The Diamond-Encrusted Rat TrapAt seventeen, in the year 1957, Adil Jussawalla left Bombay for London, in search of something brighter and grander. Thirteen years later, he returned to the city of his birth, and it was the beginning of a lifelong bitter sweet love affair. The great metropolis became a defining presence in his poetry and prose, and he an important and distinctive part of its literary landscape. This book brings together Jussawallas prose pieces on Bombay Mumbai,

The Lost Metal

But will they get off the island before they are swallowed up in darkness forever

Misery Lark

breakneck-paced thriller

Based on the acclaimed BBC Series

Martha Beck has spent years studying social behaviour and she believes that the key to losing weight is learning to adjust our behaviour patterns and the way we think about food

his fasts and imprisonment

is concerned she may be compromising the case

they just might spot the one thing Brooke's been aching to see most -- a moose

and create a fulfilling existence on one's own terms

This is followed by a detailed but accessible account of how wine is made and an exploration of every major grape variety and of how its wines differ around the world

And as the sound of the sixties sings out from the Tannoy