Rumer Godden’s follow-up to A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep—the evocative story of her childhood and adolescence in early twentieth-century India&m...
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In the past, an African tribesman merely needed to wrap a string around his hips to be correctly dressed, while a devout woman was considered naked in many cult...
‘In these whimsical, deeply affectionate poems, New Delhi is both context and protagonist, alive in its dust, smog and everydayness, in the vibrant colour...
One of the world’s great travel writers, Dervla Murphy, and her young daughter, Rachel—with little money, no taste for luxury and few concrete plans...
Watch out as mischiefs and mischief-makers of all shapes and sizes come tumbling out in this hilarious collection of stories.
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When Mahatma Gandhi gave the call for the nation to join in the freedom struggle, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit threw herself wholeheartedly into the Movement, along wi...
A selection of the most thrilling detective stories ever written by the master storyteller.
Sherlock Holmes, the world's cleverest detective, sets forth ...
The best works by the greatest writer in the English language, retold in simple prose for young readers.
Over 400 years ago, William Shakespeare wrote many m...
A masterpiece of world literature—the exhilarating adventures of the boy who lived with wolves.
Mowgli is found abandoned in the jungle by Father Wolf ...