Bourne Supremacy
With the battle for bestseller slots hotting up among publishing houses, HarperCollins has decided to take the war to the next level: they're going to pour money into advertising that will shake up their penny-pinching rivals. The lucky recipient of all this publicity—on TV, radio stations and print media—is, alas, no home-grown author. The Last Testament by Sam Bourne, dubbed "the biggest challenger to Dan Brown's crown", will arrive in India with band-baaja.
KS Pretender
Comparisons may be odious, but what do you say when a debut writer dares to publish under India's most famous name, Khushwant Singh? Worse, he chooses a subject that our sardar in the lightbulb has made his very own: Sikhs. The book: Sikhs Unlimited by Khushwant Singh. Unlimited gall or limited forethought?
