Shortlisted for The Green Carnation Prize 2014 `This is not a fairytale. This is a story about how sex and money and power police our dreams.' Clear-eyed, witty and irreverent, Laurie Penny is as ruthless in her dissection of modern feminism and class politics as she is in discussing her own experiences in journalism, activism and underground culture. This is a book about poverty and prejudice, online dating and eating disorders, riots in the streets and lies on the television. The backlash is on against sexual freedom for men and women and social justice -- and feminism needs to get braver. Penny speaks for a new feminism that takes no prisoners, a feminism that is about justice and equality, but also about freedom for all. It's about the freedom to be who we are, to love who we choose, to invent new gender roles, and to speak out fiercely against those who would deny us those rights. It is a book that gives the silenced a voice -- a voice that speaks of unspeakable things.

Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution

Politics & Social Sciences

Laurie Penny

Social Sciences

Bloomsbury India Publishing

Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's dilapidated family home while her father is doing secret war work during the final months of the Second World War. At three Helen lost her mother and the beloved grandmother who raised her has just died. A fiercely imaginative child, Helen is desperate to keep her house intact with all its ghosts and stories. Flora, her late mother's twenty-two-year old first cousin, who cries at the drop of a hat, is ardently determined to do her best for Helen. Their relationship and its fallout, played against the backdrop of a lost America, will haunt Helen for the rest of her life.

Flora

Gail Godwin

Hp Chamber of Secrets Set Component

Rowling.J.K.

Barely out of film school, Rob Long struck the jackpot and landed a job on the phenomenally successful TV sitcom, Cheers. However, with the demise of the show, Long was faced with the question, 'Is there life after Cheers?' Mercilessly witty about the daunting process of setting up a new series and getting it on air, these two books tell the absurd tale of what came next. Getting from pitch to pilot is a tricky path to navigate successfully, from making non-negotiable changes and deal-breaking edits, combined with accommodating the whims of studios, networks and agents, often the finished product ends up a long way from where the script-writer started. With the help of his agent, her constant demands, monstrous salesmanship, brutal irony and unswerving loyalty, Long's career fluctuates from wannabe to player, from award-winning script-writer to burnt out has-been. And it's all, as he says 'half true'.

Conversations with My Agent and Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke

Rob Long

Biographies & Memoirs

Five years ago, India was an emerging world power being courted by the world's most powerful political and business leaders, an upbeat story of unparalleled economic growth. Since then, it has failed to account for the human capital at the heart of its effort to modernize: more than one billion people clamoring for what has become known as the “Indian Dream”-an education, a career, and an opportunity to pull one's family out of poverty and into prosperity. Today, India is suffering an immense crisis of confidence-crippling political corruption, politicians mired in the status quo, economic inequality, brutal violence against women, and rampant social injustice. Simon Denyer, former Indian bureau chief for the Washington Post, perceptively captures India at this crucial tilting point in its history-from the Nehru-Gandhi family dynasty that has ruled the country for most of its post-independence years, to flawed heroes such as news anchor Arnab Goswami and anticorruption crusader Arvind Kejwiral, to, most compelling, ordinary people fighting daily against corruption and the system. They, Denyer convincingly shows, are harnessing the force of the world's largest democracy to positive effect, demanding transparency and accountability as never before. The battle between the deep-rooted system of graft and patronage and the forces demanding change will have huge global significance, and Denyer's insight makes Rogue Elephant a vital contribution to the international conversation about India's present and future.

Rogue Elephant: Harnessing the Power of India's Unruly Democracy

Travel

Simon Denyer

Asia

Black Taj Mahal: The Emperor?s Missing Tomb

Iftakhar Nadime Khan

Living with Honour

SHIV KHERA

The siachen glacier is strategically placed between india and pakistan, in a disputed and undemarcated region of kashmir. At 20,000 feet above sea level, it is an inhospitable spread of ice and snow, and has proven itself to be a fatal place for many a soldier. Beyond nj 9842: the siachen saga is a book that tells of an undeclared war that has been raging on for the past three decades between the two countries in this region. It had started in 1984, when operation meghdoot was put into effect by the indian army on the barren expanse of the siachen glacier, to avoid pakistan from gaining control of that place. Since then, this glacier has been the world's highest and coldest battlefield. This operation resulted in india gaining control over the siachen glacier and all of its tributaries. The two nations, however, maintain a permanent military presence in the region, even though a cease-fire went into effect in 2003. This conflict has resulted in the death of more than 2000 people, mostly due to weather extremes. The author, nitin a. Gokhale, has portrayed this longstanding dispute through the eyes of the veterans who had served there, with the help of their personal stories and anecdotes. It is a slice of history that speaks volumes of the courage and patriotism of the indian army, fighting for their country from a place as inhospitable as siachen. A story of blood, guts and glory, beyond nj 9842: the siachen saga was published by bloomsbury india publishing in 2014, and is available in hardcover.

Bloomsbury Publishing India Private Limited Beyond Nj 9842: The Siachen Saga

Nitin A. Gokhale

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