The Missing Piece
Parul Sharma
Hachette India
Rs.499
London-born Sukanya returns to her ancestral mohalla (neighbourhood) in Meerut, which has been calling her throughout. However, once she experiences it up close, it seems more dangerous than enticing.
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The Star from Calcutta
Sujata Massey
Penguin India
Rs.499
In the latest book of the thriller series, Perveen Mistry lands up in the glamorous world of the Bombay film industry. Her client—the hottest star of the time—disappears, and a member of the censor board is found dead.
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Kin
Tayari Jones
Oneworld Publications
Rs.650
As black women in 1950s’ America, besties Vernice and Annie have to fight for the future they want for themselves. They drift apart, but when Annie is caught in a morass, Vernice comes to her rescue.
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The Good Reporter: A Memoir of Journalism in the 21st Century
Disha Mullick with Geeta Devi, Harshita Verma, Kavita Bundelkhandi, and Lakshmi Sharma
Simon and Schuster India
Rs. 699
In 2002, a group of women in rural Uttar Pradesh set out to publish a local newspaper. This collective biography explores how, in 25 years, Khabar Lahariya (“news waves”) has evolved into India’s first hyperlocal digital news channel run entirely by women.
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Wild Wild East: Exiled Americans, Enslaved Indians and the Systemic Abuse of the H-1B Visa Programme
Tanul Thakur
Context
Rs.999
Tanul Thakur, an ex-H1B worker himself, follows the lives of three H1B workers to unearth a a multimilliondollar scam of human trafficking and wage theft that dismantles the myths behind the global IT boom.
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Zubeen Garg: The Voice that Bridged Worlds
Prosenjit Nath
Penguin Eight
Rs. 399
Singer, rebel, and cultural icon Zubeen Garg (1972–2025) redefined the music of north-east India. This high-octane biography records the legacy of a man whose songs crossed borders and generations and continue to reverberate long after his passing.
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Fiction
My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction
Deborah Levy
Hamish Hamilton
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Portrait of an Unknown Woman
Camille de Peretti, translated by Hildegarde Serle
Europa Editions
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The Soul Catchers
Naoko Higashi, translated by Lucy North
Doubleday
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The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances
Glenn Dixon
Atria Books
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Non-fiction
Allama Prabhu and the Shaiva Imagination
D. R. Nagaraj, translated by N. S. Gundur
SUNY Press
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From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan
Suzy Hansen
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux
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If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation
Daniel Hahn
Knopf
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When the World Sleeps: Stories, Words, and Wounds of Palestine
Francesca Albanese, translated by Gregory Conti
Hardie Grant Books