Jaswant joins Dan Brown in bestseller list - again

By IANS
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

NEW DELHI - Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party leader Jaswant Singh’s controversial “Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence” continues as No.1 for the fifth consecutive week in the non-fiction section while Dan Brown’s “The Lost Symbol” is the predictable topper in the fiction list this week.

The top 10 in each section are:

Non-fiction

1. “Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence”

Author: Jaswant Singh

Publisher: Rupa

Price: Rs.695.00

2. “The Difficulty of Being Good: On The Subtle art of Dharma”

Author: Gurcharan Das

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

3. “Imagining India: Ideas for The New Century”

Author: Nandan Nilekani

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

4. “Seeds of Terror: The Taliban, The ISI and The New Opium Wars”

Author: Gretchen Peters

Publisher: Hachette

Price: Rs.495.00

5. “The Alqaeda Connection”

Author: Imitaz Gul

Publisher: Penguin Books

Price: Rs.499.00

6. “Making Sense of Pakistan”

Author: Farzana Shaikh

Publisher: Foundation Books

Price: Rs.695.00

7. “The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War”

Author: Andrew Roberts

Publisher: Allen Lane

Price: 11.99 pounds

8. “Delhi Adventures in a Megacity”

Author: Sam Miller

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.499.00

9. “The Idea of Justice”

Author: Amartya Sen

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

10. “New Delhi: Making of a Capital”

Author: M. Singh and R. Mukherjee

Publisher: Roli Books

Price: Rs.1,975.00

Fiction

1. “The Lost Symbol”

Author: Dan Brown

Publisher: Bantam Press

Price: Rs.699.00

2. “Summertime”

Author: J.M. Coetzee

Publisher: Harvill Secker, London

Price: 8.75 pounds (Rs.673)

3. “Wolf Hall”

Author: Hilary Mantel

Publisher: Fourth Estate, London

Price: 7.99 pounds (Rs.609)

4. “The Children’s Book”

Author: A.S. Byatt

Publisher: Chatto and Windows

Price: 6.25 pounds (Rs.498)

5. “The Little Stranger”

Author: Sarah Waters

Publisher: Virago

Price: Rs.550.00

6. “Empire of the Moghul: Raiders From The North”

Author: Alex Rutherford

Publisher: Headline Review

Price: Rs.495.00

7. “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders”

Author: Daniyal Mueenuddin

Publisher: Random House

Price: Rs.395.00

8. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”

Author: Stieg Larsson

Publisher: Quercus

Price: Rs.299.00

9. “Electric Feather: The Tranquebar Book of Erotic Stories”

Author: Ruchir Joshi

Publisher: Tranquebar

Price: Rs.395.00

10. “The Girl Who Played with Fire”

Author: Stieg Larsson

Publisher: Quercus

Price: Rs.299.00

(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online).

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E.S. Cenote
October 1, 2009: 11:35 am

Have published an E-book which combines erotica and science fiction. It’s the first of five providing the story of Vayna, who is born into slavery and slowly progresses towards the Freedom she so ardently desires. The book’s URL is eloquentbooks.com/Vayna of the Steppes.html The publisher can be reached at marketingmanager@eloquentbooks.com Thank-you

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