Book: Queens of Crime
Author: Anirban Ganguly & Shiwanand Dwivedi
Publisher: Penguin
Dysfunctional families, sexual abuse, sheer greed and sometimes just a skewed moral compass. These are some of the triggers that drove the women captured in these pages to become lawbreakers. Queens of Crime demonstrates a haunting criminal power that most people do not associate women with.
Book: Summoner: The Outcast
Author: Taran Matharu
Publisher: Hachette
If you like Pokemon and wish you went to Hogwarts, you’ll love this fantasy world from Taran Matharu. Arcturus is just an orphaned stable boy when he accidentally summons a demon. As Hominum’s first common summoner, he becomes the key to a secret that the powerful nobility would do anything to keep hidden.
Book: The Good Son
Author: You-Jeong Jeong
Publisher: Hachette
Early one morning,Yu-jin wakes up to a strange metallic smell, and a phone call from his brother asking if everything’s all right at home — he missed a call from their mother in the middle of the night. He soon discovers her body at the bottom of the stairs of their stylish Seoul duplex. And he can’t remember much about the night before…
Book: Kaifi Azmi: Poems/ Nazms
Ed. Trans. By: Sudeep Sen
Publisher: Bloomsbury
This specially curated volume contains 50 carefully chosen poems from his immense oeuvre. It brings together some of the finest translators, poets, scholars, filmmakers — Husain Mir Ali, Baidar Bakht, Sumantra Ghosal, Pritish Nandy, Sudeep Sen (also the editor) — as a team to produce this bilingual collection.
