SAN VICENTE CRICKET CLUB
PARTHO MANDAL
THE BOOK
n the shores of the Pacific and in the beach City of OSan Vicente, accidents of circumstances bring twelve young lives and weave them into a team playing a game esoteric to their new country. Each comes from a different slice of India, different social stratum and different family background. Correlations of the Indian and American THE AUTHOR experiences of each one, and the individual destinies of each player in terms of his background, career and the affiliations he Author lives with his wife in Cerritos he forms once in America plaits their stories. TCalifornia, about 20 miles from where the City of San Vicente would have been. Grew up in The range of the emotional spectrum and the mystique of India; educated at Delhi School of Economics for his cricket that binds them take us on a good ride. MA and State University of New York for his MBA. Has remained somewhere or the other in the world The game they impart to their new country in turn teaches of finance for the past 3 decades, currently engaged them other pragmatic games compulsory to survive the harsh with a bank. welcome of the immigrant, among tensions of existence and Cricket has been his chosen passion for as long right and wrong. as he can remember. Gave up actively playing the game five years ago, but is an acknowledged internet “Like everything else – Chandu, this is a game. A game. groupie. A game just has winners and losers, just temporary winners or temporary losers. No permanent losers, no permanent villain, no permanent bad guys. Only temporary ones. When the game ends the villains disappear and a new game starts. 612 Pages Size 5.5”X8.5” Not very hard to understand but once you do, then you will ` 699.00 PB 978-81-86268-858 not be branding the world black and white.”
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ATTACHED Are you Anxious, Avoidant or Secure? How the science of adult attachment can help you find – and keep – love
Amir Levine,Rachel Heller
9781529032178
Non-Fiction > Family & Relationships
Bluebird ǀ Rs 650 ǀ 304pp ǀ Paperback ǀ B Format
August 22, 2019
A practical relationship book that promises to help you find and keep love by understanding the science of adult attachment
'A groundbreaking book that redefines what it means to be in a relationship.' - John Gray, PhD., bestselling author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
Is there a science to love? In this groundbreaking book, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levine and psychologist Rachel S. F. Heller reveal how an understanding of attachment theory - the most advanced relationship science in existence today - can help us find and sustain love.
Pioneered by psychologist John Bowlby in the 1950s, the field of attachment explains that each of us behaves in relationships in one of three distinct ways:
Anxious people are often preoccupied with their relationships and tend to worry about their partner's ability to love them back.
Avoidant people equate intimacy with a loss of independence and constantly try to minimize closeness.
Secure people feel comfortable with intimacy and are usually warm and loving. With fascinating psychological insight, quizzes and case studies, Dr Amir Levine and Rachel Heller help you understand the three attachment styles, identify your own and recognise the styles of others so that you can find compatible partners or improve your existing relationship. An insightful look at the science behind love, Attached offers readers a road map for building stronger, more fulfilling connections.
Author Bio: Amir Levine, M.D. is an adult, child, and adolescent psychiatrist and neuroscientist. He graduated from the residency program at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University and for the past few years Amir has been conducting neuroscience research at Columbia under the mentorship of Nobel Prize Laureate Eric Kandel. Amir also has a passion for working with patients and it is in this context, while working with mothers and children in a therapeutic nursery, that he first discovered the power of attachment theory. His clinical work together with his deep understanding of the brain from a neuroscientist's perspective contribute to his appreciation of attachment theory and its remarkable effectiveness in helping to heal patients. Amir lives in New York City.
Rachel Heller, M.A. studied at Columbia University with some of the most prominent scholars in the field of social psychology. She now works with families and couples as a psychologist in private practice. Rachel lives in Israel.
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BIG BUSINESS A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero
Tyler Cowen
9781250225627
Business, Finance & Management > Free Enterprise
St. Martin's Press ǀ Rs 699 ǀ 272pp ǀ TPB ǀ Royal
August 22, 2019
An against-the-grain polemic on American capitalism from the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Stagnation
We love to hate the 800-pound gorilla. Walmart and Amazon destroy communities and small businesses. Facebook turns us into addicts while putting our personal data at risk. From skeptical politicians like Bernie Sanders who, at a 2016 presidential campaign rally said, “If a bank is too big to fail, it is too big to exist,” to millennials, only 42 percent of whom support capitalism, belief in big business is at an all-time low. But are big companies inherently evil? If business is so bad, why does it remain so integral to the basic functioning of America? Economist and bestselling author Tyler Cowen says our biggest problem is that we don’t love business enough.
