference and in that unlikeliest of places she finds unusual friends, including the brooding tattoo artist and ex-con, Steve. Love suddenly resurfaces when she bumps into Amay, an old friend and anchor; and when Mike Lockwood, an associate from Lucky’s days in the export business, offers her a partnership in his firm, she is all set to start afresh.

But a series of bizarre events leaves Lucky groping blindly for answers, yet again. Who is behind the nasty attacks and elaborate lies that threaten to ruin her? Why is her journey through life marred by duplicity and betrayal at every turn? Or is it that she simply needs to overcome her fears and look within herself for the path that will help her break free from this vicious maze?

ISBN: 9780143 103080 Penguin India Rs 250

Format: A Paperback Publication: February 2008

pp: 304

Generation 14 Priya Sarukkai Chabria A sobering pictur e of a deeply divided society, picture d ffor or In dia. an d the danger and dangerss that lie ahea ahead India.

In a world where memory is forbidden and sexuality taboo, Clone 14/54/G is unique. Haunted by her past lives and caught in a struggle between the forces of oppression and those of liberty, language and love, she keeps a secret journal.

Intense, poetic and erotic, Generation 14 is a dazzlingly imaginative and bizarre political satire. Set in the twenty-fourth century, the novel journeys through highpoints of India’s history to explore ideas of its plural identity and what it means to be human in today’s polarized world. This extraordinary novel is unlike any other coming from the subcontinent, and heralds a new generation of fantasy writing from India.

‘Chabria’s is an extraordinary poetic imagination.’

Tim Parks, author of Europa ISBN: 9788189 884069 Zubaan–Penguin Rs 295

Format: Demy Paperback Publication: January 2008

pp: 288

Chatura Rao In the bylanes and ghats of Kashi, or Banaras, Yamini’s and Shiva’s stories unfold. Fat, sharp-tongued Yamini is thirtyeight and unmarried. By day she teaches maths in school. At night she leaves her obese self behind and takes to the skies, light as a bird in her dreams, dancing in the air above the ghats with the love of her life.

The ghat is also where Shiva, now eleven years old, was found abandoned by his adoptive father, the charismatic and ambitious sadhu Bhyom Baba.

Growing up in Baba’s ashram near Dashaswamedh Ghat, Shiva eavesdrops on the conversations of sadhus as they pass through the ashram, and hopes to some day find his mother among the women thronging the ghats.

One day, Yamini meets Duncan, a researcher, who unlocks the romantic in her and suddenly she feels like the person from her dreams, light and loved. In another part of the city, Shiva is chosen to enact the role of chhota Hanuman in the Ramnagar Ramlila. There he befriends the shy, quiet Shantanu, who plays the part of Janaki, Ram’s wife. Against the backdrop of the Lila, where political battlelines have been drawn by the city’s rival ashram factions, the final horrific truth about Shiva’s life is revealed, and his story merges with Yamini’s.

ISBN: 9780143 101543 Format: B Paperback pp: 216 Penguin India Rs 250 Publication: March 2008

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New Life

The Pregnant King

Selected Stories

Devdutt Pattanaik

Vijai Dan Detha Translated by Mridul Bhasin, Kailash Kabeer and Vandana R. Singh Folktales are the c o l l e c t i v e memories of people, handed down from one generation to another. But often, this process of handing down stops the evolution of these folktales.

Vijai Dan Detha, one of India’s most iconic and iconoclastic writers, not only puts these mostly oral stories into words, he also weaves contemporary issues into them and gives them renewed relevance. His stories speak of alternative ways of life and, sometimes, they speak out for the most common victims of feudal societies—women.

In ‘A New Life’, two women, Teeja and Beeja, are married to each other to satisfy the whim of an unbending father. They realize the mistake that they have been inadvertently forced into, but they also understand that this is the ideal union for them and, with the help of the ghost chieftain, build a new life for themselves. In ‘The Crow’s Way’ the selfishness of a husband, in-laws and other benefactors convinces a young wife that the only true human relationship is the one between a prostitute and her customer. ‘Discretion’ is the story of a she-jackal who is more virtuous than Sita but unwittingly cheats on her husband with the sun and the moon.

The stories in New Life, many of them path-breaking in Indian writing, are refreshingly free of stereotypes. Detha’s deep understanding of human relationships and his matter-of-fact engagement with unconventional themes makes this an unforgettable collection.

‘I am not sure that I am a man,’ said Yuvanashva.

‘I have created life outside me as men do. But I have also created life inside me, as women do.

What does that make me? Will a body such as mine fetter or free me?’

Among the many hundreds of characters who inhabit the Mahabharata, perhaps the world’s greatest epic and certainly one of the oldest, is Yuvanashva, a childless king, who accidentally drinks a magic potion meant to make his queens pregnant and gives birth to a son. This extraordinary novel is his story.

It is also the story of his mother Shilavati, who cannot be king because she is a woman; of young Somvat, who surrenders his genitals to become a wife; of Shikhandi, a daughter brought up as a son, who fathers a child with a borrowed penis; of Arjuna, the great warrior with many wives, who is forced to masquerade as a woman after being castrated by a nymph; of Ileshwara, a god on full-moon days and a goddess on new-moon nights; and of Adi-natha, the teacher of teachers, worshipped as a hermit by some and as an enchantress by others.

Building on Hinduism’s rich and complex mythology—but driven by a very contemporary sensibility—Devdutt Pattanaik creates a lush and fecund work of fiction in which the lines are continually blurred between men and women, sons and daughters, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers. Confronted with such fluidity the reader is drawn into Yuvanashva’s struggle to be fair to all—those here, those there and all those in between.

ISBN: 9780143 063476 Penguin India Rs 295

Format: B Paperback Publication: February 2008

pp: 360

Lunatic in My Head Anjum Hasan The 1990s. It’s raining in Shillong. Eight-year-old Sophie Das has just realized she is adopted, but there is also the baby kicking inside her mother’s stomach whom she is dying to meet. IAS aspirant Aman Moondy is planning a first-ofits-kind Happening and praying the lovely Concordella will come. College lecturer Firdaus Ansari is going to finish her thesis, have a hard talk with her boyfriend, and then get out.

Poetic, funny, tender and reflective, Lunatic in My Head is a moving portrait of a small town. And of three people joined to each other in an intricate web, determined to break out of their small-town destinies.

‘Anjum Hasan’s novel is haunting, lyrical and daring, bringing fresh air into the stale confines of Indian writing. A deceptively quiet portrait of a hill town, it is one of the finest works to have come out of the forgotten territories of the North-East.’

Siddhartha Deb, author of Surface

ISBN: 9780143 0100775 Format: B Paperback pp: 224 Penguin India Rs 225 Publication: February 2008

ISBN: 9788189 884050 Zubaan-Penguin Rs 295

Format: Demy Paperback Publication: January 2008

pp: 344

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Intern

Anatomy of an Abduction

A Doctor’s Initiation

How the Indian Hostages in Iraq Were Freed

Sandeep Jauhar Intern is Sandeep Jauhar’s story of his days and nights in residency at a busy hospital in New York City, a trial that led him to question every assumption about medical care today.

Residency—and especially the first year, called internship—is legendary for its brutality. Working eighty hours or more per week, most new doctors spend their first year asking themselves why they wanted to be doctors in the first place.

Jauhar’s internship was even more harrowing than most: he switched from physics to medicine in order to follow a more humane calling—only to find that medicine put patients’ concerns last. He struggled to find a place among squadrons of cocky residents and doctors. He challenged the practices of the internship in The New York Times, attracting the suspicions of the medical bureaucracy. Then, suddenly stricken, he became a patient himself—and came to see that today’s high-tech, high-pressure medicine can be a humane science after all.

Now a thriving cardiologist, Jauhar has all the qualities you’d want in your own doctor: expertise, insight, a feel for the human factor, a sense of humour, and a keen awareness of the worries that we all have in common. His beautifully written memoir explains the inner workings of modern medicine with rare candour and insight.

ISBN: 9780143 063827 Penguin India Rs 350

Format: Demy Paperback Publication: March 2008

pp: 320

Born to Dare The Life of Lt Gen. Inderjit Singh Gill S. Muthiah This is the story of a soldier’s soldier, Lt. Gen. Inderjit Singh Gill, PVSM, MC; a legend in the Indian Army but little known outside it, he is a revered figure, particularly among the paratroopers and Special Forces.

Serving Britain behind the German and Italian lines during World War II, Inder Gill was part of a campaign to foment resistance against the Axis powers in Greece and to cripple their transport arteries by blowing up key bridges. Leaving Greece, he served with the Royal Engineers on the slog from Cassino to Bologna, where he was injured twice in explosions, shrapnel from which he carried in his body for the rest of his life.

Joining the Indian Army, he served with the J&K Militia in Kashmir in the troubled times just after Independence, and was involved in peacekeeping operations in Korea and Gaza. Commanding the high passes during Sikkim’s travails, he also headed the Directorate of Military Operations during the 1971 War, before retiring as commander of India’s Western Army. But all the while, the things closest to his heart were the Parachute Regiment and training, both as trainer and trainee.

In these pages are seen the two sides of a soldier, the warrior who trained his men to be ever-prepared for action and the patient teacher who helped create thinking officers and gentlemen, while being ever at odds with conventional authority.

ISBN: 9780670 081882 Viking Rs 495

Format: Demy Hardback pp:312 (with 16-page b/w photo insert) Publication: February 2008

V. Sudarshan

In July 2004, a convoy of KGL trucks drove into Iraq from Kuwait carrying electronic equipment for the American occupiers, when the worst happened—three Indian drivers, three Kenyans and an Egyptian were ambushed, detained by unknown Iraqi dissidents and accused of collaborating with the Americans. A deadline was set for their execution. The countdown had begun.

The abduction drama that ensued had all the ingredients of a thriller: nail-biting suspense, high profile media coverage, international outrage at the plight of these humble workers, and political tightropewalking. This gripping behind-the-scenes narration recounts what really happened in Baghdad when a team of negotiators was sent there and entered into secret talks through an intermediary whose very existence was not in public domain.

Anatomy of an Abduction reveals for the first time the Indian crisis management team’s handling of the situation over fortyfour days in occupied, lawless Iraq.

The book gives an insight into the pressures that governments have to face as more and more innocent people become pawns in global chess games.

ISBN: 9780143 103851 Format: B Paperback Penguin India Rs 295 Publication: January 2008

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Just Like That

Blood of the Earth

Talks on Sufi Stories

The Battle for the World’s Vanishing Oil Resources

Osho ‘A rose petal, so delicate, but so strong, doesn’t hesitate about where it is falling, where it is going, whether there is any earth to find, to rest, to go to sleep, to die... A sufi master used to say to his disciples: “Simply trust. Do not the petals flutter down just like that?”’

Osho

Dilip Hiro When the Great Powers switched from coal to oil to run their navies just before World War I, it heralded a change in global politics comparable to the introduction of gunpowder in 1040. Oil became the chief strategic weapon of war. The victors’ conclusion that oil—the ‘blood of the earth’—proved to be the ‘blood of victory’ has since applied to all major conflicts. With petroleum becoming an indispensable part of modern life—from fertilizers and fuel to plastics and pharmaceuticals—it has emerged as the prized commodity for which wars are fought.

As oil output peaks and competition for it grows fierce, the number of countries able to export will shrink to a handful by 2020. They will all be Muslim states in the Persian Gulf, except Venezuela, which is currently poised against the US. Blood of the Earth, by the acclaimed historian and journalist Dilip Hiro, is a gripping history of oil and how it has revolutionized civilian life as well as war and global politics over the last century. Written in Hiro’s customary lucid and colourful style, it sets the stage for the coming oil wars of the 21st century, as well as considering the alternatives to hydrocarbons.

ISBN: 9780143 104018 Penguin India Rs 395

For Osho, all change is individual. There is no ‘society’ to change—change can only happen to each one of us, one at a time.

So, no matter what the subject matter of the book, the thread that runs through all Osho’s words is like a love song that we can suddenly, mysteriously, hear at just the right moment. And strangely, no matter what the words seem to be referring to, they are really only referring to us.

This is no ordinary love song, more an invitation to open our hearts to hear something beyond the words, beyond the heart... a silence beyond all understanding— where we all belong.

Just Like That brings together Osho’s talks on Sufi stories and Sufism. Osho, with his characteristic wit, incisiveness and irreverence, peels the layers of our consciousness and introduces us to ourselves.

ISBN: 9780143 063155 Format: B Paperback Penguin India Rs 295 Publication: March 2008

pp: 288

Format: Demy Paperback Publication: February 2008

pp: 480

The Spirit of India Ramin Jahanbegloo Introduction by Ashis Nandy The essential and enduring consciousness that animates the Indian nation has for long eluded definition. In this fascinating exposition, eminent Iranian political philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo elucidates his understanding of this enigmatic ‘spirit of India’. To him, the vital principle inspiring Indian thought and action is the spirit of dialogue and cross-cultural debate, deeply rooted in the daily practices of different communities. In contrast to many cultures that have, through history, feared diversity as being destructive, India’s plural and polyphonic forces have been a source of creative power. The significant question that encapsulates the spirit of the nation has always been: What should our behaviour towards others be to achieve harmony and solidarity? Dogmatism and fundamentalism have therefore not been the final victors in India’s functioning pluralistic society.

This book illuminates why and how, in order to manage our plural world, we need to acknowledge and nurture the redoubtable vitality of India.

ISBN: 9780143 103370 Penguin India Rs 225

Format: B Paperback Publication: February 2008

pp: 192

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Bollywood Melodies A History of the Hindi Film Song

Brushing Up the Years

Ganesh Anantharaman

A Cartoonist’s History of India, 1947 to the Present

Foreword by Mahesh Bhatt A delightf ul hist ory of the Hin di ffilm ilm song an d its delightful history Hindi and hold oover ver popular psy che. psyche.

‘De de Khuda ke naam pe’ sang Wazir Mohammed Khan in Alam Ara (1931), giving birth to a phenomenon—the Hindi film song. Over the years, the Hindi film song has travelled a long way, influencing and being influenced by popular taste.

Considered downmarket not so long ago, it is undoubtedly the most popular musical genre in India today, pervading almost all aspects of Indian life— weddings, funerals, religious festivals, get-togethers and political conventions—and emerging as a medium to articulate every shade of joy and sorrow, love and longing, hope and despair.

Bollywood Melodies traces the evolution of the Hindi film song to its present status as the cultural barometer of the country, through an evaluation of the work of over fifty outstanding composers, singers and lyricists—from K.L. Saigal to Sonu Nigam, Naushad to A.R. Rahman, Sahir Ludhianvi to Javed Akhtar. Placing the song in the social context of the times, Ganesh Anantharaman looks at the influences that shaped it in each era: Rabindra Sangeet in the 1930s, the folk-inspired 1940s, the classical strains of the following decade and the advent of Western beats in the late 1960s. The author also chronicles the decline of music in Hindi films over the next twenty years before a new crop of musicians and singers gave the film song a new lease of life.

ISBN: 9780143 063407 Penguin India Rs 295

Format: Demy Paperback Publication: February 2008

R.K. Laxman Brushing Up the Years: A Cartoonist’s History of India, 1947 to the Present is a selection of the very best of Laxman’s cartoons, drawn over a career spanning sixty years. From India’s first general elections to Nehru’s Five-Year Plans, from

A collector’s item that every Indian

pp: 280

will want to possess.

The Penguin Book of Cricket Lists Gulu Ezekiel A def initive book of lists, ffascinating ascinating ffacts acts an d ttant ant alizing definitive and antalizing trivia on crick et. cricket.

All of us have at one point or the other made lists. And a cricket enthusiast will have spent hours compiling his own special ones on the greatest batsmen and bowlers. Gulu Ezekiel’s The Penguin Book of Cricket Lists brings together lists of every conceivable nature pertaining to the gentleman’s game. The author also provides a treasure trove of facts, both informative and hilarious, such as: • Which cricketing legend has acted in a Raj Kapoor film?

• Which Indian pace bowler attending the MRF Pace Foundation in Chennai fractured his finger when his hand got stuck in a postbox?

• Which Pakistani spin wizard was a vegetable vendor by profession?

• Which is the only father–son duo to have both scored centuries on Test debut?

• Which West Indian fast bowler’s nickname was taken from a character on the children’s TV serial Sesame Street? and many more.

ISBN: 9780143 102151 Penguin India Rs 200

Format: B Paperback Publication: January 2008

the wars with China and Pakistan to the reign of Indira Gandhi and the Emergency, from Rajiv Gandhi’s government, the rise of regional politics and the fall of the Babri Masjid to economic liberalization, the rule of the BJP and the Congress’s return to power, these cartoons trace a history of modern India, a history that is perceptive, provocative and humorous.

