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Ruskin Bond
Ruskin Bond is a celebrated Indian writer known for his captivating stories featuring memorable misfits, con artists, and drifters. A collection of thirty stories showcases his irresistible fiction, including new…
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The magician shrieked, ‘Someone has cut the rope! What will my boy do now?’ A minute later, down came the boy’s head. It bounced on the ground, like a coconut…
In Legends of the Hill, Ruskin Bond puts together a selection of stories and personal essays that take us into this world of the unknown that lives among the majestic…
“On the morning of 19 September, while Miss Mountstephen was still away, Miss Garnett-Orme was found dead in her bed. The door was locked from the inside. On her bedside…
“They pass me everyday, on their way to school-boys and girls from the surrounding villages and the outskirts of the hill station. For many of them, it’s a very long…
“Her eyes seemed flecked with gold when the sun was on them. And as the sun set over the mountains, drawing a deep red wound across the sky, there was…
The Man Who Was Kipling is a collection of stories which should be on the must-read list of every reader. We are introduced to a man in a museum in…
Classics such as “A Long Walk for Bina’ and "Grandfather’s Earthquake’ rub shoulders with tales of Fosterganj where lizards are chased to prepare magic oil, while spooks and haunted mansions…
The Daffodil Case brings together the best of Ruskin Bond’s fiction and non-fiction. From the thoroughly delightful “Dinner with Foster’ and "Who Kissed Me in the Dark’ to spooky tales…
As darkness falls outside; and the chill sets in; Javed Khan pulls at his hookah and begins his stories… When Kamal and his friends gather at Javed Khan’s Kashmiri shop…
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Another fascinating tale from Indias most-loved storytellerLittle Jai with his dog Motu, guards his grandfathers flock in the Tung meadows, high up on the Himalayan range. But on the prowl…
For over five decades, Ruskin Bond has written charming tales that have mesmerised readers of all ages. This collection brings together his finest stories for children in one volume. Published…
For many years, Ruskin Bond’s stories about Rusty, a quiet, imaginative and sensitive boy growing up in the hills, have entertained young readers. This novel takes Rusty’s story forward to…
In this fourth book of Rusty’s complete adventures, he goes abroad to fulfill his dream of becoming a writer.
Rusty is a quiet, imaginative and sensitive boy who lives with his grandparents in pre-Independence Dehra Dun. Though he is not the adventurous himself, the strangest and most extraordinary things…
For several decades now, Ruskin’s novel about Rusty an anglo-indian boy growing up in pre-independence Dehra Dun have entertained young children. All the Rusty’s stories will be soon available from…
Presents a collection of the author’s travels over the years. This book takes you from the Himalayas to the small towns and plains of the South.
‘Why you must pause, look up and out of the window.’ - ‘Why a geranium flowering on the windowsill and wind soughing in the pines is serenity’ - ‘How rain…
‘If you live in the hills of India, it is only a matter of time before you meet a ghost…’
Vintage storyteller Ruskin Bond has created some unforgettable characters in…
Mystery, drama, and a hint of the supernatural are all expertly woven together in this compelling story set in the hills.
‘What is the first rule of love, and what the last?’ - ‘How can love or friendship be good if it must end?’ - ‘Is a book as good a…
‘There is nothing to keep me here,
Only these mountains of silence
And the gentle reserve of shepherds and woodmen
Who know me as one who
Walks among trees.’
One…
School Days is a collection of stories that captures the splendour of our school days.
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From the time he was a boy living with his grandparents in Dehra; surrounded by an assortment of odd animals; people and relatives; to when he gets sent away to…
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A little boy goes riding on a boat. He has been told many fearful stories of sea
monsters and strange sea creatures. But what really happens on the boat…
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Tales of Fosterganj by Ruskin Bond is a fiction that opens window to a remote and quaint village Fosterganj, located around the hills of Mussoorie. The story traces the journey…
Over sixty years, for numerous readers–of all ages; in big cities, small towns and little hamlets–Ruskin Bond has been the best kind of companion. He has entertained, charmed and occasionally…
The thrilling adventures of Sinbad the sailor, Ali Baba and the forty thieves, and Princess Periezade–from the unforgettable 1001 Arabian Nights.
Princess Scheherazade’s tales of the Arabian Nights, composed over…
Where does beauty live? Where should we travel to find it?
Is a dawn without birdsong still beautiful?
What might we see through the branches of a cherry tree at…
Imagine you have the time to watch a snail crossing a road at its own sweet pace and you are able to appreciate it at ease. Difficult, right? We don’t…
Why be happy and how, and why not to worry if you think you are not. - Why it is easy to be happy, and how you can miss happiness…
From Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling to Satyajit Ray and R. K. Narayan, this text is a collection of spine-chilling tales of the supernatural from India.
Rain in the Mountains brings together some of Ruskin Bond’s most beautiful works from his years spent in the foothills of the Himalayas in the town of Mussoorie. Through vivid…
The stories in this collection capture the essence of the Indian Railways - from the small-town station, at the time of the Raj, to the present day big-city station bursting…
Autobiographical reminiscences of author about his childhood and youth.
When Ruth’s father, a clerk in the British magistrate’s office, is killed in an attack by sepoys, her family seeks refuge with their trusted companion, Lala Ramjimal. Based on true…
A collection of Ruskin Bond’s six novels evoking nostalgia for time gone by
This collection of six novels sparkles with the quiet charm and humanity that are the hallmarks of…
‘It’s the simple things in life that keep us from going crazy,’ Ruskin Bond writes in this enchanting collection of essays, a celebration of the uncomplicated pleasures of a life…
Ruskin Bond once famously reed that while he does not believe in ghosts, he sees them all the time - in the woods, in a bar, in a crowd outside…
Rakesh plants a cherry seedling in his garden and watches it grow. As seasons go by, the small tree survives heavy monsoon showers, a hungry goat that eats most of…