Death Under The Deodars
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Death Under The Deodars
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Author : Ruskin Bond
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2018-01-01
Death Under The Deodars written by Ruskin Bond and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-01 with Fiction categories.
‘Colonel Bakshi burst in, looking very agitated. “Something’s happened to Mrs Basu,” he said. “She’s lying outside in a fl ower bed. I think she’s dead . . .”’ In this marvellous collection of thrilling new stories set in the Mussoorie of a bygone era, Ruskin Bond recounts the deliciously sinister cases of a murdered priest, an adulterous couple, a man who is born evil, and a body in the box-bed, not to forget the strange happenings involving arsenic in the post, strychnine in the cognac, a mysterious black dog, and the Daryaganj strangler. As the elderly Miss Ripley-Bean, her Tibetan terrier, Fluff, the hotel pianist, Mr Lobo, and the owner of the Royal, Nandu, mull over these curious incidents, the reader will be enthralled and delighted—until the very end.
A Season Of Ghosts
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Author : Ruskin Bond
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2000-10-14
A Season Of Ghosts written by Ruskin Bond and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
It is said that if the smell of the Himalayas creeps into a man's blood, he will return to the hills again and again, and will strive to live amongst them always. Ruskin Bond, master storyteller and connoisseur of the mysterious and macabre, shows how this love may persist to death and beyond. The stories in this collection are set amidst the mists and mellow magic of Bond's beloved mountains. The agents of the supernatural may be gentle like the fairy folk in 'On Fairy Hill', or malevolent like the well-dressed diners of 'The Prize'; humorous like the very proper witch, Miss Bellows, in 'The Black Cat', or tragic like the haunting Gulabi in 'Wilson's Bridge'. 'The Rakshasas' harks back to traditional hill spirits, while 'The Night of the Millennium' poises us tantalizingly on the brink of the future. Bond aficionados will meet familiar faces in 'Reunion at the Regal'. Rounding off this collection is a gripping mystery, 'Who Killed the Rani?', which is evocative of life in hill stations some twenty years ago. And over all the stories looms the benevolent or brooding presence of the Himalayas, described with Bond's inimitable lyricism.
Return Of A King
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Author : William Dalrymple
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2013-02-04
Return Of A King written by William Dalrymple and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-04 with History categories.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2013 'Dazzling' Sunday Times 'Magnificent' Guardian 'Sparkling' Daily Telegraph In the spring of 1839, Britain invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the high mountain passes and re-established on the throne Shah Shuja ul-Mulk. On the way in, the British faced little resistance. But after two years of occupation, the Afghan people rose in answer to the call for jihad and the country exploded into violent rebellion. The First Anglo-Afghan War ended in Britain's greatest military humiliation of the nineteenth century: an entire army of the then most powerful nation in the world ambushed in retreat and utterly routed by poorly equipped tribesmen. Using a range of forgotten Afghan and Indian sources, William Dalrymple's masterful retelling of Britain's greatest imperial disaster is a powerful parable of colonial ambition and cultural collision, folly and hubris. Return of a King is history at its most urgent and important. 'As taut and richly embroidered as a great novel ... this book is a masterpiece' Sunday Telegraph
Rain In The Mountains
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Author : Ruskin Bond
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2016-07-27
Rain In The Mountains written by Ruskin Bond and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-27 with Fiction categories.
Rain in the Mountains brings together some of Ruskin Bond’s most beautiful works from his years spent in the foothills of the Himalayas in the town of Mussoorie. Through vivid images and lucid writing, Bond evokes the everyday sights and sounds, and captures the essence of mountain life. The musings on his natural habitat, in both prose and poetry, offer a view of that simple and affable world. Some of his writings featured in the book are ‘Once Upon a Mountain Time’, ‘Sounds I Like to Hear’, ‘How Far Is the River’ and ‘After the Monsoon’. Rain in the Mountains will transport the reader into the quiet world of the mountains, lit with an eternal charm.
Under The Deodars The Phantom Rickshaw Wee Willie Winkie
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Author : Rudyard Kipling
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1899
Under The Deodars The Phantom Rickshaw Wee Willie Winkie written by Rudyard Kipling and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1899 with categories.
Limits And Renewals
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Author : Rudyard Kipling
language : en
Publisher: House of Stratus
Release Date : 2009-01-02
Limits And Renewals written by Rudyard Kipling and has been published by House of Stratus this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-02 with categories.
Limits and Renewals, Kipling's last collection of short stories, was written shortly after the death of his only son. Dark and penetrating in tone, these are brilliant portraits of a soul in torment with some welcome relief coming in the tales of 'Aunt Ellen' and 'The Miracle of Saint Jubanus'.