This paperback edition of Brushing Up the Years contains eight new pages of cartoons, bringing the story up to the present.

A unique book that reveals what modern India is all about.

ISBN: 9780143 103660 Format: 7" x 9" Flexiback pp: 312 Penguin India Rs 495 Publication: January 2008

pp: 188

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Cut-outs, Caste and Cine Stars The World of Tamil Politics Vaasanthi Cut-outs, Caste and Cine Stars tells a political story that has all the elements of a blockbuster film, where ironies and larger-thanlife characters abound: Periyar, a Kannadaspeaker, who introduced the notions of Tamil self-respect and regional pride, yet dismissed Tamil as ‘a barbaric language’; the matinee idol MGR, a Malayalee born in Sri Lanka, who became Tamil Nadu’s most popular mass leader; the Dravidian movement which, by its own ideology, should have helped the Dalits but has instead supported only the upwardly mobile middle groups; and parties that rose to power by propagating anti-Hindi and antiBrahmin sentiments but have now allied themselves with the BJP. It is fitting that this reel-like scenario is presently dominated by the electoral politics of Karunanidhi and Jayalalithaa, one a scriptwriter and the other a former actress.

Well-known writer and journalist Vaasanthi has observed the dramatis personae in this epic drama at close quarters for a decade. Now updated with an additional chapter on the war of succession, Cut-outs, Caste and Cine Stars offers an objective and insightful view of a political world that is both fascinating and perplexing. ‘[A] thoughtful and eminently readable account.’

Business Standard

‘A must for [anyone] who wants to understand Tamil Nadu politics.’

New Indian Express ISBN: 9780143 063124 Format: Demy Paperback pp: 320 Penguin India Rs 295 Publication: January 2008

Revised Edition

India Since Independence Bipan Chandra, Mridula Mukherjee and Aditya Mukherjee

A thor ough an d incisive intr oduction tto o cont empor ary In dia. thorough and introduction contempor emporary India.

This volume, a sequel to the best-selling India’s Struggle for Independence, analyses the challenges India has faced and the successes it has achieved, in the light of its colonial legacy and century-long struggle for freedom. The book describes how the Constitution was framed, as also how the Nehruvian political and economic agenda and basics of foreign policy were evolved and developed. It dwells on the consolidation of the nation, examining contentious issues like party politics in the Centre and the states, the Punjab problem, and anti-caste politics and untouchability.

This revised edition offers a scathing analysis of the growth of communalism in India and the use of state power in furthering its cause. Apart from detailed analyses of Indian economic reforms since 1991 and wide-ranging land reforms and the Green Revolution, this new edition includes an overview of the Indian economy in the new millennium. These, along with objective assessments of Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Jayaprakash Narayan, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Rajiv Gandhi, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh, constitute a remarkable overview of a nation on the move.

ISBN: 9780143 104094 Penguin India Rs 395

Format: Demy Paperback Publication: February 2008

pp: 788

Now in Paperback

The Future of Freedom Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad Fareed Zakaria ‘[A] brave and ambitious book… it deserves a wide readership.’

The New York Times Book Review

Liberty and Democracy. The two go hand in hand in popular thinking. We believe that the answer to our problems is always more democracy. More democracy means more freedom. But does it? At a time when democracy is the one political system whose legitimacy is unquestioned, this deeply significant book points out the tension between democracy and freedom. It ranges widely through the past and the present to remind us that we can have too much of a good thing.

American democracy, to many, is the model for the rest of the world. Fareed Zakaria points out that the American form of democracy is one of the least democratic in use today. As he examines the world’s other great democracies such as those in India and Britain, he comes up with equally arresting insights. For example, he argues that in many parts of the world, the spread of democracy has not produced a corresponding growth in liberty. From Russia to Venezuela to the Palestinian Authority, we see instead a strange creature—the elected autocrat. Societies, particularly in the Arab world, are trapped between repressive dictatorships and fanatical masses. Is there a way out?

Calling for a restoration of the balance between liberty and democracy, Zakaria argues that by restricting our democracy we enhance our freedom.

ISBN: 9780143 063728 Penguin India Rs 325

Format: Royal Paperback Publication: February 2008

pp: 288

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The Girl

Two Lives

Sonia Faleiro

Vikram Seth

‘A classic... beautiful lyricism, poetic passages and evocative descriptions of Goa.’

Vikr am Seth’ ating book is the ikram Seth’ss captiv captivating st ory of a century an d of a lo ve af story and love afffair acr oss a rracial acial divide. across ‘When a book like Two Lives is written, the world regains a little more humanity— and literature a lot more.’

Deccan Herald

Richly atmospheric and written with unusual lyricism, The Girl is an outstanding debut—a tender and disquieting story about love and its infinite capacity for betrayal.

‘A literary voice that has taken the measure of the most extreme human emotions—love, rage and grief—and, too, of what lies beyond: the desire for blessed release. The Girl has wisdom, tenderness, and a sort of agelessness that sets it apart from much other contemporary fiction in English coming out of India.’

Far Eastern Economic Review

‘Perhaps Seth’s most engaging and touching work.’

Hindustan Times

‘It needed a Seth to write this book. Only he, with his spare, lucid prose... could have turned an affectionate family after-dinner story into a “big book” memoir meant to be read by many.’

Times of India

India Today

‘Seth navigates histories public and personal, Biswan and Berlin, Raj and Third Reich, doctor’s chambers and gas chambers, and reaches the fugitive secrets of the human heart.’

pp: 136

Tehelka

‘This lyrical first novel is rich with dark visual imagery.’

ISBN: 9780143 063445 Penguin India Rs 150

India Today

Format: B Paperback Publication: February 2008

ISBN: 9780143 104087 Penguin India Rs 395

Format: Royal Paperback Publication: January 2008

pp: 512

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF PUFFIN The Cadbury Bournvita Book of Knowledge

Sally and the Warlocks and Other Stories

Volume 14

Shashi Warrier

Derek O’Brien Since 1993, the Cadbury Bournvita Quiz Contest, hosted by the inimitable Derek O’Brien, has been a regular feature on television. Now, the fully revised and updated Cadbury Bournvita Book of Knowledge Volumes 1-12 are brought to you by Puffin in a brand new format, with over a hundred bonus questions. Watch out for fun sections like Speed Round, Find the Answer, Take Your Pick and Guess the Question!

After the success of Cadbury Bournvita Book of Knowledge Volume 13 published last year, this brand new volume is the latest addition to the series, with completely new questions and sections. Sharpen your general knowledge by answering questions on sports, history, entertainment, mythology, wildlife, food and several other topics.

Collect all fourteen volumes—and happy quizzing!

ISBN: 9780143 330592 Puffin Rs 150

Format: B Paperback Publication: January 2008

pp: 160

Suzy is a princess with an amazing talent—if anyone tells a lie in her presence, the liar’s nose swells up. On a terrible, stormy night, six-year-old Sally witnesses a secret Warlock ritual, and is kidnapped by the wicked magicians who decide to sacrifice her. In the last story, Ampersand, the Lord of Magic, decides to move with his band of magic people to a new land.

When the ship lands at Obfuscia, a new continent, they find the kings Sharkovitch and Von Clunk plotting to take over the other kingdoms. Funny and fantastic, ‘Suzy’s Gift’, ‘Sally and the Warlocks’ and ‘The Hidden Continent’ are for all those who love reading about adventure and strange, delightful, magical characters.

ISBN: 9780143 330646 Format: B Paperback pp: 232 (with 9 b/w illus.)

Puffin Rs 195 Publication: January 2008

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P E N G U I N M O D E R N C L AS S I C S The best books ever written—now available with stunning jackets

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The best books ever written—now available with stunning jackets

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Penguin Group (UK) The Three Trillion Dollar War The True Cost of the War in Iraq Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes The Three Trillion Dollar War, by Nobel prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard professor Linda J. Bilmes, is a devastating reckoning of the true cost of the Iraq war—quite apart from its tragic human toll—which the Bush administration has estimated at $50 billion, but which Stiglitz and Bilmes show underestimates the real figure by approximately six times. The authors expose the gigantic expenses which have so far not been officially accounted for, including not only big ticket items like replacing military equipment (being used up at six times the peacetime rate) but also the cost of caring for thousands of wounded veterans—for the rest of their lives.

Shifting to a global perspective, the authors investigate the cost in lives and damage within Iraq and the Middle East generally. With chilling precision, they calculate what the money spent on the war would have produced had it been further invested in the growth of the economy, in the US and around the world, and in infrastructure building. Stiglitz and Bilmes write in simple language, which makes the details they present, and the sums they add up, all the more disturbing. This book will change forever the way we think about the Iraq war—and about the cost of war generally.

ISBN: 9781846 141287 Allen Lane £20.00

Format: Trade Paperback Special price in India £5.99

pp: 336 Publication: March 2008

Also available by Joseph E. Stiglitz

Globalization and its Discontents ISBN: 0143 029460 Penguin India Rs 395

The Roaring Nineties Why We’re Paying the Price for the Greediest Decade in History ISBN: 0141 014318 Penguin UK £8.99 Special price in India £4.50

Making Globalization Work The Next Steps to Global Justice ISBN: 0141 024968 Penguin UK £8.99 Special price in India £4.50

The million copy Chinese bestseller

Wolf Totem Jiang Rong Beijing intellectual Chen Zhen volunteers to live in a remote settlement on the border of Inner and Outer Mongolia, where he discovers life of apparent idyllic simplicity amongst the nomads and the wild wolves who roam the plains. But when members of the People’s Republic swarm in from the cities to bring modernity and productivity to the grasslands, the peace of Chen’s solitary existence is

Winner of the 1st Man Asian Literary Prize 2007 shattered, and the delicate balance between humans and wolves is disrupted.

Only time will tell whether the grasslands’ environment and culture will ever recover…

Wolf Totem has been a sensation ever since it shot to the top of the Chinese bestseller charts in 2004. A beautiful and moving portrayal of a land and culture that no longer exists, it is also a powerful portrait of modern China and a fascinating insight into the country’s own view of itself, its history and its people.

ISBN: 9780241 144084 Hamish Hamilton £11.99 Publication: March 2008

Format: Trade Paperback Special price in India £5.99

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Gang Leader for a Day A Rogue Sociologist Crosses the Line Sudhir Venkatesh When naïve sociology student Sudhir Venkatesh went to find out more about urban poverty in Chicago, the last thing he expected was to be held hostage by a gang. And he never guessed that, after being released, he’d want to return to find out more about them, ignoring everyone’s advice and entering a dangerous world beyond anything he’d ever experienced.

In the Robert Taylor Homes projects on Chicago’s South Side, Sudhir befriends J.T., a gang leader for the Black Kings. As their friendship grows, he slowly gains J.T.’s trust, until one day, in order to convince Sudhir of his own CEO-like qualities, J.T. makes him leader of the gang. Deciding who cleans up the buildings after a party gets out of hand is one thing, but what do you do when Billy says that Otis lied about how much crack he sold, and somebody needs to be punished? What’s more, why does J.T. make his henchmen, the ‘shorties’, stay in school? When will T-Bone (in charge of gang security, takes his job very seriously) intervene in a mob lynching? Just who does C-Note have to pay if he wants to carry on washing cars? What is the difference between a ‘regular’ hustler and a ‘hype’— and is Peanut telling him the truth about which she is? Why is Moochie sleeping with Ms Bailey, the all-powerful president of the building, thirty years his senior? And, when the FBI finally starts cracking down on the Black Kings, is it time to get out—or is it too late?

Incredibly funny, and heartbreaking, this is a story of one man’s commitment really to cross the line, to understand how the people he is studying live day to day. What he doesn’t expect is to become part of their lives.

ISBN: 9780713 999945 Allen Lane £11.99

Format: Trade Paperback Special price in India £4.99

pp: 320 Publication: February 2008

If You Don’t Know Me By Now A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton Sathnam Sanghera ‘“Stop laughing so much. You’ll only cry twice as much later,” my mother says.’

When Sathnam Sanghera was twenty-four years old he made a discovery about his family that would both darken, and illuminate his life. It would set him on a journey into his family’s past: from his father’s harsh life in rural Punjab, to the terrifying early years of his parents’ marriage in England; from his mother’s extraordinary resilience as she brought up her young family in a foreign land, without any knowledge of its language, to the author’s happy memories of his own childhood—his obsessions with George Michael and a desire to have the perfect top knot. And, most affectingly of all, this discovery would finally force Sanghera’s own secret life into the glaring light: his longing for romantic love which he had, for fear of family rejection, kept utterly hidden from his beloved mother.

From Hindu hairdressers to the Wolverhampton tourist office, from terrifying violence to boundless family loyalty, If You Don’t Know Me by Now is a heart-rending account of one family’s unimaginable suffering and also its great capacity for love. In a voice that is by turns tender and wonderfully funny, Sathnam Sanghera tells a story of the seemingly unbridgeable, and often harrowing, gulf between classes, cultures and generations and also provides a moving testament to the surprising power of unconditional love.

ISBN: 9780670 916702 Viking £16.99

Format: Hardback Special price in India £5.99

pp: 336 Publication: March 2008

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Chasing the Flame

Physics of the Impossible

Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World

A Scientific Tour Beyond Science Fiction, Fantasy and Magic

Samantha Power Chasing the Flame tells the life story of a remarkable man. Sergio Vieira de Mello was born in 1948, just as the post-World War II order was taking shape, and died in a terrorist attack on UN Headquarters in Iraq in 2003, just as the battle lines in the t we n t y - fi rs t century’s first great struggle were being drawn. In nearly four decades of work for the United Nations, de Mello negotiated with, and often charmed, Cold War military dictators, Marxist jungle radicals, reckless warlords, and nationalist and sectarian militia leaders. He worked in Lebanon in the aftermath of Israel’s 1982 invasion; attempted to tame the Khmer Rouge and repatriate over 400,000 Cambodian refugees in the early 90s; helped negotiate an end to the slaughter in Bosnia; through quasi-colonial governorships of Kosovo and East Timor struggled to build nations out of war-torn societies; and in his tragic final posting as the UN representative in Baghdad was a victim of the country’s first-ever suicide bomb.

Samantha Power reveals de Mello’s powerful legacy of humanity and ideological strength, and by introducing a hero for our age offers new answers to the question: who will possess the moral authority, the political sense, and the military and economic heft to protect human life and bring peace to the unruly new world order?

ISBN: 9780713 998412 Format: Royal Hardback pp: 640 Allen Lane £25.00 Special price in India Rs 695 Publication: March 2008

Michio Kaku Physics of the Impossible takes us on a journey to the frontiers of science and beyond, giving us an exhilarating insight into what we can really hope to achieve in the future.

Everyday we see that what was once declared ‘impossible’ by scientists has become part of our everyday lives: fax machines, glass sky-scrapers, gas-powered automobiles, a worldwide communications network and high-speed elevated trains.

Here internationally bestselling author Michio Kaku confidently hurdles today’s frontier of science, presenting the first truly authoritative exploration of the real science of tomorrow; a field normally left to writers of science fiction. He reveals the actual possibilities of perpetual motion, force fields, invisibility, ray guns, anti-gravity and anti-matter, teleportation, telepathy, psychokinesis, robots and cyborgs, faster than light travel, time travel, zero-point energy, extraterrestrial life, even clairvoyance. And he shows how few of these ideas actually violate the laws of physics.

The real differences between the impossible, the unlikely and the imminent have never been so clear.

Where does the realm of science fiction end? What can we really hope to achieve?

‘Anything that is not impossible, is mandatory!’ declares Kaku in this lucid, entertaining and enlightening read.

ISBN: 9780713 999921 Allen Lane £20.00

Format: Hardback Special price in India £7.99

pp: 304 Publication: Mrach 2008

Panicology Simon Briscoe and Hugh Aldersey-Williams Did you dare give your child the three-in-one MMR vaccine? Afraid you’ll get so fat you’ll die before your time? Worried that Tesco/Walmart will swallow up your local store, or will we all be hit by an asteroid first?

Every day, the press warns us of some new calamity that will threaten our lives. The risks of simply being alive apparently grow ever more alarming. Life has never been better, yet we live in fear. Why do we work ourselves up into such a state? Because these stories are a heady mix of supposedly scientific information and journalistic hype.

Our hearts fall for the ‘story’ and our heads believe the ‘facts’.

Panicology will help you make sense of the jungle of threats. It will explain why things are seldom as bad as they’re painted. Upbeat and optimistic in its world-view yet robust and sceptical in its analysis, it will equip you to approach the scares of today—and tomorrow—without panic, but with rational levelheadedness and perhaps a measure of insouciance. Panicology is a feel-good book about the oh-so-desperate state we’re in.

ISBN: 9780670 917020 Viking £11.99

Format: Trade Paperback Special price in India £4.99

pp: 304 Publication: February 2008

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Thank You for Arguing

What We Say Goes

What Aristotle, Eminem and Homer (Simpson) Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion

Conversations on US Power in a Changing World

Jay Heinrichs

Noam Chomsky

This is a book for when you really have to get your point across...

