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Eveline, a 19-year-old woman who works in a Dublin shop, sits inside her family's house recalling childhood, and of her own plans to leave the country with a man named Frank. Later, gripped by fear of the unknown and probably guilt as well, Eveline finds herself unable to board the ferry to...

‘They can claim to know her because she is unknowable. They see her form because she is formless. They speak her words because she never utters a word.’ This is the story of Ganga, Madri, Pritha and Gandhari: powerful women who, driven by their fears and ambitions, trigger events that lead...

Sea, Salt and Spice is a definitive culinary biography of Mumbai - a city shaped as much appetite as by tides and trade. Long before it became shorthand for ambition, excess and overcrowded trains, Bombay was a porous island city, its kitchens stocked by fishermen, merchants, settlers and empire...

Jack London was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known...

Aditya and Ayesha are a picture perfect couple. He's handsome, young and successful, while she's beautiful, caring and devoted. Aditya's content, but also bored, until he stumbles upon the rabbit-hole that is partner-swapping, and drags her into it with him. When they meet Viren, a charming and poetic man and his bored and frivolous wife Saumya, Aditya begins to fear that he's bitten off more than his ego can chew. It's a question of who has the last laugh, as the swappers battle with the boundaries of possession in a marriage thrown wide open...

The course of this narrative describes the return of a disembodied spirit to earth, and leads the reader on new and strange ground. Not in the obscurity of midnight, but in the searching light of day, did the supernatural influence assert itself...

An 1898 western short story by American author Stephen Crane. The story's protagonist is a Texas marshal named Jack Potter, who is returning to the town of Yellow Sky with his eastern bride. Potter's nemesis, the gunslinger Scratchy Wilson, drunkenly plans to accost the sheriff after he...

From Amartya Sen to Aamir Khan, Raghuram Rajan, Sachin Tendulkar, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Pranab Mukherjee, Arun Jaitley, Nirmala Sitharaman and Sania Mirza among others, in this book eminent journalist Sonia Singh opens a window to the myriad worlds of these stalwarts, who share...

Before the global financial meltdown of 2008, India's economy was thriving and its GDP growth was cruising at an impressive 8.8 per cent. The economic boom impacted a large section of Indians, even if unequally. With sustained high growth over an extended period, India could have achieved what...

Dating is an undeniably daunting task, especially when you're done with casual flings and are looking for the real deal to settle down with. When a 30-something woman signs up on a dating website for people looking to get married, she realizes just how delightful, vexing, amusing and befuddling...