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.

Graham Hancock Omnibus I

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

2. Fingerprints of the Gods : The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization

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

4. Underworld : The Mysterious Origins of Civilization

5. Underworld Online (Online Updates)

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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.