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Inspired by George Orwell's Animal Farm and the international bestseller Our Iceberg is Melting, How Stella Saved the Farm is a simple parable about embracing change and managing innovation in difficult times. Bankruptcy, or the grim prospect of being acquired by a hostile human competitor...

Rustom Iraqiwalla, a once-rich, green-eyed Parsi man, is all set to blow his brains out at his best friend's wedding. Debt ridden and marked by the Mafia, this is the only way he can secure his family's future and atone for all the rotten choices he has made in his life. This extraordinary situation comes by way of his grandfather Fali's last will that states Rustom shall inherit the family fortune if he kills himself in a public place with the former's eponymous gun.

A bracing meditation on fame and celebrity, and the redemptive, healing power of art; a portrait of the ravages of disappointment and divorce; a poignant consideration of the rites of fatherhood and manhood; a novel soaked in rage and sex, longing and despair; and a passionate love letter to the world of theatre, A Bright Ray of Darkness showcases Ethan Hawke's gifts as a novelist as never before.

A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony, Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, and a private defence contractor who is also his close friend. So...

The scene of this entertaining story is laid in a charming English village. The plot centres round Miss Barbara Buncle, a maiden lady who was obliged to write a book because – as she naively explained – her dividends were so poor. Unfortunately, Miss Buncle had no imagination, so she wrote about her friends – quite kindly and truthfully, of course, for she was a benevolent and veracious soul.

The irrepressible Russell "Buffy" Buffery has upped sticks from London and moved to Knockton, Powys, to a B&B inherited from an old flame. With his future spread before him, and a string of failed marriages behind him, Buffy decides it's time for a new challenge. Meanwhile: Harold's wife has run off with a younger woman leaving him alone with his as-yet-unwritten novel narrated by Mary Pickford's cat; Amy's weedy boyfriend has turned out to be not so needy after all; and Andy's partner's corset-and-suspender-clad attempts at seduction are having anything but the desired effect.

Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic. Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a...

If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah thought, she would be more careful not to trudge through muddy fields. It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and Sarah's hands are chapped and bleeding. Domestic life below stairs, ruled tenderly and forcefully by...

New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips magic is vibrantly alive, and it's on display in This Heart of Mine, the fifth book in her wildly popular Chicago Stars series! Molly Somerville loves her career as the creator of the Daphne the Bunny children's book series, but the rest...

‘जिन कहानियों में प्यार बेइंतहा होता है, उन कहानियों की एक दूसरी दुनिया होती है’ ‘दूसरी दुनिया’ बस एक किताब नहीं है जिसे सिर्फ़ पढ़ा जाना चाहिए, बल्कि यह इस बात का प्रमाण है कि सच्चे प्रेमी कभी मरते नहीं। वैसे ही जैसे लैला-मजनू, हीर-रांझा, रोमियो-जूलियट आज भी ज़िंदा हैं।

Helen Grant is a mystery to her daughter. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong places; a twice-divorced mother-of-two now living alone surrounded by her memories, Helen (known to her acquaintances as 'Hen') has always haunted Bridget. Now, Bridget is an academic in her forties. She sees Helen once a year, and considers the problem to be contained. As she looks back on their tumultuous relationship - the performances and small deceptions - she tries to reckon with the cruelties inflicted on both sides. But when Helen makes it clear that she wants more, it seems an old struggle will have to be replayed.

Being immortal isn't all it's cracked up to be. Life's hard for a Greek god in the 21st century: Nobody believes in you any more, even your own family doesn't respect you, and you're stuck in a dilapidated hovel in North London with too many siblings and not enough hot water.

Birth & Death... A painful death and a creation of life from pain such is the cycle of nature! Ramji's soul, his son, has been taken away by destiny. Ramji is fighting his pain...forgetting his own loss, the environment, the rains... this is a very touching story!! A masterpiece from Di Ba Mokashi.

अंदर के सफे जिस कालिख से रंगे हैं, उसमें ज़िन्दगी के कई रंग दर्ज हैंमसलन ये किताब कई बच्चों के गुम पैरों की कहानी हैकिसी के धुएँ के चोरी हो जाने की, उबरते सायों की, किसी मोटू कीकिसी खिड़की की, किसी अधूरी नींद की, उल्टे की, सीधे कीइन

डिप्रेशन, अवसाद, एंग्ज़ाइटी और मानसिक रोग हमारे समय के सबसे ख़तरनाक शब्द हैं। भीड़ जितनी बढ़ती जा रही है, अकेलापन भी उसी अनुपात में बढ़ता जा रहा है।

Isabel Dalhousie - philosopher, mother and friend - is taking on the mammoth task of hosting her school reunion. In the hours before 25 former classmates descend on her home and the caterers arrive to set up a buffet, Isabel has time to reflect. She is mindful of the fact that reunions can bring up all sorts of uncomfortable feelings. Later that night, with the party in full swing, Isabel realises that the pull of the past remains as strong as ever.

Summer in Edinburgh is a season of delicate sunshine and showers, picnics with loved ones in blossoming gardens and genteel celebrations of art and music. But Isabel Dalhousie's peaceful idyll is broken when a single meeting over coffee with fellow philosopher Dr George McLeod brings an irate phone call from his wife, Roz, who implacably accuses Isabel of conducting an affair with her husband.

Tender, magical and captivating – a story of family, friends, and the unlikeliest of romances . . . Elizabeth’s sister Saoirse is a red-haired whirlwind, always leavng behind pieces that Elizabeth struggles to pick up. One of these pieces is Saoirse’s 6-year-old son Luke, a quiet...

Yashodhara, a quick-tempered gal from the big city, is hitched to Vijay, a laid-back desi boy from a small town in one word: trouble! The young couple must learn to adjust to married life and to each other, whether it is Yashodhara's temper tantrums or Vijay's foot-in-mouth syndrome, with a little help from their idiosyncratic staff Zarreena and Vinod, their nutty friend Vivi, and, of course, their respective families.

Questo libro, pubblicato nel 1928, a conclusione di un lungo corso di studi danteschi, dimostra che, secondo l'esempio della poesia persiana, anche in Italia sotto la poesia d'amore era nascosto un segreto linguaggio mistico e iniziatico. Si tratta di conoscere il vero contenuto spirituale della poesia d'amore italiana: si tratta di sapere se la nostra letteratura, accusata di erotismo e di freddezza religiosa, non abbia invece vissuto per più di un secolo proprio di appassionate idee mistiche espresse sotto il velo dell'amore.