In Big Business, Cowen puts forth an impassioned defense of corporations and their essential role in a balanced, productive, and progressive society. He dismantles common misconceptions and untangles conflicting intuitions. According to a 2016 Gallup survey, only 12 percent of Americans trust big business “quite a lot,” and only 6 percent trust it “a great deal.” Yet Americans as a group are remarkably willing to trust businesses, whether in the form of buying a new phone on the day of its release or simply showing up to work in the expectation they will be paid. Cowen illuminates the crucial role businesses play in spurring innovation, rewarding talent and hard work, and creating the bounty on which we’ve all come to depend.
Author Bio: TYLER COWEN (Ph.D.) holds the Holbert L. Harris chair in economics at George Mason University. He is the author of a number of explanatory and text books, including The Complacent Class, as well as writing the most read economics blog worldwide, marginalrevolution.com. Tyler is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, has written regularly for The New York Times, and contributes to a wide number of newspapers and periodicals.
REVIEWS “[The Complacent Class] provides an open invitation for the reader to think deeply.” —Derek Thompson, The Atlantic
“The Complacent Class is refreshingly nonideological, filled with observations that will resonate with conservatives, liberals and libertarians. ... a useful corrective to the conventional wisdom that American ingenuity, sooner or later, will revive a low-growth economy.” —The Wall Street Journal
"Cowen’s book… will have a profound impact on the way people think about the last thirty years." —Ryan Avent, Economist.com on The Great Stagnation
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The Barcelona Way How to Create a High-Performance Culture
Damian Hughes
9781509804405
Business, Finance & Management > Leadership, Motivational
Macmillan ǀ Rs 550 ǀ 320pp ǀ Paperback ǀ B Format
August 08, 2019
Lessons from the most successful football club on the planet about how to build a winning culture in any working environment.
In The Barcelona Way, sports psychologist Prof. Damian Hughes draws on exclusive insight into FCB as well as first- hand research from organizational psychology, to set out a method to create your own high-performance culture.
At the heart of FCB's winning culture are a set of principles, epitomized by Pep Guardiola, Johan Cruyff, Lionel Messi and many other FCB legends, which govern how to nurture talent, prepare for change and provide the best environment to build a culture of sustained success.
These principles: Big Picture, Arc of Change, Repetition, Cultural Architects, Authentic Leadership are at the heart of FCB's unprecedented domination of football, and are the key to developing high-performance cultures in any team- based organisation across every industry.
The Barcelona Way is a hugely practical must-read that sets out a clear plan, based on the same principles, for you to create a culture of success and get the best of yourself and your team.
Professor Damian Hughes combines his practical and academic background within sport, organization and change psychology to work as a trusted adviser to business, education and sporting elite, specializing in the creation of high- performance cultures. He is the author of The Winning Mindset, Liquid Thinking and How to Think Like Sir Alex Ferguson.
REVIEWS 'A powerful book on the important principles of creating a high-performing culture.' Eddie Jones, England Rugby Union Head Coach
'Barcelona FC is famed for its winning culture. Damian's book unravels what that means and gives us pointers to adopt such a philosophy in our daily lives. A winning read.' Guillem Balagué
'Does culture create competitive advantage? Case closed in this compelling analysis of sporting success. Read it.' James Kerr, author of Legacy
'Damian's book describes for everyone the importance of not just any culture but certain types of culture . . . building a wining culture has never been more important nor Damian's book more valuable' John Amaechi, OBE
'The importance of culture cannot be overstated within elite sporting environments. Damian's book offers fascinating insights how these can be implemented within your own world.' Nick Cox, Academy Operations Manager, Manchester United Football Club
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UNBEATEN The Triumphs and Tragedies of Rocky Marciano
Mike Stanton
9781509822508
Autobiographies, Biographies & Memoirs > Boxing
PAN ǀ Rs 550 ǀ 288pp ǀ Paperback ǀ B Format
August 08, 2019
The biography of Rocky Marciano, the only undefeated heavyweight champion of the world, and inspiration behind Sylvester Stallone's Rocky Balboa.
'Unbeaten is one of the best sports books I've read in years' Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A Life
Rocky Marciano accomplished a feat that eluded legendary champions like Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey, Muhammad Ali, and Mike Tyson: he never lost a professional fight. When he retired in 1956, his record was a perfect 49-0.
