| BOOK EXCERPT This Is What It’s Like to Be Smuggled in a Wheelchair in Overloaded Refugee Boats A sixteen-year-old confined to a wheelchair, Nujeen Mustafa escaped from war-torn northern Syria and journeyed across nine borders to find asylum in Europe. Her memoir is a remarkable tale of modern migration, overcoming adversity and escaping the hell of war.
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| | | VIDEO Christina Lamb on What Makes Nujeen Mustafa’s Memoir a Must-read Lamb is the co-author of I Am Malala and Nujeen: One Girl’s Incredible Journey from War-torn Syria in a Wheelchair.
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| | | POPULAR FICTION Q&A | Author Yashodhara Lal on Her New Novel, When Love Finds You Three bestsellers back-to-back — Just Married Please Excuse, Sorting Out Sid, There’s Something About You — and Yashodhara Lal is now ready for a fourth winner, When Love Finds You, an office romance. Read.
| | | PREVIEW October Picks | The Best of Foreign Fiction and Non-Fiction A heartwarming tale from the Syrian refugee crisis, David Walliams’ latest, Nadia Hashimi’s first novel for YA readers, a gorgeous new cookbook from Padma Lakshmi and a fascinating book about time travel. Read.
| | | PREVIEW October Picks | Five Indian New Releases for Your Bookshelf The story of a brief marriage; three important film books — QSQT, DDLJ and the cinema of Nasir Husain; a brilliant new novel from Anosh Irani and a book about a fresh new security strategy for India.
Read. | | | SHORT STORY ‘The Transistor’ from Scattered Souls, Shahnaz Bashir’s New Anthology Immerse yourself in the first story of a daring new anthology by the very talented Shahnaz Bashir. Set in the 1990s, the collection chronicles Kashmir where the army, in a bid to quell an armed rebellion, has fractured people’s idea of home and punctuated their days and nights with curfews.
Read. | | | CRIME FICTION Meet Lars Kepler, The Husband-Wife Duo Whose Thrillers Will Keep You Up All Night There’s a lot going on in Scandinavian crime fiction and we bring you closer to the work of one of the most under-rated names out there: Lars Kepler.
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| | | STAFF PICKS The Best of Books, Film & TV Books by Malcolm Gladwell, words of Leonard Cohen, the mastery of Paul Thomas Anderson and the tense drama of the first season of American Crime Story … employees at HarperCollins India tell us what has them hooked after-hours.
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