Showing titles in Contemporary Fiction

'A thrilling work' TA-NEHISI COATES 'Lovely and lyrical . . . warm and wonderful' KILEY REID 'An absolutely brilliant book' SARA COLLINS A queen of punk before her time. A duo on the brink of stardom. A night that will define their story for ever. Opal is a fiercely independent young woman...

A collection of beautiful Ghazals by one of the prominent post-modern poets from India, Nomaan Shauque.

यह उपन्यास सन 1984 से 2016 तक के उत्तराखंड के ताज़ा इतिहास की पृष्ठभूमि में आधुनिक विकास की विसंगति, प्राकृतिक संसाधनों के असीमित दोहन, राजनीति की कुरूपता और गाँवों के उजड़ने की कहानी कहता है। यह उपन्यास ‘चिपको आंदोलन’ के बाद कुमाऊँ में छिड़े जबरदस्त 'नशा नहीं रोजगार दो' आंदोलन से शुरू होता है, जिसमें जनता की, विशेषकर महिलाओं की 'चिपको' जैसी व्यापक भागीदारी थी। उपन्या

When Alice Love surfaces from a beautiful dream to find she's been injured in a gym, she knows that something is very wrong – she hates exercise. Alice's first concern is her baby – she's pregnant with her first child, and she's desperate to see her husband, Nick, who she knows will be worried about her.But Alice isn't pregnant. And Nick isn't worried.

When Tulsi first meets Madhav, she is irrevocably drawn to his chiselled good looks and charm. Although wary of his many dalliances and the string of broken hearts left in his wake, she is surprised by the intense desire that Madhav arouses in her. And before long, she forsakes her family, her...

उपन्यास ‘इश्क़ एक्सप्रेस’ की कहानी सत्य घटनाओं पर आधारित है। लेखक की क़लम से काग़ज़ पर कहानी उतर जाने तक का सफ़र आसान नहीं होता। कुछ की तो ज़िंदगी गुज़र जाती है और फिर भी सफ़र अधूरा ही रह जाता है।

'Evelyn went to the third drawer down in her dresser. It was her drawer of things past ... she had an item from each of her previous lives. Evelyn was good at reinventing herself, becoming who she was going to be next, but she still kept one thing from each life. Never two.' For Evelyn, mornings...

Cynthia Hartwick's lighthearted novel is an irresistible rags-to-riches adventure. Set in Minnesota in 1983, it combines the wry Midwestern humor of Garrison Keillor with the gentleness and warmth of Jan Karon. Its characters, a group of mostly married, mostly middle-aged ladies, will have you...

31-year-old Lee has her dream job at tech startup Everfore—but being the youngest-looking person in the office means she's always fighting to be taken seriously among the bros on her team who treat her more like a kid sister than a colleague. When her boss challenges the team to develop the next viral app for Gen Z, Lee sees her chance to finally shine—even if it means going undercover as a high school student in the process.

अंजली मिश्रा, यह नाम साहित्य जगत में नया है लेकिन इनकी लेखनी विगत कई वर्षों से साहित्य की सेवा में लगी हुई है। विभिन्न समाचार पत्रों में सामाजिक विषयों पर इनके लेख छपते रहते हैं।

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Anne Rice, this sensuously written spellbinding classic remains 'the most successful vampire story since Bram Stoker's Dracula' (The Times) In a darkened room a young man sits telling the macabre and eerie story of his life - the story of a vampire...

संस्मरणात्मक उपन्यास ‘पिताजी और तारीख़’ में न्यायपालिका के साथ-साथ समाज के अन्य हिस्सों में व्याप्त जटिलताओं को सांकेतिक रूप से उजागर करने का छोटा-सा प्रयास हुआ है। हमारे देश में न्यायपालिका की जो स्थिति है, वो पीड़ित वर्ग ही समझ सकता है। जिसे कभी अदालत जाने की आवश्यकता नहीं पड़ी, वह समझ ही नहीं सकता कि तारीख़ क्यों पड़ती है, नज़राना क्यों दिया जाता है, या हाकिम किसे कहते हैं!

Starter for Ten is a comedy about love, class, growing-up and the all-important difference between knowledge and wisdom from the author of the smash hit One Day. It's 1985 and Brian Jackson has arrived at university with a burning ambition – to make it onto TV's foremost general knowledge quiz...

'Uncovidable' tab hota hai, jab ek saahasi mahila ki achhi khasi chal rahi zindagi ko achanak hi rok diya jata hai aur us se kaha jata hai ke Covid 19 mahamari ke karan sampurn desh mein 21 din ka lockdown kiya jaa raha hai , isiliye wo 21 din tak apne ghar se bahar na nikale .

Surreal and splendidly unconventional, The Hearing Trumpet is an apocalyptic fairy-tale quest about an occult old ladies' home and the spry nonagenarian who ends up there. After coming into possession of a hearing trumpet, 92-year-old Marian Leatherby discovers her son's plans to send her to a nursing home. But this is no ordinary place.... Here there are strange rituals, orgiastic nuns, levitating abbesses, animalistic humans, humanistic animals, a search for the Holy Grail, and a plan to escape to Lapland and knit a tent....

From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Orange Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, come twelve dazzling stories in which she turns her penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow and...

What does a bunch of 20-somethings have in common? 1. A plan for how their lives will shape up in regards their careers, passions, dreams, love or sex. 2. A plan for completing the above plan. Not if you are Vik or belong to his friend circle. Life here is anything but a plan. Here ideas for life are scoffed at, dreams never appear in their long slumber and having fun and being laidback is considered to be an 'in' thing.

Now a major motion picture starring Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, Will Poulter and Charlotte Rampling, and directed by Lenny Abrahamson. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 'Sarah Waters's masterly novel is . . . gripping, confident, unnerving and supremely entertaining' Hilary Mantel After...

In an age where gods whisper through prophecy and kings shape destiny with steel, the world stands on the brink of ruin. A seer's vision fractures fate itself. Two children are born under the same celestial mark, both touched by divinity, yet one is destined for Dharma and the other for Adharma. As empires tremble and loyalties collapse, one truth becomes clear, the gods are no longer guiding mankind, they are testing it.

A compassionate and surprisingly funny novel that is impossible to put down and even harder to forget, from the award-winning author of Islands. Meg and Nina are two sisters living very different lives. Meg is super organised and possibly OCD; Nina is so depressed she is living like a homeless...