books
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Penguin Random House lands book deals with Barack and Michelle Obama after publishers' auction
Scroll Scroll Staff
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If a writer gifts a book, it must be really worth reading, right (even if it’s their own)?
Shashank Bhargava
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Three ways to spend this day for lovers with books (and lovers)
Devapriya Roy
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Do you hide your self-help books behind rows of great literature? Here’s why you need to stop
Sayalee Karkare
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Though full of clichés, these erotic stories delve into what’s dark and dangerous about desire
Jai Arjun Singh
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Six books to read while drinking your afternoon tea (or coffee)
Devapriya Roy
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A wishlist for Karthika VK as she starts her new publishing imprint for Westland Books
Devapriya Roy
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Three discoveries (and some footnotes) about readers and publishers from the World Book Fair
Jaya Bhattacharji Rose
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Why the HarperCollins UK CEO says ‘Most authors have understood that the roof is on fire’
Jai Arjun Singh
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Teesta Setalvad has written her memoir, and it’s every bit as chilling as you might imagine
Teesta Setalvad
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Sherlock Holmes and the strange case of anti-intellectualism
Christopher Pittard, The Conversation
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This hilarious take-off on spy fiction makes it hard to take espionage seriously
Krishna Shastri Devulapalli
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The stories behind the story of Albert Camus’s ‘The Stranger’ (and how it came to be published)
Anu Kumar
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Meditations on being an independent publisher
Naveen Kishore
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Five books for children that adults must read
Devapriya Roy
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Ramayana reimagined: Was Ravan actually in love with Sita?
Kavita Kané
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All happy families are alike. Each unhappy family mourns its dead in its own way (as Kitty knows)
Ivan Arthur
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Stalked, patronised, dismissed: On being a woman writer in Pakistan (it’s often the same in India)
Shazaf Fatima Haider
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From the beginning: How the politician’s journey started at the age of twelve
Manju Kapur
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From Pakistan: The famous satire we haven’t read all these years (it’s from 1964)
Muhammad Khalid Akhtar