- -16%Lia Riley is a contemporary romance author. She loves wandering redwood forests, beach fog, procrastinating, and a perfect pour over coffee. She is 25% sarcastic, 54% optimistic, and 122% bad at math (good thing she writes happy endings for a living). She and her family live mostly in Northern California.You can also find her co-hosting the weekly Afternoona Delight Podcast, exploring the wonderful (and trope-filled) world of Korean Dramas through a writer’s lens.
PUCK AND PREJUDICE
Estimated delivery on 11 - 17 January - -16%MIRZA FARHATULLAH BAIG is best known for his vivid word-sketches and among his most famous works is the sketch of his teacher, Maulvi Nazir Ahmed Dehlvi, Nazeer Ahmed ki kahani, kuchh meri kuchh unki zabaani. His other popular books include Bahadur Shah aur phoolwalon ki sair and Ek vasiyat ki tamiil, along with seven volumes of collected essays, entitled Mazaameen-i-Farhat. Different sources have different dates for his birth, but in Farhatullah's own account, he gives his date of birth as 3 August 1885. He graduated from Delhi's St. Stephen's College in 1905, then went to Hyderabad (Deccan) in 1917 for employment, and remained there all through his life. Aside from writing brilliant prose, he composed poetry too. In Meri shairi, he describes his poetic journey along with his verses. Meri daastaan is his autobiography, wherein he shares details of his various careers, or in his words, 'thirty-four years of rigorous imprisonment. Farhatullah Baig died on 27 April 1947 in Hyderabad.Meenakshi Jauhari (Translator) has been writing fiction and poetry for more than three decades. During the last decade, she has focused on translating from Urdu, for example, Amrita Pritam’s poetry. Her poetry anthology The Fish Who Flew was published in 2019 by Writers Workshop, Kolkata. Her translations and original work have featured in literary journals such as Indian Literature (Sahitya Akademi), The Little Magazine, Out of Print, Gulmohur Quarterly, Volume Poetry and others. She lives with her husband and son in Gurgaon.
Delhi’s Last Mushaira in 1845: A Translation of Dehli ki aakhri shama
Estimated delivery on 11 - 17 January - -12%Anish Sarkar is a part-time author and full-time corporate slave. Dead by Design is his third novel. His interests include travelling, cricket, wildlife and music. Anish lives in Mumbai but escapes to his home in Coonoor whenever he can.
Dead by Design
Estimated delivery on 11 - 17 January - -12%Don Jose Ruiz was born in Mexico City, Mexico, and raised in Tijuana, Mexico. From a very young age, Jose was guided by many teachers in his life, including his mother, Maria; his father, don Miguel; and his grandmother, Sarita. As a nagual (the Nahuatl word for shaman), Jose brings new insights to the ancient wisdom of his family, translating it into practical, everyday concepts that promote transformation through truth, love, and common sense. Jose has dedicated his life to sharing this Toltec wisdom and travels the world helping others find their own personal truth. In addition to The Wisdom of the Shamans, don Jose Ruiz is the co-author of The Fifth Agreement, which he wrote in collaboration with his father, don Miguel Ruiz, author of The Four Agreements.
The Wisdom of Shamans
Estimated delivery on 11 - 17 January - -14%Tomoka Shibasaki was born in 1973 in Osaka and began writing fiction while still in high school. After graduating from university, she took an office job but continued writing, and was shortlisted for the Bungei Prize in 1998. Her first book, A Day on the Planet, was turned into a hit movie, and Spring Garden won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 2014.
Spring Garden
Estimated delivery on 11 - 17 January - -20%Seishi Yokomizo (1902-81) was one of Japan's most famous and best-loved mystery writers. He was born in Kobe and spent his childhood reading detective stories, before beginning to write stories of his own, the first of which was published in 1921. He went on to become an extremely prolific and popular author, best known for his Kosuke Kindaichi series, which ran to 77 books, many of which were adapted for stage and television in Japan. The Honjin Murders, The Inugami Curse and Gokumon Island are also available from Pushkin Vertigo.
The Honjin Murders
Estimated delivery on 11 - 17 January - -28%Elisabeth Gifford grew up in a vicarage in the industrial Midlands. She studied French literature and world religions at Leeds University. She has a Diploma in Creative Writing from Oxford OUDCE and an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway College. She is the author of five previous historical novels, including The Good Doctor of Warsaw and The Lost Lights of St Kilda. She is married with three children, and lives in Kingston upon Thames.
The Mischief Makers
Estimated delivery on 11 - 17 January - -28%Ingvild Rishøi was born and raised in Oslo. She has published several collections of stories in Norway, and her debut novel, originally titled Stargate, was published in Norway in 2021. It is published or forthcoming in twenty territories and is being adapted for film. Rishøi is one of Norway’s most revered literary voices.Caroline Waight is a literary translator working from Danish, German, and Norwegian. She has been a finalist for the PEN Translation Prize and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. She lives near London.