From avoiding a speeding ticket to recognizing the difference between an argument and a fight, from Stalin’s timing secret (and if it worked for the mass-murdering dictator it can work for you) to the Belushi paradigm, via the tactics of Monty Python, Yoda and Queen Victoria, Thank You for Arguing is not just a highly enjoyable read, but an incredibly useful one too. From Cicero’s secrets for moving an audience to Honest Abe’s Shameless Trick, learn how to argue and most importantly how to win.

In this all-new collection of conversations, conducted in 2006 and 2007, Noam Chomsky explores immediate and urgent international concerns including Iran’s challenge to the United States, the deterioration of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the ongoing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the rise of China, and the growing power of the left in Latin America, as well as the Democratic victory in the US mid-term elections and its ramifications for the future. As always, Chomsky presents his own ideas vividly and accessibly, with uncompromising principles and valuable insights.

These interviews will inspire a new generation of readers, as well as long-term Chomsky fans eager for his latest thinking on the many crises the world now confronts.

ISBN: 9781846 140419 Format: Royal Paperback Allen Lane £14.99 Special price in India £6.99 Publication: February 2008

pp: 336

ISBN: 9780241 144015 Format: B Hardback Hamish Hamilton £14.99 Special price in India £3.99 Publication: February 2008

Here Comes Everybody

pp: 240

The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Your Inner Fish

Clay Shirky

A Journey into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Body

A handful of kite hobbyists scattered around the world find each other on-line and collaborate on the most radical improvement in kite design in decades. A few people find that a world-class online encyclopedia created entirely by volunteers and open for editing by anyone, a wiki, is not an impractical idea. Jihadi groups trade instruction entirely on-line.

Our age’s new technologies of social networking are evolving, and evolving us. New groups are doing new things in new ways, and we’re doing the old things better and more easily. Business models are being transformed at dizzying speeds, and the larger social impact is in a way so profound that it’s under-appreciated. In Here Comes Everybody, one of the culture’s wisest observers give us his lucid and penetrating analysis on what this means for what we do and who we are.

ISBN: 9780713 999891 Allen Lane £20.00 Publication: March 2008

Format: Hardback Special price in India £5.99

pp: 336

Neil Shubin Your Inner Fish tells the extraordinary history of the human body. Why do we look the way we do? When did we first evolve the features that we have? Why are we still able to do all the different things we do? And, finally, why do we fall ill in the way that we do? Neil Shubin draws on the latest genetic research and his huge experience as an expeditionary palaeontologist to show the incredible impact the 3.5 billion year history of life has had on our bodies. It turns out that many of our most distinctive features evolved when we were still swimming in the oceans. Shubin takes readers on a fascinating, unexpected journey and allows us to discover the deep connection to nature in our own bodies.

ISBN: 9780713 999358 Format: Royal Hardback Allen Lane £20.00 Special price in India £14.99 Publication: February 2008

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How to Get a Celeb’s Body

Five Wishes

Discover the Secrets of the Stars with Your Own Personal Trainer

How Answering One Simple Question Can Make Your Dreams Come True

Elise Lindsay

Gay Hendricks

Have you ever seen pictures of your favourite celebrities and thought ‘I wish I could look that good’? They adorn the covers of glossy magazines, dressed to impress and showing off bodies that most of us only dream of. Now you can look and feel just as fantastic with Elise Lindsay’s guide to a fitter, healthier, slimmer you.

As Coleen McLoughlin’s personal trainer, Elise has been credited with turning the body of Coleen around, transforming her from shy schoolgirl to style icon and making her one of the most confident, glamorous and photographed celebrities in the world. Through meal planning, step-by-step exercises and positive thinking, she will show how you too can get the body you’ve always wanted. Choose Elise as your fitness coach and you could be the next show stopper.

An encounter at a party changed Gay Hendricks forever. A stranger asked him to imagine himself on his deathbed and to consider this question: ‘Was your life a complete success?’ If not, then ‘What would be the things you’d wish had happened that would have made it a success?’ Hendricks said his deepest wish was for a loving, lasting relationship with a woman. The stranger said, ‘Turn that wish into a goal, and put it in the present tense.’ On the spot, Hendricks came up with this goal, ‘I enjoy a happy marriage with a woman I adore and who adores me.’ This goal helped him create his marriage to Kathlyn, and during the past 27 years they’ve become well-known relationship experts and co-authors of nine books together. This short, focused book shows readers how to discover their own five wishes for a fulfilled life.

Neale Donald Walsch’s thoughtful foreword explores the power of this approach and explains why he insisted Hendricks share it with others.

ISBN: 9780718 153373 Format: 189 mm x 246 mm Paperback pp: 224 Michael Joseph £14.99 Special price in India £10.50 Publication: January 2008

In Defence of Food

ISBN: 9780718 153861 Format: B Hardback Michael Joseph £12.99 Special price in India £3.75 Publication: February 2008

The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating Michael Pollan

Why Do People Get Ill?

‘Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.’

These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan’s In Defence of Food.

Humans used to know how to eat well, Pollan argues. But the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused, complicated, and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists—all of whom have much to gain from our dietary confusion.

Indeed, real food is fast disappearing from the marketplace, to be replaced by ‘nutrients’, and plain old eating by an obsession with nutrition that is, paradoxically, ruining our health, not to mention our meals.

Michael Pollan’s bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we might start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives and our palates and enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy.

Exploring the Mind-Body Connection

ISBN: 9781846 140969 Format: Hardback Allen Lane £16.99 Special price in India £5.99 Publication: February 2008

ISBN: 9780141 021218 Penguin UK £8.99 Publication: March 2008

pp: 256

pp: 160

Darian Leader and David Corfield Have you ever wondered why we get ill? Can our thoughts and feelings worsen or even cause conditions like heart disease, cancer or asthma?

And what—if anything—can we do about it?

Why Do People Get Ill? explores the relationship between what’s going on in our heads and what happens in our bodies, combining the latest research with neglected findings from medical history. With remarkable case studies and startling new insights into why we fall ill, this intriguing book should be read by anyone who cares about their own health and that of other people.

Format: B Paperback Special price in India £2.99

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Escape

Things I Want My Daughters to Know

Carolyn Jessop Imagine having 8 children in 15 years. Imagine being forced to give birth in front of an audience of your husband’s other wives. Imagine having to give birth silently with no pain killers.

Imagine having to wear long johns, 3 pairs of socks and support stockings, long skirts and vests on a beach in Hawaii.

Imagine your children being made to fast and pray for your death. Imagine going on your first date aged 35.

This was Carolyn Jessop’s life.

Escape is a powerful memoir that documents the horrors and abuses, the cruelties and absurdities within the FLDS, a radical offshoot of the Mormon church. Escape is frequently shocking, often moving, but is also written with a wry wit.

ISBN: 9780670 917211 Format: Paperback Penguin UK £14.99 Special price in India £4.50 Publication: January 2008

pp: 432

Petite Anglaise Catherine Sanderson Living in Paris with her partner, the workaholic Mr Frog, and their adorable toddler, Tadpole, Catherine decides to alleviate the boredom of her metro-boulot-dodo routine by starting a blog under the name of Petite Anglaise.

Writing with disarming honesty about Paris life, about the confines of her hollow relationship with Mr Frog and about the wonder and pain that comes with being a mother, she finds a new purpose to her day.

As Petite Anglaise, Catherine regains her confidence and makes virtual friends, including one charismatic and single Englishman who lives in Brittany, James. And after meeting James one evening in a bar, Catherine feels she has regained her ability to fall in love, too.

ISBN: 9780718154097 Michael Joseph £11.99 Publication: March 2008

Format: Paperback Special price in India £4.99

pp: 352

Elizabeth Noble When Barbara realizes time is running out, she writes letters to her four daughters, aware they’ll be facing the trials and triumphs of life without her at their side.

But how can she leave them when they still have so much growing up to do?

Take Lisa, in her mid-thirties but incapable of making a commitment; or Jennifer, trapped in a stale marriage and buttoned up so tight she could burst. While twentysomething Amanda is the traveller, always distanced from the rest of the family. And Hannah. A teenage girl on the verge of womanhood, about to be parted from the mother she adores.

But by drawing on the wisdom in Barbara’s letters, the girls might just find a way to cope with her loss. And in coming to terms with their bereavement, can they also set themselves free to enjoy life with all the passion and love each deserves?

The bestselling Elizabeth Noble returns with a tale of families, friends... and the glorious, endless possibilities of life.

ISBN: 9780718 153335 Format: Paperback Michael Joseph £11.99 Special price in India £4.99 Publication: February 2008

Penguin Classics

Poems of John Milton John Milton Selected and Introduced by Claire Tomalin John Milton was a master of almost every type of verse, from the classical to the religious and from the lyrical to the epic. This is a new selection of his poems, edited and introduced by Claire Tomalin.

ISBN: 9781846 140334 Penguin UK £10.99 Publication: March 2008

Format: A Hardback Special price in India £7.75

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The Savage Altar

Requiem for an Assassin

Asa Larsson

Barry Eisler

On the floor of a church in northern Sweden, the body of a man lies ritually mutilated and defiled—and in the night sky, the aurora borealis dances as the snow begins to fall.

Rebecka Martinsson is heading home to Kiruna, the small town she’d left in disgrace years before. A Stockholm tax lawyer, Rebecka has a good reason to return: her friend Sanna, whose brother has been horrifically murdered in the church of the cult he helped create. Beautiful and fragile, Sanna needs someone like Rebecka to remove the shadow of guilt that is engulfing her, to forestall an ambitious prosecutor, and to confront the rumours circulating in a closed and frightened community.

But to help her friend, and to find the real killer of a man she once adored and is now not sure she ever knew, Rebecka must relive the darkness she left behind in Kiruna, delve into a sordid conspiracy of deceit, and confront a killer whose motives are dark and impossible to guess...

For master assassin John Rain, getting out of ‘the life’ was never going to be easy. But with a new identity in Paris, and the help of his lover, Mossad agent Delilah, he was hoping to leave the killing business behind.

Then he receives a message from rogue CIA operative Jim Hilger: We have your friend Dox. Do as we tell you, or the sniper dies.

The choice ought to be easy: do the job—a series of three hits—and save his friend and partner. But how does Rain know Hilger won’t just kill Dox once the assignment is complete? How does he know that each of the hits isn’t also a setup for Rain himself? Most of all, how can he control the killing rage that Hilger’s lethal game of extortion reignites inside him?

ISBN: 9780141 024714 Penguin UK £6.99 Publication: February 2008

Format: B Paperback Special price in India £2.50

ISBN: 9780718 148966 Michael Joseph £11.99 Publication: March 2008

Format: Trade Paperback Special price in India £4.50

pp: 368

pp: 320

The Last Assassin Barry Eisler

Penguin Pocket Sudoku David J. Bodycombe Sudoku is a real cultural phenomenon: a French fad in the 1890s, a Japanese craze in the 1980s, it is now a peculiarly British obsession.

Here is Penguin’s volume of Sudoku puzzles: the logic game that has taken the world by storm. Penguin Pocket Sudoku contains 201 fiendish brainteasers, ranging from easy to mind-bogglingly difficult. It provides a daily fix for the hardened Sudoku fan and sets an addictive challenge for novices. It’s more than a game. Sudoku is good for you: it builds your concentration, hones your logic and improves your deduction skills.

ISBN: 9780141 034928 Penguin UK £3.99 Publication: March 2008

Format: A Paperback Special price in India £2.80

When John Rain learns that his former lover, Midori, has been raising their child in New York, he senses a chance for reconciliation, perhaps even redemption. But Midori is being watched by Rain’s enemies, and his sudden appearance put mother and child in terrible danger.

To save them, Rain is forced to use the same deadly talents he had been hoping to leave behind.

With the help of Tatsu, his friendly nemesis in the Japanese FBI, and Dox, the ex-marine sniper whose laid-back style masks a killer as deadly as Rain himself, Rain races against time to bring his enemies into the open and eliminate them forever. But to finish the job, he’ll need one more ally: Israeli intelligence agent Delilah, a woman who represents an altogether different kind of threat...

pp: 224 ISBN: 9780141 025940 Penguin UK £6.99 Publication: March 2008

Format: A Paperback Special price in India £2.99

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Ruso and the Demented Doctor

Company of Liars

R.S. Downie

A Novel of the Plague

Army doctor Gaius Petreius Ruso is waiting for the gods to smile on him. But, on a posting to the hostile North of Britannia, he’s in for a long wait. Not least because the locals have a new hero who likes to strap antlers to his head and scare the Romans silly, while Ruso’s slave girl, Tilla, is stubbornly refusing to identify the culprit in a police line-up.

But when Ruso is waylaid at the Fort of Coria, where a fellow doctor has confessed to a grisly murder, it’s a case of out of the cauldron and into the fire.

R. S. Downie’s Ruso is an anti-hero to delight in and murderers at the frontier of the Roman Empire will be quaking in their sandals at his return.

Karen Maitland

ISBN: 9780718 149451 Michael Joseph £11.99 Publication: March 2008

Format: Trade Paperback Special price in India £5.99

pp: 480

On this day of ill omen, plague makes its entrance. Within weeks, swathes of England witll be darkened by death’s shadow as towns and villages burn to the ringing of church bells.

While panic and suspicion flood the land, a small band of travellers comes together to outrun the breakdown in law and order. But when one of their number is found hanging from a tree, the chilling discovery confirms that something more sinister than plague is in their midst. And as the runes warn of treachery, it appears no one is quite what they seem, least of all the child rune reader, who mercilessly compels each of her companions to tell their stories. And face the consequences.

Take a leap of imagination and embark on an unforgettable journey through the ravaged countryside ... with only a scarred trader in holy relics, a conjuror, two musicians, and a deformed storyteller for company.

ISBN: 9780718 153199 Format: Paperback Michael Joseph £16.99 Special price in India £4.99 Publication: February 2008

Submarine Joe Dunthorne Hello. I’m Oliver Tate, the protagonist. I am likely to use words like protagonist and, moments later, words like twonk.

My ambitions are as follows: 1) To find out why my father sometimes stays in bed for days at a time. 2) To find out why my mother’s getting surfing lessons— and probably more—from a hippy-looking twonk 3) To lose my virginity before it becomes legal—in just over a year.

I am monitoring my parent’s intimacy via the dimmer switch in their bedroom. My parents have not had sex in two months which, my research suggests, points toward impending marital breakdown. There are other, lesser characters in the book: Jordana, who is my love interest, despite her eczema. Zoe, whose only real schoolfriend is a dinner lady. I feel sorry for Zoe which, in turn, makes me feel better about my own life. Then there’s my friend Chips, an outstanding bully. He made our Religious Education teacher cry. This book might not change my life. But there is no telling how you will react.

ISBN: 9780241 144169 Format: Paperback Hamish Hamilton £16.99 Special price in India £4.50 Publication: February 2008

pp: 304

Monster Love Carol Topolski Brendan and Sherilyn. A young couple in love. Each has met their soul mate, and nothing can come between them.

In fact, the Gutteridges are so wrapped up in each other that their neighbours barely know them, despite the woman next door’s nosy curiosity.

Their families and their work colleagues see only the perfect couple in the perfect home, the perfect car crouching in the drive.

And then a baby is born—contaminating this pristine life in which there is only room for two. But they find the ideal solution.

What may be one couple’s happy ending is everyone else’s indescribable nightmare…

Told through the Gutteridges’ voices, and those of their families, neighbours, and those who will come across them in the aftermath, this perverse love story hurtles to the heart of evil—the evil that could be anyone’s next door neighbour.

ISBN: 9781905 490271 Format: Paperback Fig Tree £11.99 Special price in India £4.50 Publication: February 2008

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The Malice Box

Dark Watch

Martin Langfield

A Novel from the Oregon Files

A device of extraordinary power, forged from alchemical gold, is hidden somewhere in Manhattan, primed to detonate in seven days, killing millions.

Only one man—a journalist by the name of Reckliss—has the ability to uncover seven keys and disarm the device. But there are others, history’s hidden shadows and warriors, determined to stop him at any cost.

Ancient conspiracies and an unlikely quest are only the start… Does Reckliss have the courage to face his greatest fears and halt the devastation of the Malice Box?

Clive Cussler and Jack du Brul

ISBN: 9780141 025063 Penguin UK £6.99 Publication: March 2008

Format: A Paperback Special price in India £2.99

pp: 560

Juan Cabrillo and his motley crew aboard the clandestine spy ship Oregon have made a very comfortable and very dangerous living from working for highpowered Western interests. But their newest clients have come from the east— the Far East—to ask for Cabrillo’s special brand of assistance.

