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JANUARY-JUNEJANUARY-JUNE 2018 2018 @HarperCollinsIN CONTENTS FICTION 1 POETRY & TRANSLATION 28 NON-FICTION 38 LIFestYLE 65 CINEMA 70 SPIRITUALITY 75 SELF-HELP 79 BUSIness 83 CHILDREN’S 93 NOW IN papeRBacK 107 FICTION ARY U GENRE Fiction JUNE BR FORMAT B/Paperback E PAGE EXTENT 352 F New Delhi, 2016. It is eight years since the 26/11 ` PRICE 299 terror attacks in Mumbai and the wounds have RIGHTS World, all languages still not healed. Especially not for superintendent 2 of police Vikrant Singh. Now with the National 3 Investigation Agency, Vikrant manages a meeting with Pakistani High Commissioner Zakir Abdul Most love stories have their share of Khan, who is on a visit to India. While Vikrant misunderstandings, angry tears and hurdles DECEPTION claims he only wants to appeal to Khan to – only for longing and faith to save the day speed up the process of bringing the culprits to and make a happily ever after. S. HUssaIN ZAIDI book, he ends up landing a punch on the high Most love stories – but not all. Not the commissioner’s face. ones that end with hearts left broken, their Meanwhile, in Bhopal, five members of the shards lost under the weight of all that is left Students’ Islamic Movement of India, arrested by unsaid. In these powerful yet quiet letters of Vikrant for planning terrorist attacks in Mumbai, looking for closure, Nikita Singh explores break out of the central jail. Vikrant, dismissed the what-ifs, whys and what-could-have- recently for the incident that was a diplomatic beens; words demanding, with grace and disaster, is unofficially asked to assist the team dignity and passion, a salve for what only tracking the escaped terrorists. time may heal. LETTERS to MY EX In another part of the country, a retired tycoon, a heartbroken ex-soldier and a young NIKIta SINGH Nikita Singh is the bestselling author of woman dealing with demons of her own embark ten novels, including Like a Love Song on a journey of self-discovery aboard a cruise liner and Every Time It Rains. She is also a from Mumbai to Lakshadweep. Fate, however, contributing writer to The Backbenchers has other plans, and the cruise liner is hijacked. series and the editor of the short-story collections 25 Strokes of Kindness and The Racy and riveting, this is Hussain Zaidi at his Turning Point. You can find her on Twitter, best. Instagram and Snapchat (@singh_nikita), or on Facebook. S. Hussain Zaidi is a Mumbai-based journalist, a veteran of investigative, crime and terror reporting. He has worked for the Asian Age, Mumbai Mirror, Mid-Day and Indian Express. His previous books include GENRE Fiction Dongri to Dubai, Byculla to Bangkok and Format B/Paperback Mumbai Avengers. Three of his books have Page EXTENT 144 PRICE `199 been adapted into films. Hussain Zaidi lives RIGHTS World with his family in Mumbai. Image courtesy of Youth Ki Awaaz GENRE Fiction M FORMAT B/Paperback AY PRIL PAGE EXTENT 240 A PRICE `199 RIGHTS World Vijay’s unsuspecting wife Yashodhara is The hilarious private journal of a highly public 4 caught off guard when, tired of the rigours pregnancy 5 of city life, he actually buys seven cows and starts dairy farming. When Mona Mathur of Dehradun had married her college sweetheart Ramit Deol of Amritsar, As Vijay begins to dive into his quirky new KoI GOOD NEWS? there were two things she wasn’t prepared for: hobby, Yash is not quite sure how to handle it. As if she didn’t have enough going on ZARREEN KHAN CHOPRA 1. The size of the Deol family – it puts any Sooraj– already, what with her high-octane job, three Barjatiya movie to shame; children and multiple careers. 2. the fertility of the Deol family – they reproduce Now, plucked out of their comfortable faster than any other species known to mankind. urban existence in the steel-and-chrome For four years now, Mona and Ramit have high-rises of Gurugram, the hapless family is done the unthinkable and remained childless. Of thrown head first into a startlingly unfamiliar course, that also means that they’ve battled that one world, complete with cows and crops, question day in and day out: ‘Koi Good News?’ multiple dogs and eccentric farmhands, a HOW I BECAME A It doesn’t matter that they have been happy to shrewd landlady ‘aunty’ and the occasional FaRMEr’S WIFE be child-free – they are married; they are expected rogue snake. to make babies. After all, there are grandparents, YasHODHARA LAL Will these earnest but insulated city-dwellers great-grandparents, uncles, aunts and even be able to battle the various other difficulties colony aunties waiting. that come with living a farmer’s life? Brutally