Unbeaten is the revelatory biography of one of the greatest heavyweights of all time. Marciano rose from abject poverty and a life of petty crime to become heavyweight champion and one of the most famous faces of his era. He dominated boxing in the decade following the Second World War with a devastating punch, which he nicknamed the 'Suzie Q'.
But perfection came at a price.
Pulitzer Prize-winner Mike Stanton tells the story of Marciano's pursuit of greatness through the era of guys and dolls, hustlers and gamblers, glamorous celebrities and notorious mobsters. But boxing had its dark side, particularly at a time when Mafia mob bosses like Blinky Palermo and Frankie Carbo wielded immense power behind the scenes.
Marciano retired while still in his prime, weighed down by the mob's influence in the sport he loved. For the last decade of his life, he wandered America, disillusioned, untrusting, hiding his money, cheating on his wife, consorting with the mobsters he had loathed for corrupting his sport, until his death in a plane crash in 1969, the night before his 46th birthday.
Unbeaten by Mike Stanton is the story of a remarkable champion, a sport that was rotten to its core, and a country that may have expected too much from its heroes.
Author Bio: Mike Stanton is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Connecticut, having previously headed the investigative team at the Providence Journal, where he shared a Pulitzer Prize.
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The Creative Writing Coursebook Forty-Four Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry
Julia Bell and Paul Magrs
9781509868278
Language Arts & Disciplines, Composition & Creative Writing
Macmillan ǀ Rs 899 ǀ 448pp ǀ TPB
August 22, 2019
A fully updated comprehensive guide for improving your creative writing, including contributions from Ali Smith, Amy Liptrot, David Almond and Kit de Waal
The success and popularity of creative writing courses at universities across the country belies the myth that writing can't be taught.
The Creative Writing Coursebook, edited by Julia Bell and Paul Magrs, takes aspiring writers through three stages of essential practice: 'Gathering' - getting started, learning how to keep notes, making observations and using memory; 'Shaping' - looking at structure, point of view, character and setting; and 'Finishing' - being your own critic, joining workshops and finding publishers.
Fully updated and including a foreword by Marina Warner and contributions from forty-five authors such as Kit de Waal and Amy Liptrot, this is the perfect book for people who are just starting to write as well as for those who want some help honing work already completed. Filled with a wealth of exercises and activities, it will inspire budding writers to develop and hone their skills. Whether writing for publication, in a group or just for pleasure this comprehensive guide is for anyone who is ready to put pen to paper.
Author Bio: Julia Bell is a writer and Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck College, London where she is the Course Director of the Creative Writing MA. She is the author of three novels, most recently The Dark Light, the co editor of the Creative Writing Coursebook as well as three volumes of short stories. She also takes photographs, writes poetry, short stories, occasional essays and journalism. She divides her time between London and Berlin.
Paul Magrs lives and writes in Manchester. In a twenty-five year writing career he has published novels in every genre from Literary to Gothic Mystery to Science Fiction for adults and young adults. His most recent books include the concluding volume in a science fiction trilogy for kids - The Heart of Mars, and Fellowship of Ink. He has taught Creative Writing at both the University of East Anglia and Manchester Metropolitan University, and now writes full time.
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Kafka's Last Trial The Case of a Literary Legacy
Benjamin Balint
9781509836734
Autobiographies, Biographies & Memoirs > Biography: Literary
Picador ǀ Rs 550 ǀ 304pp ǀ Paperback ǀ B Format
August 22, 2019
The gripping story of the legal battle over the work of perhaps the most iconic writer of the twentieth century: a priceless cache of papers, an unprecedented international custody battle, and the unlikely journey of a trove of manuscripts from Prague to Palestine.
'Fascinating and forensically scrupulous.' John Banville, Guardian
When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal champion Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfil his friend's last instruction: to burn his remaining manuscripts. Instead, Brod devoted the rest of his life to editing, publishing and canonizing Kafka's work. By betraying his friend's last wish, Brod twice rescued his legacy - first from physical destruction, and then from obscurity. But that betrayal was also eventually to lead to an international legal battle: as a writer in German, should Kafka's papers come to rest in Germany, where his three sisters died as victims of the Holocaust? Or, as a Jewish writer, should his work be considered as a cultural inheritance of Israel, a state that did not exist at the time of his death?
Alongside an acutely observed portrait of Kafka, Benjamin Balint also traces the journey of the manuscripts Brod had rescued when he fled from Prague to Palestine in 1939 and offers a gripping account of the Israeli court case that determined their fate. He tells of a wrenching escape from the Nazi invaders of Czechoslovakia; of a love affair between exiles stranded in Tel Aviv; and of two countries whose national obsessions with the past eventually faced off in the courts.