They are a consortium of Japanese shipping magnates, and their fortunes are being threatened by brutal pirates trawling the waters of Southeast Asia.

Normally, such attacks on the high seas are limited to smaller ships and foreign-owned yachts—easy targets on the open ocean. Now, however, giant commercial freighters are disappearing. Cabrillo suspects that the pirates have joined forces to take down the bigger ships. But when the Oregon confronts the enemy, he learns that the pirates’ predations hide a deadly international conspiracy—a scheme of death and slavery that Juan Cabrillo is going to blow out of the water…

ISBN: 9780141 021614 Penguin UK £6.99 Publication: March 2008

Burial Ground John Rickards It was a short note. Signed simply ‘Sam’. But it was enough to send ex-FBI agent Alex Rourke on a search to an isolated valley in the American mid-West.

And now he’s trapped there— in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of a ferocious storm. With him are a dozen other men and women, all seeking shelter in Isaac’s Bar. However the night is about to turn deadly—when the nearby riverbank collapses, and spits out two badly decomposed bodies. The man and the woman were clearly murdered and buried there months before …

As secrets, recriminations and violent agendas come to the fore in the bar that’s now cut off from the world, Alex races to find ‘the crosses’. And then the deaths begin, one by one by one...

ISBN: 9780141 021171 Format: A Paperback Penguin UK £7.99 Special price in India £2.50 Publication: January 2008

pp: 400

Format: A Paperback Special price in India £2.99

pp: 496

Assassin Andrew Britton When a high-level intelligence source reveals that Iranian agents are planning to bomb the United Nations, US Intelligence begins desperate counter-measures. Only maverick CIA agent, Ryan Kealey, sees it as a smokescreen for another, far more terrifying plot.

But no-one is prepared to follow his hunch. Worse still, it would seem that even the halls of the CIA are no longer safe from possible espionage and treason.

Meanwhile a weapon of catastrophic power is smuggled into the US, in the hands of an international criminal mastermind.

A man who will stop at nothing to inflict total devastation on his chosen target, and a man who is a vengeful shadow from Kealey’s past...

ISBN: 9780141 027975 Penguin UK £6.99 Publication: March 2008

Format: A Paperback Special price in India £4.99

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The Trouble with Physics

Reading Judas

The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of Science and What Comes Next

The Controversial Message of the Ancient Gospel of Judas

Lee Smolin

Elaine Pagels and Karen L King

The Trouble with Physics is a groundbreaking account of the state of modern physics: of how we got from Einstein and Relativity through quantum mechanics to the strange and bizarre predictions of string theory, full of unseen dimensions and multiple universes.

Lee Smolin not only provides a brilliant layman’s overview of current research as we attempt to build a ‘theory of everything’, but also questions many of the assumptions that lie behind string theory. In doing so, he describes some of the daring, outlandish ideas that will propel research in years to come.

Lost for 1,600 years, the Gospel of Judas has only now had its meaning unlocked for readers today. Its startling text included the claim that not only was Judas the favoured disciple of Jesus, but also that Judas was killed by the other disciples.

Was Judas a betrayer or a loyal disciple? Did he write this shocking document? And what does it mean for us today? In Reading Judas Elaine Pagels and Karen L. King, world-renowned experts in religious texts, explore the meanings of this contentious gospel in detail.

Here they reveal a gospel that, far from seeing Jesus’ death as a sacrifice for humanity’s sins, opposes the idea that God desires martyrdom and instead points towards a faith that is based on inner spiritual life.

ISBN: 9780141 018355 Penguin UK £8.99 Publication: March 2008

Format: B Paperback Special price in India £3.25

pp: 416

ISBN: 9780141 030135 Penguin UK £8.99 Publication: March 2008

Format: B Paperback Special price in India £3.99

pp: 224

The Universe

After Tamerlane

A Biography

The Rise and Fall of Global Empires 1400-2000

John Gribbin

John Darwin Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Soviets, the Japanese and the Nazis.

All built empires they hoped would last forever: all were destined to fail.

But, as John Darwin shows in his magnificent book, their empire building created the world we know today.

From the death of Tamerlane in 1405, last of the ‘world conquerors’, to the rise and fall of European empires, and from America’s growing colonial presence to the resurgence of India and China as global economic powers, After Tamerlane provides a wonderfully intriguing perspective on the past, present and future of empires.

The Universe: A Biography makes cosmology accessible to everyone.

John Gribbin navigates the latest frontiers of scientific discovery to tell us what we really know about the history of the universe. Along the way, he describes how the universe began; what the early universe looked like; how its structure developed; and what emerged to hold it all together. He describes where the elements came from; how stars and galaxies formed; and the story of how life emerged. He even looks to the future: is the history of the universe going to end with a Big Crunch or a Big Rip?

ISBN: 9780141 010229 Penguin UK £9.99 Publication: March 2008

ISBN: 9780141 021478 Format: B Paperback Penguin UK £7.99 Special price in India £3.99 Publication: February 2008

Format: B Paperback Special price in India £3.99

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Rome & Jerusalem

Inferno

The Clash of Ancient Civilizations

The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943

Martin Goodman

Keith Lowe

In AD 70, after a war which had flared sporadically for four years, three Roman legions under the future Emperors Vespasian and his son Titus, surrounded, laid siege to, and eventually devastated the city of Jerusalem, destroying completely the magnificent Temple which had been built by Herod only 80 years earlier.

What brought about this extraordinary conflict, with its extraordinary consequences?

This superb book, by one of the world’s leading scholars of the ancient Roman and Jewish worlds, narrates and explains this titanic struggle, showing why Rome’s interests were served by this policy of brutal hostility, and how the first generation of Christians first distanced themselves from its Jewish origins and then became increasingly hostile to Jews as their influence spread within the empire.

In July of 1943, British and American bombers launched an attack on the German city of Hamburg that was unlike anything the world had ever seen. For ten days they drenched the city with over 9,000 tons of bombs, with the intention of erasing it entirely from the map. As those who survived emerged from their ruined cellars and air-raid shelters they were confronted with a unique vision of hell: a sea of flame that stretched to the horizon, the burnt-out husks of fire engines that had tried to rescue them, charcoaled corpses and roads that had become flaming rivers of melted tarmac.

Using many new first-hand accounts and other material, Keith Lowe gives the human side of an inhuman story, and the result is an epic story of devastation and survival, and a much-needed reminder of the human face of war.

ISBN: 9780140 291278 Format: B Paperback Penguin UK £9.99 Special price in India £6.99 Publication: February 2008

pp: 656

ISBN: 9780141 020181 Penguin UK £8.99 Publication: March 2008

Format: B Paperback Special price in India £6.30

pp: 512

World War One

Dynasties

A Short History

Fortune and Misfortune in the World’s Great Family Businesses

Norman Stone The First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, four empires were destroyed and even the victors’ empires were fatally damaged. The sheer complexity and scale of the war have encouraged historians to write books on a similar scale. But now Norman Stone, one of Britain’s greatest historians, has achieved the almost impossible task of writing a terse, brilliantly written, opinionated and witty short history of the conflict. In only 240 pages he distils a lifetime of teaching, arguing and thinking into what will be one of the most talked about history books for years to come.

ISBN: 9780141 031569 Penguin UK £7.99 Publication: March 2008

Format: B Paperback Special price in India £3.25

pp: 240

David Landes Rothschilds • Morgans • Fords • Toyoda • Agnellis • Rockefellers • Guggenheims...

Dynastic family businesses have everything: extraordinary success, bizarre eccentricity, bitter rivalry—as well as pots of money and power.

Yet almost no one has looked closely enough to see what it is that really makes them tick.

In Dynasties, award-winning author David Landes casts his eye over some of the most powerful family businesses in Europe, Japan and America. On the way, he provides thrilling histories of the characters who have made their mark on the world and passed on a legacy—sometimes benign and sometimes not—to their descendants.

ISBN: 9780140 281880 Format: B Paperback Penguin UK £9.99 Special price in India £6.99 Publication: February 2008

pp: 400

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The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

Two Caravans Marina Lewycka

G.W Dahlquist In The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters three most unlikely but nevertheless extraordinary heroes become inadvertently involved in the diabolical machinations of a cabal bent upon enslaving thousands through a devilish ‘process’.

Miss Temple is a feisty young woman with corkscrew curls who wishes only to learn why her fiancé Roger broke off their engagement…

Cardinal Chang was asked to kill a man, but finding his quarry already dead he is determined to learn who beat him to it and why …

And Dr Svenson is chaperone to a dissolute Prince who has become involved with some most unsavoury individuals…

An adventure like no other, in a mysterious city few have travelled to, featuring a heroine and two heroes you will never ever forget... this is The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters.

ISBN: 9780141 027302 Format: B Paperback Penguin UK £7.99 Special price in India £2.99 Publication: January 2008

A field of strawberries in Kent... And sitting in it two caravans—one for the men and one for the women. The residents are from all over: miner’s son Andriy is from the old Ukraine, while sexy young Irina is from the new: they eye each other warily. There are the Poles Tomasz and Yola, two Chinese girls and Emanuel from Malawi. They’re all here to pick strawberries in England’s green and pleasant land.

But these days England’s not so pleasant for immigrants. Not with Russian gangster-wannabes like Vulk, who’s taken a shine to Irina and thinks kidnapping is a wooing strategy. And so Andriy—who really doesn’t fancy Irina, honest—must set off in search of that girl he’s not in love with.

ISBN: 9780141 026992 Fig Tree £7.99 Publication: March 2008

Format: B Paperback Special price in India £2.99

pp: 784

Then We Came to the End

Young Wives’ Tales

Joshua Ferris

Lucy stole her friend Rose’s ‘happily ever after’ because she wanted Rose’s husband, Peter, and Lucy always gets what she wants.

Big mistake. Rose was the ideal wife and is the ideal mother; Lucy was the perfect mistress.

Connie—best friend to both Lucy and Rose—is stuck in the middle.

She’s got Lucy’s worries about being wife, mother and career bitch in one ear and Rose’s struggle at being a plain old single mum in the other. But Connie has her own troubles: she’s just got the hang of family life when an old flame pops up to rekindle a bit of passion… on the side.

For Rose, Lucy and Connie—young wives all—it looks like there’s a few more twists in the marriage tale still to come…

Then We Came to the End is your life and my life. It is how we spend our days and too many of our nights. It is about being away from friends and family, about sharing a stretch of stained tiled carpet with a group of strangers we call colleagues. It is about sitting all morning next to someone you deliberately cross the road to avoid at lunchtime.

Joshua Ferris’s brilliant first novel follows a group of white-collar workers as they struggle to go about their lives amidst the constant fear of who will be next to ‘walk Spanish down the hall’.

ISBN: 9780141 025063 Format: B Paperback Penguin UK £6.99 Special price in India £2.99 Publication: February 2008

pp: 592

ISBN: 9780141 027630 Format: B Paperback Penguin UK £7.99 Special price in India £2.99 Publication: January 2008

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The Black Swan

The Messenger

The Impact of the Highly Improbable

The Meanings of the Life of Muhammad

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Tariq Ramadan

Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications, the Black Swan is a concept that will change the way you look at the world. Black Swans underlie almost everything, from the rise of religions, to events in our own personal lives. A Black Swan is a highly improbable event with three principle characteristics: it is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random and more predictable than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a Black Swan; so was 9/11. And why do we always ignore the phenomenon of Black Swans until after they occur? As Nassim Nicholas Taleb reveals, we are hard-wired not to truly estimate risk, too vulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and categorize and not open enough to rewarding those who can imagine the ‘impossible’.

The life of the Prophet Muhammad, to whom the Angel Gabriel revealed the verses of the Quran, has provided inspiration to Muslims for hundreds of years. In The Messenger, leading Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan considers the ways in which the Prophet’s actions, words and teachings can guide us in the modern world.

Interspersed with spiritual and philosophical meditations, this profound and stimulating biography shows how Muhammad’s message can be used to address some of today’s most controversial issues—from the treatment of the poor and the role of women to the interpretation of jihad and relations with other religions. It offers Muslims a new understanding of Muhammad’s life and introduces non-Muslims to the story of the Prophet and to the riches of Islam.

ISBN: 9780141 034591 Penguin UK £8.99 Publication: March 2008

Format: B Paperback Special price in India £3.99

pp: 400

Sex and the Psyche The Truth about Our Most Secret Fantasies

ISBN: 9780141 028552 Penguin UK £8.99 Publication: March 2008

Format: B Paperback Special price in India £6.30

pp: 256

Brett Kahr What’s going on in your head when you go to bed?

We talk about sex increasingly openly today, but when it comes to our most private fantasies it’s often a different matter. Here Psychotherapist Brett Kahr examines the little-known world of our sexual imaginations. He has undertaken Britain’s biggest every sex survey, with responses from over 19,000 adults, to explore questions such as: • Why do people fantasize?

• Can our fantasies ever be damaging or dangerous?

• Should we tell our partners about them?

• Do men and women fantasize differently?

• What do our fantasies tell us about ourselves?

This frank and fascinating account will help you understand for the first time what our unspoken desires and secret thoughts really mean.

ISBN: 9780141 024844 Format: B Paperback Penguin UK £12.99 Special price in India £3.25 Publication: February 2008

pp: 496

Fateful Choices Ten Decisions that Changed the World 19401941 Ian Kershaw The history of the Second World War, with its horrible twists and turns, is so well known that the major events and their outcomes have taken on a sort of inevitability. Ian Kershaw’s extraordinarily though-provoking and gripping new book, Fateful Choices, demolishes any such sense of inevitability. It dramatizes brilliantly and distressingly events that between them could have resulted in disaster or victory— either for the Allies or for the Axis.

ISBN: 9780141 014180 Penguin UK £9.99 Publication: March 2008

Format: B Paperback Special price in India £3.99

pp: 656

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THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF PUFFIN Airman Eoin Colfer Conor Broekhart was born to fly. Or more accurately, he was born flying.

Little wonder he became what he became. In an age of discovery and invention, many dreamed of flying, but for Conor flight was more than just a dream, it was his destiny.

In one dark night on the island of Great Saltee, a cruel and cunning betrayal destroyed his life and stole his future. Now Conor must win the race for flight, to save his family and right a terrible wrong...

Swashbuckling new fiction from the amazing Eoin Colfer, ideal for readers aged 10+

ISBN: 9780141 383361 Puffin UK £10.99

Format: Trade Paperback Special price in India £3.25

pp: 432 Publication: January 2008

Lee Raven, Boy Thief Zizou Corder Lee Raven, boy thief, has stolen something he really didn’t mean to. Now he faces a perilous flight through London (and the murky sewers below) as he tries to escape capture—because Lee has stolen the Book of Nebo, a book that has existed for thousands of years and tells every story and legend known to man. It’s priceless. Some will even kill to possess it. The pressure mounts and the future of Nebo is in Lee’s hands—can he prevent the most dangerous ending of them all?

ISBN: 9780141 322902 Puffin UK £6.99

Format: Paperback Special price in India £2.99

pp: TBC Publication: March 2008

Sara’s Face Melvin Burgess

The new

Sara Carter wants to be famous. Fame is her obsession. So when legendary rock star Jonathon Heat offers her star training and the cosmetic surgery she thinks she wants, Sara can’t believe her dream will come true.

But Jonathon Heat doesn’t want Sara’s talent. Jonathon Heat wants Sara’s face.

Melvin Burgess is on top form with this chilling, original and topical psychological thriller.

book from the bestselling authors of Lionboy

ISBN: 9780141 316321 Puffin UK £6.99 Publication: February 2008

Format: B Paperback Special price in India £2.99

pp: 256

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Ruby Red

Lost!

Linzi Glass

The Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Dog

In Ruby Winters’ world, colour opens some doors and slams others shut. Her opulent Johannesburg neighbourhood is a far cry from the streets of Soweto where anger and hatred simmer under the surface. Ruby can’t resist the blue-eyed Afrikaans boy who brings her the exciting rush of first love, but whose presence brings hushed whispers and disapproving glances. She might not see race, colour or creed—but it seems everybody else does... This dazzling novel will entrance teenage and adult readers alike.

Jeremy Strong

ISBN: 9780141 320939 Puffin UK £5.99 Publication: March 2008

Format: B Paperback Special price in India £3.99

Streaker the dog is lost.

And not just a bit lost, but REALLY LOST! It wasn’t even her fault!

She wanted to protect some pies from the PIE ROBBER and suddenly she’s miles from home and two-legged Trevor and she has to make friends with a cat. A CAT! But it gets a lot hairier when they find themselves face-toface with a baboon...

For the first time ever, Streaker tells her incredible adventures in her own words—and very funny words they are too.

