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The Storyteller’s Tale Omair Ahmad

•  ‘Reminiscent of the best of Indian fables, Sufi sayings and Koranic and Biblical tales. Omair Ahmad’s storyteller and begum measure up to Scheherazade.’ — Verve

•  ‘It isn’t every day that one comes across a book that one can commend so unreservedly… [A] swift, elegant tale.’ — Outlook

•  ‘A masterful (re)telling of stories.’ — Hindustan Times

Hardback | ISBN 9788193071021 | 128 pages | 2015 | INR 266*

Omair Ahmad grew up in India and Saudi Arabia, and has worked as an analyst, reporter and political adviser in New Delhi, London and Washington. His published work includes the novels Encounters, and Jimmy the Terrorist.

The Silk Road: A Biography Jonathan Clements

•  ‘ A gripping and highly informative book about this little known region’ —Free Press Journal

•  The Silk Road is not a place, but a journey, a

route from the edges of the Mediterranean to the central plains of China, le deserts.

Paperback | ISBN 9789385755040 | 256 pages |2016 | INR 280*

Jonathan Clements is the author of many books on East Asian history, including biographies of emperors and empresses, statesmen and warriors, foreign visitors and outcast rebels.

The Two-Year Mountain Phil Deutschle

•  "A remarkable book... described in very graphic and downright frightening terms.” —BBC radio

•  The gripping storyline inclusively hems details of his encounters as a thrilling and adventurous travel tale — Millennium Post

Paperback| ISBN 9788193071069| 360 pages|2015| INR 316*

Phil Deutschle, peripatetic teacher, has worked in places as diverse as Nepal, Denmark, Israel, Botswana, Bolivia and California. Apart from Two Year Mountain, Phil has written Across African Sand: Journeys of a Witch-Doctor’s Son-in-Law.

A Glimpse of Eternal Snows Jane Wilson-Howrath

•  ‘"Books don't get more inspirational than A Glimpse of Eternal Snows" — Wanderlust

•  "The proverbial 'life-changing' book" — The Daily Telegraph

Paperback| ISBN 9788193071076| 387 pages|2015| INR 316*

Jane Wilson-Howarth, a medical doctor and zoologist, is an authority on travel health and hygiene promotion. She has written six books and has published hundreds of magazine articles on travel and health.

Sri Lanka Royston Ellis

•  ‘Bradt Guides are expertly written and longer on local detail than any others.’—Michael Palin

•  This fully updated fifth edition is filled with local tips and tricks, from booking the best country rest houses to finding little-known temples and unmissable sights. Whatever it is that draws you here, let the country and its people charm you.


Royston Ellis is a travel writer and biographer who has lived in Sri Lanka for over thirty years. He is also the author of Bradt’s Maldives and co-author of Mauritius, Rodrigues & Reunion.

Rungli Rungliot Rumer Godden

•  Rungli Rungliot is an exquisite little book, full of details both understated and exact. "This book," Rodden writes at the end, "should smell of lemon leaves. The last thing I do is to pick some and put them in the pages; They will die, but the scent of them, whenever I smell it again, wherever I find it, will mean to me always, Chinglam." — Pune Mirror

•  Lyrical, and suffused with gentle melancholy, Rungli-Rungliot evokes a precise sense of place. This book is perfect for lovers of the mountains and the quiet, meditative life.

Paperback | ISBN 9789385288395 | 176 pages |2015| INR 239*

Rumer Godden was an English author with more than sixty books, fiction and non-fiction, to her credit. Best known for her bestselling novels, Black Narcissus and The River. She has also written Two Under the Indian Sun , A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep, A House with Four Rooms, Gulbadan and Indian Dust.

In the Court of Ranee of Jhansi John Lang

•  ‘The stories are very varied in tone, and the writing is always sharp and lively. Some of the stories may suggest that John Lang was inspired by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936).’ — Mumbai Mirror


John Lang (b. 1816), writer, newspaper editor and traveller, lived in India for a number of years. Lang’s published work includes The Wetherbys , Too Clever by Half, Too Much Alike,The Forger’s Wife, Captain Macdonald, Will He Marry Her, The Ex-Wife, My Friend’s Wife, The Secret Police and Botany Bay; or True Stories of the Early Days of Australia.

