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Title: Dark Circles  Author: Udayan Mukherjee  Publisher : Bloomsbury India  Published on: 1st November 2018 Binding : Hardback ISBN:  9789388134934 "Denial, suppression or forgetting - which game of shadows had the mind resorted to, to shield a twelve-year- old from carrying such an enormous burden? BLURB Can one indiscretion be allowed to scar a family for life? Ronojoy's mother dies alone in the Ashram she had abruptly retreated to twenty-eight years ago, leaving him - then only twelve- to fend for the emotional needs of himself and his six-year-old brother. When the cremation rites are complete, Ronojoy is handed a letter from his mother that is not so much a farewell as a confession. As before, it is left to him to decide whether to share the disturbing contents with his brother, whom he has always sought to protect. Thus, begins another tumultuous cycle in the lives of the two brothers who already carry deep scars from their chil...

Title: Daddykins Author:  Kalpana Mohan Published by: Bloomsbury India Published on: 18th September 2018 Binding:  Paperback ISBN:   9789386349538 BLURB When journalist Kalpana Mohan's elderly father falls ill in Chennai, she is on the next flight over from California and the home she has shared with her husband for three decades. Caring for her sometimes cranky, sometimes playful, and always adored father at his home in Chennai, Mohan sets out to piece together an account of her father's life, from his poverty-stricken childhood in a village in south India, to his arranged marriage, to his first job in the city, all the while coming to terms with his inevitable passing. Mohan's tender, moving, and sometimes hilarious memoir is an account of a changing India captured in her father's life, from the sheer feat of surviving poverty in I920s India of his birth, to witnessing key moments in the nation's history and changing alongside them. Abo...

Title:  Guru  A Long Walk to Success:An Autobiography Author:    Narendra Raval, Kailash Mota Publsiher:  Bloomsbury India Published on:  18-08-2018 Binding:  Papaerback ISBN:  9789387146877 "Nothing is impossible in this world for a willing heart and determined mind. The limitation is in our minds.  BLURB The journey of a boy that began from a little-known village of Mathak in Gujarat, India, culminated in the creation of East Africa's biggest business groups to straddle the industrial world of steel, cement, infrastructure and aviation. This is the inspiring story of Narendra Raval, endearingly known as 'Guru', who began from the most humble beginnings to reach the zenith of his career through tireless hard work, an inherent business acumen and sheer tenacity. His autobiography, in collaboration with his dear friend and colleague, Kailash Mota, traces four decades in the life of Guru Bhai Narendra Raval. I...

Title: All Among The Barley Author: Melissa Harrison Publisher:  Bloomsbury Publishing Published on: 23rd August 2018 Binding:  Paperback ISBN: 9781408897997 The fields were eternal,  our life the only way of things, and I would do whatever was  required of me to protect it. BLURB From the author of Costa-shortlisted and Baileys-longlisted  At Hawthorn Time  comes a major new novel. Set on a farm in Suffolk just before the Second World War, it introduces a girl on the cusp of adulthood.  Fourteen-year-old Edie Mather lives with her family at Wych Farm, where the shadow of the Great War still hangs over a community impoverished by the Great Depression. Glamorous outsider Constance FitzAllen arrives from London, determined to make a record of fading rural traditions and beliefs, and to persuade Edie's family to return to the old ways rather than embrace modernity. She brings with her new political and social ideas –...