Brightly Shining
Estimated delivery on 11 - 17 January - -28%Jon Fosse was born in 1959 on the west coast of Norway and is the recipient of countless prestigious prizes, both in his native Norway and abroad. Since his 1983 fiction debut, Raudt, svart [Red, Black], Fosse has written prose, poetry, essays, short stories, children’s books and over forty plays. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature ‘for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable’.Damion Searls is a translator from German, Norwegian, French and Dutch, and a writer in English. He has translated nine books by Jon Fosse, including the three books of Septology.
Morning and Evening – WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Estimated delivery on 11 - 17 January - -28%Ben Shattuck is the author of Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau, which was a New Yorker Best Book of 2022, a Wall Street Journal Best Book of Spring, a New York Times Best Book of Summer, a New England Indie Bestseller, and was nominated for the Massachusetts Book Award. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and winner of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and a Pushcart Prize. He lives with his wife and daughter on the coast of Massachusetts, where he owns and runs the oldest general store in America, built in 1793. He is also the director and founder of the Cuttyhunk Island Writers’ Residency.
The History of Sound
Estimated delivery on 11 - 17 January - -28%William Saroyan (1908-1981) was born in California, the son of Armenian immigrants who escaped from the genocidal Turkish Ottoman Empire. His father - a preacher and poet who became a farm labourer - died when Saroyan was three, forcing the children to be briefly placed in an orphanage. Saroyan left school at fifteen, determined to become a writer and supporting himself through odd jobs. His first story collection was an instant bestseller in 1934 and fame ensued (he's mentioned in Breakfast at Tiffany's!) It was followed by dozens of celebrated novels, stories and plays including The Time of Your Life - for which he refused the 1939 Pulitzer Prize on the grounds that commerce should not judge art - and The Human Comedy, which won a 1944 Academy Award for his screenplay. In the 1940s he worked for Columbia and MGM in Hollywood, as well as travelling through the Soviet Union and Europe. Saroyan lived mainly in Paris from 1958, writing voraciously until his death in 1981.Stephen Fry was born in London in 1957 and educated at Cambridge, where he joined the Footlights and met Hugh Laurie. His television credits include A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Jeeves and Wooster, Blackadder and QI, and he is a regular contributor to radio shows and films as well as the audiobook narrator for Harry Potter. Fry is also the author of many bestselling novels, including The Liar, The Hippopotamus, Making History and The Stars' Tennis Balls, as well as a series of autobiographies - Moab is my Washpot, The Fry Chronicles and More Fool Me - and Mythos, Heroes and Troy, his retellings of Greek myths.
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (Faber Editions)
Estimated delivery on 11 - 17 January - -31%William Golding (1911 - 1993) was born in Cornwall and educated at Marlborough Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford. Before becoming a writer, he was an actor, small-boat sailor, musician and schoolteacher. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy and took part in the D-Day operation and liberation of Holland. Lord of the Flies, his first novel, was turned down by several publishers but rescued from the 'reject pile' at Faber and published in 1954. It became a modern classic selling millions of copies, translated into 44 languages and made into a film by Peter Brook in 1963. Golding wrote eleven other novels, a play and two essay collections. He won the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage in 1980 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. He was knighted in 1988 and died in 1993. www.william-golding.co.uk
Lord of the flies 70th Anniversary edition
Estimated delivery on 11 - 17 January - -28%Suzumi Suzuki is an acclaimed Japanese sociologist and columnist. She graduated from Keio University majoring in Environment and Information Studies, and later received a master’s degree from Tokyo University. She worked as an adult video actress before becoming a journalist for Nikkei Inc. She is also the author of Sell Your Body, and It’s Goodbye (2016), Flowers for Love and the Womb (2017), A Prostitute’s Bookshelf (2022), and Letters of Correspondence (2021), co-written with Japan’s most acclaimed feminist scholar Chizuko Ueno. Gifted is her debut novel.Allison Markin Powell is a literary translator, editor, and publishing consultant. She received the 2020 PEN America Translation Prize for The Ten Loves of Nishino by Hiromi Kawakami. Her other translations include works by Osamu Dazai, Kanako Nishi, and Ryunosuke Akutagawa.
Gifted
Estimated delivery on 11 - 17 January - -28%Eliza Clark is the author of Boy Parts (2020) and Penance (2023). In 2020, Boy Parts was Blackwell's Fiction book of the year, and in 2022 Eliza was chosen as a finalist for the Women's Prize Futures Award for writers under thirty-five. In 2023, she was named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. She also writes for film and television. A stage adaptation of Boy Parts will premiere at Soho Theatre in October 2023.
Shes Always Hungry
Estimated delivery on 11 - 17 January - -22%Ben Gazur is a freelance writer and author specializing in history, folklore and science. He has written for outlets including the Guardian, the BBC, All About History and Fortean Times. His books cover everything from Epicurus to history’s strangest deaths and British food folklore.
A Short History of the World in 50 Failures
Estimated delivery on 11 - 17 January - Pre-orderAkshat Gupta is a national bestselling author, a TEDx speaker and an excelling screenwriter and dialogue writer in the Indian film industry. The Hidden Hindu series, authored by him, has sold over 1 lakh copies, with each book a national bestseller. Akshat is well known in the publishing industry, as well as in the Indian film industry, with a number of films and web-series signed on his name.
The Naga Warriors 2
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