For fans of Philippe Sands' East West Street, in Kafka's Last Trial Benjamin Balint invites us to consider Kafka's remarkable legacy and to question whether that legacy belongs by right to the country of his language, that of his birth, or that of his cultural affinities - but also whether any nation state can lay claim to ownership of a writer's work at all.
Author Bio: Benjamin Balint taught literature, including Kafka, at the Bard College humanities programme at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem. His first book, Running Commentary, was published by PublicAffairs in 2010. His second book, Jerusalem: City of the Book, is co-authored with Merav Mack. His reviews and essays regularly appear in the Wall Street Journal, Die Zeit, Haaretz, the Weekly Standard, and the Claremont Review of Books. His translations of Hebrew poetry have appeared in the New Yorker and in Poetry International.
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PANDEMIC
Robin Cook
9781509892969
Crime, Mystery & Thrillers > Crime & Mystery
Picador ǀ Rs 350 ǀ 400pp ǀ Paperback ǀ A Format
August 08, 2019
A taut and compelling medical thriller from the master of the genre, Robin Cook.
Pandemic is an explosive medical thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook.
In New York City, an unidentified, healthy, well-dressed woman is struck down by a sudden respiratory illness on the subway as opportunist thieves snatch her phone and backpack. By the time she's rushed to hospital, she's dead. Ending up on forensic pathologist Dr. Jack Stapleton's autopsy table as the potential victim of a contagion, reveals surprising findings.
Fearing what could be the first in a severe outbreak of a deadly virus similar to the 1918 influenza pandemic, Jack works in overdrive for a diagnosis and to identify the woman. As the inconclusive tests come back, Jack urges his wife, and chief medical examiner, Dr. Laurie Montgomery to sound the alarm at the mayor's office, concerned that more cases may follow. Lacking conclusive proof, Laurie refuses, fearing it would trigger widespread panic.
When further cases do occur around the city, and then further afield in Los Angeles, London and Rome, Jack finds his own life in jeopardy as he enters a race against time to discover the link that connects all the victims before it's too late . . .
Author Bio: Doctor and author Robin Cook is widely credited with introducing the word 'medical' to the thriller genre and, decades after the publication of his 1977 breakthrough novel, Coma, he continues to dominate the category he created. Robin Cook has successfully combined medical fact with fiction to produce more than thirty international bestsellers, including Outbreak, Terminal and Contagion.
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The Fifth Column
Andrew Gross
9781509878437
Crime, Mystery & Thrillers > Espionage & Spy Thriller
Macmillan ǀ Rs 599 ǀ 352pp ǀ TPB ǀ Royal
August 22, 2019
A thrilling novel about the only man who can stop Nazi sympathizers from rising up and plunging New York, America and the world into darkness, from Andrew Gross, the bestselling author of The One Man and The Spy.
The Fifth Column is a thrilling novel about the only man who can thwart a Nazi sympathizer uprising in New York during the Second World War, from bestselling author Andrew Gross.
A Man in Trouble February 1939 and Europe is on the brink of war. Charles Mossman is in a bar in Hell's Kitchen, New York, reeling from the loss of his job and his failing marriage, whilst outside thousands of Nazi sympathizers are attending a hate-spewing rally. As he confronts one, Charles makes a horrendous mistake with deadly consequences.
A City of Secrets Two years later, Charles is released from prison and tries to make amends with his wife and daughter. America is wrestling with whether to enter the growing war but support is growing, driving Nazi sympathizers underground. Charles begins to understand that surrounding them there are forces that will use any means necessary to bring about the downfall of his nation.
The Enemy Within When Charles's daughter is befriended by a seemingly amiable Swiss couple, it brings to the surface his fears of a 'Fifth Column' of embedded German spies in their new neighbourhood. All Charles wants is to redeem himself as a husband and father, but sometimes a man must do whatever it takes to stand up for his family and what he believes, even sacrificing his life to do so . . .
Author Bio: Before writing his own bestselling thrillers, Andrew Gross co-authored five novels with James Patterson. His first novel, The Blue Zone, was an instant international bestseller. He currently lives in New York with his wife, Lynn, and their three children.
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TRUE COLOURS
Kristin Hannah
9781509835805
General Fiction > Romance Fiction
PAN ǀ Rs 399 ǀ 544pp ǀ Paperback ǀ B Format
August 08, 2019
A novel about jealousy, passion, forgiveness and sisterhood, from the New York Times number one bestselling author of The Nightingale.
