On The Racks

Milan Vohra
Our Song | HarperCollins

India’s first Mills & Boons author Milan Vohra is back with what she writes best, romance with fri­sson. Our Song is a love story between two people poles apart, and in Vohra’s expert hands, the sparks can’t be contai­ned. Ragini is a struggling music composer in Bangalore—feisty, independent and a free-spirit. And­rew is a corporate honcho heading a pharma firm—arrogant, ambitious and attractive. Their paths cross, they can’t stand each other and yet can’t get each other out of their heads. Vohra is in top form, Our Song  is witty, warm, wistful.

Khyrunnisa A.
Tongue In Cheek: The Funny Side of Life | Westland

The creator of the delightful comic character Butterfingers, a popular children’s series, Khyrunnisa has come out with a book for adults. But the touch is as light, the humour as delectable as ever. The articles here are a series of adventure and foibles of a urban Indian woman, all written with tongue firmly in cheek. They will delight, enthrall and make the readers ponder over various situations which all of us have been through sometime or the other. Tongue in Cheek is the perfect companion after a stressful day.

In Search Of Heer| Tranquebar
Manjul Bajaj

Narrated from multiple perspectives, this is an engaging retelling of a Punjabi epic chronicling the love of Ranjha, a musically gifted man with little regard for wealth and power, and Heer, an accomplished warrior. It delves into the facets of love, the folk traditions of Punjab and the protagonists’ ideal of a freer and fairer world for all beings.

Pax Sinica | Rupa
Samir Saran & Akhil Deo

The authors trace the pivotal policy shifts, decisions and events that have come to define China under the leadership of Xi Jinping. They catalogue the nation’s engagement with the world and how global powers have responded to its ascendance as well as offer insights on how India can maintain a fine balance between camaraderie and contest.

Bombay Balchao | Tranquebar
Jane Borges

A woman who becomes a widow after a dockyard explosion and turns to bootlegging, a teen romance that sinks like a paper boat and a young woman who rejects love to pursue dance. The tales of these characters intersect in a Catholic neighbourhood of Bombay where the quest for marriage and piety are often waylaid by deviant love and lust.