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The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World
₨2,795.00A brand new book from the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads’Masterly mapping out of a new world order’ – Evening Standard Revised and updated editionThe New Silk Roads takes a fresh look at the relationships being formed along the length and breadth of the ancient trade routes today. The world is changing dramatically and in an age of Brexit and Trump, the themes of isolation and fragmentation permeating the western world stand in sharp contrast to events along the Silk Roads, where ties are being strengthened and mutual cooperation established.This prescient contemporary history provides a timely reminder that we live in a world that is profoundly interconnected. Following the Silk Roads eastwards from Europe through to China, by way of Russia and the Middle East, Peter Frankopan assesses the global reverberations of continual shifts in the centre of power – all too often absent from headlines in the west. The New Silk Roads asks us to re-examine who we are and where we stand in the world, illuminating the themes on which all our lives and livelihoods depend. The Silk Roads, a major reassessment of world history, has sold over 1 million copies worldwide.
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Pakistan: A Kaleidoscope of Islam
₨3,495.00This collection of essays brings together two sets of articles and book chapters by Mariam Abou Zahab, the extraordinary late scholar of Islam in South Asia. The first part of the volume examines Shia?Sunni relations in Pakistan, while the second concerns violent Islamism in the country, covering both the Talibanisation of the Pashtun belt and the jihadi dimension of South Asian Salafism. Throughout these texts, Abou Zahab explores the many reasons why Pakistan has been the crucible of political Islam. She offers a historical view of this development, factoring in the impact of colonialism and conflict, including the Soviet-Afghan War and the post-9/11 Western military operations in Afghanistan. While making clear the major importance of these external influences, from Saudi Arabia and Iran to the US, she also places Pakistan’s political Islam in the context of local cultures, mobilising her anthropological erudition without ever indulging in culturalism. Finally, she emphasises the sociological determinants of sectarianism, Talibanism and jihadism, as well as the political economy of these ideologies. Abou Zahab’s knowledge is exhaustive, but in these papers she offers an elegant synthesis in which each word matters. This volume is indispensable for understanding the present dynamics of Pakistan.
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After You: Jojo Moyes
₨2,095.00A beautiful love story that will make you both laugh and cry. . .’Matches Me Before You. Funny, sad and wise, you’ll be using a hankie as a bookmark’ Mail on Sunday___________ Lou Clark has lots of questions . . .Like how it is she’s ended up working in an airport bar, spending every shift watching other people jet off to new places.Or why the flat she’s owned for a year still doesn’t feel like home.Whether her close-knit family can forgive her for what she did eighteen months ago.And will she ever get over the love of her life.What Lou does know for certain is that something has to change.Then, one night, it does.But does the stranger on her doorstep hold the answers Lou is searching for – or just more questions?Close the door and life continues: simple, ordered, safe.Open it and she risks everything.But Lou once made a promise to live. And if she’s going to keep it, she has to invite them in . . .If you loved After You, discover where the love story began in Me Before You, and find out what Lou Clark does next in Still Me – out now! __________’This beautiful story is perfect. Will have you brimming with tears and grinning in equal measure. L-O-V-E’ Closer’Moyes totally delivers. With its twisty plot, characters you fall in love with, weepy bits and witty bits, this is pretty much perfect’ Glamour ‘Wonderfully warm. Moyes manages to break your heart before restoring your faith in love. Unputdownable’ Sunday Express’Classic Jojo – fans will love it’ Heat’Satisfyingly brilliant’ Sun’I read this in one sitting. It is impossible not to root for Lou’ Stylist
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Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984 (Penguin Modern Classics)
₨0.00‘Foucault leaves no reader untouched or unchanged’ Edward SaidAesthetics, the second volume of the complete collection of Michel Foucault’s courses, articles and interviews, focuses on the philosophy, literature and art which informed his engagement with ethics and power, including brilliant commentaries on the work of de Sade, Rousseau, Marx, Magritte, Nietzsche, Freud and Wagner. He also explores a number of avant-garde authors who challenge our traditional notions of humanism, extends his theories on power relations and looks back over the whole of his extraordinary ‘critical history of thought’.Edited by James D. FaubionTranslated by Robert Hurley and Others
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A Feast For Crows: A Song Of Ice And Fire (Book 4)
₨2,495.00A Feast For Crows: A Song Of Ice And Fire (Book 4)-The New York Times Best Sellers are up-to-date and authoritative lists of the most popular books in the United States, based on sales in the past week.