Rowan Clifford’s illustrations add to the chaotic fun. pp: 224 ISBN: 9780141 323251 Format: B Paperback Puffin UK £4.99 Special price in India £2.99 Publication: January 2008

Magic Kitten

The Killer Cat Strikes Back

A Splash of Forever Sue Bentley

Anne Fine

When Alice hears about her school’s swimming gala, which everyone must take part in, she’s terrified. She hates the water.

But when special grey and white kitten Flame arrives to make a real splash in her life, suddenly the gala doesn’t seem quite so scary...

ISBN: 9780141 323497 Puffin UK £3.99 Publication: February 2008

pp: 128

Format: B Paperback Special price in India £2.50

pp: 128

Magic Kitten

Picture Perfect Sue Bentley Orla is very excited about entering the local photo competition—especially since it’s her chance to show that she can be as good at something as her sister. When she forgets to even take the lens cap off the camera though, it isn’t a good sign! But when little chocolate brown kitten Flames comes into the picture, it looks like Orla’s dreams of winning the competiton might just come true...

ISBN: 9780141323480 Format: Paperback Puffin £3.99 Special price in India £2.50 Publication: February 2008

pp: 128

‘Okay, okay. So stick my head in a holly bush ....’

Tuffy, the Killer Cat, knows what he likes. And he isn’t loving the ‘art’ that Ellie’s mum brings home from her new class! So what’s a cat to do...

Mischief and mayhem rule in Anne Fine’s brilliant new story, with hilarious illustrations

by Steve Cox throughout. Perfect for developing readers aged 5–7.

ISBN: 9780141 320984 Format: B Paperback pp: 96 Puffin UK £4.99 Special price in India £1.99 Publication: February 2008

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Black Rabbit Summer

Being

Tangshan Tigers

Kevin Brooks

Kevin Brooks

The Stolen Jade

Pete Bowland was busy doing nothing that summer. Long, stiflingly hot, lazy days stretched ahead of him. Then she called.

‘Listen, Pete... you know that funfair, up at the recreation ground... I thought we could all meet up... You know, for old times’ sake.’

But, where there are old times, there are old tensions. And as secrets, bitterness and jealousies resurface, five old friends are plunged into the worst night of their lives...

Teenage readers will find it impossible to tear themselves away from this dark, tense and gripping new novel from awardwinning Kevin Brooks.

Sixteen-year-old Robert lies anaesthe-tized. A routine operation has just gone wrong.

‘What the hell is that?’

‘That, Mr Ryan, is the inside of this boy.’

‘Christ... It looks like some kind of plastic.’

As Robert slowly wakes, he can hear, he can feel, but he can’t scream. The operation isn’t over. But life, as Robert knows it, is.

Robert goes on the run, terrified and desperate for answers. But what if the answers are too terrifying to face?

This is Kevin Brooks at his very best— powerful, intense, page-turning reading for teenage readers and beyond.

Dan Lee

ISBN: 9780141 381459 Format: Hardback pp: 448 Puffin UK £10.99 Special price in India £5.50 Publication: February 2008

ISBN: 9780141 319100 Format: B Paperback pp: 336 Puffin UK £6.99 Special price in India £2.99 Publication: February 2008

Matt James is thrilled to win a place at the B e i j i n g International Academy for Martial Arts. Soon he’s learning new moves and making new friends. But in the background, shadowy figures hide, looking for the opportunity to pounce. In this first action-packed adventure, the Tangshan Tigers must unite to stop a thief in his tracks. Can they save their priceless jade trophy, before it disappears for good?

ISBN: 9780141 322834 Format: B Paperback pp: 160 Puffin UK £4.99 Special price in India £2.99 Publication: February 2008

The complete Sherlock Holmes chronicles

by Arthur Conan Doyle—now available in spectacular Penguin Reds editions The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Valley of Fear

ISBN: 9780141 034355

A Study in Scarlet

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

ISBN: 9780141 034331

ISBN: 9780141 034362

The Sign of Four

His Last Bow and The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes

ISBN: 9780141 034379

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

ISBN: 9780141 035444

ISBN: 9780141 034348

ISBN: 9780141 035437

The Hound of the Baskervilles ISBN: 9780141 034324

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Format: Paperback Penguin UK £6.99 each Special price in India £2.99 each Publication: March 2008

Classic tales for children—now in superb Puffin Classics editions

Little Women

Oliver Twist

Treasure Island

Louisa May Alcott

Charles Dickens

Robert Louis Stevenson

Introduced by Louise Rennison

Introduced by Garth Nix

Introduced by Eoin Colfer

ISBN: 9780141 321080

ISBN: 9780141 322438

ISBN: 9780141 321004

The Wizard of Oz

The Wind in the Willows

Frank L Baum Introduced by Cornelia Funke

Kenneth Grahame

ISBN: 9780141 321028

Introduced by Brian Jacques

A Little Princess

ISBN: 9780141 321134

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Just So Stories

Introduced by Adeline Yen Mah

Introduced by Darren Shan

Rudyard Kipling Introduced by Jonathan Stroud

The Secret Garden

ISBN: 9780141 321622

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Call of the Wild

ISBN: 9780141 321066

Mark Twain ISBN: 9780141 321097

ISBN: 9780141 321127

Introduced by Sophie Dahl

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Jack London Introduced by Melvin Burgess

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

ISBN: 9780141 321059

Lewis Carroll

Anna Sewell

Introduced by Chris Riddell ISBN: 9780141 321073

Black Beauty Introduced by Meg Rosoff ISBN: 9780141 321035

Format: 127 mm x 178 mm Paperback Puffin UK £5.99 each Special price in India £1.99 each Publication: January 2008

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Ladybird Touch & Feel Rhymes These bright, bold books are each a wonderful introduction to a popular and enduring nursery rhyme. Young children will love hearing the rhyme, looking at the bright pictures and feeling the different textures throughout. Nursery rhymes help to encourage language development—use the additional text at the bottom of every page to talk about what is happening each time.

Age: 0-3 yrs Format: Board Book

pp: 10 each

Ladybird £5.99 each

Special price in India Rs 195 each Publication: January 2008

Hush Little Baby

Jack & Jill

Little Bo-Peep

ISBN: 9781846 467912

ISBN: 9781846 467899

ISBN: 9781846 467929

Sing a Song of Sixpence ISBN: 9781846 467905

Peek-A-Zoo

My best book about...

Mandy Ross

• Suitable for 2 to 4 years.

• Feauring illustrations by Katie Saunders.

• A non-fiction approach to the world for the very young covering subjects they love in a style parents will adore.

• Cover finish matt with spot UV. These little books are perfect for pre-school children. Talking together about pictures of animals and doing activities like matching, counting and spotting the difference will help your child build essential learning skills.

Babies love to play Peekaboo and this fun lift-the-flap book will fill them with delight. Each spread features a different animal.

My Best My Best Book Book About...

About...

Baby Animals Cars

My Best Book About...

Farms

My Best Book About...

Tractors

ISBN: 9781846 468186

ISBN: 9781846 468209

ISBN: 9781846 468216

ISBN: 9781846 468193

ISBN: 9781846 468124 Age: 3 - 5 years Format: Board Book pp: 10 Ladybird £5.99 Special price in India £3.99 Publication: February 2008

Age: 2-4 years Ladybird £1.99 each

Format: Mini Hardback Special price in India Rs 75 each

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My Favourite Bedtime Rhymes

My Favourite Nursery Rhymes

This book includes a gorgeous collection of lullabies and rhymes with firm favourites such as Twinkle, Twinkle and Husha-bye, Baby to rock your little one to sleep. With different illustrators for each rhyme, a lovely patchwork feel is created. Combined with irresistible cover finishes, this is pocket money punching well above its weight.

ISBN: 9781846 467967 Ladybird £1.99 Publication: March 2008

This book includes a gorgeous collection of popular and traditional rhymes featuring favourites such as The Grand Old Duke of York, Incy Wincy Spider and Hey Diddle Diddle. With different illustrators for each rhyme, a lovely patchwork feel is created. Combined with irresistible cover finishes, this is pocket money punching well above its weight.

Format: 114 mm x 170 mm Hardback Special price in India Rs 75

pp: 32

ISBN: 9781846 467974 Ladybird £1.99 Publication: March 2008

Format: 114 mm x 170 mm Hardback Special price in India Rs 75

pp: 32

Stories for...

Storytime books for every age to delight a new mini army of fans. Brilliant stories in an attention grabbing, age ranged package. An easy purchase, in every way.

Format: 114 mm x 170 mm Hardback

pp: 32 each

Ladybird £1.99 each

Special price in India Rs 75 each

Publication: March 2008

Stories for 2 Year Olds

Stories for 3 Year Olds

Stories for 4 Year Olds

Stories for 5 Year Olds

ISBN: 9781846 468674

ISBN: 9781846 468681

ISBN: 9781846 468698

ISBN: 9781846 468704

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BLOOMSBURY

The Age of Shiva Manil Suri ‘India’s birth as a new nation parallels a woman’s complex psychological journey confronting tradition and modernity. Suri reveals an immense humanity, a tenderness for women making their way in a world of men. Drawn by this compelling narrative, I read this marvellous book in one sitting.’

Kiran Desai

India, 1955: as the scars of Partition are just beginning to heal, seventeen-year-old Meera sits enraptured on the balcony of a college auditorium in Delhi. In the spotlight is Dev, singing a song so infused with passion that it arouses in her the first flush of erotic longing. She wonders if she can steal him away from Roopa, her older, more beautiful sister, who has brought her along today.

When Meera’s reverie comes true, it does not lead to the fairy-tale marriage she imagined. Dev’s family is steeped in the very kind of orthodoxy her father, a vehement atheist, has spent his life railing against. Meera has no choice but to obey her in-laws, tolerate Dev’s drunken night-time fumblings, even observe the most arduous of Hindu fasts for his longevity. She must also deal with her domineering father’s rage and fend off Dev’s brother, Arya, whose right-wing zeal and lascivious gaze she finds repellent. Her only solace is in her sister-inlaw Sandhya, with whom she comes to share a tenderness that is as heartbreaking as it is fleeting.

A move to Bombay, so that Dev can chase his dream of success as a Bollywood singer, seems at first like a fresh start, but soon that dream—and their marriage—turns to ashes. It is only when their son is born that things change. For the first time, Meera feels fulfilled, confident enough to unleash the passion she has suppressed for so long. She is finally ready to shape her own destiny, to take control of her world.

A sweeping epic that traces the fortunes of one family in the aftermath of Indian independence, The Age of Shiva is the powerful story of an ancient society in transition and an extraordinary portrait of maternal love.

ISBN: 9780747 592112 Bloomsbury £10.99

Format: Trade Paperback Special price in India Rs 495

pp: 464 Publication: January 2008

Also available

The Death of Vishnu Manil Suri Vishnu, the odd-job man in a Bombay apartment block, lies dying on the staircase landing. Around him the lives of the apartment dwellers unfold—the warring housewives on the first floor, the lovesick teenagers on the second, and the widower, alone and quietly grieving at the top of the building. In a fevered state Vishnu looks back on his love affair with the seductive Padmini and comedy becomes tragedy as his life draws to a close.

ISBN: 9780747 593812 Bloomsbury £7.99

Format: Paperback Special price in India Rs 395

pp: 352

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The Best Intentions

The Hot Topic

Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power

How to Tackle Global Warming and Still Keep the Lights On

James Traub

The Hot Topic is a collaborative work by one of the most respected scientists and one of the most dynamic writers in the field of climate change.

Last year awareness about global warming reached a tipping point. The Hot Topic goes beyond a statement of the problem to address in detail what can be done to answer the challenge on a personal, social, national and international level. A clear, short and engaging book that approaches the whole issue—the present problem and the future solutions—in a straightforward way, it is bound to receive massive attention from industry, the media and government alike. While there have been many other books about the problem of climate change, none has addressed what we can and should do about it so clearly and persuasively.

‘In a world full of misinformation, The Hot Topic is a beacon of clarity.’

In 2004 Kofi Annan was nearly hounded from office by scandal. Following the invasion of Iraq, critics, and even some supporters, began asking whether the UN had outlived its usefulness. Do its failures arise from its own structure or from a clash with a US administration determined to go its own way? James Traub, who enjoyed unprecedented access to Annan and his aides from 2003 to 2006, delves into these questions and describes the Oilfor-Food scandal, the failed attempt to act decisively against ethnic cleansing in Sudan, and Annan’s sweeping reforms.

The Best Intentions is both a fascinating fly-on-the-wall account of Annan’s two terms as Secretary General and an important critical study of the institution that has carried the best hopes of the world since 1945.

ISBN: 9780747 587286 Format B Paperback pp: 464 Bloomsbury £8.99 Special price in India Rs 595 Publication: January 2008

Gabrielle Walker and David King

Al Gore, joint winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2007and author of An Inconvenient Truth

‘This is a fantastic book. It’s just what the world needs right now.’

Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers

‘A masterful book, wonderfully well-written. It should become the authoritative statement on climate change and what to do about it for years to come .’

James Lovelock, author of Gaia and The Revenge of Gaia

ISBN: 9780747 593959 Bloomsbury £9.99

Format: Paperback Special price in India £6.99

pp: 320 Publication: January 2008

Gardens of Water Alan Drew A powerful story of survival, Gardens of Water is the astonishing debut novel about a family’s struggle following a devastating natural disaster in a town on the outskirts of Istanbul. In 1999, Sinan is caught up in everyday problems.

Despite hardships, he must be a role model for his nineyear-old son Ýsmail, who is preparing for his coming-ofage ceremony. Meanwhile his teenage daughter Ýrem grows more resentful of having to help her mother run the house, cover her glorious hair beneath a headscarf, and refrain from watching Western television.

ISBN: 9780747 595304 Bloomsbury £10.99 Publication: March 2008

Format: Paperback Special price in India £7.75

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My Life as a Traitor

Now in Paperback

Zarah Ghahramani with Robert Hillman

The Dragon and the Foreign Devils

Born in 1981, Zarah Ghahramani grew up in a sheltered suburb of Tehran. The pampered daughter of liberal, middle-class parents, she was brought up to believe that education was no less a vital priority for girls than for boys, and was encouraged to read widely and ambitiously. She had the natural teenage enthusiasms of girls the world over. But along with all the women of her generation, she had to dress in muted colours, and cover her hair in order to observe the strict rules of the Khomeini regime.

It was part youthful zeal and part teen crush that led Zarah to join a student protest movement: like everyone, she was in awe of Arash, the firebrand student who led the protests and was known to be an irritant to the regime. But her dabble with student politics was to lead to disaster when one day she was bundled into a car and taken to Tehran’s most notorious prison: Evin.

In My Life as a Traitor Zarah tells the story of her horrifying ordeal and her eventual release, and describes the ways it changed the naïve 19-year-old she once was into a woman of courage and determination.

‘My Life as a Traitor is a riveting story. It is a celebration of human courage under duress and a savage indictment of the oppressive regime of Iran. It shocks, angers, saddens, and inspires.’

China and the World, 1100 BC to the Present Harry G. Gelber

Khaled Hosseini ISBN: 9780747 591948 Bloomsbury £10.00

Format: Hardback Special price in India £7.75

pp: 256 Publication: January 2008

The End of Food The Coming Crisis in the World Food Industry Paul Roberts With an insightful global approach, Paul Roberts investigates the startling truth about the way we make, market, consume, and even think about food, and how this system is no longer compatible or safe for the billions of consumers that it was built to serve.

The emergence of large-scale and efficient food production changed forever our relationship with food and ultimately left a vulnerable and paradoxical system in place.

Over 1.1 billion people worldwide are ‘over-nourished,’ according to the World Health Organization, and are at risk of obesity-related illness, while roughly as many people are starving.

Meanwhile, the natural systems all food is dependent upon have been irreparably damaged by chemicals and destructive farming techniques. The pressures of low-cost food production cause contamination and disease, and big food consumers such as China and India are already planning for tightened global food supplies—the era of superabundance seems to be behind us.

ISBN: 9780747 588818 Bloomsbury £16.99

Format: Hardback Special price in India £11.99

pp: TBC Publication: March 2008

China’s story is of warfare and violence, philosophical and political invention, shining artistic achievement and often complex and subtle relations with outsiders. Harry G. Gelber’s fascinating general history of this great nation makes sense of China’s changing relationship with the rest of the world as never before. From the invasions by steppe horsemen in 200 BC to Genghis Khan and the Mongol conquests, from the arrival of Marco Polo to the Opium Wars, from Communism to the Tiananmen Square protest, Gelber traces the path that led to China’s resurgence as a dynamic economy and a powerful international player today. ‘ Vital reading for anyone who wants to understand this mysterious and inscrutable country in its new global context.’

Good Book Guide ISBN: 9780747 593294 Format: Paperback pp: 512 Bloomsbury £9.99 Special price in India £6.99 Publication: March 2008

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A&C BLACK

Good Small Business Guide

Going Global

How to Start and Grow Your Own Business

Key Questions for the 21st Century

Packed with essential advice—and completely updated for this third edition—the Good Small Business Guide features over 140 easy-to-read articles, even more Viewpoints from people who’ve been there and done it, an extensive information directory, and a quiz for all budding entrepreneurs.

