A list of newly-released books by Siyahi’s authors
Category: Fiction Publisher: Penguin Random House Rights: World rights available (excluding Indian subcontinent) The Golden Age of Hollywood meets end-of-the-Raj India. The romance of “the next Lana Turner” and a Cambridge-educated maharaja threatens his kingdom during the tumultuous days before Independence. It is 1946 Hollywood, and sparks fly when the dashing Maharaja of Cooch Behar, Jagaddipendra …
Category: Poetry Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India Rights: World rights available Everybody is not a writer but everybody seeks self-expression not necessarily to write but to reflect, to unload, to think clearly and to understand what is happening and why. It was one such phase when our Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, then just a party worker …
Category: Non-fiction/ FoodPublisher: Rights: World rights available (excluding Indian subcontinent) Battling a bout of depression, Varud tendered his resignation at work, packed everything he could into a backpack, and booked a one-way flight to Argentina. This book takes us through his attempts at eating his way through the culinary cultures of the world to fill the …
Life Bites: An Introvert’s Attempts at Eating His Way to Happiness by Varud Gupta Read More »
Category: Non-fiction/MythologyPublisher (English): Aleph Book Company Before nationalists and patriots, before colonizers and invaders, before emperors and kings, India was woven together by pilgrim paths. Seekers and sages travelled north and south, east and west, across mountains and along rivers, ignoring artificial boundaries, seeking and finding gods. Renowned mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik takes us on an insightful …
Pilgrim Nation: The Making of Bharatvarsh by Devdutt Pattanaik Read More »
Category: Children’s FictionPublisher: Penguin Random House India Set against the backdrop of the 2020 pandemic and lockdown, this story for children (and their carers) is about loss – and beyond. When funny, feisty Swara, almost 9, loses her most loved person, her grandmother, Pitter Paati, she can’t accept it. V. Impossible! She looks for clues about where …
Category: Non-fiction/FoodRights: All rights available Digesting India is a wildly entertaining and highly erudite adventure through the landscapes of Indian culinary art, as explored by Zac O’Yeah, a Scandinavian-origin Indian novelist with a readiness to stomach anything and everything that grows or walks on earth. Well, almost. This book combines the three things that O’Yeah loves …
Category: Speculative FictionRights: All rights available Yellow Harvest is a hallucinatory account of an investigative journalist, Anton. He is trying to unravel the intrigue that surrounds Ghost Hill. While everyone believes it’s under lockdown due to the outbreak of an epidemic, Anton suspects foul play by the government – the majoritarian government with a Godot-first political …
21st-century millennials in India live their lives reconciling polarities. They seek space but they crowd screens online; they seek intimacy but swipe well into the night; they seek solitude in the hills but only for the weekend; they want to save the environment but there is always a new pair of shoes to buy. Predicament of …
Predicament of a 21st Century Millennial by Pia Bakshi Read More »
Category: FictionRights: All rights available Zarene is about to marry the prince of Shandrabad. Gracious, poised and proper, she has all the makings of the perfect princess, and can only be faulted for her fixation on dressmaking. When an encounter with a ghagra that divines the future ruins her plans of becoming a princess, she …