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Cheer Up Love: Adventures in depression with the Crab of Hate
₨0.00‘DEEPLY HONEST, SURPRISINGLY HILARIOUS AND UPLIFTING’ The Pool ‘HEART-WARMING: UNMISSABLE’ Damian Barr, Metro Susan Calman is a much-loved comedian and writer who has appeared on countless radio and television programmes from The News Quiz and Just a Minute to Armchair Detectives and Secret Scotland. She’s hosted the podcast Mrs Brightside and stole the nation’s hearts in Strictly Come Dancing. Her breakout solo stand up show, Susan Calman is Convicted, dealt with subjects like the death penalty, appearance and depression. It was the overwhelming and positive reaction to the show she wrote about mental health that made Susan want to write a more detailed account of surviving depression when you’re the world’s most negative and anxious person. The Crab of Hate is the personification of Calman’s depression and her version of the notorious Black Dog. A constant companion all her life, the Crab has provided her with the best, and very worst of times. This is a very personal and affecting memoir of how, after many years and with a lot of help and talking, Susan has embraced her dark side and realised that she can be the most joyous sad person you’ll ever meet. CHEER UP LOVE IS FUNNY, POIGNANT AND (HOPEFULLY) INFORMATIVE.IT’S ALWAYS GOOD TO TALK AND TO REALISE YOU ARE NOT ALONE. *If you loved Cheer Up Love, try Sunny Side Up, Susan’s Calmanifesto of Happiness*
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Disney Mini Character – Simba
₨0.00A shaped mini board book featuring Disney favourite, Simba from The Lion King. Easy to hold with simple wording, these hard-wearing books are perfect to entertain little learners. Part of a range of 12 collectible books, each features a different strong early learning concept. All include beautiful colour illustrations with eye-catching character covers, creating a lovely set.
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Come Back to Me (A Seal Island novel): A gripping love story from the author of THE ITALIAN VILLA
₨1,475.00From the bestselling author of WATCH OVER ME, Daniela Sacerdoti’s latest Seal Island novel is a romantic, moving and uplifting story of three different lives, connected by a thread.** Over 1 million copies sold of Daniela Sacerdoti’s novels **Three separate lives. Three broken hearts. Haunted by his wife’s death, Matt arrives on Seal Island determined to be alone and unable to escape his grief. In the island’s hospital, a young woman named Rose lies in a coma, trapped by the memories of events leading up to her accident. Grace, the island’s doctor, is at the heart of the community. Only she knows how much she regrets turning down the chance of love and a family years ago. For these three people hope seems gone. But life is about to offer an unexpected new beginning… Readers adore the captivating novels of Daniela Sacerdoti ‘A love story that will satisfy even the most hopeless romantics’ Daily Express ‘Beautifully written and atmospheric’ The Sun ‘A great book’ Lesley Pearse ‘Emotional. I couldn’t put it down’ Daily Mail ‘I fell in love with this book’ Prima magazine
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The Timbuktu School for Nomads: Lessons from the People of the Desert
₨1,475.00The Sahara: a dream-like, far away landscape of Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, The English Patient and Star Wars, and home to nomadic communities whose ways of life stretch back millennia. Today it’s a teeth-janglingly dangerous destination, where the threat of jihadists lurks just over the horizon. Following in the footsteps of 16th century traveller Leo Africanus, Nicholas Jubber went on a turbulent adventure to the forgotten places of North Africa and the legendary Timbuktu.Once the seat of African civilization and home to the richest man who ever lived, this mythic city is now scarred by terrorist occupation and is so remote its own inhabitants hail you with the greeting, ‘Welcome to the middle of nowhere’. From the cattle markets of the Atlas, across the Western Sahara and up the Niger river, Nicholas joins the camps of the Tuareg, Fulani, Berbers, and other communities, to learn about their craft, their values and their place in the world.The Timbuktu School for Nomads is a unique look at a resilient city and how the nomads pit ancient ways of life against the challenges of the 21st century.
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The Solid Mandala
₨375.00This is the story of two people living one life. Arthur and Waldo Brown were born twins and destined never to to grow away from each other. They spent their childhood together. Their youth together. Middle-age together. Retirement together. They even shared the same girl. They shared everything – except their view of things. Waldo, with his intelligence, saw everything and understood little. Arthur was the fool who didn’t bother to look. He understood.
