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An entertaining anthology of writings features both nonfiction essays and short stories that cover such topics as art critiques, poetry, country song lyrics, odes to redheads, kissing, Diane Keaton, tomato sandwiches, the Doors, and more. Reprint. 125,000 first printing.... More

Presents an inspirational, upbeat look at subjects ranging from meatloaf to the Salvation Army band... More

An Indian journey is rich in its diversity, a colourful exploration of people, places, myths, monuments, art, culture, cuisine and celebrations. And India is a country not so much for seeing as for experiencing. In a departure from the merely exotic, 'A Passage Through India' is a journey into the h... More

A thoughtful and beautifully crafted epilogue to the history of slavery, A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the late 1980s through the American South. Naipaul writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers, ordinary men and women, both black and... More

'Over the quick sprint of an essay, Rushdie dazzles and swoops' Financial Times The subjects of Salman Rushdie's new collection of non-fiction range from The Wizard of Oz, U2, India and Indian writing, the death of Princess Diana, and football, to twentieth-century writers including Angela Carter, A... More

Assembled here for the first time in book form are the very best of several decades' worth of occasional writings from perhaps the best-loved and most-admired of Britain's great female writers.A selection of the very best of Doris Lessing's essays, never before collected together and published in bo... More

Imagine a world where whole epochs will pass, cultures rise and fall, between a telephone call and the reply. Think of the human race multiplying 500-millionfold, or evolving new, distinct species. Consider the technology of space colonization, and computer-assisted reproduction. Freeman Dyson marsh... More

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Many people, even today, find it difficult to interact with a baby unless they spy the tell-tale signs of 'pink for a girl' and 'blue for a boy'. This labelling (our gender) sets up a lifelong chain of expectations in terms of roles and relationships. 'Sex, Lies and Stereotypes' explores the shiftin... More

The essential R.K. Narayan Forty essays, travel pieces, character sketches and short stories from India’s greatest living novelist, the majority collected here for the first time. The three sections of the book—‘The Fiction-Writer’, ‘Short Essays’ and ‘Malgudi Sketches and Storiesâ... More

Welcome to the carnival of nonsense—where hankies turn into mischievous cats, a messiah is born with her feet in her mouth, you can fave hun by socking on the ree-raw and your favourite corn cakes are made of . . . are you sure you want to know? For the last eighteen hundred years Indian arts have... More