The Good Small Business Guide offers help on all aspects of starting, running and growing a small business, including: planning, setting up or acquiring a business, getting to grips with figures, marketing, selling online, and managing yourself and others.

Michael Moynagh and Richard Worsley

ISBN: 9780713 687606 Format: Paperback A&C Black £19.99 Special price in India £14.99 Publication: February 2008

Globalization is an extremely popular business buzzword, but people are often unsure about what it actually means—let alone its implications. In this unique book, the authors not only explain how we can make sense of globalization, but also address the 12 questions most commonly asked about the world today—and tomorrow. Some of the many hot topics scrutinised by the authors include climate change, terrorism, energy supply, population, and business.

ISBN: 9780713 688665 Format: Paperback A&C Black £12.99 Special price in India £9.10 Publication: January 2008

pp: 248

pp: 608

The Guardian Guide to Working Abroad

The Guardian Careers Guide

Nick Clayton

David Williams

The lure of working and living abroad can be hard to resist, and improvements in technology mean that you can enjoy the best of both worlds.

Full of practical advice and upto-date information on the most popular countries to move to, this book is a must-read for anyone who wants to experience working life in another part of the world.

Features include: The Basics Basics: the pros and cons of working abroad, budgeting, learning other languages, visas, setting up a bank account, finding work, building contacts etc.

Inf or mation on the most popular destinations.

Infor ormation Advice on ‘virtual working’.

Inf or mation on starting your own business.

Infor ormation

As well as a traditional A-Z guide of over 200 career paths in 25 different industries, this guide uniquely shows jobseekers what challenges and questions they will face if they decide to follow a particular career.

Readers are also given an overview of their chosen profession and insight into the big issues they might be quizzed on at interviews. Industry experts explain which direction each profession is following in the near and more distant future, what skills are coming to the fore, and how the self-image and external image of each profession is developing.

ISBN: 9780852 650844 Format: Paperback A&C Black £14.99 Special price in India £10.50 Publication: January 2008

pp: 352

ISBN: 9780713 684056 A&C Black £12.99 Publication: March 2008

Format: Paperback Special price in India £9.10

pp: 208

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Little Book of Big Ideas

Naming Your Baby

Business

The Definitive Dictionary of First Names

John Lipczynski

Julia Cresswell Naming Your Baby is the essential A-Z guide for deciding your child’s name.

Much more than just a list of baby names, this book is a fascinating guide for expectant parents, as well as a wider reference resource for historians, writers and researchers. It contains over 1,500 possible choices, from Aaron to Zuleika, through the old-fashioned (Hazel and Gilbert), the modern (Jade and Devon), the unusual (Anselm and Tanith) and the most popular (Chloe and Jack). It reveals who has influenced the popularity of names, including film stars (Mia), biblical figures (Isaac) and fictional characters (Harry), and suggests why Chelsea, April, Rose or Ebony might be appropriate—or inappropriate!—for your child.

ISBN: 9780713 683134 Format: Paperback A&C Black £6.99 Special price in India Rs 395 Publication: January 2008

ISBN: 9780713 686142 Format: Hardback A&C Black £9.99 Special price in India £6.99 Publication: January 2008

Little Book of Big Ideas

Politics Anne Perkins

(Book+CD) Carol Philipson This book and CD offer stepby-step instruction on designing beautiful patchwork blocks and quilts using your computer. The instructions use a basic graphics package, Paint, but the principles can easily be applied to other drawing and graphics programs. The instructions cover the use of both PCs and Macs, and the book assumes that the reader will have little or no experience of designing on computers. The book shows how to design a wide range of patchwork blocks and how to build the blocks into customised quilts. There is also guidance on colour selection and customization, sashing and borders. The CD contains 100 ready-made templates, grids and patchwork patterns. pp: 128

This smart handbook gathers, in a concise and accessible format, a wealth of insight and information on 50 of the most vital political thinkers of all time and 10 major movements that have fundamentally changed the way people live. Rediscover the key thoughts and actions of Lenin, Mao, Guevara, and Washington.

Consider the founders of empires and dictatorships with Genghis Khan, Queen Victoria, Hitler, and Napoleon. Review the great leaps in political thought with the words and works of Hobbes, Rousseau, Marx, and Fukuyama. Understand the thinking of the idealists in pursuit of political justice from Cromwell and Lincoln to Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. Everything about the complex issues and great personalities that have shaped the path of history is expertly packed into this pocketful of knowledge.

ISBN: 9780713 686159 Format: Hardback A&C Black £9.99 Special price in India £6.99 Publication: January 2008

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Designing Patchwork on your Computer

ISBN: 9781408 101438 Format: Hardback A&C Black £19.99 Special price in India £13.99 Publication: February 2008

From pioneering merchants to the great industrialists, financial geniuses to the most persuasive entrepreneurs, The Little Book of Big Ideas: Business is a guide to some of the most successful, practical and brilliant business thinkers in history. Outlining the lives and achievements of figures such as Henry Ford, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey and John D. Rockefeller, this little book encompasses those who have captured the public imagination, as well as those who have just captured their money. Provides a fascinating insight into the greatest business minds including who were first to adopt new technologies, pioneers of new business models, the entrepreneurs who have stood out for their tenacity in growing their empires, and the theorists who have developed the discipline of strategic business thought.

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Galapagos

Chintz

Islands Born of Fire

Indian Textiles for the West

Tui de Roy

Rosemary Crill

Ever since the days of Darwin, the Galapagos Islands have captured the imagination of the world. This book captures the ethereal— even haunting—quality of these islands, in words and in pictures, like none ever before. This is the culmination of a life’s work: thirtyfive years of exploring and recording the secrets of Galapagos.

The text flows from an intimate knowledge of, and deep love for, the Galapagos, and the quality of the imagery reflects the author’s recently awarded place as one of the world’s top twenty wildlife photographers. As the 21st century progresses, the Galapagos Islands are reaching a critical crossroads from which they will emerge with difficulty. This book celebrates their vibrant essence.

In the past hundred years or so, ‘chintz’ has come to mean any floral printed furnishing fabric. Its origins as a hand-drawn and dyed fabric from India are often forgotten, but it is with these rare earlier chintzes that this book is concerned. It explores in detail the background and development of this beautiful technique and looks at the use of chintzes in Europe from the early 17th century to the mid-19th century, first as bed-curtains and wall-hangings and later for popular men’s and women’s dress. The V&A’s collection, published for the first time in glorious colour and including close-up details, will interest interior designers, textile students and those involved in fashion.

ISBN: 9781408 101360 Format: Hardback A&C Black £19.99 Special price in India £14.99 Publication: January 2008

pp: 160

ISBN: 9781851 775323 Format: Hardback A&C Black £30.00 Special price in India £22.50 Publication: February 2008

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The Thames An Extraordinary River Derek Pratt

Birds By Colour You’ve just seen a small black and white bird, but which species is it?

Which bird has a red head and a yellow wing? Birds by Colour helps you to identify almost 200 bird species common to western Europe simply by their shape and colour.

Conceived and designed specifically for beginners, this is the first guide to approach identification from birds’ most visible characteristics: their colours.

No prior knowledge of ornithology is required to use the guide.

184 species have been classified according to the most typical bird shapes. Then groups of species that share physical characteristics and have similar colours are treated together on a spread, illustrated side by side to allow direct comparison.

In the second half of the book, each featured bird has its own short field guide entry, including information on their biology, behaviour, habitat and distribution. Each field guide entry is illustrated by a colour photograph and the artworks from the first half of the guide and details the best times and locations for observing the species.

A phot ogr aphic jour ne om photogr ographic journe neyy fr from ce tto o sea. sour source The Thames is an extraordinary river: linking London to the countryside and the sea, the Thames is the heart of the capital and its waters the lifeblood of England.

Following the river is a voyage through Britain's history, as its varied path joins landmarks of the past with the urban landscape of the modern world. This stunning photographic journey offers a unique and comprehensive showcase of the Thames we know and the Thames we don't. Derek Pratt's photography gives readers a unique insight into the river's many facets, comparing the rural idylls with the urban landscapes, the industrial buildings with the famous views, the royal landmarks with the river used by people all along its course for daily recreation and famous events. London has so often been the beginning and the end of the Thames story, and whilst it forms a major part, this book gives an altogether more complete and unexpected view of one of the most famous, remarkable and well-loved rivers in the world.

With a stylish design, beautiful photography and interesting insights, this gorgeous coffee table book will appeal to a wide range of readers. It will be the perfect gift for anyone living near, visiting or enjoying this magnificent river, with its visual variety, hidden secrets and fascinating history.

ISBN: 9780713 689945 Format: Paperback A&C Black £12.99 Special price in India £9.10 Publication: January 2008

ISBN: 9780713 688320 A&C Black £19.99 Publication: March 2008

Marc Duquet

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FABER & FABER Something to Tell You Hanif Kureishi Something to Tell You follows the fortunes of a successful psychoanalyst who, as the book opens, is reflecting on his coming-of-age in 1970s suburbia, on his first love (a relationship that continues to haunt him), and on a brutal act of violence from which he can never escape.

The book brilliantly captures that decade’s sense of sexual freedom, and the exhilaration of the drug culture—as well as the violent struggle between the forces of labour and capital. The events of those years provide a vivid backdrop to the drama that develops thirty years later as the characters face an encroaching middle age with the traumas of their youth still unresolved.

Something to Tell You speaks directly to our concerns and anxieties, and to our need for love. Like The Buddha of Suburbia, it is full-to-bursting with energy as the characters struggle with desire. At times comic, at times painfully tender, the book is a reflection on the nature of relations between men and women, parents and children. With unfailing deftness of touch Kureishi has created a memorable cast of recognizable individuals, all of whom wrestle with their own limits as human beings, haunted by the past until they find it within themselves to forgive.

ISBN: 9780571 238743 Format: Trade Paperback Faber & Faber £10.99 Publication: March 2008

pp: 352 Special price in India £7.75

His Illegal Self Peter Carey ‘When the boy was almost eight a woman stepped out of the elevator into the apartment on East 62nd Street and he recognized her straight away. It was the smell his heart knew—patchouli, jasmine, other stuff...’

His Illegal Self is the story of Che—raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, he is the precocious son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties. Yearning for his famous outlaw parents, denied all access to television and the news, he takes hope from his long-haired, teenage neighbour who predicts: They will come for you, man. They’ll break you out of here.

Soon Che too is an outlaw; fleeing down subways, abandoning seedy motels at night, he is pitched into a journey that leads him to a hippy commune in the jungle of tropical Queensland. Here he slowly, bravely confronts his life, learning that nothing is what it seems. Who is his real mother? Was that his real father? If all he suspects is true, what should he do?

Never sentimental, His Illegal Self is an achingly beautiful story of the love between a young woman and a little boy. It may make you cry more than once before it lifts your spirit in the most lovely, artful, unexpected way.

ISBN: 9780571 231515 Faber & Faber £10.99

Format: Trade Paperback Special price in India £7.75

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The River of Lost Footsteps A Personal History of Burma Thant Myint-U For nearly two decades Western governments and a growing activist community have been frustrated in their attempts to bring about a freer and more democratic Burma—through sanctions and tourist boycotts—only to see an apparent slide toward even harsher dictatorship. But what do we really know about Burma and its history?

And what can Burma’s past tell us about the present and even its future?

In The River of Lost Footsteps, Thant Myint-U relates the story of modern Burma, in part through a telling of his own family’s history, in an interwoven narrative that is by turns lyrical, dramatic and appalling. His maternal grandfather, U Thant, rose from being the schoolmaster of a small town in the Irrawaddy Delta to become the UN Secretary General in the 1960s. And on his father’s side, the author is descended from a long line of courtiers who served at Burma’s Court of Ava for nearly two centuries. Through their stories and others, he portrays Burma’s rise and decline in the modern world, from the time of Portuguese pirates and renegade Mughal princes through the decades of British colonialism, the devastation of World War II and a sixty-year civil war that continues today and is the longest-running war anywhere in the world.

The River of Lost Footsteps is a work both personal and global, a distinctive contribution that makes Burma accessible and enthralling.

ISBN: 9780571 217595 Faber & Faber £10.00

Format: Trade Paperback Special price in India Rs 395

pp: 400 Publication: January 2008

The Ministry of Special Cases

Days of Atonement

Nathan Englander

A thrilling new Prussian adventure from the author of Critique of Criminal Reason.

As Napoleon’s troops sweep into Prussia, three children are found massacred in their beds.

Then the crushed corpse of their mother is discovered in a dockside warehouse.

Prussian magistrate Hanno Stiffeniis begins his investigation into the brutal killings amidst the chaos of the invasion. When he learns that the children’s father has also died recently, he begins to wonder: is the family’s fate a tragic coincidence or could it be part of a bigger plot?

Michael Gregorio

Kaddish Poznan chips the names off gravestones for a living, removing traces of disreputable ancestors for their more respectable kin. His wife Lillian works in insurance, earning money when people live longer than they fear. Set in a tumultuous Buenos Aires on the cusp of a military coup, the couple’s own tumultuous relationship is held together by their role as parents dedicated to a teenage son.

As Argentina’s Dirty War unfolds around them, and innocents begin to disappear, the Poznan family’s sometimes hilarious misadventures are soon replaced by something much darker. A visit to the dreaded Ministry of Special Cases is only the start of Englander’s stunning vision of a nation in the hold of corruption and torture, a place where absurdity, despair and hope are the end products of a bureaucracy run out of control.

ISBN: 9780571 235438 Faber & Faber £5.99 Publication: March 2008

Format: A Paperback Special price in India Rs 295

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ISBN: 9780571 229314 Format: A Paperback pp: 400 Faber & Faber £5.99 Special price in India Rs 295 Publication: February 2008

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Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You

The Finger Book

Marcus Chown

John Manning

The two towering achievements of modern physics are quantum theory and Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Together, they explain virtually everything about the world we live in. But, almost a century after their advent, most people haven’t the slightest clue what either is about.

Marcus Chown, himself baffled by other attempts to explain these ideas to a wider audience, thought that there must be a better way. This book is the result. In simple language, in a book that can be read in a morning, he illuminates the two most brilliant and exhilarating ideas of the last century.

This book is about a simple measurement of the human hand: the ‘finger ratio’, or the length of the ring finger relative to the index finger.

John Manning uses a tiny difference between the sexes— that men tend to have a greater finger ratio than women—to examine a dizzying group of questions about human behaviour, from sexuality, to musical ability, to predisposition to disease.

Controversial, but unfailingly clear and balanced, John Manning’s cutting-edge research poses many fruitful questions about what makes us as we are.

ISBN: 9780571 235452 Format: Hardback Faber & Faber £12.99 Special price in India Rs 495 Publication: January 2008

pp: 192

ISBN: 9780571 215393 Faber & Faber £12.99 Publication: March 2008

Format: Demy Hardback Special price in India £8.99

pp: 192

Twelve Twenty Three The QI Annual 2008

Eoin McNamee

John Lloyd The QI Annual 2008 is packed with original contributions from Stephen Fry, Alan Davies, Jo Brand, Bill Bailey and other regular guests on the show, with games to play at home, puzzles, cartoon strips, miniencyclopaedias, how-to diagrams and masses of QI facts. If you want to read Julian Clary’s poetry about the Queen, Roger Law’s musings on flatulent kangaroos, or have often wondered how you might make a waterproof apron out of a whale’s foreskin, your Christmas gift dilemma has just been solved. Warning: very silly indeed. Will offend dullards, whales and parents in no particular order.

ISBN: 9780571 237791 Format: Hardback Faber & Faber £12.99 Special price in India Rs 795 Publication: January 2008

pp: 96

‘What McNamee brings to the “facts” is a novelist’s truth which can often represent the organic mechanisms at work better than any record’.

Time Out

August 1997. Diana Spencer and her Egyptian lover are to visit Paris. There are rumours of a possible engagement.

Harper, an ex-cop, arrives from Belfast, hired by his old boss to watch a chauffeur called Henri Paul, a photographer, and the Princess herself. The word’s come from the top that something’s afoot and extra security is needed. As the rest of the team assembles and the paparazzo gather, McNamee’s gripping story, told with striking imagination and vision, heads unstoppably towards the most famous car crash in history.

ISBN: 9780571 237166 Faber & Faber £6.99 Publication: March 2008

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Die With Me

Eye of the Beholder

Elena Forbes

David Ellis

Elena Forbes is the most exciting new British crime writer to come on the scene in years.

‘A page-turning and assured debut in the vein of Ruth Rendell and P.D. James from a bright new voice on the scene.’