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The Lowland
₨845.00SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2013 From Subhash’s earliest memories, at every point, his brother was there. In the suburban streets of Calcutta where they wandered before dusk and in the hyacinth-strewn ponds where they played for hours on end, Udayan was always in his older brother’s sight. So close in age, they were inseparable in childhood and yet, as the years pass – as U.S tanks roll into Vietnam and riots sweep across India – their brotherly bond can do nothing to forestall the tragedy that will upend their lives. Udayan – charismatic and impulsive – finds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and poverty. He will give everything, risk all, for what he believes, and in doing so will transform the futures of those dearest to him.
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The Beautiful and Damned: Scott F. Fitzgerald
₨0.00Anthony Patch and Gloria Gibson are the golden children of the Jazz Age. They marry and embark on a life of glittering parties, lavish expenditure and scandalous revelry. When the money dries up their marriage founders. In this wistful novel Fitzgerald portrays the decline of youthful promise with devastating clarity.
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Sophie’s World: 20th Anniversary Edition
₨2,295.00The international bestseller about life, the universe and everything.When 14-year-old Sophie encounters a mysterious mentor who introduces her to philosophy, mysteries deepen in her own life. Why does she keep getting postcards addressed to another girl? Who is the other girl? And who, for that matter, is Sophie herself? To solve the riddle, she uses her new knowledge of philosophy, but the truth is far stranger than she could have imagined.An addictive blend of mystery, philosophy and fantasy, Sophie’s World is an international phenomenon which has been translated into 60 languages and sold more than 40 million copies.
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The Heart is a Noisy Room: Your inner voices, why they matter ? and how to win them over
₨0.00Your heart, my heart, everyone’s heart, is a noisy room full of voices. These voices can come deep from childhood, or from our culture, or from habits embraced in adulthood. These voices run our lives. They can even ruin them. But if we face them, they can also save us.We all have inner stories we tell ourselves – voices that seem inseparable from who we are. They can be crushingly negative, telling us we’ll never amount to anything. Or they can be positive – and keep us addicted to achievement. Either way, if we stay oblivious to them, these inner voices will run our lives. But when we know how to relate to them, they can become our friends and our guides.In this ruthlessly practical and inspiringly visionary book, Ronald Boyd-MacMillan teaches us how to identify our inner voices – whether negative or positive – and gives us five tools to engage with them, leading us into lives of deeper freedom, fullness and joy.
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: The genre-defining thriller that introduced the world to Lisbeth Salander (Millennium)
₨1,975.00***********************The phenomenal international bestseller – 100 million copies of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series sold worldwide.One of the Bookseller’s 30 most influential books of the last 30 years.”What a cracking novel! I haven’t read such a stunning thriller debut for years. Brilliantly written and totally gripping” Minette WaltersWith an Introduction by Val McDermidForty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder – and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet’s disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history. But the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.Stieg Larsson’s groundbreaking trilogy is continued in The Girl in the Spider’s Web, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye and The Girl Who Lived Twice by David Lagercrantz
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The Essence of Zen
₨775.00Drawing on his knowledge and long practice of Buddhism, the author reflects on four lines representing fundamental principles of the Zen or Ch’an school of Buddhism: “A special transmission outside the scriptures”, “No dependence on words and letters”, “Direct pointing to the mind”, and “Seeing into one’s own nature and realizing Buddhahood”. He sets out to communicate the essence of each, and to indicate how its meaning can be applied to Western conditions.
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Who Was Napoleon?
₨945.00Learn more about Napoleon Bonaparte, the decorated French military leader who conquered much of Europe in the early nineteenth century. Born in the Mediterranean island of Corsica, Napoleon Bonaparte felt like an outsider once his family moved to France. But he found his life’s calling after graduating from military school. Napoleon went on to become a brilliant military strategist and the emperor of France. In addition to greatly expanding the French empire, Napoleon also created many laws, which are still encoded in legal systems around the world.
