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A robbery outside a historic hotel, a body inside it, and the disappearance of a guest bring the police to hotel owner Avtar Mehta, who soon finds himself turned into an easy scapegoat. He and his chance friend, Irish nun Sister Agatha, must race to stay safe. A classic whodunit, the book kicks off a series.

‘Old Path White Clouds’ is a classic of religious literature. It presents the life and teachings of Gautama Buddha. Drawn directly from 24 Pali, Sanskrit and Chinese sources, and retold by Thich Nhat, this book traces the Buddha’s life slowly and gently over the course of 80 years, partly through the eyes of Svasti, the buffalo boy, and partly through the eyes of the Buddha himself.

Drawing from his childhood memories, Mohammed Khadeer Babu paints life as seen in an ordinary Muslim household in a remote coastal town of Andhra Pradesh. Through a young boy, he depicts a plural, polyglossic society where words move fluidly across intersections of region, religion, class and linguistic identity. The book has been written in a Chaplinesque style of portraying misery through humour; it has been translated from the Telugu by DV Subhashri.