Editors Recommend

Staff Top Picks from our April New Releases

When it comes to books, we can never offer enough recommendations! This month, check out the top picks from our folks back at the office. Which one will you pick up first?

Nayantara recommends…

Adults

Rumours of Spring by Farah Bashir

Rumours of Spring is the unforgettable account of Farah Bashir’s adolescence spent in Srinagar in the 1990s. This deeply affecting coming-of-age memoir portrays how territorial conflict surreptitiously affects everyday lives in Kashmir.

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The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel

The long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy.

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Children

Pages & Co.: Tilly and the Map of Stories by Anna James

This is the third in the modern-classic and bestselling Book-Wandering series that celebrates all that is best in life: books, adventure, friendship – and cake!

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Starboard by Nicola Skinner

The extraordinarily inventive and inspiring new middle grade novel from the rapturously acclaimed author of Bloom.

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The Last Girl by Goldy Moldavsky

In this new YA thriller, Scream meets Gossip Girl with a dash of One of Us is Lying!

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Rahul Soni recommends…

A Mirror Made of Rain by Naheed Phiroze Patel

A Mirror Made of Rain is a devastating coming-of-age novel about the wounds of inherited trauma.

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Theeyoor Chronicles by N. Prabhakaran, translated by Jayasree Kalathil

In N. Prabhakaran’s masterful hands – and in Jayasree Kalathil’s brilliant translation – history, myth, facts, nature, political events, and everyday concerns of ordinary people weave together into a story that is at once local and universal.

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Siddhesh Inamdar recommends…

Renaissance State by Girish Kuber

A history of Maharashtra spanning two millennia and more that shows how the region has been a cradle for individuals and events that have shaped India.

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The Braided River by Samrat Choudhury

As Assam heads to the polls, a compelling account of the region told as a travelogue that follows the braided course of the Brahmaputra and touches upon all of the region’s hot-button issues – political, military and ecological.

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Terms of Disservice by Dipayan Ghosh

A revelatory book that shows how big tech and Silicon Valley benefit at the expense of lay users like you and me, and how technology can be used to create a truly open society that protects every citizen of the world.

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Amrita Mukherji recommends…

Permission to Dream by Chris Gardner

In the spirit of The Last Lecture, The Secret, and The Alchemist, this small book presents big ideas for turning your “one day” into today, including the generational transfer of a dream and a powerful blueprint for a masterpiece life.

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The Dinner Guest by B P Walter

Classic crime meets Donna Tartt in this nerve-shredding domestic noir thriller that weaves a sprawling web of secrets around an opulent West London world and the dinner that ends in death.

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The Wife Upstairs by

A delicious twist on a Gothic classic, The Wife Upstairs is perfect for fans of Lucy Foley, Ruth Ware and Shari Lapena.

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Rahul Dixit recommends…

Remote Inc. by Robert C. Pozen & Alexandra Samuel

Remote, Inc. shows you a new approach, based on the mindset and habits of people who flourish while working outside the office some or all of the time.  These are the folks who manage to get even more done at home, even though you know they’ve got kids or dogs underfoot and somehow fit in a daily run at lunchtime.

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Write Me a Love Story by Ravinder Singh

At each other’s throats, Abhimanyu and Asmita are as different as can be, but fate has something else in store and they soon find that there is no running away from love…a sizzling new love story from the King of Romance!

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Swati Daftuar recommends…

The Prince and The Nightingale by Abhishek Bhatt

While a young prince tries to adapt to life in the metropolis as a commoner, he meets Meera Apte, a struggling, working class singer with an angelic voice, and they bond over their common interest: Indian classical music… learn more about this untold love story.
Ghosts in Our Backyard by Alisha Kirpalani
From the woman on the highway that Shyam Ramsay met to an eerie and persistent knocking that came from every house that Tanuja Ramsay lived in to Amit Ramsay’s unwelcome dead visitor at Lamington House, the original home of the Ramsays, this book has the improbable, bizarre and spine-chilling all parading through its chapters.
Aman Arora recommends…
1971 The Beginning of India’s Cricketing Greatness by Boria Majumdar and Gautam Bhattacharya
Boria Majumdar and Gautam Bhattacharya’s book is a thrilling account of the 1971 twin tours, that brings to life the on-field excitement and the backroom drama.
The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird
Compelling, confronting and devastating, The End of Men is the novel that everyone is talking about.

Rinita Banerjee recommends…

Adults

I Have Been Buried Under Years of Dust: A Memoir of Autism and Hope by Valerie Gilpeer & Emily Grodin

A remarkable memoir by a mother and her autistic daughter who’d long been unable to communicate—until a miraculous breakthrough revealed a young woman with a rich and creative interior life, a poet, who’d been trapped inside for more than two decades.

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The Three Locks by Bonnie MacBird

A heatwave melts London as Holmes and Watson are called to action in this new Sherlock Holmes adventure by Bonnie MacBird, author of “one of the best Sherlock Holmes novels of recent memory.”

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Children

The Paper Girl of Paris by Jordyn Taylor

Code Name Verity meets Jennifer Donnelly’s Revolution in this gripping debut novel.

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