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    Watch out for books on 2G, Amit Shah; A Raja memoir in 2015

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    A revelatory book by the controversial A Raja, biographies of Amit Shah, MS Dhoni and Netaji's aide A C N Nambiar has an exciting line-up of national and international titles.

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    NEW DELHI: A revelatory book by the controversial A Raja, biographies of Amit Shah, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Netaji's aide A C N Nambiar, a definitive account of the 2G scam and novels by bestselling authors Jeffrey Archer and John Grisham - 2015 has an exciting line-up of national and international titles.

    "In My Defence" by one of India's most controversial ministers Raja is "honest, hard-hitting and with no holds barred, an important and utterly absorbing book", says its publishers Penguin.

    It will also come out with "India's Biggest Fraud: How the 2G Scam Unravelled," an account of the 2G spectrum scam and its aftermath by J Gopikrishnan, the journalist who is credited with exposing the scam in 2008.

    A number of biographies will also be released during the year - "Modi's Man: The rise and rise of Amit Shah" (Penguin) by Poornima Joshi; MSD - Dhoni's biography (Rupa) by Biswadeep Ghosh; "Jack Gibson: A Life", a biography of the legendary principal of Mayo College in Ajmer by Laeeq Futehally (Hachette) and Rahul Dev Burman by Khagesh Dev Burman (Rupa).

    Roli Books will publish biographies of Subhas Chandra Bose's deputy A C N Nambiar by Vappala Balachandran, Firaq Gorakhpuri by Ajai Mansingh and Sachin Tendulkar's legendary coach Ramakant Achrekar by Kunal Purandare and HarperCollins that of Sourav Ganguly - "Cricket, Captaincy and Controversy" by Saptarshi Sarkar.

    Bestselling author Jeffrey Archer will release "Mightier than the Sword", the fifth novel in the epic Clifton Chronicles series, ahead of the global launch. Swedish author Hakkan Nesser will also travel to India ahead of the release of his new book "The Living and the Dead in Winsford". Both the books will be brought out by Pan Macmillan.

    Two books by popular novelist John Grisham - "Theodore Boone: The Fugitive" and "New Legal Thriller" and J K Rowling's new offering "Very Good Lives" will be published by Hachette.

    Oxford University Press will come out with two books by former Union minister Jairam Ramesh - "Legislating for Equity: The Making of the 2013 Land Acquisition Law," co-authored by Muhammad Ali Khan, and "Green Signals: Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in India."

    Some books related to politics are "Narendra Modi And The Election That Shook The World" by former BBC correspondent and Downing Street communications expert Lance Price and "The Great Indian Rope Trick: Does the future of Democracy Lie With India" by Roderick Matthews (both Hachette); "War Room: The People, Tactics and Technology Behind Narendra Modi's 2014 Win" by Ullekh NP (Roli).

    There are some cookbooks as well on the cards - "Spice Tales" by Marryam Reshii; Anoothi Vishal's "Kayasth Culture and Cuisine" (both Hachette), "Lazzatnama" (Rupa) by Pushpesh Pant, "Zarine Khan Cookbook", by yesteryear actor Sanjay Khan's wife Zarine (Roli).

    A couple of actors will come out with their books. "Me, My Fiance and I Fu*!ed Up" by Aarya Babbar is a comedy of errors set against the backdrop of the great Indian wedding while "Murder in Bollywood" is a Bollywood crime caper by Amjad Khan's son Shadaab Khan.

     
    There will be other books related to films too. "Reel India: Bollywood And Small Town India" (Hachette India) by film critic Namrata Joshi deals with tales from the hinterland about India's obsession with cinema. "Show Me Your Words: The Power of Language in Bollywood" (Rupa) by Connie Haham is about terms used in the Hindi film industry.

    "The Front Row: Conversations on Cinema" (HarperCollins) by Anupama Chopra is based on the popular interview-based shows on television The Front Row.

    Penguin will publish "Another 100 Lyrics" of Gulzar, translated by Sunjoy Shekhar which has anecdotes about some lyrics and illustrations by poet-lyricist himself while HarperCollins will come out with Javed Akhtar's "In Other Words: Poems", a translations of his works from his Urdu collections "Tarkash" and "Lava".

    A number of books by the celebrated Ruskin Bond will be published this year. While his "My Most Memorable Characters" will be published by Aleph and "Beetles, Bugs" and "School Stories" by Rupa, Penguin imprint Puffin will come out with titles like "Rusty and the Magic Mountain"; "Ranji's Wonderful Bat and Other Stories"; "The Parrot Who Wouldn't Talk and Other Stories" and "Escape from Java and Other Tales of Danger".

    Penguin will also publish "The Emergency: A Personal History" by Coomi Kapoor; "Neither a Hawk nor a Dove: An Insider's Account of Pakistan's Foreign Relations" by Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri; Dilip Hiro's "The Longest August"; "Aarushi: Anatomy of a Murder" by Avirook Sen and "God Help the Child" by Toni Morrison.

    Its fiction list includes Amitav Ghosh's final part of the Ibis Trilogy "Flood of Fire"; "The Seeker" by Karan Bajaj of "Keep Off the Grass" and "Johnny Gone Down" fame; "Karan Ghelo: Gujarat's Last Rajput King" by Nandshankar Mehta; and a translation of Anant Samant'ss cult Marathi novel "Aiwa Maru".

