Saturday, October 30, 2010

Obstacles to Young Love


David Nobbs was born in Orpington and educated at Marlborough, Cambridge and in the Royal Corps of Signals. His first job was as a reporter on the Sheffield Star, and his first break as a comedy writer came on the iconic satire show That Was The Week, That Was, hosted by David Frost. Later he wrote for The Frost Report and The Two Ronnies and provided material for many top comedians including Les Dawson, Ken Dodd, Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howerd and Dick Emery. David is best known for his two TV hit series A Bit of a Do and for The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, now revived in a contemporary version, starring Martin Clunes. He lives in North Yorkshire with his second wife, Susan. He has four stepchildren, eight grand-stepchildren and one great-grand-stepchild.

From one of the greatest comedic writers of a generation comes a story of love, faith and taxidermy.

‘Three mighty obstacles threaten the burgeoning love of childhood sweethearts Timothy Pickering and Naomi Walls. They are Steven Venables, a dead curlew and God.’

1978: Two lovers perch precariously on the cusp of adulthood. Timothy’s life ambition is to take on his father’s taxidermy business; while Naomi dreams of a
career on stage.

Across the decades their lives continue to interweave, and occasionally cross – bound by the pull of intoxicating first love. But will their destinies ultimately unite
them?

Nobbs moves his exceptional comic talent to a new-found depth. Memorable and moving, a tale of love won and love lost. You will never look at the art of
taxidermy in the same way again.

ISBN: 9780007286287
Author: David Nobbs
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India
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Thursday, October 28, 2010

London Match

Born in London, Len Deighton
served in the RAF before graduating from the Royal College of Art (which recently elected him a Senior Fellow). While in New York City working as a magazine illustrator he began writing his first novel, The Ipcress File, which was published in 1962. He is now the author of more than thirty books of fiction and non-fiction. At present living in Europe, he has, over the years, lived with his family in ten different countries from Austria to Portugal.

Long-awaited reissue of the final part of the classic spy trilogy, GAME,SET and MATCH, when the Berlin Wall divided not just a city but a world.

The spy who’s in the clear doesn’t exist…

Bernard Samson hoped they’d put Elvira Miller behind bars. She said she had been stupid, but it didn’t cut any ice with Bernard. She was a KGB-trained
agent and stupidity was no excuse.

There was one troubling thing about Mrs Miller’s confession - something about two codewords where there should have been one. The finger of suspicion
pointed straight back to London.

And that was where defector Erich Stinnes was locked up, refusing to say anything.

Bernard had got him to London; now he had to get him to talk…

ISBN: 9780586066355
Author: Deighton Len
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Mumbai Fables

Gyan Prakash is Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University and served as the director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Centre for Historical Studies from 2003 to 2008. He is the author of Bonded Histories (1990) and Another Reason (1999), and has co-authored Worlds Together, Worlds Apart (2002).

ISBN: 9789350290071
Author: Gyan Prakash
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Battle for Bittora

Anuja Chauhan went to school in Meerut, Delhi and Australia. She has worked in advertising for over fourteen years and has created many popular ad campaigns, including 'Nothing Official About it', 'Yeh Dil Maange More' and 'Oye Bubbly' for brand Pepsi. She is currently Executive Creative Director and Vice-President at J. Walter Thompson Advertising.

Twenty-five-year-old Jinni lives in Mumbai, works in a hip animation studio and is perfectly happy with her carefree and independent existence. Until her bossy grandmother shows up and announces that it is Jinni’s ''duty'' to drop everything and come and contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from their sleepy hometown, Bittora.Of course Jinni swears she won''t. But she soon ends up swathed in cotton saris and frumpy blouses, battling prickly heat, corruption and accusations of nymphomania as candidate Sarojini Pande, a daughter of the illustrious Pande dynasty of Pavit Pradesh. And if life isn’t fun enough already, her main opposition turns out to be Bittora ex-royal,
Zain Altaf Khan – an irritatingly idealistic though undeniably lustworthy individual with whom Jinni shares a complicated history…
Enlivened by Chauhan’s characteristic brand of wicked humour and sexy romanticism, this is a rollicking new tale of young India.

ISBN: 9789350290026
Author: Chauhan Anuja
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India
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Monday, October 25, 2010

Skin Deep An Inside Out Approach to Looking Good, Naturally!

Dr Aparna Santhanam is a dermatologist and cosmetologist with long experience in consulting with Cipla, Novartis, Marico, Kaya and Gal Derma. She was responsible for building the medical and clinical systems in Kaya from scratch, and for establishing cosmetology as the science of beauty. Fitness and food are key interest areas for her.

Two questions women always ask: ‘Doctor, how can I make my skin glow?’ and ‘Doctor, please tell me what I should eat for good skin.’ From her ten years of practice as a consulting dermatologist, Dr Aparna Santhanam knows without doubt that what we eat has a lasting impact not only on the way we look, but also on the way we age and the way our skin presents itself now and in the future. In this book, she addresses popular concerns about diet and its relation to appearance as well as health. She also outlines the benefits of various foods on the skin along with some easy-to-make recipes that will help your skin glow.