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Winter Without You: The heartwarming and emotional read
₨1,175.00‘This book is perfect for a winter afternoon when you need something to cheer you up. It’s cozy, heartwarming, and enjoyable’ Anna, NetGalley reviewerA cosy winter romance to warm you heart, perfect for fans of Heidi Swain and Lucy Diamond After the death of her boyfriend, Hannah Clitheroe is hiding away from the world. But when she discovers she’s inherited a house in Cornwall, she makes the move to the small, cosy town of Pethporro.Her estranged grandmother lived in Kernow House for years, but Hannah soon realises someone else thinks it’s rightfully theirs: Raphael Tregar, a difficult yet incredibly handsome man who quickly gets under her skin.As winter sets in, there’s one thing for certain: she won’t be spending this Christmas alone… See what REAL READERS are saying about Winter Without You: ‘If you want a quality romance with a difference this is it.’ Michelle, NetGalley reviewer’One of my favourite authors – a warm hug of a book, perfect for those cold winter days, it is heartwarming, funny in places, with hints of romance … I would have happily read this in one sitting, and was sorely tempted to’ – Rachel Gilbey, Rachel’s Random Reads’Charming, poignant and absolutely magical’ Julie, NetGalley reviewer’It’s a warm and comforting hug of a book and I loved it’ Jo, NetGalley reviewer’Filled with all of the magic and sparkle of the festive season. This is a Christmas book not to be missed.’ Karen, NetGalley reviewer
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The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google
₨1,495.00For all that?s been written about the Four over the last two decades, no one has captured their power and staggering success as insightfully as Scott Galloway. Instead of buying the myths these compa?nies broadcast, Galloway asks fundamental questions. How did the Four infiltrate our lives so completely that they?re almost impossible to avoid (or boycott)? Why does the stock market forgive them for sins that would destroy other firms? And as they race to become the world?s first trillion-dollar company, can anyone chal?lenge them? In the same irreverent style that has made him one of the world?s most celebrated business professors, Galloway deconstructs the strategies of the Four that lurk beneath their shiny veneers. He shows how they manipulate the fundamental emotional needs that have driven us since our ancestors lived in caves, at a speed and scope others can?t match. And he reveals how you can apply the lessons of their ascent to your own business or career. Whether you want to compete with them, do business with them, or simply live in the world they dominate, you need to understand the Four.
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Summer Days at Sunrise Farm: the charming and romantic holiday read (Animal Ark Revisited)
₨0.00**Christmas at Silver Dale, the new book in the Animal Ark revisited series, is currently available for pre-order!**A romantic and charming holiday read from the Animal Ark Revisited series, featuring the series’ original characters. The perfect summer read for fans of Cathy Bramley and Heidi Swain.****Summer has arrived in Welford, but does a new season mean new beginnings?Veterinary nurse Helen Steer adores her job at Animal Ark, and with the summer ahead things couldn’t be better.That is until her best friend goes travelling, leaving Helen unexpectedly jealous and questioning her own stable life with her boyfriend Seb. Charming new vet Toby Gordon, with his flirtatious wit and mysterious family background, suddenly seems a much more exciting prospect. But just as Helen and Toby’s friendship starts to become something more, Sunrise Farm, the beautiful fruit farm where Helen lives, is hit by crisis leaving its future in the balance. Along with her friends Mandy and James, who put aside their own problems to help, Helen throws everything she has into saving her home.Though with so much at stake, is there time to think about a new relationship? Or will Helen be forced to let her second chance at love slip away?Praise for the Animal Ark Revisited series:’A stunning, emotional, beautiful tale of friendship, love, and the importance of being who you need to be. I laughed, I cried, and I became completely ensnared, and I cannot recommend it highly enough – it really has got it all!!’ Books of All Kinds’An adorable read [with] a real sense of village community’ Bookworms and Shutterbugs’Just the right amount of nostalgia… wonderful and very poignant’ The World is a Book Blog’An incredibly lovely story’ Rachel’s Random Reads’A lovely story of what it’s like to be working with animals and travelling around the beautiful Yorkshire countryside’ Jaffareadstoo’The romance, tragedy and drama play[s] out alongside some deeply poignant animal stories…an absolute must read for animal lovers’ The Book Bag
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Bargain from the Bazaar: A Family’s Day of Reckoning in Lahore
₨800.00Awais Reza is a shopkeeper in Lahore’s Anarkali Bazaar,the largest open market in South Asia,whose labyrinthine streets teem with shoppers, rickshaws, and cacophonous music.But Anarkali’s exuberant hubbub cannot conceal the fact that Pakistan is a country at the edge of a precipice. In recent years, the easy sociability that had once made up this vibrant community has been replaced with doubt and fear. Old-timers like Awais, who inherited his shop from his father and hopes one day to pass it on to his son, are being shouldered aside by easy money, discount stores, heroin peddlers, and the tyranny of fundamentalists.Every night before Awais goes to bed, he plugs in his cell phone and hopes. He hopes that the city will not be plunged into a blackout, that the night will remain calm, that the following morning will bring affluent and happy customers to his shop and, most of all, that his three sons will safely return home. Each of the boys, though, has a very different vision of their, and Pakistan’s, future.The Bargain from the Bazaar,the product of eight years of field research,is an intimate window onto ordinary middle-class lives caught in the maelstrom of a nation falling to pieces. It’s an absolutely compelling portrait of a family at risk,from a violently changing world on the outside and a growing terror from within.