    The publishing house has a couple of books on Partition - Urvashi Butalia's "Partition: The Long Shadow" and "Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition" by Nisid Hajari.

    Another interesting Penguin title is Bill Browder's "Red Notice", a searing expose of the wholesale whitewash by Russian authorities of Sergei Magnitsky's imprisonment and murder.

    In November 2009, emaciated young lawyer Magnitsky was led to a freezing isolation cell in a Moscow prison, handcuffed to a bed rail, and beaten to death by eight police officers. He had testified against the Russian Interior Ministry officials who were involved in a conspiracy to steal USD 230 million of taxes paid to the state by one of the world's most successful hedge funds.

    Peggy Mohan's "Walk in C-minor"; Jaishree Misra's "A Love Story for My Sister"; "The Persecution of Madhav Tripathi" by Aditya Sudarshan; Partha Basu's "Mid-career Crisis" and Lynda Gratton's "The Key" are some books to be brought out by HarperCollins in 2015.

    Oxford also has titles like Mushirul Hasan's "Political Prisoners in Colonial India"; an autobiographical narrative of U R Ananthamurthy "Suragi" co-authored by Ja. Na. Tejashree, "The Country of First Boys" by Amartya Sen; a four-set volume of academic essays of Romila Thapar "History and Historiography of Early India and a first person account of transgender rights activist Laxmi named "Me Hijra, Me Laxmi".

    During the year, Pan Macmillan India will come out with two books that will be the first of their kinds dealing with diabetes and Alzheimer's - "Understanding Type 2 Diabetes" by Merlin Thomas and "Where Time Stops: A Caregiver's Journey through Alzheimer's" by Bina Berry.

    Among other Pan Macmillan titles are "Lunch with a Bigot and other Essays" by Amitava Kumar; Omar Shahid Hamid's "The Spinner's Tale"; filmmaker-writer Peter James' "Atom Bomb Angel" and "The House on Cold Hill" and David Baldacci's "Memory Man".

    Hachette India's list also includes "Drowning Fish" by Swati Chanda; "The Amazing Racist" by Chhimi Tenduf-la; "The Land Where I Flee" by Prajwal Parajuly; "Night Heron" by BBC journalist Adam Brookes; "Holy Cow" by David Duchovny; "An Unnecessary Woman" by Rabih Alameddine; Michelle Moran's "The Last Queen of India"; "The Island of Lost Girls" by Manjula Padmanabhan; and Pradeep Sebastian's "The Book Hunters of Katpadi", billed as India's first-ever biblio-mystery.

     
    Besides, it will bring out a number of business books like "Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!" by Nicholas Carlson; "The Big 100: The 100 Business Tools You Need to Succeed" by Jeremy Kourdi; "The Reputation Economy" by Michael Fertik and David Thompson; and "Becoming Steve Jobs", a look at Jobs' career by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli following his dismissal from Apple.

    Titles related to sports include "After Tendulkar: The New Stars of Indian Cricket" (Aleph) Soumya Bhattacharya; and "Criconomics: Everything You Wanted to Know About Cricket & More" (Rupa) by Surjit Bhalla.

    Aleph will also publish two books by conservationist Valmik Thapar - "Real Solutions for Wild India" and "Winged Fire: A Book of Indian Birds."

    Some of Rupa's major titles of 2015 are "The Success Mantras of India's Top 21 CEOs" by Suhel Seth; "Landmark Judgements that Changed India" by former Supreme Court judge Ashok Kumar Ganguly; and "The State in Denial" by the late B G Verghese.

    Rupa's publishing partner Aleph will offer books like Shashi Tharoor's "India Shastra: Reflections on the Nation in our Time"; Mehr Tarar's "Many Malalas: People Fighting for Change in Pakistan"; "The Human face of History" by Raghu Rai; "Exiled at Home: How India's Muslims Were Betrayed" by Saeed Naqvi; and Barkha Dutt's "This Unquiet Land: Dispatches from India's Fault Lines".

    Westland's titles include "Mandate: Will of the People" by Vir Sanghvi, "Yoga for Sports People" by BKS Iyengar, Shashi Warrior's "The Girl Who Didn't Give Up", "Arise, Awake" by Rashmi Bansal and "Where We Come From, Where We Go: Tales of the Seven Sisters" by Uddipana Goswami.

    Palimpsest's first title in 2015 will be the debut novel of young Pakistani writer Taha Kehar. "Of Rift and Rivalry" is an account of three generations of a family in Karachi which runs parallel to the journey of Pakistan since the days of Partition in 1947.

    Among forthcoming publications by Niyogi Books are two volumes each of "Forms of Devotion: The spiritual in Indian Art" and "Masters of Indian Paintings"; "Arms and Armour: The Royal Collection at Jaipur City Palace" by Robert Elgood; "Sariska: The Tiger Reserve Roars Again" by Sunayan Sharma and "Great Houses Of Calcutta: Their Precedents, Antecedents, Splendour & Portents" by Joanne Taylor and Jon Lang.
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