The Valley of Flowers Frank S. Smythe

•  ‘The Valley of Flowers is not a whirlwind of an adventure. It is nuanced, mature and real. And that is why it makes for a great book’ — Sakaal Times

Paperback | ISBN 9789385288418 | 276 pages | 2015 | INR 239*

Frank Sydney Smythe was a British mountaineer, botanist and adventurer. An accomplished photographer and a prolific writer, Smythe wrote twenty-seven books in all, the best known among which are The Kangchenjunga Adventure, Kamet Conquered and Adventures of a Mountaineer.

The Ends of The Earth Roger Willemsen

‘Willemsen’s voyages cover places that most travellers do not get to see, spanning five continents and records experiences that may or may not happen to everyone.’ — Outlook

Paperback | ISBN 9789385288500 | 504 pages | July 2015 | INR 360*

Roger Willemsen is a German author, foreign correspondent and broadcaster. His work has been recognized through the Adolf Grimme Award, the Rinke Prize and the Julius Campe Award. Five of his books have featured on Der Spiegel’s bestseller list in Germany and he is an honorary professor of literature at Berlin’s Humboldt University

Asian Absences Wolfgang Büscher

•  ‘At just six chapters over 147 pages, Asian Absences is like a dainty dessert. You want to nibble at it to make it last at the same time gobble it all up in one go — Indian Express

•  ‘You will not find a more beautiful travelogue in contemporary literature.'—Deutschlandfunk


Wolfgang Büscher heads the features desk of the German daily newspaper Die Welt. He was awarded the Johann-Gottfried-Seume- Literaturpreis (2003) for his book Berlin to Moscow: A Journey on Foot. The German president, Horst Köhler, praised him for travelling the world ‘open-eyed and without prejudice’ when awarding Büscher the Ludwig-Börne-Preis (2006) for his journalism.

The Himalaya Club John Lang

•  What really makes the book interesting is the mild satire with which the futile proceedings are recorded —Outlook

•  ‘A chhota peg of sinful delight. You can now feel nostalgia for a time through which you never lived, an experience you never had: that of being a burra sahib in a hill town with a charming contingent of the flotsam and jetsam of Empire.’—Jerry Pinto


John Lang (b. 1816), writer, newspaper editor and traveller, lived in India for a number of years. Lang’s published work includes The Wetherbys ,Too Clever by Half , Too Much Alike ,The Forger’s Wife, Captain Macdonald , Will He Marry Her, The Ex-Wife, My Friend’s Wife , The Secret Police and Botany Bay; or True Stories of the Early Days of Australia.

East of Suez Alice Perrin

•  ‘The lucid prose and wonderful imagery should keep one engrossed’ —Earthen Lamp Journal

•  Perrin succeeds in portraying a virile and potent historical imaginary that is acute, apt, accurate and sympathetic, dispossessed of the national instinct of a Kipling or the philanthropy of Forster —Muse India


Alice Perrin was born in India in 1867. After her education in England, Perrin married Charles Perrin, an engineer in the India Public Works Departmen. Her other notable works include The Spell of the Jungle , The Anglo Indians, The Happy Hunting Ground, The Woman and the Bazaar and Star of India.

New Songs of the Survivors Yvonne Vaz Ezdani

The vividness of the individual accounts ensures that New Songs of the Survivors is a riveting read, and the evocativeness of the stories of those who made the trek mean that this book would stay with you long after you’re done reading it —Sunday Guardian

Paperback | ISBN 9789385755187 | 264 pages | 2015 | INR 315*

Yvonne Vaz Ezdani grew up in Burma. The family repatriated to Goa in the early 1980s and she now lives in her paternal family home in Saligao, Goa. She was a teacher in a Higher Secondary School, with a master’s degree in English literature from Rangoon University and an education degree from Annamalai University. She is now a school counsellor.

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