Edgar Award-winner David Ellis delivers an audaciously inventive thriller, a tour de force of cat-and-mouse suspense and plot-twists.

Eye of the Beholder is a heart-pounding thriller filled with dark secrets and the horrific lengths that desperate people will go to keep them. Renowned attorney Paul Riley has built a lucrative career based on his famous prosecution of Terry Burgos, a serial killer who followed the lyrics of a violent song to gruesomely murder six girls. Now, fifteen years later, the police are confronted with a new series of murders and mutilations. Riley is the first to realize that the two cases are connected—and that the killer seems to be willing to do anything to keep him involved. As the murderer’s list of victims becomes less random and more personal, Riley finds himself at the centre of a police task force assigned to catch the murderer—as both an investigator and a suspect.

Driven by his own fear that he may have overlooked something crucial during the investigation years ago, Riley must sift through fifteen years of lies in order to uncover the truth—but the killer isn’t the only one who wants to keep the past buried…

Irish Independent

‘An impressive first-timer… Forbes is good on plot, tension and lurking evil.

The killer is clever and frighteningly normal.’

The Times

Slowly she opened her eyes and he rewarded her with one of his softest smiles, brushing her wet, sticky hair off her face, using the edge of her coat sleeve to wipe away the slime around her nose and lips.

‘I don’t want to,’ she whispered, trembling as she gazed at him. ‘I don’t want to…’ She couldn’t finish the sentence. Die. Die with me. Be with me forever. That’s what he’d said.

You could find your new best friend on the net… or discover your worst nightmare.

For fifteen-year-old Gemma, it’s already too late. Her body was found in the nave of the parish church in Ealing.

For D.I Mark Tartaglia and the murder squad at Barnes, it’s just a matter of time before the tragedy repeats itself.

ISBN: 9781847 242914 Format: A Paperback pp: 400 Quercus £6.99 Special price in India £4.99 Publication: January 2008

ISBN: 9781847 243065 Quercus £10.99

Format: Trade Paperback Special price in India £7.75

pp: 400 Publication: January 2008

Dead Man’s Hand Edited by Otto Penzler A royal flush of brand new poker tales from fifteen of the world’s best crime-writers—including a Harry Bosch novella from Michael Connelly.

With contributions from Michael Connelly, Alexander McCall Smith, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Jeffrey Deaver and Peter Robinson, this is the best hand of crime short stories you will ever be dealt. Taking their inspiration from the card game that’s more a way of life than an innocent pastime, there are no stories here that you’ll want to sit out. Here are tales of games you’ll wish you were part of… and games that you’d go to the ends of the Earth to avoid being dealt into.

Take Tracy Blitz, golden girl of the poker pros. Some say she could have won the ultimate poker tournament. Now she’s dead in her car, and Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch is on the case. Perhaps it is a man’s game after all? Not according to Mrs Vancalm in Peter Robinson’s tale of dangerous ladies—she was conveniently out playing Texas Hold ‘Em with her girlfriends while her husband was being beaten to death by a poker. The irony of the weapon choice is not lost on the caustic DCI Banks.

Meanwhile, Alexander McCall Smith sends a schoolteacher on a cruise where she will lose more than just her heart, Joyce Carol Oates watches a game of strip poker go very badly wrong, and Sue DeNymme enjoys a hand of ‘Poker & Shooter’ where the ultimate prize is ultimate vengeance...

One thing's for sure. Playing poker is a dangerous game.

ISBN: 9781847 241131 Quercus £12.99

Format: Trade Paperback Special price in India Rs 495

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The Peter Temple Omnibus

The Thomas H. Cook Omnibus

The Broken Shore • In the Evil Day • An Iron Rose

Red Leaves • Mortal Memory • The Chatham School Affair

Peter Temple

Thomas H. Cook

A triple str ength intr oduction tto o strength introduction Pet er TTemple: emple: Crime W rit er of the eter Writ riter Year ear..

The Broken Shore: A convalescing homicide detective returns to his hometown only to find his recovery interrupted by a case that leaves him standing alone, fighting against corruption and prejudice.

In the Evil Day: Five people lie dead on the floor of a fortified Johannesburg mansion. In his hands the solitary survivor holds his death warrant. Powerful men and powerful nations will kill to keep the video tape in Con Niemand’s grasp buried. The tape and the man must be erased…

An Iron Rose: When country blacksmith Mac Farraday’s best friend is found hanging, the assumption is he’s committed suicide.

But Mac is far from convinced: he’s a man who has learned—the hard way—never to accept things at face value.

Thomas H. Cook is one of today’s most acclaimed writers of psychological thrillers, penning hypnotic tales of dark secrets and haunting tragedy: here are three Cook classics.

Red Leaves: Eric Moore’s happy family life in a quiet small town is shattered when his teenage son is suspected of abducting an eight-year-old girl. Eric must counsel his son, find him a lawyer and protect him from the community’s steadily growing suspicion… Except that Eric is not so sure his son is innocent.

Mortal Memory: ‘What did my father do? He killed my mother, my sister, then waited to kill me…’ Thirty years later, Stephen Farris pieces together what his father did and why, inexorably leading to the dissolution of his own family and a shattering search for and confrontation with his father.

The Chatham School Affair: Attorney Henry Griswald has a secret: the truth behind the tragic events the world knew as the Chatham School Affair, the controversial tragedy that destroyed five lives, shattered a quiet community, and forever scarred the young boy.

Layer by layer, Cook paints a portrait of a woman, a school, and a town in which passionate violence seems impossible... and inevitable.

ISBN: 9781905 204724 Format: Trade Paperback Quercus £14.99 Special price in India £9.10 Publication: January 2008

pp: 608

What’s So Funny?

ISBN: 9781847 241207 Format: Trade Paperback Quercus £14.99 Special price in India £9.10 Publication: January 2008

A Dortmunder Novel Donald E. Westlake John Dortmunder, the hero of Westlake’s Dortmunder series and his latest novel What’s So Funny? is a hardluck criminal genius, the comic flipside to the cold and serious Parker of the Richard Stark novels.

John Dortmunder hasn’t gotten where he is today by turning a blind eye to an easy heist. But he also knows an impossible job when it comes along. So when an ex-cop named Eppick presents him with a job that involves stealing a bejewelled, solid gold chess set, a chess set weighing more than one man can carry, from an underground vault in a Manhattan bank, Dortmunder says no thanks.

Eppick says it is steal the chess set or go to jail for previous. So John and his bumbling band of good natured thieves put together a plan. But is it a workable plan?

ISBN: 9781847 241115 Format: Trade Paperback Quercus £10.99 Special price in India Rs 495 Publication: January 2008

pp: 368

The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 Edited by Carl Hiaasen and Otto Penzler Carl Hiassen Hiassen’’s pick of the year’ year’ss best US crime writing.

‘A showcase series finishes its first decade on a resoundingly high note.’

Booklist for BAMS 2006

Expect the unexpected and prepare to be entertained…

Here are twenty of the year’s standout crime short stories, showcasing not only the very best of the genre, but also the very best American writing full stop.

Includes short stories from: James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, Laura Lippman, Joyce Carol Oates and many others.

ISBN: 9781847 243973 Format: Trade Paperback Quercus £12.99 Special price in India Rs 795 Publication: January 2008

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Into the Deep Exploring Earth’s Oceans

How Many Lightbulbs Does it Take to Change a Planet?

Peter Batson

95 Ways to Save Planet Earth

A uniq ue an d eerie vvo oy age int o unique and into the alien depths of the world’ world’ss oceans.

How inappropriate it was to name our planet ‘Earth’, when quite clearly we should have called it ‘Ocean’. 1.36 billion cubic kilometres of water (326 million cubic miles) weighing over a million trillion tons covers more than 70 percent of our planet’s surface. Strip Earth of its topography, and an uninterrupted ocean would submerge the planet under 2,500 metres (8,200 feet) of water. Earth’s five oceans are one of the wonders of the solar system: they cover the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, our planet’s most extensive mountain range; host the Great Barrier Reef—the largest structure built by living organisms; and provide the habitat for Earth’s most extreme lifeforms—the denizens of the deep, nightmarish apparitions bristling with fangs and fluorescence. Yet despite its proximity and riches, in many ways we know more about the surface of Mars than we know about the deep ocean.

From warm equatorial seas to ice-bound polar oceans, Into the Deep charts our exploration of Earth’s final frontier and its inhabitants.

Tony Juniper

ISBN: 9781847 24050X Quercus £12.50 Publication: March 2008

Format: Hardback Special price in India Rs 795

pp: 224

The human world sits on the brink of potentially catastrophic environmental change. If we do not drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and start that process now, it is projected that in the second half of the 21st century the cost of climate damage could amount to a fifth of global GDP. The latest science confirms that there is now only a decade left for action. How Many Lightbulbs Does it Take to Change a Planet is a clarion call for urgent action in the face of environmental change that threatens to devastate human societies.

ISBN: 9781847 243713 Format: Paperback Quercus £7.99 Special price in India £5.60 Publication: January 2008

pp: 304

One to Nine The Inner Life of Numbers Andrew Hodges

Beliefs That Changed the World The History and Ideas of the Great Religions John Bowker A hist ory of the gr eat rreligions, eligions, history great e belief s. t old thr ough their cor through core beliefs.

How did Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism come to be the world’s dominant religions? What are the real beliefs of Islam, and the different branches within it? Who were the key figures of Judaism? And how are religious beliefs shaping today’s world conflicts?

Beliefs that Changed the World will answer the key questions about the great religions, from Bahai to Unitarianism, via Jainism, Mormonism, Shinto and the major branches of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. Not only will this book explain what the disciples of each faith believe, but it will provide the reader with a greater understanding of the wider themes of religious and world history.

ISBN: 9781847 240623 Format: Hardback Quercus £15.00 Special price in India £6.50 Publication: January 2008

pp: 208

Have you ever thought about the uniqueness and simplicity of One, or what it means to be Two? Is Four really so square and why are there Seven days of the week, Seven deadly sins, indeed Seven wonders of the world? In One to Nine, Andrew Hodges brings numbers to life.

Inspired by millennia of human attempts to figure things out, this pithy, kaleidoscopic book takes a fresh, witty and hands-on approach to such various topics as musical harmony, the probabilities in poker, code breaking and the lottery. It probes the surprising symmetries of time, space, matter and forces. It even goes to the heart of what computers can do. Interweaving all these lies the inner life of the numbers, the patterns of primes and powers, which we try to grasp, and which have us in their grip. Accessible to anyone with a general curiosity and interest in puzzles, One to Nine might even have you completing your fiendish Sudoku in record time…

ISBN: 9781904 977758 Format: Hardback Short Books £12.99 Special price in India £9.10 Publication: January 2008

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The Steep Approach to Garbadale

The Miracle at Speedy Motors The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Book 9

Iain Banks

Alexander McCall Smith

Dark family secrets, a long-lost love affair and a multi-million pound gaming business lie at the heart of Iain Banks’s fabulous new novel.

It has never occurred to Precious Ramotswe that there may be disadvantages to being the best-known lady detective in Botswana. But when she receives a threatening anonymous letter, she is compelled to reconsider her unconquerable belief in a kind world and good neighbours.

While she ponders the identity of the letter-writer Mma Ramotswe has a further set of problems to solve, both professional and personal. There is an adopted child’s poignant search for her true family, and Mr J. L. B. Matekoni’s pursuit of an expensive miracle for their own foster daughter Motholeli.

With these latest developments on Tlokweng Road, Alexander McCall Smith reveals with all his brilliant storytelling skill that there are very few troubles that cannot be solved with kindness, and very few dry seasons that do not end with welcome rain.

ISBN: 9780316 030076 pp: 256 Publication: March 2008

Format: Trade Paperback Little, Brown £11.99

Special price in India Rs 595

The Good Husband of Zebra Drive The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Book 8 Alexander McCall Smith As winter turns to spring across the red earth, acacia trees and slow green rivers of Botswana, all is not quite as it should be on Zebra Drive, home to Mma Ramotswe and her beloved husband Mr J. L. B. Matekoni. At the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency there are the usual number of cases to be pursued, from persistent theft at Teenie Magama’s printing works to the rather more serious case of three suspicious deaths at the Mochudi hospital, but there is discontent among the ranks. It is bad enough that Mr Matekoni’s apprentice Charlie is off on another escapade and Mma Makutsi’s impending marriage threatens her happy working relationship with Mma Ramotswe. And when—in trying to prove himself a worthy husband—Mr J. L. B. Matekoni himself decides to try a little detective work, disaster looms . . .

Tender, witty and wise, the latest instalment in the lives of Alexander McCall’s Smith’s extended Botswana family instructs us with familiar modesty in the importance of trust, love, not judging by appearances and what really makes a good husband.

ISBN: 9780349 117737 Abacus £6.99

Format: Paperback Special price in India Rs 295

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The Wopuld family built its fortune on a board game called Empire!—now a hugely successful computer game. So successful, the American Spraint Corp wants to buy the firm out. Young renegade Alban, who has been evading the family clutches for years, is run to ground and persuded to attend the forthcoming family gathering—part birthday party, part Extraordinary General Meeting—convened by Win, Wopuld matriarch and most powerful member of the board, at Garbadale, the family’s highland castle.

Being drawn back into the bosom of the clan brings an inevitable and disconcerting confrontation with Alban’s past. What drove his mother to take her own life? And is he yet ready to see Sophie, his beautiful, enchanting cousin and teenage love, at the EGM? Grandmother Win’s revelations wll radically alter Alban’s perspective for ever.

ISBN: 9780349 119281 Format: Paperback Abacus £7.99 Special price in India Rs 395 Publication: March 2008

pp: 400

The Logic of Life

Multiplicity

Uncovering the New Economics of Everything

The New Science of Personality

Tim Edwards ‘Required reading… it brings the power of economics to life.’

Rita Carter ‘A rich and rewarding book to help us on our way.’

Brian Aldiss, Daily Mail

Steven D.Levitt, author of Freakonomics

‘An up-to-date, easy to read happy hybrid of textbook and coffee-table tome.’

The Undercover Economist showed how ordinary economics explained everyday curiosities, such as the price of a cup of coffee and the traffic jam on the way to the supermarket. The Logic of Life shows how the new economics of rational choice theory explains much, much more.

Drug addicts and teenage muggers can be rational.

Suburban sprawl and inner city decay are rational. Endless meetings at the office and the injustices of working life? Rational. Economics explains why your boss is overpaid, whether we should build more prisons, and whether a city like New Orleans can recover from disaster.

The Logic of Life introduces you to engaging stories and characters linked together in a bold narrative sweep. The book starts with the most intimate decisions—to have sex, to take drugs, to lead an honest life—then zooms out to discuss the logic of the family, of neighbourhoods, large corporations, cities themselves. This is the new economics of everything you never thought was economics, and it will help you see the world in a new way.

Washington Post

ISBN: 9780316 02757 Format: Trade Paperback pp: 288 Little, Brown £12.99 Special price in India Rs 495 Publication: February 2008

In Multiplicity, Rita Carter—award-winning science writer and international speaker—offers a new and vital understanding of personality. Rita explains that nearly every one of us is a team of personalities, working together, for the most part, to give the impression of a unified self. We are used to thinking of ourselves as one thing or the other—either introvert or extrovert, say—but things are rarely that simple for most of us. That’s why we sometimes feel like a different person depending on mood, company and surroundings, why we sometimes suffer unaccountable memory lapses, why we buy something we then decide we didn’t want in the first place, or why ‘somebody else’ turns off the alarm clock in the morning.

Importantly, Multiplicity is also a practical guide to building a happy ‘household’ of personalities, explaining how to identify these different versions of ourselves and how to enable them to co-operate so that we can function successfully in life.

Multiplicity is both an eye-opening and highly practical account of personality.

ISBN: 9780316 730884 Little, Brown £12.99

Format: Paperback Special price in India £7.99

pp: 320 Publication: January 2008

The Writing on the Wall China and the West in the 21st Century Will Hutton China constitutes a fifth of the world’s population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The speed of its development is stunning, a combination of cheap labour and commitment to science and technology that has never been matched by a developing country. The Pearl River Delta, Shanghai and Beijing have become city-regions whose growth and embrace of modernity strike the visitor with awesome force. This is a continent on the move, recovering the world position and wealth it once had.

The re-emergence of China as a superpower constitutes the biggest challenge the world has had for more than a century. Never before in modern times has the financial, trade, economic and diplomatic world pecking order been so profoundly reconstituted with the challenger country itself in the grips of incredible ideological and political change. This is a transition both internally in China and externally in the world beyond beset by hazard and risk. The world’s peace and prosperity depends upon it being executed successfully.