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Tattoo Designs (Creative Moments)
₨0.00Immerse yourself in the world of tattoos with Tattoo Colouring Book. Whether you’re a complete tattoo novice or covered in ink, you’ll love colouring in these impressive illustrations. Full of skulls, tribal patterns, roses, birds and more, this creative colouring book, designed specifically for adults, is a brilliant gift and perfect for those wishing to nurture their artistic talents.
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Time Of Contempt: Witcher Series (Book 2)
₨1,855.00Time Of Contempt: Witcher Series (Book 2)-The New York Times Best Sellers are up-to-date and authoritative lists of the most popular books in the United States, based on sales in the past week.
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Virgo: The Art of Living Well and Finding Happiness According to Your Star Sign
₨0.00You are a Virgo. You are the perfectionist and writer of the zodiac.The signs of the zodiac can give us great insight into our day-to-day living as well as the many talents and qualities we possess. But in an increasingly unpredictable world, how can we make sense of them? And what do they mean? This insightful and introductory guide delves deep into your star sign, revealing unique traits and meanings which you didn’t know. Along the way, you will discover how your sign defies your compatibility, how to improve your health and what your gifts are. ***The Pocket Astrology series will teach you how to live well and enhance every aspect of your life. From friendship to compatibility, careers to finance, you will discover new elements to your sign and learn about the ancient art of astrology. Other books in the series include: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius,Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces
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The Woman in Black
₨0.00The Classic English Ghost StoryArthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh House. The house stands at the end of a causeway, wreathed in fog and mystery, but it is not until he glimpses a wasted young woman, dressed all in black, at the funeral, that a creeping sense of unease begins to take hold, a feeling deepened by the reluctance of the locals to talk of the woman in black and her terrible purpose.
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The Most Fun We Ever Had: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020
₨1,295.00‘A literary love child of Jonathan Franzen and Anne Tyler … an outstanding debut, assured and highly enjoyable’ Observer’Should appeal to fans of Maria Semple, Emma Straub and Jennifer Egan … A moving, immersive, often very funny study of family and sisterhood’ Sunday Times’As good as Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections or Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad; it is almost impossible to believe that it is a debut. The Most Fun We Ever Had is as good as books come’ Telegraph’Like Meg Wolitzer. A forensic dissection of family past and present, I loved it. If you like reading about relationships, this one is for you.’ Pandora Sykes MEET THE SORENSON FAMILYMARILYN has somehow fallen into motherhood and spent four decades married toDAVID, who’s pretty certain he loves her more than anyone has ever loved another person.WENDY, their eldest, a cause for concern, soothes herself with drink after being widowed young,while VIOLET, lawyer-turned-stay-at-home-mother, is disturbed by the reappearance of a son placed for adoption fifteen years earlier.LIZA, a professor, is pregnant with a baby she’s not sure she wants by a man she’s not sure she lovesand GRACE, their dawdling youngest daughter, lives a lie that no one in her family suspects. ‘A gripping and poignant ode to a messy, loving family in all its glory’ Madeline Miller, author of Circe and The Song of Achilles’Everything about this brilliant debut cuts deep: the humor, the wisdom, the pathos’ Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers
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The Mirror and the Light: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 (The Wolf Hall Trilogy)
₨3,145.00Shortlisted for the Women?s Prize for Fiction 2020Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020The long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel?s Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy.?A masterpiece? Guardian?It is a book not read, but lived? Telegraph?Her Cromwell novels are, for my money, the greatest English novels of this century? Observer?If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it??England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith?s son from Putney emerges from the spring?s bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour.Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry?s regime to breaking point, Cromwell?s robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin? Do the dead continually unbury themselves? What will you do, the Spanish ambassador asks Cromwell, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him?With The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man?s vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage.
