Harper Broadcast Vol 17


TRANSLATIONS
10 years of Harper Perennial, 10 special editions out this month

Harper Broadcast brings you a behind-the-scenes look at the design thinking that went into the making of these special editions, the very best of Harper Perennial. Click here to read.


Shelja Sen dons many hats – TED speaker, author, child psychologist, mother, learner and teacher. Watch her talk about her new book, Imagine: No Child Left Invisible as she answers pertinent questions like – Why are children unhappy in schools? What can we do to make our classrooms better? How do we ensure that children grow into happy adults with a rich narrative? Click here.


NOW IN BOOKSTORES
Indian preview: Our top new releases from January

The Wounds of the Dead, The Himalayan Arc, The Miss India Murders, Trickster and Shivaji: The Great Maratha are some of our frontlist headliners from January. Click here to read more about them.


Watch Janice Pariat – the award-winning author of Boats on Land and Seahorse – talk about her exquisite new novel, The Nine-Chambered Heart: how it’s different from her previous books, what inspired her to write it, the silence of the central character and the stories we tell ourselves about the people we love. Click here.


NOW IN BOOKSTORES
The best foreign fiction & non-fiction we published in January

The Woman in the Window, Fragile Lives, Three Things about Elsie and Change your Schedule, Change your Life lead our international frontlist from January. Click here to read more.


A disgraced surgeon faces his greatest challenge — bringing the dead back to life — in this macabre, philosophical novel. Kirkus Reviews calls it ‘a wonderfully creepy fable with real literary depth’. Read the full review here. Buy a copy from a bookstore near you!


SHORT FICTION
Sample this: The title story from a new anthology by Tanuj Solanki, the writer of Neon Noon

In Diwali in Muzaffarnagar, young men and women travel between the past and the present, the metropolis and the small town, and the always-at-odds needs of life: solitude and family. Click here to read the title story.


How to conduct a same-sex wedding based on Indian rituals: Here’s an excerpt from Devdutt Pattanaik’s I Am Divine, So Are You, a landmark book that recasts religion, especially Karmic faiths, as an ally and not an adversary of queer emancipation and thus significantly informs the secular and legal movements for LGBTQ rights around the world. Click here to read more.

ORDER NOW
Sacked! A charming collection of folktales for children

Wily old women, a clever nanny goat, a helpful snake, a boy who becomes invisible, a sorcerer-king … Sacked! by Deepa Agarwal has humour, fantasy and adventure in equal measure. Buy a copy now from your nearest bookstore!

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