Books – Siyahi

The 2020 Official Millennial Field Guide (OMFG) by Anonymous Millennials (AM’s)

Category: Non-fiction Rights: All rights available If you’re one of the millions of ambitious, charismatic millennials with a unique story who’ve been unfairly categorized, dreams instantly shut down, told you’re too young, and called lazy, impatient or naive by the Big Bad Realist Gen X’er or Baby Boomer: keep reading. The 2020 OMFG is the perfect antidote to …

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Aranyaka: Book of the Forest by Amruta Patil, Devdutt Pattanaik

Category: Mythology/ Graphic Novel Publisher: Westland Books Rights: Translation rights available for Indian and International languages (excluding Gujarati, Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu) In the wilderness of humanity, in the forests of the mind, Who eats Whom? Who sees Whom? Aranyaka is about the great forests within us, and without. It is about food, feeding and love. Braiding the …

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A Well-Tempered Heart by Jan-Philipp Sendker (Forthcoming)

Category: Fiction Publisher : Speaking Tiger The sequel to the international best-selling novel The Art of Hearing Heartbeats Almost ten years have passed since Julia Win came back from Burma, her father’s native country. Though she is a successful Manhattan lawyer, her private life is at a crossroads; her boyfriend recently left her, she has suffered …

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Straight to Normal by Sharif Rangnekar

Category : Non-Fiction Publisher : Rupa Publications Rights: World rights available (excluding Indian subcontinent) As a fifteen-year-old, Sharif Rangnekar could not fathom why he felt aroused watching men dance in a Jermaine Jackson music video. He soon found the ‘answer’ in a book that told him that this was just a phase and it would end once he got …

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Uncool: Fights, Camera, Action by Jane De Suza

Category: Fiction Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India Rights: World rights available So, I’m DD and I’m going to be rich and famous because I’m making a film on (hold the phone still, will ya?) high school life. All the secrets, fights, crazy exam pressure, brainiacs and show offs (not you, not you!). Only, everyone wants to …

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The Cretaceous by Pranay Lal

Category: Non-fiction Publisher: Penguin Random House India (forthcoming) Rights: World rights available (excluding Indian subcontinent) The Cretaceous- The Golden Age of Dinosaurs will cover the most dramatic period in the life of the Earth, the time when the most amazing dinosaurs roamed on land and the seas were ruled by giant reptiles. This 70-page book …

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Tropic of Crisis by Arati Kumar Rao

Publisher: Pan Macmillan India Rights: World Rights Driven by a frenzied hunger for growth, India is re-engineering her landscape in the name of development: damming and diverting rivers, mining deserts, building over marshes, and auctioning off grasslands. Such interventions and changes in land-use come with land acquisition, deforestation, and destruction of ecosystems which leads, in …

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An Excess of Sanity by Anshumani Ruddra

Category: Fiction Rights: All rights available Three things will happen tomorrow at 4:37 PM (Nordic Standard Time): Briefly, I will be the most popular search on the inter-webs. Luz Saint – creator of smut, erstwhile POW, substance abuser extraordinaire, mass murderer of mediocrity – will finally come out of retirement. I will be killed. Sikander …

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Death in Shangri-La by Yigal Zur

Category: Fiction/Thriller Rights: All rights available Israeli author Yigal Zur has created a new international thriller series, featuring ex-agency operative Dotan Naor. Dotan has been forced out of the Agency not just for a fatal miscalculation in Palestinian Jenin but for his inability to live within the bureaucracy and submit to authority. He is …

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