ISBN: 9780349 118826 Abacus £10.99

Format: Paperback Special price in India £3.99

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The How of Happiness

You Can Be Thin

A Practical Guide to Getting the Life You Want

The Ultimate Hypnosis Programme to End Dieting Forever

Sonja Lyubomirsky The key tenet of The How of Happiness is that every human being has a happiness ‘set point’ which, depending on how high or low it is, can determine how positive or negative they feel. The book offers a practical approach to help readers increase their set point, and so find a level of happiness above that which they would normally feel, and feel more satisfaction in life.

Based on scientific research and trials, this is a groundbreaking book that offers a practical plan to enable readers to achieve a more positive outlook at home, at work and in their personal life.

ISBN: 9780316 733369 Format: Paperback Sphere £12.99 Special price in India Rs 595 Publication: January 2008

pp: 384

A Matter of Facts Marcus Berkmann Marcus Berkmann is a competitive obsessive but where he was very bad at cricket (see Rain Man) he’s a brilliantly knowledgeable nerd and a great success at pub quizzes.

This hilarious book will do for quiz culture—from Mastermind to Fifteen to One to the quiz in your local—what Lost in Music did for bad rock bands. Thousands of people take part in quizzes every week answering questions such as who won the League Cup in 1972 (Stoke City beat Chelsea 3-2) and which of Henry VIII’s wives was both a widow and a virgin when she married him (Catherine of Aragon)?

Funny, informative, original: this book has all the answers— including the one to question six.

Format: Paperback Special price in India Rs 295

Marisa Peer introduces her revolutionary method of reprogramming the brain to alter feelings and associations related to food, to enable everybody to have a healthy relationship with it and, as a result, have a healthy body at a sustained ideal weight.

With its refreshing and empowering style, You Can Be Thin works on many levels by using techniques including fun and powerfully affecting exercises, subtle repetition and straightforward questionnaires to break negative patterns and banish cravings. An effortless process, the reader’s progress through the book is a hypnotherapy treatment in itself. Addressing habitual eaters, emotional eaters, addicted and ignorant eaters, the cure, which is not to be found anywhere else, lies in the process of reading the book.

ISBN: 9781847 441393 Format: Trade Paperback Sphere £9.99 Special price in India £5.90 Publication: February 2008

The Insider’s Guide to Quizzing

ISBN: 9780349 120874 Abacus £7.99 Publication: March 2008

Marisa Peer

pp: 256

Plain Tales from the British Empire Charles Allen ‘A hugely valuable record of colonial life in India, Africa and the Far East—intimate, vivid and immensely enjoyable.’

Antonia Fraser

Plain Tales from the British Empire gathers together Charles Allen’s best loved books on the British experience across the Empire: Plain Tales from the Raj, Tales from the South China Seas and Tales from the Dark Continent.

These vivid stories and recollections give an evocative and unique glimpse into the lost days of the Empire across India, Africa and the territories fringing the South China Sea. ISBN: 9780349 119205 Format: Paperback Abacus £14.99 Special price in India Rs 495 Publication: February 2008

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The Shakespeare Secret

The Night Ferry

J.L. Carrell

Michael Robotham

A moder n serial killer—hunting an modern ancient secr et. secret.

A woman is left to die as the rebuilt Globe theatre burns. Another woman is drowned like Ophelia, skirts swirling in the water. A professor has his throat slashed open on the steps of Washington’s Capitol building.

A deadly serial killer is on the loose, modelling his murders on Shakespeare’s plays. But why is he killing? And how can he be stopped?

A gripping, shocking page turner, The Shakespeare Secret masterfully combines modern murder and startling true revelations from the life of Shakespeare. It has been acclaimed as one of the most compulsively readable thrillers of recent years.

Alisha Barba’s dreams of being a detective were shattered when a murder suspect broke her back across a brick wall. Now on her feet again, with her police career in limbo, she receives a message from an old school friend, Cate Beaumont, who is eight months pregnant and in trouble. On the night they arrange to meet, Cate is mown down by a car that kills her husband instantly. As paramedics fight to save her life they discover there is no baby. Her pregnancy is an elaborate lie, a cruel deception.

Why? What happened? As Alisha sets out to answer these questions she is drawn deeper and deeper into a dangerous quest that will take her from the East End of London to Amsterdam’s red light district and into a murky underworld of sex trafficking, slavery and exploitation.

ISBN: 9780751 540581 Format: Paperback Sphere £6.99 Special price in India £2.99 Publication: January 2008

ISBN: 9780751 537307 Format: Paperback Sphere £6.99 Special price in India Rs 295 Publication: February 2008

pp: 480

pp: 528

Barking

The Perk

The Abduction

Tom Holt

Mark Gimenez

Mark Gimenez

Monsters are roaming the streets of London. Of course, some monsters are scarier than others: Unicorns? No bother.

Vampires? Big deal.

Werewolves? Ho hum.

Lawyers? … Aaargh!

Duncan’s boss doesn’t think that he’s cut out to be a lawyer. He isn’t a pack animal. He lacks the killer instinct. But when his best friend from school barges his way back into Duncan’s life, with a full supporting cast of lawyers, ex-wives, zombies and snow-white unicorns, it’s not long before things become distinctly unsettling.

Hairy, even.

Beck Hardin returns to his Texas hometown—and his estranged father—after the death of his wife leaves him with two children to raise. The town is still reeling from the murder of sixteen-year-old Heidi, whose father—Beck’s old college friend—asks Beck to help him find Heidi’s killer before the statute of limitations runs out. Meanwhile, Beck is pushed into becoming town Judge, and he makes some powerful enemies amongst the rich white landowners when he refuses to condone their treatment of the Mexican workers of the town. As events escalate, the landowners carefully plot their revenge...

W h e n hotshot lawyer Elizabeth Brice turns up to collect her daughter Grace from fo o t b a l l practice, the coach tells her she needn’t have bothered, as Grace’s uncle has already picked her up.

The only problem is—Grace has no uncles.

And so begins a furious race against time to save Grace from unknown kidnappers.

A riveting, action-packed thriller, The Abduction will have you on the edge of your seat from the first page to the last.

ISBN: 9781841 492865 Format: Paperback pp: 516 Orbit £7.99 Special price in India £3.75 Publication: February 2008

ISBN: 9781847 440709 Format: Trade Paperback pp: 448 Sphere £11.99 Special price in India Rs 495 Publication: March 2008

ISBN: 9780751 539462 Format: Paperback pp: 512 Sphere £6.99 Special price in India Rs 275 Publication: February 2008

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The Angel of Grozny

The Middle Class

Inside Chechnya

A History

Asne Seierstad

Lawrence James

Translated by Nadia Christensen Asne Seierstad began her writing career as a Moscow correspondent; the conflict in Chechnya was the first war she covered. Now ten years later, she returns to Chechnya and discovers that though the world’s attention has moved on, the tragedy has continued, killing 10 to 15 per cent of the population and leaving a brutalized society—with a particular toll on its children—in its wake. Combining the violent history of the Caucasus and the battle between freedom fighters and the empire, with the story of the journeys Seierstad undertook in secrecy and disguise over the last two years, this is another landmark book from this brave and brilliant writer.

ISBN: 9781844 085163 Virago £12.99 Publication: March 2008

Format: Paperback Special price in India Rs 495

pp: 288

This is the enthralling story of the great powerhouse of British history—the middle class. The death of feudalism, the advancement of democracy, the spread of literacy, the industrial and sexual revolutions, the development of mass media— the middle class is never far away, drawing up petitions, pushing for change in attitude and legislation, engaging in philanthropy.

In this scholarly and hugely entertaining account, Lawrence James brings to life the stories of churchmen and charity-workers, lawyers and lobbyists to create an engaging and colourful social and political panorama. Richly textured and highly relevant, this is narrative history at its best.

ISBN: 9780349 115436 Abacus £10.99 Publication: March 2008

Format: Paperback Special price in India Rs 475

pp: 704

Now in Paperback

The Mutiny

Dirty Bits for Girls

Julian Rathbone

Edited by India Knight

For its British population, the India that swelters in the late spring of 1857 is a place of amateur theatricals, horseracing and flirtations under the aegis of the omnipotent East India company. But a brutal awakening lies in store for the complacent British: one May night, after thirty years of abuse, the East India Company’s native soldiers rise up against their British officers.

Caught up in the violence is pretty Sophie Hardcastle, a young wife and mother newly arrived from England. As she searches for her infant son, missing in the chaos, Sophie finds herself bearing witness to atrocities on both sides.

Moving, sombre and thrilling, Rathbone’s tale is told on a grand scale, ranging from the Cannings in Government House to the heroism of the humblest soldiers and peasants.

‘One day someone came back from half-term with Delta of Venus,

by Anais Nin… Well. Well. The book briskly did the rounds, getting tattier and tattier with each reading.

Mouths dropped open in shock.

Eyes popped with disbelief.

Did people really. . . Did men really want to . . . ?’

Edited and introduced by India Knight, Dirty Bits For Girls is an unmissable collection. From zipless action in Fear of Flying to jolly romps with Jilly Cooper; from transgressions with a priest in The Thorn Birds to mischief with Mellors; from a gentle first encounter with ‘Ralph’ in Forever to anything and everything but gentle in The Story of O. Even Keats, Chaucer and Shakespeare are up for no good, to say nothing of Prince Abdullah and that unspeakable thing with a goldfish in Lace. These are the stories that taught us about sex, volumes pilfered from our parents’ bookshelves, books passed girl to girl, hidden in desks, whispered and wondered about.

ISBN: 9780349 119328 Format: Paperback Abacus £7.99 Special price in India Rs 295 Publication: January 2008

pp: 464

ISBN: 9781844 082285 Format: Paperback Virago £6.99 Special price in India Rs 295 Publication: February 2008

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China A Portrait of the People, Place and Culture

Plan to Get Pregnant

Are you trying to get pregnant or having trouble conceiving? This ten-step guide is your personal consultation with fertility expert Zita West. It will answer your questions on everything from foods to boosting fertility and IVF options, to keeping the spark in your sex life as you try for a baby. Learn to understand your body and how conception works and explore research-based advice that can dramatically increase your chance of getting pregnant.

Take an incredible journey to today’s China and beyond from the comfort of your armchair.

Seven hundred never-seenbefore photographs combine to create a revealing portrait of this extraordinary country. Explore every aspect of the world’s oldest civilization; from China’s stunning l a nd s c a p e s , extraordinary 4,000 year history to ancient philosophical traditions which are still alive today.

Find out what it’s like to live there now and meet with people from all walks of Chinese society. Plus, take a ‘virtual tour’ of some of the country’s most incredible architecture and explore the exteriors and interiors of its ancient and modern buildings.

ISBN: 9781405 320528 DK £14.99 Publication: March 2008

ISBN: 9781405 316279 Format: Hardback DK £25.00 Special price in India £17.99 Publication: February 2008

10 Steps to Maximum Fertility Zita West

Format: Paperback Special price in India £10.50

pp: 192

Your Toddler Month by Month

The Antiques Roadshow

Dr Tanya Byron

A-Z of Antiques and Collectables

Survive the terrible twos and raise a little angel with Tanya Byron, star of Little Angels and the BBC’s House of Tiny Tearaways. House of Tiny Tearaways, Dr Tanya Bryon’s loving and childcentred approach, gives you the know-how to understand your toddler’s needs and adapt your parenting style accordingly to each stage of development. From toilet training to the ‘terrible twos’, enjoying play to preparing for nursery school, with invaluable advice on tantrums, routines and establishing boundaries, Dr Tanya Byron tells you everything you need to know, month by month, to raise a happy confident child. Find out what works best for you and your child—and turn your ‘terrible two’ into a little angel.

Judith Miller

ISBN: 9781405 322119 DK 16.99 Publication: March 2008

ISBN: 9781405 317658 Format: Hardback DK £20.00 Special price in India £14.99 Publication: February 2008

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Keep right up to date with what’s happening in the antiques and collectables world with Judith Miller and The Antiques Roadshow’s essential guide to buying, selling, and collecting.

From creamware to costume jewellery, Murano glass to Bauhaus, over 3,000 entries draw on the expertise and experience of the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow specialists. Find accurate, informative and practical definitions, helping you to identify pieces. Materials, techniques, what a piece is, how and when it was used are all explained.

Plus, find out about key personalities in the antiques and collectables world. Essential for beginners, ideal for collectors, perfect for professionals, this is the book for any antiques and collectables enthusiast.

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Jungle

Eye Know

Richard Ferguson

Body

6A mazing PPop-up op-up Scenes!

Amazing With a great big gorilla, a leaping tree frog, and a toucan with a colourful beak, there are pop-up and pull-out surprises on every page. But don’t get too close to the crocodile!

ISBN: 9781405 328111 Format: Hardback pp: 14 DK £7.99 Special price in India £5.50 Publication: February 2008

Flip the flaps, fold out the pages and find out all about bodies.

What is a sneeze?

How do I breathe?

What are fingernails and toenails for?

Why does it hurt when I fall over and graze my knee?

What happens to my food when I have swallowed it?

Polar Life Richard Ferguson 6A mazing PPop-up op-up Scenes!

Amazing With penguins and sea lions, snowy owls and caribou, there are pop-up and pullout surprises on every page. But don’t get too close to the polar bear!

ISBN: 9781405 328784 Format: Hardback pp: 14 DK £7.99 Special price in India £5.50 Publication: February 2008

ISBN: 9781405 328517 Format: Hardback DK £4.99 Special price in India £2.99 Publication: February 2008

Baby Touch and Feel

Dinosaur

pp: 24

There are all sorts of textures for baby to explore in these safe, sturdy books that encourage early learning.

Animals

First Words

ISBN: 9781405 329132

ISBN: 9781405 329149

Farm

Trucks

ISBN: 9781405 329125

ISBN: 9781405 329118

Format: Board Book DK £3.99 each Publication: February 2008

pp: 14 each Special price in India £2.50 each

If there are no dinosaurs alive today, how do we know so much about them?

Which dinosaur was the most ferocious?

What did a Tyrannosaurus Rex eat?

ISBN: 9781405 328661 Format: Hardback DK £4.99 Special price in India £2.99 Publication: February 2008

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Asian Bites

Barbecue

A Feast of Flavours from Turkey through India to Thailand

Recipes, Techniques, Tools

Tom Kime

The Fairtrade Everyday Cookbook Sophie Grigson, George Alagiah, Hugh FearnleyWhittingstall, Joanne Harris, Ruth Rodgers and Rose Gray

Chris Schlesinger and John Willoughby

From crispy and fiery street food to delicate sweet treats, find out how to bring the exotic and eclectic food from the length and breadth of Asia to your own table.

Discover the culture, versatility and key ingredients that are the foundations of each style: from coriander to chillies, soy sauce to shrimp paste.

Share Tom Kime’s love of fantastic Asian food and cook up over 90 delicious recipes from Nem Nuong (Vietnamese minced pork balls) to Thai curried sweet corn fritters using easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions.

Tempt your palate, fire your imagination and satisfy even the most adventurous appetite!

Fire up the barbecue, choose your tools and get sizzling with master grillers Chris Schlesinger and John Willoughby!

Feel the heat, hear the sizzle and treat everyone’s tastebuds to the best barbecued feast ever. You’ll never cook in the kitchen again!

Chris Schlesinger and John Willoughby, the finest grilling duo in the world, show the best way to build a fire, use the tools, mix a marinade, and grill to perfection.

Find all the easy-to-follow illustrated recipes and advice you’ll ever need on how to cook Cuban Smoked Ribs, Cowboy Steaks, Shrimp Tacos and much more—with no burnt offerings.

ISBN: 9781405 319614 Format: Hardback pp: 224 DK £12.99 Special price in India £9.10 Publication: February 2008

ISBN: 9781405 312967 Format: Hardback pp: 336 DK £16.99 Special price in India £11.99 Publication: March 2008

An everyday cookbook showing how easy it is to buy, cook and eat Fairtrade foods—for people who care where their food comes from.

A mouth-watering cookbook of fantastic Fairtrade recipes, each featuring the most important ingredient of all: they are made with produce that is seeded, nurtured and provided by farmers and suppliers getting a better, fairer deal for their work.

Cook up over 100 mouth-watering ‘Light Bites’ snacks, ‘Fill Me Up’ main courses, and ‘Guilty Pleasures’ sweet dishes using Fairtrade ingredients; from One Pot Chicken to Secret Soup, Simple Mango Sorbet to Marma Banana Crunchies.

ISBN: 9781405 320054 Format: Hardback pp: 224 DK £16.99 Special price in India £9.10 Publication: February 2008

For catalogues and in case of difficulty in obtaining these books, please contact:

Penguin Books India 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi 110 017 Tel: 2649 4401 Fax: 2649 4403 E-mail: penguin@del2.vsnl.net.in http://www.penguinbooksindia.com Published by Mike Bryan on behalf of Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd. Penguin Post is for private circulation only. All specifications including prices are subject to change.

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