Matthew Reilly Omnibus

Action thrillers from the Down Under.

1. Shane Schofield Series

i) Ice Station
ii) Area 7
iii) Scarecrow
iv) Hell Island
v) Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves

2. Jack West Series

i) Seven Ancient Wonders
ii) The Six Sacred Stones
iii) The Five Greatest Warriors

3. Stand Alone Novels

i) Contest
ii) Temple
iii) Hover Car Racer
iv) The Tournament

4. Short Pieces

i) Rewind
ii) The Mine
iii) A Bad Day at Fort Bragg
iv) Altitude Rush
v) The Rock Princess and the Thriller Writer
vi) Time Tours
vii) The Dead Prince
viii) Complex 13

5. Wikipedia profile of the author

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Chetan Bhagat Omnibus

From India's toppest selling author in English.

1. Five Point Someone

2. One Night @ the Call Center

3. The 3 Mistakes of My Life

4. 2 States

5. Revolution 2020

6. What Young India Wants


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Shadow from Ladakh by Bhabani Bhattacharya

In this epoch-making novel, the author provides a true insight into contemporary India, in the backdrop of China-India flareup. He tells an extremely gripping story of unsurpassed drama, on a broad and revealing canvas. Bhashkar, an American-trained Chief Engineer in a steel plant, wants to dispossess Gandhigram, because it is a hindrance to India's industrialization. He brings every pressure to bear, but to his surprise, the community of the believers in non-violence stands firm under its great leader, Satyajit, and he himself falls in love with Satyajit's daughter Sumita, a barefoot, white-saried girl . . .

A cult novel from one of the forerunners of the Indian novel in English, it won of the Sahitya Akademi Award for 1967.

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Amitav Ghosh Omnibus

From one of the frontline authors of India's English literature

1. The Circle of Reason (Prix Médicis étranger, France, 1990, for French translation: Les feux du Bengale)

2. The Shadow Lines (Sahitya Akademi Award, India, for English, 1989 and Ananda Puraskar, West Bengal, 1989)

3. The Calcutta Chromosome (Arthur C. Clarke Award, U.K., 1997)

4. The Glass Palace (selected for Commonwealth Writers' Prize; refused; Myanmar National Literature Award for Burmese translation, 2012, Grand Prize for Fiction, Frankfurt eBook Award, 2001)

5. The Hungry Tide (Hutch Crossword Book Award, India, 2004; finalist, Kiriyama Prize, USA, 2006)

6. Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy 01) (Vodafone Crossword Book Award, India, 2008, Indiaplaza Golden Quill Book Award, India, 2009, Tagore Literature Award, 2012 and Dan David Prize, Israel, 2010; also shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize)

7. River of Smoke (Ibis Trilogy 02) (shortlisted for Man Booker Asian Literary Prize 2012)

8. In an Antique Land (non-fiction)

9. Countdown

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Chowringhee by Sankar

'Here, day and night were interchangeable. The immaculately dressed Chowringhee, radiant in her youth, had just stepped on to the floor at the nightclub.'

Written in the format of a hotel receptionist's memoirs, the novel contains anecdote after anecdote about what happens in a hotel, the smallest story being that about two young American girls who were accompanying their father on a world tour. They left him in Bombay to attend to some urgent business and went off by themselves to Delhi. Apparently, they put up at Maidens Hotel. They went on a buying spree as tourists usually do and spent all their money. Having no options left, they sent an express telegram to their father. He was foxed by the cable his daughters had sent:  'All money spent. Can stay maidens no longer.'

Set in 1950s Kolkata, then Calcutta, Chowringhee is a sprawling saga of the intimate lives of managers, employees and guests at one of Calcutta’s largest hotels, the Shahjahan. Shankar, the newest recruit, recounts the stories of several people whose lives come together in the suites, restaurants, bar and backrooms of the hotel. As both observer and participant in the events, he inadvertently peels off the layers of everyday existence to expose the seamy underbelly of unfulfilled desires, broken dreams, callous manipulation and unbidden tragedy. What unfolds is not just the story of individual lives but also the incredible chronicle of a metropolis.

Written by best-selling Bengali author Sankar, Chowringhee was published as a novel in 1962. Predating Arthur Hailey's Hotel by three years, it became an instant hit, spawning translations in major Indian languages, a film and a play. Its larger-than-life characters—the enigmatic manager Marco Polo, the debonair receptionist Sata Bose, the tragic hostess Karabi Guha, among others—soon attained cult status. With its thinly veiled accounts of the private lives of real-life celebrities, and its sympathetic narrative seamlessly weaving the past and the present, it immediately established itself as a popular classic. Available for the first time in English, Chowringhee is as much a dirge as it is a homage to a city and its people.

The novel, translated into English by Arunava Sinha, won the Vodafone Crossword Book Award 2007 for the best translation.

For Bengali original, see here.

Jim Corbett Omnibus

1. Jungle Lore
2. Man-Eaters of Kumaon
3. The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag
4. My India
5. The Temple Tiger and More Man-Eaters of Kumaon
6. Tree Tops
7. About Jungle Stories
8. Jim Corbett's India (ed. R. E. Hawkins)
    a) Introduction
    b) Goongi
    c) Wild Life in the Village: an Appeal
9. The Jim Corbett Album
10. Wikipedia profile of the author

Incest Omnibus

Book 1

Book 2

Book 3

Book 4

Book 5

Book 6

Book 7

Book 8

Book 9

Book 10