The Gong Strikes
Whatever little buzz that might have lent some excitement to the London Book Fair disappeared when Penguin grabbed newcomer Aatish Taseer’s first novel, The Temple-Goers, for an undisclosed amount ahead of the fair opening on April 20. The "cool new urban voice of modern India" will be published by Penguin in March next year.
Tall Stories
Every year the Bookseller magazine in UK comes out with a prize for the year’s oddest title. This year’s winner: The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60 milligram Containers of Fromage Frais. We could do better with titles of some Indian books that arrive at our desk. How about Soul Search Engine Till Now... A Brief Story of Life, the Universe and Everything in 99 Pages: A Story Fourteen Billion and Thirty-Six Years in the Making, by Al Raines, published by Undercover Utopia Books.
