Benyamin's wry, tender novel of grit and loneliness is unforgettable. First published in Malayalam in 2008 and in its English-language translation in 2012, it's now received its cinematic interpretation in 2024—which we loved so much we've done a film tie-in edition too!

Indians became voters before they were citizens.

Perhaps a good time to revisit the story of the greatest experiment of democracy in human history.

Never again will Perumal Murugan stand alone.
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In April, a blazing new novel from Sunjeev Sahota: In one sense a tragedy tracing one man’s seemingly inexorable fall, The Spoiled Heart is also an explosively contemporary story of how a few words or a single action can trigger a cascade of unimaginable consequences.

Neel Mukherjee's latest is deeply meaningful to me personally, a profound study of a publisher's mission and responsibility. Choice—out in April—is a scathing, compassionate quarrel with the world, a masterful inquiry into how we should live our lives and how we should tell them.

Harsh Mander is a person of absolute integrity, motivated by compassion and a love of justice. It is shocking that he is being persecuted in this way. The use of financial laws to pursue political vendettas will only undermine trust in the Indian legal system.

Writer and literary chronicler Perumal Murugan’s recent novel, ‘Fire Bird’, translated from Tamil into English by Janani Kannan, is the winner of the 2023 JCB Prize for Literature.

The brilliant bilingual historian A. R. Venkatachalapathy has written many fine books, but this may be his most important work yet. It is a compelling dual biography, of a visionary and remarkably courageous nationalist and the swadeshi shipping company he founded.

A spellbinding historical novel set in the 18th century: a hero’s quest, a love story, the story of a young artist coming of age, and an exuberant heist adventure that traces the bloody legacy of colonialism across two continents and fifty years. Out this month from @taniajam.

In 1906, Britain's grip on the world was unassailable. Its navy ruled the seas, its trade empire spanned the globe. But in the small port town of Tuticorin, a lawyer had a revolutionary idea that would challenge the might of the empire itself. Out this month from A R Venkatachalapathy ஆ.இரா. வேங்கடாசலபதி.

I had many incredible moments on the journey to publishing this book, but the chance to work with the great Manasi Subramaniam (Manasi Subramaniam) as my editor stands among the top.

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She traded barbs with Churchill, outdebated Jan Smuts, outshone James Cagney, was arrested for the attempted assassination of Mussolini, told JFK not to go to Dallas and went to battle with her own niece. Manu Bhagavan's biography of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit is out this month.

Out now from Raj Kamal Jha, India's novelist of the newsroom, a tapestry of hope and heartbreak, and a searing investigation of the pulse of India: a billion-plus young people, restless and ambitious, yearning for the new—and yet haunted by the old ghosts of rage and resentment.

Fire Bird by Perumal Murugan, translated by Janani Kannan, wins The JCB Prize for Literature—it both celebrates their literary brilliance and underscores the significance of narratives of migration and displacement. (His Tamil publisher Kannan Sundaram and I collected the award on their behalf.)

The only answer to violence is art.
So proud to be publishing this under the Hamish Hamilton imprint at Penguin Press in April 2024. Salman Rushdie
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Briefly emerging from Twitter hiatus to say just this: Victory City by Salman Rushdie is a truly magnificent thing, the sort of novel that reminds you, through its sheer entertaining prowess, that before he was a political symbol he was a storyteller. Cover art of Indian edition:

SHEHAN. SHEHAN KARUNATILAKA JUST WON THE The Booker Prizes FOR THE SEVEN MOONS OF MAALI ALMEIDA! The brilliant Sort of Books lot have Facetimed me into the announcement across continents and I bet they can hear my scream across the oceans!