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Friday 30 May 2014

Amanda Quick Omnibus I

1. Vanza Series

i) With This Ring
ii) I Thee Wed
iii) Wicked Widow
iv) Lie by Moonlight

2. Lake & March

i) Slightly Shady
ii) Don’t Look Back
iii) Late for the Wedding

3. Ladies of Lantern Street

i) Crystal Gardens
ii) The Mystery Woman
iii) Otherwise Engaged


Link: Box

Thursday 8 May 2014

The Change Series Part II by S. M. Stirling

A. Emberverse Series 2

1. The Sunrise Lands
1.5. Something for Yew
2. The Scourge of God
2.5 A Murder in Eddsford
3. The Sword of the Lady
4. The High King of Montival
5. The Tears of the Sun
6. Lord of Mountains
7. The Given Sacrifice

B. Emberverse Series 3

1. The Golden Princess (7 chapters)
2. The Desert and the Shore


Link: Box

Saturday 26 April 2014

Sophie Jordan Omnibus

1. One Night with You

2. The Derrings

i) Once Upon a Wedding Night
ii) Too Wicked to Tame
iii) Surrender to Me

3. The Penwich School for Virtuous Girls

i) Sins of a Wicked Duke
ii) In Scandal They Wed
iii) Wicked Nights with a Lover

4. Forgotten Princesses

i) Wicked in Your Arms
ii) Lessons from a Scandalous Bride
iia) The Earl in My Bed
iii) How to Lose a Bride in One Night

5. The Ivy Chronicles

a) Crash
i) Foreplay
ii) Tease (Pre-publication version)
iii) Wild

6. Uninvited

i) Uninvited
ii) Unleashed

7. Firelight Series

i) Firelight
ii) Vanish
iii) Hidden
iiia) Breathless


Link: DL

Friday 4 April 2014

The Drought and Other Stories by Sarat Chandra Chatterjee



A collection of stories from one of India's all time classic writers, the author of Srikanta, Charitraheen, Parineeta, Devdas . . .

1. The Drought  [see here for original]
2. The Snake-charmer’s Daughter
3. A Gleam of light
4. Ramlal's Conversion
5. The Portrait
6. Abhagi's Heaven!  [see here for original]

Complete works of the author in original here.



Thursday 3 April 2014

Graham Hancock Omnibus II

1. Supernatural : Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind

2. Entangled : The Eater of Souls

3. War God : Nights of the Witch

Link: Box

Monday 24 March 2014

The Change Series Part I by S. M. Stirling

What would happen if an islandful of today's people got transported back in time to the thirteenth century BC? How would iron and modern weapons and technology affect the Bronze Age setting? What would happen to famous historical events, like the Trojan War? See in these great alternate history novels:

1. Nantucket Series

i) Island in the Sea of Time
ia) Riding Shotgun to Armageddon
ii) Against the Tide of Years
iii) On the Oceans of Eternity
iiia) Blood Wolf

2. Emberverse Series 1

i) Dies the Fire
ii) The Protector's War
iii) A Meeting at Corvallis


Link: Box

Monday 17 March 2014

Sarah MacLean Omnibus

1. The Season

2. Love By Numbers

i) Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake
ii) Ten Ways to be Adored When Landing a Lord
iii) Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart

3. The Rules of Scoundrels

i) A Rogue By Any Other Name
ii) One Good Earl Deserves A Lover
iii) No Good Duke Goes Unpunished
iv) Never Judge A Lady By Her Cover


Link: DL

Friday 14 March 2014

Suzanne Enoch Omnibus

1. Traditional Regencies

i) The Black Duke's Prize
ii) Angel's Devil

2. Regency Historicals

i) Lady Rogue
ii) Stolen Kisses

3. The Bancroft Brothers

i) By Love Undone
ii) Taming Rafe

4. The Griffin Family

i) Sin and Sensibility
ii) An Invitation to Sin
iii) Something Sinful
iv) Sins of a Duke

5. The Notorious Gentlemen

i) After the Kiss
ii) Before the Scandal
iii) Always a Scoundrel

6. Scandalous Highlanders

a) One Hot Scot
i) The Devil Wears Kilts
ii) Rogue with a Brogue


Link: DL

Sunday 9 March 2014

Rupture by Sampurna Chattarji



She is running on dream walkways into the day that will dawn bright, like any other, hanging by a thread on a piece of news, a pendulum swinging from now to then, before to after, panic to peace to panic, capital to city, city to suburb, remembering to forgetting . . .


