Novels

Applause Entertainment acquires rights to six novels of Jeffrey Archer

Applause Entertainment has acquired the rights to six novels by Jeffrey Archer for adaptation into films and series. The acquisition marks the company's first global fiction book venture

'The Eleventh Hour': Salman Rushdie's story collection to release on Nov 4

Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie is set to return with a new work of fiction, "The Eleventh Hour", his first since the release of "Victor City" in 2023, Penguin Random House India (PRHI) announced on Thursday. The collection of stories, scheduled to release on November 4, is touted to be "a moving, masterful collection of stories that transport us around the world from Bombay neighbourhoods to elite English universities". It will be published under Penguin's 'Hamish' imprint in India. "The three novellas in this volume, all written in the last twelve months, explore themes and places that have been much on my mind - mortality, Bombay, farewells, England (especially Cambridge), anger, peace, America. And Goya and Kafka and Bosch as well. "I'm happy that the stories, very different from one another in setting, story and technique, nevertheless manage to be in conversation with one another, and with the two stories that serve as prologue and epilogue to this threesome. I hav

Much harder for serious writers to survive now: Irish author Paul Lynch

My writing is designed to reflect human experience in all its richness and complexity, says Lynch

Coming of age in the City

Stevenson does a creditable job of explaining just what the desk does: Essentially, traders use "swaps" to bet on the direction of interest rates in multiple currencies

Marquez's unsatisfying goodbye

Reading Until August is a bit like watching a great dancer, well past his prime, marking his ineradicable elegance in a few moves he can neither develop nor sustain

Sahitya Akademi Awards 2023: Neelum Saran Gaur, Sanjeev among 24 recipients

Twenty four writers, including English author Neelum Saran Gaur and Hindi novelist Sanjeev, received the Sahitya Akademi Award for 2023 here on Tuesday. The award ceremony coincided with the 70th anniversary celebrations of the National Academy of Letters at the 'Sahityotsav'. The awards were given for literary works including nine books of poetry, six novels, five of short stories, three essays and one literary study. Sanjeev for his novel "Mujhe Pehchaano" and Gaur for her book "Requiem in Raga Janki" received the prestigious award. Sadiqua Nawab Saher received the award for her book "Rajdev Ki Amrai" in Urdu, while Swarnjit Savi was awarded for his book of poetry "Mann Di Chip" in Punjabi. Other recipients of the awards in poetry include Vijay Verma (Dogri), Vinod Joshi (Gujarati), Manshoor Banihali (Kashmiri), Sorokkhaibam Gambhini (Manipuri), Ashutosh Parida (Odia), Gaje Singh Rajpurohit (Rajasthani), Arun Ranjan Mishra (Sanskrit) and Vinod Asudani (Sindhi). Apart from Gaur,

Bloomsbury's profits rise as latest 'Crescent City' novel tops charts

"House of Flame and Shadow" is the story of a half-fairy, half-human woman, and is the third book in the Crescent City series

Seven Indian-origin authors feature in NYT's 100 Notable Books of 2023 list

The list of 100 notable books of 2023 includes seven books written by Indian-origin writers, including Salman Rushdie and Pico Iyer

Indian-origin Chetna Maroo's debut novel shortlisted for Booker Prize 2023

The Booker Prize comes with a cash prize of GBP 50,000, a trophy. The winner will be unveiled on November 26 at an award ceremony in London

A panoramic history of the cell

Pulitzer Prize winner Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Song of The Cell is a beautifully crafted exposition of the author's own lifelong fascination with the subject

Leadership in a time of constant flux

Covid, climate change, misinformation and Fourth Industrial Revolution have created a perfect storm that needs new paradigm for leadership. Faisal Hoque's Lift offers insights into what that would be

Epic endings: Mahabharata's final chapters

Eminent Indologist Wendy Doniger's latest book focuses on the final days of the protagonists of the epic and makes their stories come alive with different meanings

Future of Hindi literature set to prosper: Booker winner Geetanjali Shree

Geetanjali Shree, the first Hindi litterateur to receive the International Booker Prize, talks in an interview to Sandeep Kumar on many topics including the impact of this award

Echoes of many partitions

Aanchal Malhotra evocatively recreates the emotional responses of survivors and subsequent generations

Meet Geetanjali Shree, first Booker awardee for an Indian language

First Booker International awardee for an Indian language, Geetanjali Shree shines the light on many Partition writers through Tomb of Sand

Geetanjali Shree's Tomb of Sand 1st Hindi novel to win International Booker

Tomb of Sand', originally Ret Samadhi', is set in northern India and follows an 80-year-old woman in a tale the Booker judges dubbed a "joyous cacophony" and an "irresistible novel".

Rare first edition of The Great Gatsby lists at $360,000

Harrington will soon bring a first edition of the 1925 book, widely considered F Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, to New York's International Antiquarian Book Fair, which runs from April 21-24 at the P

Geetanjali Shree's novel first Hindi work to land in Booker Prize long list

he New Delhi-based Shree, born in Mainpuri, Uttar Pradesh, is the author of three novels and several story collections with her work translated into English, French, German, Serbian, and Korean.

Legendary novelist Wilbur Smith passes away at 88

He passed away on Saturday afternoon with his wife, Niso, by his side

Indian-origin Sunjeev Sahota among 13 contenders for fiction's Booker Prize

Indian-origin British author Sunjeev Sahota is among the 13 authors longlisted for the prestigious 2021 Booker Prize for fiction for his novel 'China Room