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The Next Person You Meet in Heaven: A gripping and life-affirming novel from a globally bestselling author
₨2,275.00‘Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary’ – Cecilia AhernFifteen years ago, in Mitch Albom’s beloved novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, the world fell in love with Eddie, a grizzled war veteran- turned-amusement park mechanic who died saving the life of a young girl named Annie. Eddie’s journey to heaven taught him that every life matters. Now, in this magical sequel, Mitch Albom reveals Annie’s story.———————————————‘No act done for someone else is ever wasted…’The accident that killed Eddie left an indelible mark on Annie. It took her left hand, which needed to be surgically reattached. Injured, scarred, and unable to remember why, Annie’s life is forever changed by a guilt-ravaged mother who whisks her away from the world she knew. Bullied by her peers and haunted by something she cannot recall, Annie struggles to find acceptance as she grows. When, as a young woman, she reconnects with Paulo, her childhood love, she believes she has finally found happiness.As the novel opens, Annie is marrying Paulo. But when her wedding night day ends in an unimaginable accident, Annie finds herself on her own heavenly journey – and an inevitable reunion with Eddie, one of the five people who will show her how her life mattered in ways she could not have fathomed.Poignant and beautiful, filled with unexpected twists, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven reminds us that not only does every life matter, but that every ending is also a beginning – we only need to open our eyes to see it.*********’Mitch Albom lifts us to a new level …’ – FRANK MCCOURT, AUTHOR OF ANGELA’S ASHES’Simply told, sentimental and profoundly true’ – PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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Science and Islam (Icon Science): A History
₨0.00Long before the European Enlightenment, scholars and researchers working from Samarkand in modern-day Uzbekistan to Cordoba in Spain advanced our knowledge of astronomy, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, medicine and philosophy. From Musa al-Khwarizmi who developed algebra in 9th century Baghdad to al-Jazari, a 13th-century Turkish engineer whose achievements include the crank, the camshaft and the reciprocating piston,? Ehsan Masood tells the amazing story of one of history?s most misunderstood yet rich and fertile periods in science, via the scholars, research, and science of the Islamic empires of the middle ages.
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Ottoman Odyssey: Travels through a Lost Empire: Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award
₨1,545.00**SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR**Alev Scott’s odyssey began when she looked beyond Turkey’s borders for contemporary traces of the Ottoman Empire. Their 800-year rule ended a century ago – and yet, travelling through twelve countries from Kosovo to Greece to Palestine, she uncovers a legacy that’s vital and relevant; where medieval ethnic diversity meets 21st century nationalism, and displaced people seek new identities.It’s a story of surprises. An acolyte of Erdogan in Christian-majority Serbia confirms the wide-reaching appeal of his authoritarian leadership. A Druze warlord explains the secretive religious faction in the heart of the Middle East. The palimpsest-like streets of Jerusalem’s Old Town hint at the Ottoman co-existence of Muslims and Jews. And in Turkish Cyprus Alev Scott rediscovers a childhood home. In every community, history is present as a dynamic force.Faced by questions of exile, diaspora and collective memory, Alev Scott searches for answers from the cafes of Beirut to the refugee camps of Lesbos. She uncovers in Erdogan’s nouveau-Ottoman Turkey a version of the nostalgic utopias sold to disillusioned voters in Europe and the U.S. And yet – as she relates with compassion, insight and humour – diversity is the enduring, endangered heart of this fascinating region.
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Kartography
₨2,195.00Shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys PrizeBy the acclaimed winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2018Soul mates from birth, Karim and Raheen finish one another’s sentences, speak in anagrams and lie spine to spine. They are irrevocably bound to one another and to Karachi, Pakistan. It beats in their hearts – violent, polluted, corrupt, vibrant, brave and ultimately, home. As the years go by they let a barrier of silence build between them until, finally, they are brought together during a dry summer of strikes and ethnic violence and their relationship is poised between strained friendship and fated love.
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Love at Second Sight (Volume 1)
₨0.00Unlucky in love Jo is dragged along to see a clairvoyant by her two coupled-up best friends, and is told that there’s only one boy for her. The trouble is, the last time she saw him was in a past life, when she worked as a governess to his younger brother. The clairvoyant tells her that as she is back in this life, so is he, and she must find him if she is ever to know true happiness and love. Jo doesn’t believe a word of it – but then a series of events begin to change her mind. Could her one true love reallybe out there? In her quest to find the One, she visits psychics and cemeteries – but will she even be able to recognize her soul-mate when she finds him? Or is she destined to continue looking for love for all of time?