The Grey sisters have always looked after one another. Growing up on a sprawling ranch with an emotionally distant father, they had nowhere else to turn after their mother died.
Winona, the oldest, craves her father's approval. Happier reading a book than riding a horse, she knows she isn't the daughter he wanted - but she's determined to prove her worth. Aurora is the peacemaker, trying to keep everyone happy, whilst hiding her own feelings. Vivi Ann, the youngest, is the star of the family. Beautiful and spirited, everything comes easily to her - until a stranger comes to town.
When Vivi Ann makes a fateful decision to follow her heart, everything changes. Suddenly the sisters are pitted against each other. Loyalties are tested, secrets revealed - and then a terrible crime threatens to tear their whole community apart.
Compelling and provocative, True Colours by Kristin Hannah is an unforgettable novel about jealousy, betrayal, passion and forgiveness - and what it means to be a family.
Author Bio: Kristin Hannah is a New York Times bestselling author. She is a former lawyer turned writer and is the mother of one son. She and her husband live in the Pacific Northwest near Seattle, and Hawaii. Her first novel published in the UK, Night Road, was one of eight books selected for the UK's 2011 TV Book Club Summer Read.
REVIEWS 'As Hannah explores the deep, emotional connection between sisters, she creates a beautiful and captivating story of love and rivalry, family and community, that readers will happily devour' Booklist
'[Hannah] really knows what women - her characters and her audience - want' Publishers Weekly
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A Thousand Ships
Natalie Haynes
9781509836208
Historical Fiction > Myth & Legend Told as Fiction, Ancient Greece
Mantle ǀ Rs 650 ǀ 368pp ǀ TPB ǀ Royal
August 22, 2019
A feminist retelling of the Trojan War - giving voices to the women the myths forgot . . .
In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective.
This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of all of them… They have waited to have their story told, and I will make them wait no longer.
In the early hours of the morning, Creusa wakes to find her beloved Troy engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of brutal conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over, and Troy has fallen. Over the next few hours, the only life she has ever known will turn to ash . . .
The devastating consequences of the fall of Troy stretch from Mount Olympus to Mount Ida, from the citadel of Troy to the distant Greek islands, and across the oceans and sky in between. Arising from this are the individual tales of the women embroiled in the lead-up to and the aftermath of that legendary war, as well as the feud and the fatal decisions that started it all…
Powerfully told from an all-female perspective, A Thousand Ships gives voices to the women, girls, and goddesses who, for so long, were kept silent.
Author Bio: Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster. She is the author of The Amber Fury, which was shortlisted for the Scottish Crime Book of the Year award; The Children of Jocasta, a feminist retelling of the Oedipus and Antigone stories; and a non-fiction book about Ancient History, The Ancient Guide to Modern Life. She has written and presented two series of the BBC Radio 4 show, Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics. In 2015, she was awarded the Classical Association Prize for her work in bringing Classics to a wider audience.
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We Hunt the Flame (Sands of Arawiya Series)
Hafsah Faizal
9781529034097
Juvenile Fiction > Romance, Fantasy & Magic
MCB ǀ Rs 450 ǀ 496pp ǀ Paperback ǀ B Format
August 08, 2019 12+ Years
A rich and searing epic fantasy debut set in ancient Arabia, Hafsah Faizal's We Hunt the Flame is one of the most anticipated YA novels of 2019.
People lived because she killed. People died because he lived.
Nobody knows that Zafira is the Hunter. Forced to disguise herself as a man, she braves the cursed forest to feed her people. If she is exposed as a girl, all of her achievements will be rejected.
Nasir is the infamous Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the sultan. If he refuses he will be punished in the most brutal of ways.
Both are legends in the kingdom of Arawiya - but neither wants to be. And when Zafira embarks on a quest to restore magic to her suffering world, Nasir is sent by the sultan on a similar mission: retrieve magic and kill the hunter. But an ancient evil stirs as their journey unfolds, and the prize they seek may pose a threat greater than either can imagine . . . Set in a richly detailed world inspired by ancient Arabia, Hafsah Faizal's We Hunt the Flame - first in the Sands of Arawiya duology - is a gripping debut of discovery, conquering fear, and taking identity into your own hands.