ISBN: TBA_2
Author: Aparna Santhanam
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India
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Sunday, October 24, 2010

The Delhi Walla : Delhi Monuments

Mayank Austen Soofi is primarily a book lover, but also holds a day job with the Hindustan Times. He tries to make sense of the world through reading, writing and photography. He also runs five blogs including the extremely popular ‘The Delhi Walla’. While he considers the sufi shrine of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya his home, he sleeps at a library in Delhi.

Aimed at visitors to Delhi as well as those who call it home, this is a series of four slim, low-priced volumes. Visually attractive, with great photographs that compliment the succinct text, the titles in this set will acquaint you with:
Delhi Monuments: seventy-five important Delhi heritage sites with relevant details and photographs.

ISBN: 9789350290057
Author: Mayank Austen Soofi
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India
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Friday, October 22, 2010

The Delhi Walla : Delhi Food

Mayank Austen Soofi is primarily a book lover, but also holds a day job with the Hindustan Times. He tries to make sense of the world through reading, writing and photography. He also runs five blogs including the extremely popular ‘The Delhi Walla’. While he considers the sufi shrine of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya his home, he sleeps at a library in Delhi.

Aimed at visitors to Delhi as well as those who call it home, this is a series of four slim, low-priced volumes. Visually attractive, with great photographs that compliment the succinct text, the titles in this set will acquaint you with:

Delhi Food: the typical cuisines of Delhi, from fine dining to street food, with popular recipes and listings of famous food ‘institutions’.

ISBN: 9789350290040
Author: Mayank Austen Soofi
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India
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Thursday, October 21, 2010

The Delhi Walla : Delhi Hangouts

Mayank Austen Soofi is primarily a book lover, but also holds a day job with the Hindustan Times. He tries to make sense of the world through reading, writing and photography. He also runs five blogs including the extremely popular ‘The Delhi Walla’. While he considers the sufi shrine of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya his home, he sleeps at a library in Delhi.

Aimed at visitors to Delhi as well as those who call it home, this is a series of four slim, low-priced volumes. Visually attractive, with great photographs that compliment the succinct text, the titles in this set will acquaint you with:

Delhi Hangouts: the places where one can spend time in an interesting way, be it recreational or educative – museums, galleries, theatres, gardens, bazaars and other public spaces where entertainment is on the menu.

ISBN: 9789350290064
Author: Mayank Austen Soofi
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

A Very Proper Fox

A warm and humorous story about being true to yourself, from the highly-regarded author-illustrator of Billy Tibbles Moves Out!


Frankie the Fox loves baked beans and dancing, but Naughty Rabbit says that proper foxes don''t jig about… proper foxes catch chickens.

So Frankie steals down the lane to the chicken''s house. He licks his lips, he flexes his claws, he growls like a proper fox, low and mean. ''I''m coming to get you…''

But instead of a big, fat chicken, Frankie finds a big fat mess that he can’t help tidying.

Will Frankie ever be a proper fox?

ISBN: 9780007802845
Author: Jan Fearnley
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

First Aid

ISBN: 9780007286966
Author: Collins gem
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India
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Monday, October 18, 2010

Cloud Nine Minus One

Sangeeta Mall is a consulting editor with the International Humanist News. A graduate of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, Sangeeta recently did her Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Pittsburgh. She now lives in Mumbai. This is her first novel. Sangeeta is now a full time writer.

Life on cloud nine isn''t always easy—especially when both your husband and your college sweetheart want to share it with you

Busy looking after her writers'' colony and hoping for a holiday in Spain with her husband and children, Shruti Narayan is startled to find a rather unwanted email in her inbox one morning. It is an invitation to a reunion at her college in Bangalore. It takes her a second to delete the mail. After all, why would she want to leave her life in Philadelphia to visit the past, to go back to Priya, the best friend she deserted, and to Jaggu, the old flame she has left so far behind? But as luck would have it, her husband finds out about the reunion and Shruti and her family find themselves at the gates of her college.

Desperate to ensure that her family does not learn about her past escapades, and at the same time unable to prevent herself from revisiting old memories, Shruti is caught in a guilty whirlpool of emotions and desires, as she struggles to reconcile past and

present loyalties.

ISBN: 9788172238513
Author:
Sangeeta Mall
Published by:
Harper Collins Publishers India
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Friday, October 15, 2010

Business as Unusual

Anita Roddick is one of the world’s most outspoken, controversial and successful businesswomen. Business as Unusual turns the tables on the way society looks at business and forges a move toward greater corporate responsibility and accountability.

“In terms of power and influence, you can forget the church, forget politics. There is no more powerful institution in society than business, which is why I believe it is now more important than ever before for business to assume a moral leadership. The business of business should not be about money, it should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed." Anita Roddick
Business as Unusual charts the progress of Anita Roddick and her company The Body Shop through the last decade. It also looks at the parallel growth of vigilante consumerism and predicts how businesses can evolve in the new Millennium.
Ranging from personal issues – such as self-esteem – to wider political issues like the human rights abuses associated with globalisation, Roddick offers her own vision for dealing with the demands of ethical business. Roddick believes we should never underestimate the power of public pressure to create change, from the boycott of Shell in 1995 to the battle of Seattle at the World Trade Organisation Conference in late 1999.
Roddick argues that waves of public consciousness are steadily forcing corporations to re-evaluate their actions. By expanding the concept of the entrepreneur and the language of business and business ethics, we can compel the corporate world to change.

