Khushwant Singh is at his best when poking fun at Indians. There are dozens of Sardarji jokes, all of them charmingly told...and many quite delightful ones on Pakistan. Witty, ribald, hilarious, no string of adjectives would suffice to describe this selection by the wittiest Sardarji of them all, and designed to give the reader a pain in the belly.
Khushwant Singh, humorist, racounteur, editor, short-story writer, novelist, commentator, has earned a new accolade - "the master spinner of jokes." He has been clubbed together with Birbal, Tenali Raman and Gopal Bhore as one of India's all time great humourists. His ability to make Indians laugh at themselves, and at their own foibles, has earned him a readership and fan following that is unp…
THE OLIVE FARM and THE OLIVE SEASON are television actress Carol Drinkwater's lyrical accounts of a new life in France; about her house Appassionata and the trials and tribulations of acquiring an olive farm, restoring it, farming the olives, overcoming the heartaches of taking on a 'new' French family and understanding slowly the workings and lifestyle of a vivacious Provencal community. THE O…
Amber Deckers grew up in South Africa but moved to London to work in journalism where she has written for various magazines, including Marie Claire. She has written the two wonderful Ella Mental books for Orchard, and when she's not writing novels, Amber works as a freelance journalist.
Bared to You will take you to the very limits of obsession - and introduce you to a hero you'll never forget . . .
In 1970, Willie Traynor comes to Clanton, Mississippi, in a Triumph Spitfire and a fog of vague ambitions. Within a year, the twenty-three-year-old finds himself the owner of Ford County’s only newspaper, famous for its well-crafted obituaries. While the rest of America is in the grips of turmoil, Clanton lives on the edge of another age—until the brutal murder of a young mother rocks the t…
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Kathleen Grissom, New York Times bestselling author of the highly anticipated Glory Over Everything, established herself as a remarkable new talent with The Kitchen House, now a contemporary classic. In this gripping novel, a dark secret threatens to expose the best and worst in everyone tied to the estate at a thriving plantation in Virginia in the decades before the Civil War. Orphaned dur…
Bestselling author William Peter Blatty warms our hearts with a funny yet deeply moving nostalgic tale of memory, mystery . . . and miracles. New York, 1941: Joey El Bueno is just a smart-aleck kid, confounding the nuns and bullies at St. Stephen's school on East 28th Street when he first meets Jane Bent, a freckle-faced girl with red pigtails and yellow smiley-face barrettes who seems to kn…
Late one night Atlanta PI Dodge Hanley receives a phone call from his lost love, Houston realtor Caroline King, who asks him to come to Texas to help catch Oren Starks, a creepy over-the-top stalker who's out to kill Dodge and Caroline's 30-year-old daughter, Berry Malone. Dodge hasn't seen Berry since the day she was born. When Starks takes a shot at Berry in Caroline's house,