Author Bio: Hafsah Faizal is an American Muslim and brand designer. She's the founder of IceyDesigns, where she creates websites for authors and beauteous goodies for everyone else. When she's not writing, she can be found dreaming up her next design, deciding between Assassin's Creed and Skyrim, or traversing the world. Born in Florida and raised in California, she now resides in Texas with her family and a library of books waiting to be devoured. We Hunt the Flame is her debut novel.
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No Big Deal
Bethany Rutter
9781509870059
Juvenile Fiction > Romance & relationships stories
MCB ǀ Rs 399 ǀ 320pp ǀ Paperback ǀ B Format
August 22, 2019 12+ Years
A warm, funny YA debut about a fat girl embarking on her first romance, female friendship, valuing herself and not settling, by one of the best body positive writers in the UK.
It's not my body that's holding me back. It's more of a problem that people keep telling me it should.
Meet Emily Daly, a stylish, cute, intelligent and hilarious seventeen-year-old about to start her last year at school. Emily is also fat. She likes herself and her body. When she meets Joe at a house party, he instantly becomes The Crush of Her Life. Everything changes. At first he seems perfect. But as they spend more time together, doubts start to creep in.
With her mum trying new fad diets every week, and increasing pressure to change, Emily faces a constant battle to stay strong, be her true self and not change for anyone.
No Big Deal is a warm, funny inspiring debut YA novel from Bethany Rutter: influencer, editor and a fierce UK voice in the debate around body positivity.
Author Bio: Bethany Rutter is a journalist and blogger who writes about fat bodies, plus size fashion and body politics including the benefits and limitations of body positivity. She works in marketing at a plus-size fashion brand and is an occasional DJ. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, Telegraph Magazine, Vogue, Dazed, RedOnline, The Debrief and others. She co-hosts the podcast What Page Are You On? and is the author of Plus+, a coffee table book offering style inspiration for everyone.
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SECRET FRIENDS
Elizabeth Laird
9781529015409
Juvenile Fiction > Personal & social Issues Bullying, Violence & Abuse
MCB ǀ Rs 350 ǀ 160pp ǀ Paperback ǀ B Format
August 22, 2019 9-11 Years
A heartbreaking story of the effects of bullying from the multi-award-winning Elizabeth Laird, shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and reissued with illustrations by Alleanna Harris.
What's the good in keeping secrets?
Secret Friends is a heartbreaking story about friendship and bullying from the multi-award-winning Elizabeth Laird. Rafaella doesn't find it easy to make friends. She looks and feels different from the others at school. And Lucy is the first to tease, the first to call her 'Earwig', until they get to know one another and Lucy sees that Rafaella is full of hopes and ideas, just like she is. Lucy loves keeping her own secret friend, until tragedy strikes and secrets can't be kept any longer.
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Children's Book Award and reissued with gorgeous illustrations, more than twenty years after first publication, Elizabeth Laird's moving and unflinching novella brings home the crucial importance of cultivating empathy in young people.
'[A] humane and honest story. It conveys so much, so simply and so well' Scotsman
'[A] fine weepy with a moral, about the dangers of playground cliquishness and cruelty' The Sunday Times
Author Bio: Elizabeth Laird is the multi-award-winning author of several much-loved children's books, including The Garbage King, Red Sky in the Morning andThe Fastest Boy in the World. She has been shortlisted for the prestigious CILIP Carnegie Medal six times and her novel based on time spent in refugee camps in Jordan, Welcome to Nowhere, was the winner of the UKLA Award. She lives in Britain now, but still likes to travel as much as she can.
Alleanna Harris is a US illustrator who has been drawing for as long as she can remember. Alleanna finds inspiration in the beauty in everyday things. She lives in New Jersey.
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A House Without Walls
Elizabeth Laird
9781509886012
Juvenile Fiction > Family & Relationships
MCB ǀ Rs 350 ǀ 288pp ǀ Paperback ǀ B Format
August 22, 2019 9-11 Years
The moving story of a family's fight to reunite after their lives are torn apart by war in Syria, from Elizabeth Laird, award-winning author of A Little Piece of Ground and Welcome to Nowhere.
A House Without Walls is a powerful story of family, hope and redemption amidst the refugee crisis in Syria from the award-winning Elizabeth Laird, illustrated by Lucy Eldridge.
Thirteen-year-old Safiya and her family have been driven out of Syria by civil war. Safiya knows how lucky she is - lucky not to be living in a refugee camp, lucky to be alive. But it's hard to feel grateful when she's forced to look after her father and brother rather than go back to school, and now that she's lost her home, she's lonelier than ever.