She talks openly about :
• The ‘greed culture’ of the 90s
• The Body Shop vs. Shell
• Trade Not Aid: Pleasures and pitfalls of trading with indigenous communities
• Taking on the US – The Body Shop in the states
• Creating community both within and outside the workplace
• How to campaign for human rights in the business environment
• Women and business

ISBN: 9780007107964
Author: Anita Roddick
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India
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Wuthering Heights

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.

‘Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil?’

Set on the bleak moors of Yorkshire, Lockwood is forced to seek shelter at Wuthering Heights, the home of his new landlord, Heathcliff. The intense and wildly passionate Heathcliff tells the story of his life, his all-consuming love for Catherine Earnshaw and the doomed outcome of that relationship, leading to his revenge.

Poetic, complex and grand in its scope, Emily Brontë''s masterpiece is considered one of the most unique gothic novels of its time.

ISBN: 9780007350810
Author: Emily Bronte
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

The Marks of Cain

The gripping new high-concept thriller from the author of The Genesis Secret, perfect for fans of Dan Brown and Sam Bourne.

In America a young man inherits a million dollars, from a grandfather he thought was poor. Meanwhile, across Europe old men and women are being killed, in the most barbaric and elaborate of ways. And a brilliant scientist has disappeared from his laboratory in London, taking his extraordinary experiments with him.

Tying these strange events together is an ancient Biblical curse, a medieval French tribe of pariahs, and a momentous and terrible revelation: something that will alter the world forever. One couple is intent on discovering this darkest of secrets, others will kill, and kill again, to stop them.

Shifting from the forgotten churches of the Pyrenees, to the mysterious castles of the SS, to the arid and frightening wastes of Namibia, Tom Knox weaves together astonishing truths from ancient scripture and contemporary science to create an input down able thriller.



ISBN: 9780007342617
Author: Tom Knox
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Friday, October 8, 2010

Aromatherapy

ISBN: 9780007101467
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Architectural Plants

ISBN: 9780007201242
Author: Christine Shaw
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Archenland Mein Shasta

ISBN: 9788172237394
Author: Clive Staples Lewis
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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Aphrodite

From an internationally acclaimed author, this is a magical, fascinating book exploring the intimate relationship between food and sex.

This book of recipes, sensuous stories, aphrodisiacs and lovers'' spells is an irresistible fusion of Allende''s favourite things. Lavishly illustrated, this fascinating, personal guide to all things erotic encompasses a multicultural history of seduction through food, ancient and modern stories and poems about sex and eating, titillating recipes and advice. Chapter titles include: Cooking in the Nude; The Spell of Smell; Death by Perfume; Table Manners; With the Tip of the Tongue; The Orgy; Sins of the Flesh; Love Potions, and Sauces and Other Essential Fluids.


ISBN: 9780007205165
Author: Isabel Allende
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Monday, October 4, 2010

Aparajito

In describing Apu and his mother's grim struggle with poverty, their loneliness and other disappointments in life, Bandopadhyay might have turned Aparajito into a tale of woe. What he does in fact, is just the opposite. It remains truly the story of an unvanquished spirit that rises through all sorrows and grief like a phoenix, triumphant in its ability to retain hope at all times. Like Pather Panchali, Aparajito reveals the clarity of Bibhutibhushan's own inner vision, the astute but sympathetic treatment of his characters and his close intimacy with nature..

ISBN: 8172233205
Author: Bandopadhyay, Bibhuti Bhushan
Published by: Majumdar, Gopa
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Sunday, October 3, 2010

Antony and Cleopatra

Passion, politics, love and death combine in a novel of the legendary love triangle between the three leaders of Rome: Cleopatra, Mark Antony and Octavian, from the bestselling author of ''The Thorn Birds''

Mark Antony, famous warrior and legendary lover, expected that he would be Julius Caesar''s successor. But after Caesar''s murder it was his 18-year old nephew, Octavian, who was named in the will. No-one, least of all Antony, expected him to last but his youth and slight frame concealed a remarkable determination and a clear strategic sense.

Antony was the leader of the fabulously rich East. Barely into his campaigning, he met Cleopatra, Pharaoh of Egypt. Bereft by the loss of Julius Caesar, her lover, father of her only son, she saw Antony as another Roman who could support her and provide more heirs. His fascination for her, his sense that she knew the way forward where he had lost his, led to the beginning of their passionate, and very public affair. The two men, twin rulers of Rome, might have found a way to live with each other but not with Cleopatra between them.

This is a truly epic story of power and scandal, battle and passion, political spin and inexorable fate with a rich historical background and a remarkable cast of characters, all brought brilliantly to life by Colleen McCullough. It is hard to leave the world she has created.

ISBN: 9780007273225
Author: Colleen McCullough
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India
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