An unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance encounter and a list of library books helps forge an unlikely friendship between two very different people—a lonely London widower and a troubled teenager. Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life i...

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Ram Rajya. The Perfect Land. But perfection has a price. He paid that price. 3400 BCE. India. Ayodhya is weakened by divisions. A terrible war has taken its toll. The damage runs deep. The demon King of Lanka, Raavan, does not impose his rule on the ...

Scion of Ikshvaku

Combining mystery and mythology, this epic fantasy is a global best seller with over 300,000 copies sold. India, 3400 BCE. The ancient kingdom of Mithila is divided by corruption, resentment, and poverty. An abandoned baby is found in a field protect...

Sita: Warrior of Mithila

Upanishads are mankind's oldest works of philosophy, predating the earliest Greek philosophy. They are the concluding part of the Vedas, the ancient Indian sacred literature, and mark the culmination of a tradition of speculative thought first expres...

The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

Bloomsbury presents Return of a King by William Dalrymple, read by Sagar Arya. Shortlisted for The Samuel Johnson Prize 2013 In the spring of 1839, Britain invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops po...

Return of a King

DI Nicola Tanner needs Tom Thorne's help. Her partner, Susan, has been brutally murdered, and Tanner is convinced that it was a case of mistaken identity - that she was the real target. The murderer's motive might have something to do with Tanner's r...

Love Like Blood

Jules Verne's two novels featuring Captain Nemo (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island), condensed down to two thrilling hours.  In 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, marine scientist Professor Aronnax and his stowaway daughter, Connie, j...

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea & The Mysterious Island

Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was one of the most remarkable figures in the 20th century. Born an Untouchable - the lowest element of Indian society deemed to be outside the caste system, and literally 'untouchable' - he rose from abject village poverty ...

Ambedkar and Buddhism, Annihilation of Caste

To mark the 150th anniversary of Gandhi’s birth, DK presents the audiobook of The Story of My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography, narrated by Sagar Arya. Gandhi's nonviolent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa an...

The Story of My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of White Teeth by Zadie Smith, read by Lenny Henry, Sagar Arya, Pippa Bennett-Warner and Ray Panthaki. Zadie Smith's White Teeth is a classic international best seller and an unforgettable portrait of London. On...

White Teeth

It's one of the oldest books in the world and India's biggest blockbuster best seller! But isn't it meant only for religious old people? But isn't it very long? And, erm, super difficult to read? And isn't the stuff it talks about way too complex for...

The Gita for Children

Often appearing as Ṛgveda, the oldest of the four sacred books linked to Hinduism, it was composed in an ancient form of Sanskrit about 1500 BCE. The Rig Veda (Sanskrit: The Knowledge of Verses) was preserved in secrecy by ancient clans, initially or...

The Rig Veda

In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain s conscious and deliberate bleeding of India... [was the] greatest crime in all history . He was not the only one to denounce the rapacity and cruelty of British rule, and...

An Era of Darkness

Sanskrit for "Song of the Lord", the Bhagavad Gita is a 700-verse Hindu epic that constitutes part of the faith's vast cornerstone work, the "Mahabharata." The book provides timeless truths and indispensable advice for believers trying to overcome in...

The Bhagavad Gita

Rabindranath Tagore, India's foremost writer and the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for literature, is perhaps best known for his tender and passionate tales about human yearning and longing. Here then is a collection of 18 short stories t...

The Kabuliwallah and Other Stories

To mark the 150th anniversary of Gandhi's birth, DK presents the audiobook of The Story of My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography, narrated by Sagar Arya. Gandhi's nonviolent struggles against racism, violence and colonialism in South Africa and...

Brought to you by Penguin.  This Penguin Classic is performed by Shaheen Khan. This definitive recording includes an introduction by J. D. Smith, read by Sagar Arya.  The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. It is of i...

The Mahabharata

From number one best seller Mark Billingham comes a masterful, intense crime novel that pits DI Tom Thorne against an evil beyond comprehension, yet shockingly real. A bloody massage As DI Nicola Tanner investigates what appears to be a series of org...

'You have to dethrone a powerful man to become the most powerful. I was itching to defeat the single most powerful person, but there wasn't any. I was left with only one choice - to create one.' Little does Ashwin Jamwal know that the last 25 years o...

Ashvamedha: The Game of Power

One of India's finest and most prolific writers, Ruskin Bond has been putting pen to paper for well over six decades. Since The Room on the Roof - his award-winning debut novel, which introduced readers to the unforgettable Rusty, the orphan from Deh...

The Writer on the Hill

India's first biography of Shashi Kapoor sheds light on one of the country's most enigmatic personalities - an actor who straddles the worlds of commercial Hindi cinema, theatre and small-budget art movies; who is, at once, an earnest householder and...

Shashi Kapoor

Would you fall in love again? How would you react if someone you love suddenly calls you to convey a message of her engagement and moves out of your life? Even the last thread of hope tears up and they are apart. Priety is gone and HE remains a mere ...

I Will Love Once Again

Mukesh has just moved from Kenya to the drizzly northern town of Keighley. He was expecting fame, fortune, the Rolling Stones and a nice girl, not poverty, loneliness and racism. Still, he might not have found Keith Richards, but he did find the girl...

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