As they struggle to rebuild their lives, Safiya realizes that her family has always been incomplete and with her own future in the balance, it's time to uncover the secrets that war has kept buried.
Author Bio: Elizabeth Laird is the multi-award-winning author of several much-loved children's books, including The Garbage King, The Prince Who Walked with Lions and The Fastest Boy in the World. She has been shortlisted for the prestigious CILIP Carnegie Medal six times and her novel based on time spent in refugee camps in Jordan, Welcome to Nowhere, was the winner of the UKLA Award. She lives in Britain now, but still likes to travel as much as she can.
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The 117-Storey Treehouse
Andy Griffiths
9781509885275
Juvenile Fiction > Comic Strip, Graphic Novels, Humorous Stories
MCB ǀ Rs 350 ǀ 288pp ǀ Paperback ǀ B Format
August 22, 2019 7-11 Years
Lots of laughs on every level in the world's most awesome treehouse! The ninth instalment in the number one bestselling Treehouse series by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton.
The 117-Storey Treehouse is the ninth book in Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton's wacky treehouse adventure series, with the laugh-out-loud story told through a combination of text and fantastic cartoon-style illustrations.
Andy and Terry have added thirteen new levels of crazy fun to their fantastic ever growing treehouse. So, what are you waiting for? Come on up!
Author Bio: Andy Griffiths is Terry's best mate. He is also Australia's number-one children's author. His books, including the popular Treehouse series, have been hugely successful internationally, winning awards and becoming bestsellers in the UK and the USA as well as in his homeland, Australia. Andy thrives on having an audience: he has worked as a high-school teacher, been the lead singer in a rock band and a stand-up comedian. He is a passionate advocate for literacy, has two daughters and lives in Melbourne, Australia. Terry Denton is Andy's best mate. He is also a bestselling and award-winning writer and illustrator based in Melbourne, Australia. Among other things, he worked on the Horrible Science series for Scholastic UK. He lives by the beach with his wife and three kids.
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The Good, The Bad And The Deadly 7
Garth Jennings
9781509887651
Juvenile Fiction > Adventure Stories
MCB ǀ Rs 350 ǀ 256pp ǀ Paperback ǀ B Format
August 22, 2019 9-11 Years
The Deadly 7 are back in a second hilarious MONSTER adventure by Singdirector Garth Jennings.
The Good, the Bad and the Deadly 7 is a funny, action-packed, exciting monster adventure by the director of Sing Garth Jennings.
'A fantastic new voice in middle grade fiction. I loved it!' Robin Stevens, bestselling author of Murder Most Unladylike.
Having seven invisible monsters to hang out with during the summer holidays is pretty great, but now it's time to go back to school, and if Nelson's not careful, the Deadly 7 are going to get him into serious trouble. The monsters agree to stay away (and hang out in London Zoo), but there's one problem: something huge and invisible has started rampaging through the French countryside and it looks like Nelson and his monsters might be the only ones who can help.
Who better to stop one enormous terrifying monster than seven little angry, sneaky, greedy, vain, adorable, thieving, farting monsters? That's right, Stan, Puff, Nosh, Miser, Hoot, Crush and Spike are here to save the day!
Author Bio: Garth Jennings has directed many music videos and commercials as one third of the production company Hammer & Tongs. His work includes videos for Blur, Radiohead, Beck, Fatboy Slim and Vampire Weekend. He is the director of two feature films - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Son of Rambow, for which he also wrote the screenplay. He has just directed the newly released, Golden Globe nominated Sing, a feature-length animated film with an all-star cast, from the studio that created Despicable Me. He has also written The Deadly 7 and The Wildest Cowboy for Macmillan Children's Books.
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Knock! Knock! Open the Door
Michaela Morgan
9781529025927
Picture Storybooks
MCB ǀ Rs 350 ǀ 256pp ǀ Paperback ǀ B Format
August 08, 2019 0-5 Years
Knock! Knock! What's that? Open the door . . . It's a spotty cat!
Where is that special person Mum and Dad promised to bring home? There are lots of knocks at the door as new animal friends come calling, but none of them are quite who this little toddler is expecting. She's waiting for someone cuddly like her friend the polar bear, bouncy like the kangaroo, AND noisy like the dinosaur. Who can it be?
An adorably funny rhyming story with large flaps to lift and sweet animal illustrations.
