INDIAN PREVIEW
The List: Check out our Indian new releases this month A new book from India’s most well-known mythologist and an insightful look at colonial history lead our line-up of local frontlist titles for March. Click here to read more. | | | |
| | WATCH: Former supermodel and author Padma Lakshmi was in India to promote her two books – Love, Loss and What We Ate, and The Encyclopedia of Spices and Herbs. She spoke to Amrita Tripathi about her identity as a writer, finding her own voice, and why it was so important to be completely honest about feminism, body image issues and her love for food. | | INTERNATIONAL PREVIEW
March Picks: The best of foreign fiction & non-fiction Wilbur Smith, Chimamanda Adichie, Brian Cox, Balli Kaur Jaswal lead our eclectic line-up of foreign fiction and non-fiction this month. Click here to read more. | | | |
| | WATCH: A short clip about an important new book on ‘genzers’ (Generation Z), the next batch of people who will soon transform interpersonal dynamics, habits and expectations at the workplace. | | LONGREADS
A new book dives deep into the life of Ernest Hemingway, the World War II spy De-classified CIA files reveal that Hemingway had ‘obsessively’ tried his hand at various forms of spying and fighting on two continents, before and during World War II. Click here to read more. | | | |
| | WATCH: This fabulous book trailer of Almost Adulting, featuring Arden Rose trying to navigate all the problems familiar with growing up: especially between teenage and adulthood. Click here to buy the book: http://amzn.to/2o1rWHW | | IN MEMORIAM
An editor reflects on his experience working with India’s favourite president, Dr Abdul Kalam Krishan Chopra, publisher, HarperCollins India and editor of several iconic bestsellers penned by Dr Kalam, walks down memory lane as India’s favourite president’s last book releases in bookstores. Click here to read more.
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| | WATCH: Volga, author of The Liberation of Sita, spoke to Amrita Tripathi about the need to re-tell Sita’s story from where Valmiki leaves off, why she included Surpanakha and Ahalya in the tale, and what the resonances are for today’s women. | | UNWIND
Staff Picks: The best of books, film & TV Colleagues at HarperCollins India share what had them hooked after hours over the last fortnight. Click here to read more. | | | | | |