What Love Demands Beyond Desire is a psychological and emotional exploration of love in its rawest form - when passion fades, and truth takes its place. Set against the backdrop of ambition, heartbreak, and identity, the novel dissects the gap between desire and devotion, showing how love evolves through pain, power, and purpose. Through its characters' journeys of self-confrontation, the story questions whether love is a feeling to be indulged or a responsibility to be lived. Lyrical yet ...

'If you've been wondering whether India will ever produce a world-class rock band, think no further. The Flow is here.'Nirvana's life is a mess--he is a jilted lover, a bored addict and a disillusioned journalist. Nothing, it seems, can get him out of his funk.Until one afternoon, when he discovers a pile of back issues of India's premier youth magazine from the 1970s, Junior Standard. An article on a famed rock contest of the time catches his eye. It ment...

A desolate land.A debauched patriarch.An upstart in search of a reputation.A man running away from one.Shikargarh, central India. An untamed wilderness ruled by a dissolute raja with a passion for sex, drugs and cockfighting. The raja's Karianath fighter cocks are the undisputed champions of the area - but their reign is challenged by the new Aseel fighters imported by Teja, his bastard son, who also schemes to usurp his position.Into th...

A New York Times BestsellerFrom bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller combining history, science, magic, mystery, intrigue, and adventure that questions the very foundations of the modern world.When Melisande Stokes, an expert in linguistics and languages, accidently meets military intelligence o...

Defending an innocent young man, defense attorney Paul Madriani uncovers a morass of corruption and greed that leads to the highest levels of political power in this electrifying tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Steve Martini.One of the most successful lawyers in the country, Olinda Serna is a master at managing money as well as her influential clients. After years of fierce combat in the political trenches, Serna knows all the dirty secrets, where t...

On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra inherits two unexpected mysteries—an elephant and an unsolved murder.The first is the case of a drowned boy, whose suspicious death no one seems to want solved. And the second is a baby elephant.As his search for clues takes him across the teeming city of Mumbai, from its grand high rises to its sprawling slums and deep into its murky underworld, Chopra begins to suspect that there may be a great deal more to b...

In the second instalment of a charming mystery series, a Mumbai-based investigator and his elephant partner are on the hunt for the Queen of England's stolen Crown Jewels.For centuries, the Koh-i-Noor diamond has set man against man and king against king.Now part of the British Crown Jewels, the priceless gem is a prize that many have killed to possess.So when the Crown Jewels go on display in Mumbai, security is everyone's principal concern. And ye...

'[A] masterly novel' - The Sunday Times'Strong echoes of George Smiley' - Financial Times'A novel of real quality. Top brass' - The Times Thriller of the Month*****Beware of Russians bearing gifts.Defectors are not always welcome.Is the information they bring worth the cost of protecting them for the rest of their lives? Is it even genuine? Might they be double agents?These are some of the q...

TWO COPS. ONE KILLER. HUNDREDS OF GODS.21st Century London - except the Norman conquest never happened. An uneasy alliance of ancient tribes has formed, but peace is threatened by a series of brutal murders. Detectives Aedith and Drustan must put aside their differences to track down a serial killer with a decades-old grudge.

A compulsively readable queer sci-fi novel about a marriage of convenience between a Mars politician and an Earth refugee.Named a Best Book of 2024 by The Washington Post * Amazon * Book Riot * LitHub * Paste Magazine * HuffPostIn the wake of an environmental catastrophe, January, once a principal in London's Royal Ballet, has become a refugee in Tharsis, the terraformed colony on Mars. There, January's life is dictated by his stat...

In this hilarious new novel in the bestselling Detective Varg series, an eminent art historian is framed and the ace investigators of the Department of Sensitive Crimes are on the case.Detective Ulf Varg is a man of refined tastes and quite familiar with the art scene in Malmö. So when art historian Anders Kindgren visits the Department of Sensitive Crimes to report a series of bizarre acts that have been committed against him, Ulf and his team swing into action. F...

**ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2020ONE OF NPR's BEST BOOKS OF 2020ONE OF THE A.V. CLUB'S 15 FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2020From the widely acclaimed author of White Tears, a bold new novel about searching for order in a world that frames madness as truth.**After receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany, the narrator of Red Pill arrives in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee and struggles to accomplish anythi...