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Kargil : From Surprise To Victory M.S. Swaminathan: The Man Who Fed India Authors you’ll want to read Discover a handpicked collection of authors — from emerging voices to timeless favourites. Aarthi Gunnupuri Abhishek Mukherjee Sea, Salt And Spice: A History of Mumbai through Food Sea, Salt and Spice is a definitive culinary biography of Mumbai – a city shaped as much appetite as by tides and trade. Long before it became shorthand for ambition, excess and overcrowded trains, Bombay was a porous island city,… The First House – from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Burnt Sugar ‘I married my husband to live in a fairy tale … We would be like planets orbiting the sun or gods enacting their myths. Marriage was a solution, and I wanted to be dissolved.’ A woman’s husband walks into their… In Delhi, in the 1970s, the sons and daughters of S.P. Chopra, one of India’s political architects, live together in a sprawling complex-A-19 Modern Colony-vying for influence in a family shaped by the great man’s legacy. By the end of… August 17: A Novel Brilliant, subversive and darkly funny, this is a novel of astonishing scope and imagination. Rendered in Jayasree Kalathil’s masterful translation, August 17 confirms S. Hareesh winner of the JCB Prize for Moustache – as one of the most daring and… Walk Like A Girl From acclaimed fashion designer Prabal Gurung comes a captivating, courageous literary memoir. Walk Like a Girl is the story of a queer boy who yearned for a world beyond the confines of prejudice he experienced growing up in Nepal and… Wild Capital: Discovering Nature in Delhi When is the last time you ran your hands through the tumult of wild grass flowers? Or stopped to watch a firefly? In a warming, hostile world, how do we find purpose? Perhaps we can start with noticing the bird… Ghost-eye: A Novel Past and present collide in a novel about a girl who might just be a ‘case of the reincarnation type’Varsha Gupta wants fish for her lunch. Her family can’t understand it; the three-year-old has never tasted fish in her life…. A Sixth Of Humanity: Independent India’s Development Odyssey – A Financial Times Book of the Year (2025) India’s journey has been distinctively ‘precocious’ in comparative terms. It opted for democracy before development and social change, promoted high-skilled services before and over low-skilled manufacturing and chose a globalization that favoured exports of talented people and short-changed the poor…. Nautch Boy: A Memoir of My Life in the Kothas In a declining kotha, a sweet-faced, quiet boy dressed in matching pink shorts and top poses demurely for a photograph, clutching a vase of plastic white daisies. Around him, women dust their faces with powder, dab on scent and primp… A Return to Self: Excursions in Exile In 2019, the Government of India revoked Aatish Taseer’s citizenship, thereby exiling him from the country where he grew up and lived for thirty years. This loss, both practical and spiritual, sent him on a journey of revisiting the places… THE ELSEWHEREANS: A DOCUMENTARY NOVEL ‘Mercurial, witty, luminous’ – DEVIKA REGE ‘Thayil’s masterpiece’ – WILLIAM DALRYMPLE Jeet Thayil’s The Elsewhereans is a genre-defying novel that melds fiction, travelogue, memoir, a ghost story, a family saga, photographs and much else into a tale that unfolds across… How to Forget: A Book of Short Steps and Long Walks In spare and lucid lines of poetry and prose, How to Forget takes the reader on a walk through childhood, love, loss and longing. Told through memory and impressions both personal and communal, the book chronicles lifetimes through the act… Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia A history of modern South Asia told through five partitions that reshaped it.As recently as 1928, a vast swathe of Asia–India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, Bhutan, Yemen, Oman, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait–were bound together under a single imperial… Loal Kashmir: Love and Longing in a Torn Land A rare collection of stories of love, longing and loss from a region that has witnessed decades of conflict, Loal Kashmir seeks to answer the question: what happens when you cannot communicate your longing to your beloved? Loal, the Kashmiri… Your front-row seat to literary events WRITERS’ WORKSHOP Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur. Commodo nullam. WRITERS’ WORKSHOP Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur. Commodo nullam. Connect with us Are you an author with a story to share? An educator? Or a brand open to collaboration? Whatever brings you here, our team is all ears. Aspiring authors You’ve got a story. We’re ready to hear it. Submit Manuscript Curious professionals Build your career in the world of publishing. Passionate educators With Collins Learning, support every learner, every step of the way. General enquiries Have a question or something to share? Write to us.