Author of "The Book Of Chocolate Saints" Jeet Thayil sets out this black comedy of self-destruction with Ullis responding to his wife's suicide by heading for Bombay with a bag of drugs for a final blowout. On the plane, he befriends...

From the Booker-shortlisted author: one man's whirlwind weekend of self-destructive grief. von Thayil, Jeet

From the Booker-shortlisted author of Narcopolis, in prose of extraordinary power, a novel about the women whose roles were suppressed, reduced or erased in the Gospels. 'Dazzling, smouldering . von Thayil, Jeet

Jeet Thayil's definitive selection covers 55 years of Indian poetry in English. It is the first anthology to represent not just the major poets of the past half-century - the canonical writers who have dominated Indian poetry and...