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Fleishman Is in Trouble: Soon to be a major TV series starring Claire Danes & Jesse Eisenberg
₨1,245.00A BLISTERING SATIRICAL NOVEL ABOUT MARRIAGE, DIVORCE AND MODERN RELATIONSHIPS, BY ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING NEW VOICES IN AMERICAN FICTIONTHE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER’This is the novel of the summer . . . There is no one that this book isn’t for. I can’t believe it’s a first novel. Pure brilliance’ INDIA KNIGHT, THE SUNDAY TIMES’Could be one of the books of my entire lifetime. I’ve never felt so seen’ GRACE DENT, GUARDIAN’Sharp and wicked, insightful and funny, and then suddenly so touching’ DAVID NICHOLLS’This book is a work of utter perfection’ ELIZABETH GILBERTFinally free from his nightmare marriage, Toby Fleishman is ready for a life of online dating and weekend-only parental duties. But as he optimistically looks to a future that is wildly different from the one he imagined, his life turns upside-down as his ex-wife, Rachel, suddenly disappears.While Toby tries to find out what happened – juggling work, kids and his new, app-assisted sexual popularity – his tidy narrative of a spurned husband is his sole consolation. But if he ever wants to really understand where Rachel went and what really happened to his marriage, he is going to have to consider that he might not have seen it all that clearly in the first place . . .WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE:’So sharp’ GUARDIAN’The most astonishingly brilliant Trojan horse of a novel’ DOLLY ALDERTON’Wonderful. Utterly blistering . . . A wildly entertaining, moving story’ MARIAN KEYES’Brimming with wisdom and utterly of this moment . . . Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s debut is that rare and delicious treat: a page turner with heft’ MARIA SEMPLE ‘It is a Great Novel . . . It has depth, wit, nuance and life. Heartbreaking and funny’ NIGELLA LAWSONLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDALSHORTLISTED FOR THE FICTION: D?BUT BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDSRUNNER-UP FOR THE MCKITTERICK PRIZE 2020FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE/JOHN LEONARD AWARD FOR BEST FIRST BOOK
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Cool Machines: Ten Diggers and Digging Machines
₨975.00Ten cool machines for machine mad kids.There are lots of ways machines can be cool. They can be the biggest, the smallest, the tallest, the longest and even the noisiest. Machine mad kids will love pouring over the details of the ten awesome machines in each book. Fantastic Five stat panels give the scoop on what makes these machines tick and key design features are highlighted to help you earn something new about your favourite diggers, tractors, trucks ad emergency vehicles.Perfect for readers who can’t get enough of books about machines, but who have outgrown the simple picture books aimed at a much younger level. Those who are beginning to read by themselves will find the text fun to read and accessible.For children aged 5+
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald ? Magical Adventure Colouring Book
₨2,095.00Share the adventures of Newt Scamander, Tina, Queenie & Jacob as they face off against the dark ambitions of the wizard Grindelwald in this third official tie-in colouring book showcasing the most iconic scenes from J.K. Rowling?s Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald?accompanied by memorable quotes from the film.Filled with dazzling drawings to colour, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald: Magical Adventure Colouring Book irresistibly draws you into J. K. Rowling?s enchanting world once again from MACUSA to London, from Hogwarts to Paris. It leads you on a colouring adventure through the story, capturing the most magical and exciting scenes, including characters, locations and beasts available nowhere else, and takes colouring books to the next level with a special poster that unfolds into one gigantic colouring page. With Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald: Magical Adventure Colouring Book you can paint the wizarding world in a new palette all of your own choosing!
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Maybe This Time
₨0.00The deliciously uplifting new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of THIS COULD CHANGE EVERYTHING. Not to be missed by readers of Lucy Diamond and Katie Fforde. Mimi isn’t looking for love when she spends a weekend in Goosebrook, the Cotswolds village her dad has moved to. And her first encounter with Cal, who lives there too, is nothing like a scene in a romantic movie – although she can’t help noticing how charismatic he is. But Cal’s in no position to be any more than a friend, and Mimi heads back to her busy London life.When they meet again four years later, it’s still not to be. Cal is focusing on his family, and Mimi on her career. Then Cal dives into a potentially perfect new romance whilst Mimi’s busy fixing other people’s relationships. It seems as if something, or someone else, always gets in their way. Will it ever be the right time for both of them?’The queen of witty, heart-warming, feel-good love stories’ Red
