The Midnight Train
Matt Haig
Canongate
Rs.799
The latest novel from the author of the bestselling The Midnight Library is about second chances, or their lack. A tender meditation on ageing and memory, it is meant to offer succour in difficult times.
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Encounters with Infinity: Three Plays on Science History
Nilanjan P. Choudhury
Speaking Tiger
Rs.499
This book of plays explores the lives of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Abdus Salam, and Bibha Chowdhuri—all pioneering physicists from the Indian subcontinent. As Naseeruddin Shah says in the blurb, it is a must-read at a time when the imaginary achievements of ancient Indian science are being peddled as fact.
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The Truth About Ruby Cooper
Liz Nugent
Penguin
Rs.899
Two sisters live an idyll in a church community in Boston until an incident shatters their family. Combining psychological depth with suspense, the novel is about the way guilt and silence shape lives.
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Sweet Excess: Crafting Mishti in Bengal
Ishita Dey
Routledge
Rs.1,295
What can sweets reveal about a society? Ishita Dey’s decade-long fieldwork maps the short shelf life of Bengali mishti against historical landscapes of hunger and starvation, uncovering how caste, religion, food law, and global trade regulations govern a heritage of conspicuous sweetness.
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Languages of Freedom: The Idea of India in Political Theory, Bombay Cinema and Progressive Urdu Poetry
Neera Chandhoke
Speaking Tiger
Rs.699
From Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s verse to Guru Dutt’s cinema, from Gandhi’s swaraj to K.C. Bhattacharya’s philosophy, the political scientist Neera Chandhoke traces how the idea of freedom has been imagined, claimed, and constrained in modern India, inviting us to see both what has been achieved and what remains at stake.
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Forwarded As Received: How Misinformation Turns Viral, Violent And True
Saadia Azim
Simon and Schuster
Rs. 599
WhatsApp forwards in India have triggered riots and panic, not because they were true but because they felt believable. This book examines through case studies how simple digital repetition can normalise suspicion and harden half-truths into accepted public reality.
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Fiction
I’ll Take the Fire
Leila Slimani, translated by Sam Taylor
Penguin Books
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The White Desert
Luis López Carrasco, translated by Rosalind Harvey
Granta Books
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Once the Deed Is Done
Rachel Seiffert
Virago
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We Are Green and Trembling
Gabriela Cabezon Camara, translated by Robin Myers
New Directions
Non-fiction
Big Girls Don’t Cry: A Memoir About Taking Up Space
Susan San
Beacon Press
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Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood
Joseph Osmundson
Bloomsbury
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Say Nephew: On Boyhood, Unclehood, and Queer Mentorship
Steven Pfau
Catapult
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Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000
Barry Walters
Viking