honest, thoroughly irreverent, Koi Good News? is the funniest book you’ll read this Yashodhara Lal is the author of several year. bestselling novels. In her corporate avatar, Yashodhara is an IIM-Bangalore graduate with experience in marketing After working for Pepsi, Hindustan Times across FMCG, digital and technology and ACNielsen for ten years, Zarreen Khan businesses. She is also a dance-fitness Chopra decided to take a break and raise two instructor. She lives in Gurugram with children, who are sometimes kind enough to her husband Vijay and their three let her role-play as a marketing consultant. children: Peanut, Pickle and Papad. She lives in Delhi with her husband. GENRE Fiction Format B/Paperback Page EXTENT 240 PRICE `199 RIGHTS Indian subcontinent F E BR U GENRE Fiction/Crime/Thriller ARY Format B/Paperback AY Page EXTENT 340 M PRICE `350 RIGHTS World and Indian subcontinent for English 6 Prem Bedi is the third richest man in the country. December 1911. India is in a tizzy. The old 7 He has royal ancestors and, at 53, he looks walls of Mughal Delhi are bedecked, as aristocratic. He chairs a business empire worth 200 the British are hosting a grand durbar to thousand crores. celebrate the coronation of the new king, He is the ‘Mogul’. DeatH at George V. Cooling his heels at the Majestic THE DURBAR Hotel as he awaits the king’s arrival, a bored Bedi has lived his entire life in the spotlight. Maharaja Sikander Singh of Rajpore is paid So, when he’s accused of killing his ex-wife and ARJUN GAIND a surreptitious visit by two British officers her husband, it’s no wonder that the spotlight who insist that he accompany them to the grows brighter and harsher, and the questions king emperor’s camp. There, an old friend, grow louder – who is ‘The Mogul’? Malik Umar Hayat Khan, who works for Lord Piece by piece, a picture is put together by Hardinge, tells Sikander that his services as a Bedi’s friends and associates: A young rookie sleuth are required, and ushers him into the THE MOGUL defense advocate who wants the case – defending king emperor’s personal chambers. Bedi means he’s arrived; his ex-wife’s family Inside is a dead nautch girl who appears to VISH DHAMIJA that can’t wait to convict him and inherit more have been strangled. And Sikander must find money than they can count in their lifetime; and M the killer before scandal erupts. With far too DEATH the prosecuting advocate who wants to bury Bedi AHARAA J MYSTERY many suspects with very strong motives, will to make headlines. A the maharaja be able to solve the case and save A story unfolding through several perspectives, the durbar from ruin? The Mogul is a ‘howdunnit’ set in the fractured THE world of power, money and crime. December 1911. AT India is in a tizzy. The old walls of Mughal Delhi are bedecked, as the British are hosting a grand durbar to celebrate the DURBAR Arjun Raj Gaind is one of India’s coronation of the new king, George V. All the maharajas and nawabs of India have gathered, at Viceroy Lord Hardinge’s best-known comic book writers. command, to pay homage to the king emperor, the first monarch Vish Dhamija is the bestselling author of fiveof England to visit India in person. He is the creator and author of the crime fiction books. He is frequentlyCooling referred his heels at the Majestic Hotel as he awaits the king’s critically acclaimed, bestselling graphic arrival, a bored Maharaja Sikander Singh of Rajpore is paid to in the press as the ‘master of legala surreptitious crime and visit by two British officers, who insist that he novels Empire of Blood, Reincarnation accompany them to the king emperor’s camp. There, an old courtroom drama’ in India. The Mogulfriend,, Malik a legal Umar Hayat Khan, who works for Lord Hardinge, Man, The Mighty Yeti, Project: tells Sikander that his services as a sleuth are required, and gaind raj arjun thriller, is his seventh novel. Vish lives ushersin London him into the king emperor’s personal chambers. Kalki, Blade of the Warrior: Kshatriya with his wife, Nidhi. Inside is a dead nautch girl who appears to have been strangled. and A Brief History of Death. And Sikander must find the killer before scandal erupts. With far too many suspects with very strong motives, will the Maharaja be able to solve the case and save the Durbar from ruin? GENRE Fiction/Crime/Legal Thriller Format B/Paperback Page EXTENT 304 PRICE `250 RIGHTS Indian subcontinent J GENRE Fiction/General UNE Format B/Paperback Page EXTENT 260 APRIL PRICE `199 RIGHTS World 8 Tara is living a blessed life in the maximum 9 city with her husband Abhimanyu, the love of Rohan and Ira’s life takes an unexpected turn her life.