Lone Fox Dancing
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Author : Ruskin Bond
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-06-02
Lone Fox Dancing written by Ruskin Bond and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-02 with categories.
Over sixty years, for numerous readers--of all ages; in big cities, small towns and little hamlets--Ruskin Bond has been the best kind of companion. He has entertained, charmed and occasionally spooked us with his books and stories, and opened our eyes to the beauty of the everyday and the natural world. He has made us smile when our spirits are low, and steadied us when we've stumbled. Now, in this brilliantly readable autobiography--his book of books--one of India's greatest writers shows us the roots of everything he has written. He begins with a dream and a gentle haunting, before taking us to an idyllic childhood in Jamnagar by the Arabian Sea--where he composed his first poem--and New Delhi in the early 1940s--where he found material for his first short story. It was a brief period of happiness that ended with his parents' separation and the untimely death of his beloved father. A search for companionship and security, undercut by a fierce independence and a tendency for risk-taking, would inform every choice he made for the rest of his life. With effortless intimacy and candour, Bond recalls his boarding school days in Shimla and winter holidays in Dehradun, when he tried to come to terms with a sense of abandonment, made friends, discovered great books and found his true calling. Determined to be a writer, he spent four difficult years in England, from 1951 to 1955, and he writes poignantly of his loneliness there, even as he kept his promise to himself and produced a book--the classic novel of adolescence, The Room on the Roof. It was born of his longing for 'the atmosphere that was India'--the home he would return to even before the novel was published, taking a gamble that would prove to be the best decision he made. In the final, glorious section of the autobiography, he writes about losing his restlessness and settling down in the hills of Mussoorie, surrounded by generous trees, mist and sunshine, birdsong, elusive big cats, new friends and eccentrics--and a family that grew around him and made him its own. Full of anecdote, warmth and gentle wit; often deeply moving and always with a magnificent sense of time and place--and containing over fifty photographs, some of them never seen before--Lone Fox Dancing is a book of understated, enduring magic, like Ruskin Bond himself.
Paint It Black
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Author : Janet Fitch
language : en
Publisher: Little, Brown
Release Date : 2006-09-01
Paint It Black written by Janet Fitch and has been published by Little, Brown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-01 with Fiction categories.
"A dark, crooked beauty that fulfills all the promise of White Oleander and confirms that Janet Fitch is an artist of the very highest order." --Los Angeles Times Book Review Josie Tyrell, art model, runaway, and denizen of LA's rock scene finds a chance at real love with Michael Faraday, a Harvard dropout and son of a renowned pianist. But when she receives a call from the coroner, asking her to identify her lover's body, her bright dreams all turn to black. As Josie struggles to understand Michael's death and to hold onto the world they shared, she is both attracted to and repelled by his pianist mother, Meredith, who blames Josie for her son's torment. Soon the two women are drawn into a twisted relationship that reflects equal parts distrust and blind need. With the luxurious prose and fever pitch intensity that are her hallmarks, Janet Fitch weaves a spellbinding tale of love, betrayal, and the possibility of transcendence. "Lushly written, dramatically plotted. . . Fitch's Los Angeles is so real it breathes." --Atlantic Monthly "There is nothing less than a stellar sentence in this novel. Fitch's emotional honesty recalls the work of Joyce Carol Oates, her strychnine sentences the prose of Paula Fox." --Cleveland Plain Dealer "A page-turning psychodrama. . . . Fitch's prose penetrates the inner lives of [her characters] with immediacy and bite." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Fitch wonderfully captures the abrasive appeal of punk music, the bohemian, sometimes squalid lifestyle, the performers, the drugs, the alienation. This is crackling fresh stuff you don't read every day." --USA Today "In dysfunctional family narratives, Fitch is to fiction what Eugene O'Neill is to drama." --Chicago Sun-Times "Riveting. . . . An uncommonly accomplished page-turner." --Elle
The Boy Stalker
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Author : J K Wallace
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2014-10-28
The Boy Stalker written by J K Wallace and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-28 with categories.
In the small town of Tynor, Indiana, young boys bodies start showing up. All were killed in the same manner and there are no clues as to who is doing it or why.The local Mayor and Chief are stuck in the middle but are not aware that they are.A Dedicated Detective Wade Spagna is bewildered, he knows there is a serial killer loose and gets help from some of Tynor's somewhat strange residents to eventually solves the case
The Fish That Talked
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Author : Rosie Dickins
language : en
Publisher: Usborne Books
Release Date : 2008
The Fish That Talked written by Rosie Dickins and has been published by Usborne Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Animals categories.
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