A list of newly-released books by Siyahi’s authors
Category: Fiction Publisher (Indian subcontinent): Westland Books (forthcoming) Publisher (South-east Asia excluding Indian sub-continent): Penguin Random House SEA (forthcoming) Rights: World rights available (excluding South-east Asia) All the stories in the world are whispered in the wind. Listen! And the wind will blow one into your head. In Voices in the Wind, a wind wandering …
Category: Non-fiction Rights: All rights available Soul Selfie is a work of spiritual guidance that helps readers to transcend their physical existence and unleash their true potential by identifying themselves with their immortal souls. A soul has infinite potential powers, equivalent to the powers of the cosmos and universal energies, but by virtue of identifying itself with a …
Category: Non-fiction/ Food Publisher: Penguin Random House India A unique book exploring the intersection of food and faith across India. The rice beer bellies of a Christian village in Meghalaya; the practice of feeding departed Zoroastrian souls; a Kolkata-based Jewish community that is in decline; the Tibetan monks who first serve Preta, the hungry ghost; …
Category: Fiction Publisher: Harper Black (forthcoming) Rights: World Rights available (excluding Indian subcontinent) DCP Rita Ferreira is called into the investigation after the third corpse is discovered in Mumbai, which confirms it’s the same killer who has a fascination for painting his victim’s lips with dark red, almost crimson lipstick. The Lipstick Killer, like all …
Category: Fiction Publisher: Harper Black (forthcoming) Rights: World Rights available (excluding Indian subcontinent) Ron Jogani, a jeweller from Mumbai, is in Belgium to buy a consignment of loose diamonds worth over €10 million. Hours later he’s dead in his hotel room in Brussels: murdered. The perpetrators are extremely tech-savvy and have defeated all the CCTV …
Category: Fiction Publisher: Harper Black (forthcoming) Rights: World Rights available (excluding Indian subcontinent) 1982. Three teenage girls planning a flight from the Soviet Union to the West end up being sold in Mumbai’s red-light area instead. The murders start a quarter of a century later. The victims are all men. All of them tricks, waiting …
Category: Fiction Publisher: Pan Macmillan India (forthcoming) Jay Singh is the best defence lawyer in New Delhi that money can buy. But Jay Singh is a closet alcoholic; he has a dark and ominous past. His mother has been accused and convicted of killing his father..something he doesn’t accept even after twenty years. Flamboyant, wicket, …
Category: Fiction Publisher: Pan Macmillan Meena, a Jewish-American lesbian who has claimed India as her home, takes us into a darkly comic universe of three generations of women along with other family members, as well as by the Indians whose world they seek to penetrate. There is Meena’s religiously observant mother, Ma, whose desire to …
Category: Non-fiction Rights: All rights available Why is Arundhati Roy the way she is? What propelled Ashwin Sanghi, a well settled businessman, to venture into writing and how did he make it large? Did the eventful life of Jeet Thayil have an influence on his dark and chaotic writing? How did Romila Thapar, connected to …