Author Bio: David Walker has been drawing and painting all of his life. He graduated from the University of Kansas and was Art Director at Hallmark cards in Kansas City before starting his own business. He now works on a variety of illustration projects, from children's books and greetings cards to fabric and scrapbook supplies, and all from his studio in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. David's life is a tangle of dogs, cats and kids, and his art is inspired by all the wonderful chaos that comes with them. David's first picture book for Macmillan, THE GREAT EASTER EGG SCRAMBLE (ISBN: 978-0-330-53800- 8), published in 2012.
Michaela Morgan left her hometown of Manchester for a misspent youth in various exotic locations and now divides her time between Brighton, France and Rutland. As a teacher she worked with everyone from sticky infants to tattooed prisoners, but writes mostly for children. Michaela is always a popular speaker at various school events, festivals and conferences. Her first picture book for Macmillan was NEVER SHAKE A RATTLESNAKE
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The Girl, the Bear and the Magic Shoes: Book and CD Pack
Julia Donaldson
9781529001983
Picture Storybooks
MCB ǀ Rs 350 ǀ 256pp ǀ Paperback ǀ B Format
August 08, 2019 0-5 Years
An action-packed magical adventure about a little girl and her extraordinary new shoes from the bestselling creators of What the Ladybird Heard, with an audio CD featuring an exciting reading of the story by Noma Dumezweni.
A glittering magical adventure about a girl, a bear and some very special shoes from the bestselling creators of What the Ladybird Heard and Sugarlump and the Unicorn. This paperback and CD edition features a charming reading of the story by Noma Dumezweni.
When Josephine leaves the shoe shop after buying some new running shoes, she hears an unusual sound - Click-click! Click-click! A bear with a backpack is following her! Luckily for Josephine, her new shoes are anything but ordinary - these are magic shoes. But can they help her escape the bear when there's a mountain, a bog and even a lake in her way?
The Girl, the Bear and the Magic Shoes is an exciting adventure from the stellar picture-book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks, creators of What the Ladybird Heard. Full of action and imagination, and with a delightfully unexpected ending, this gorgeously glittery book is one to enjoy over and over again. This paperback and CD edition features an exciting reading of the story by Noma Dumezweni.
Enjoy all the stories from Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks: Sharing a Shell, The Princess and the Wizard, The Rhyming Rabbit, The Singing Mermaid, Sugarlump and the Unicorn, Princess Mirror-Belle and the Dragon Pox, What the Ladybird Heard, What the Ladybird Heard Next and What the Ladybird Heard on Holiday.
Author Bio: Julia Donaldson is the author of some of the world's best-loved children's books, including modern classics The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child, which together have sold over 17 million copies worldwide, and the hugely successful What the Ladybird Heard adventures. Julia also writes fiction, including the Princess Mirror-Belle books illustrated by Lydia Monks, as well as poems, plays and songs - and her brilliant live shows are always in demand. She was Children's Laureate 2011-13 and has been honoured with a CBE for Services to Literature. Julia and her husband Malcolm divide their time between West Sussex and Edinburgh.
Lydia Monks is one of the most original and bestselling picture book artists working today. Lydia illustrates several bestselling series including the What the Ladybird Heard adventures and Princess Mirror-Belle, written by Julia Donaldson. Her distinctive use of colour and collage has won her critical acclaim and several awards, including the Royal Mail Scottish Children's Book Award, the Stockport Children's Book Award and multiple nominations for the Kate Greenaway Medal. She is also the author and illustrator of the Twit Twoo School picture books. Lydia lives in Sheffield.
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Julia Donaldson Activity Book x 10 Books (Shrinkwrap) 9781509878475 │Rs 1999 │ Paperback
****** What the Ladybird Heard Activity Book Tales from Acorn Wood Sticker Book Sharing a Shell Sticker Book Room on the Broom Colouring Book The Gruffalo's Child Colouring Book The Gruffalo Activity Book Sugarlump and the Unicorn Sticker Book The Snail and the Whale Colouring Book The Smartest Giant in Town Activity Book The Singing Mermaid Sticker Book
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Amazing Machines: Big Truckload of Fun 9780753474662 │ Rs 2500 Hardback │ Picture Book
The bestselling Amazing Machines series of picture storybooks is now available in one fantastic fire truck! Now with 14 favorite storybooks inside, the Big Truckload of Fun collection is the perfect gift for every preschooler who loves things that go.
From airplanes and ambulances to rockets and tractors, these critically acclaimed picture books are full of fun rhyming text, bright artwork, and wacky animal characters to engage and delight young children as they learn about machines. Each book includes a helpful illustrated glossary of technical words to help build vocabulary.
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