We’re so excited to invite you all to the Delhi launch of EXTINCTION, a spellbinding debut novel by @LeeyaMehta 📚🔥✨ Join us on Thursday, 29th October at the India International Centre alongside speaker @AanchalMalhotra and moderator @mandira_nayar as we launch Leeya Mehta’s EXTINCTION — a multi-generational tale of survival, inherited pain, and the secrets that shape us long before we understand them. See you there! 🐯 🗓️ Thursday, October 29 ⏰ India International Centre Annexe 📍6:30pm (Join us for refreshments at 6pm!) #delhievents #literaryfiction #bookstagramindia #fiction #discovernewbooks

Delhi! We’re bringing the story of Phoolan Devi and Kusma Nain, the MASSACRE QUEENS of Chambal, to @midlandbook on Friday, October 23 at 4pm 📚 Join us as we celebrate the book with author @Ashwinibhat02 who will be in conversation with @anshumalini3 Associate Editor at The Tribune, New Delhi ✨ 🗓️ Friday, October 23 ⏰ 4:00pm 📍 Midland Bookstore, Hauz Khas #delhievents #bookstagramindia #banditqueen #phoolandevi #truecrime

Some more advance praise for EXTINCTION by @LeeyaMehta 🥳🐯✨ “Leeya Mehta’s astonishing debut is both intimate and spectacular, grounded in reality yet also taking the reader into other dimensions. She explores the deeply felt love and abuse between three generations of Parsi women who also communicate and are best friends with tigers; both about to become extinct. I read it as if in a fever dream, I could not put it down.” — @soonitara filmmaker, photographer and screenwriter of Monsoon Wedding and Salaam Bombay! “Extinction is a richly drawn multigenerational saga that tells a story of what happens when secrets fester, shame is misdirected, and those without power — in families and in societies — are bred for silence. Leeya Mehta has written a brave, beautiful work that is an elegy for stolen innocence, a howl against silence, a love letter to the imagination as route to freedom, and, ultimately, a celebration of lives reclaimed.” — Molly McCloskey, author of Straying “Spanning eight decades and three generations of a Parsi Zoroastrian family on the brink of vanishing, Extinction is poet Leeya Mehta’s spellbinding debut novel. From post-independence India to twenty-first century Washington, the novel gathers a vast constellation of characters around a single recurring motif — a tiger, spectral and shape-shifting, who threads through the generations, as the one who guards and the one who haunts. Moving between the twilight of the Raj, contemporary Bombay, and the Beltway, Mehta writes with a fabulist’s eye and a reporter’s precision, folding real history — a real white tiger’s line, one of whose descendants was gifted to an American president — into an intimate reckoning with memory, silence, and survival. Tender, unflinching, and gorgeously strange, Extinction asks what we inherit, what we bury, and what finally sets us free.” — @saliltripathi journalist and author of The Gujaratis #indianfiction #literaryfiction #parsi #diversebooks #southasianwriting

We are so happy to announce that our book GOOD ARGUMENTS by Deepika Arwind has been shortlisted for the Godrej Literature Live! The Mumbai @litlivefest Award for the Best First Book (Fiction)! 🤩

Your next favourite rom-com might just be here! ♥️📚 #TrustFall by @LAPainter is the Young Adult Book of the Month at @crossword_book stores and the perfect pick for anyone who loves enemies-to-lovers, witty banter and all the feels. Hear it from the author herself! Now available with exclusive Trust Fall Merch at crossword.in and your nearest Crossword bookstore. #crosswordbookstore #lynnpainter #enemiestolovers #betterthanthemovies

‘Phoolan se bhi badi dakait…Kusma Nain hu main.”❤️‍🔥 Introducing Kusma Nain, the lesser-known (and equally violent) rival of #PhoolanDevi who ‘scripted her story with bullets.’ Phoolan was born into violence; #KusmaNain was not. But when Phoolan’s brutality turned personal, Kusma’s thirst for revenge turned her savage. From a rivalry fuelled by caste, hatred and bloodshed to two massacres that shook the Chambal, Kusma wasn’t just Phoolan’s rival. She was her making. While Phoolan killed twenty thakurs in 1981, Kusma retaliated with the slaying of fifteen mallahs in cold blood and burning down of the entire village. And she was coming for the #BanditQueen crown. Read more about this #TrueCrime story of love and revenge in the Chambals in MASSACRE QUEENS by journalist and filmmaker @Ashwinibhat02 OUT NOW!🩸🔪

Delhi! Come say hi to @Ashwinibhat02 author of the newly released true-crime saga MASSACRE QUEENS, at your favorite bookstore and get your copies signed on Thursday, October 15!📚🩸🔪 #truecrime #phoolandevi #nonfictionbooks #bookstagramindia #delhibookstore

What does the way you spend a small amount of money say about your life?💴 Winner of the Miyazaki Book Award, in HOW TO USE 3,000 YEN, @hika_harada weaves a warm, wise and deeply relatable story of three generations of women navigating love, work, family—and the quiet anxieties of money. From a young woman confronting the fragility of financial independence, to a mother managing a household on a single income, to a grandmother facing the uncertainty of old age, each must rethink what security, freedom and happiness really mean. As their lives intersect, small everyday choices begin to carry extraordinary weight. Can careful saving shape a better future? And when life refuses to go to plan, what truly matters most? Blending gentle humour with sharp insight, this uplifting novel offers not just a story, but a fresh perspective on money, modern life and the ties that hold us together. Perfect for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Convenience Store Woman, and Days at the Morisaki Bookshop 💚 #japanesefiction #hikaharada #bookstagram #beforethecoffeegetscold #daysatthemorisakibookshop #translatedfiction #literaryfiction

Advance praise for EXTINCTION @LeeyaMehta 🥳💙🐯✨ “A novel about intergenerational trauma that is, more profoundly, a novel about intergenerational resilience: three generations of complex women who have known passion and determination and abuse, but who know, too, how to shelter one’s heart, how to tame tigers. Fanciful, wise, ambitious, Extinction is a remarkable debut.”— Alice McDermott, winner of the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction “This is a brilliant book: enigmatic, thoughtful and thought provoking, it appeals to the heart as well as to the mind.”— @azarnafisi author of the international bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran “Extinction is as captivating as the white tiger at its center, a novel that moves across generations and continents with piercing intimacy. A deft and wonderful debut.”— Tania James, author of Loot #indianfiction #literaryfiction #parsi #diversebooks #southasianwriting