In the course of twenty-four hours, nine characters across five cities are faced with a pressing need to examine their past. As each of them confronts the realities within, the world itself explodes into chaos, the disintegration of civic order mirroring the breakdown of individual sanities.

A powerful first novel from a critically acclaimed poet, translator and fiction-writer, Rupture is a book in which every word, every emotion resonates with a heightened sense of intensity. Sampurna Chattarji brings to her writing a poetry and potency that is rare, and the sheer pace of the narrative pulls the reader in with its urgency.

Preview:

Sunday 2 February 2014

English, August by Upamanyu Chatterjee



‘Agastya's story is convincing, entertaining, moving—and timeless. It merits an accolade that's far harder to earn than "authentic." It’s a classic'

The New York Times


Agastya Sen is a young Indian civil servant whose imagination is dominated by women, literature and soft drugs.

As the novel opens he has been posted to the small provincial town of Madna.

First published in 1988, English, August, a funny, wryly observed account of Agastya Sen's year in the sticks, is a cult classic.



The Last Salute (Shesh Namaskar) by Santosh Kumar Ghosh



Shesh Namaskar is the story of a young man, basically innocent but now gone astray. In his ruthless search for a meaning of life, there is a sadness that both ennobles and elevates the mind. Shesh Namaskar is written in the form of a series of letters from a son to his mother who had left home, never to return, when the son had accused her of being unfaithful when he was younger. Through these letters he finds way of discovering his own self. As a last tribute of reverence, he seeks forgiveness from his mother just before his death. This outstanding novel published in 1971 won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1972.

See here for a review of this translation.

Preview:

Thursday 30 January 2014

Turbulence by Samit Basu



'You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll gasp and you will demand a sequel'


BEN AARONOVITCH (Doctor Who)




'For wicked wit, for post-modern superheroics, for sheer verbal energy and dazzle, Samit Basu doesn't so much push the envelope as fold it into an n-dimensional hyper-envelope, address it to your hind-brain and mail it with a rail gun'


MIKE CAREY


(X-Men, Lucifer, the Felix Castor series)




How would you feel if you got what you really wanted? What would you do if you were given the power to change the world?



Everyone on BA flight 142 from London to Delhi got off it with a unique superpower. A power they didn't even know they wanted. Everyone, that is, who's still alive. Because someone is hunting down the passengers.

And now Aman Sen's ragtag collective of rogue superhumans is in grave danger. They must decide what to do with their powers and their lives — and quickly.

This explosive new blockbuster moves at hyperspeed across two continents as colliding forces move towards an action-packed finale that will leave the world — and you — changed forever.


Sunday 26 January 2014

Graham Hancock Omnibus I

1. The Sign and the SealThe Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant

2. Fingerprints of the GodsThe Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization

3. The Message of the SphinxA Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind (with Robert Bauval)

4. UnderworldThe Mysterious Origins of Civilization

5. Underworld Online (Online Updates)

Link: Box

Thursday 16 January 2014

East-West (Purbo-Paschim) Part II by Sunil Gangopadhyay




Outside a plush hotel in New York, an Indian youth is seen waiting for an appointment. He is desperately in need of a job. He is Atin, the young boy of Part One who gets mixed up in politics, and is obliged to leave the country, much against his will. He is still a revolutionary at heart, he hates his exile in America.

The large canvas of this novel covers three continents, but more particularly the dramatic events following the partition of India, the political unrest in West Bengal, the plight of the refugees and the birth of a new nation, Bangladesh. The social and political reality instead of remaining a backdrop takes on centre stage where simultaneously individual lives unfold, each with it's own account of love, hate, passion and betrayal. The author takes a dispassionate look at the Naxal revolutionaries, exposing their vulnerability, the colossal tragedy of so many promising lives coming to a pointless end. On the other side, in the other Bengal, events move to an inexorable climax, while the fictional characters flit across the stage, the shadow of actual historical figures loom large — Ayub Khan, Yahya Khan, General Niazi and the day by day account of how the mighty Pakistan Army, one of the best in the world was doomed to a most humiliating defeat.

This novel of epic proportions is an unique experiment in blending fiction with facts, an attempt to truthfully capture a swiftly moving course of events, a compelling novel difficult to put down. This novel had won the prestigious Ananda Puraskar in 1989.

For Bengali original, see here: 1 + 2.