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Ruskin Bond
This is a book that carries decades of experience on how to be contented, how to lead a fulfilling life, how to inhabit the delightful world of books and stories…
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On the eve of his ninetieth birthday, literary legend Ruskin Bond brings to readers a heartfelt letter capturing his most cherished memories and experiences. Penning his thoughts with sincerity and…
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Bursting with delightful illustrations, this chapter book features endearing characters and hilarious episodes, making it a perfect introduction to the wonderful world of Ruskin Bond!
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In the stillness of the air every tree, every leaf, every bough, every tendril of creeper and every petal of minute blossoms seemed to have been bewitched into an immobility…
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This volume brings together the best of Ruskin bond’s prose and poetry. This anthology presents selections for all his major book, and also features his unpublished novella, Delhi is Not…
A collection of spooky tales.
A book of verse that brings together the poetry of one of India’s best loved writers. This collector’s edition contains poems on love and nature, travel, humour and childhood.
This volume includes the eternally popular Grandfather’s Private Zoo, Angry River, The Blue Umbrella, The Road to the Bazaar, as well as the short stories ‘Cricket for the Crocodile’ and…
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…
Autobiographical sketches and stories from India’s best-loved writer in English. For over four decades now, by way of innumerable short stories, essays, poems and novels, Ruskin Bond has championed simplicity…
Features playful tigers, ghosts, elephants, and crows, as well as old favorites like Uncle Ken, and Miss Bun. The author’s slightly eccentric grandfather and Bond himself ease in and out…
In this delightful collection, Ruskin Bond introduces us to the Dehradun he knows intimately and loves unreservedly - the town that he had spent many years of his childhood and…
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…
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.
‘Adventure is for the adventurous.’ Rusty and his friends Pitamber and Popat find adventure in no small measure when they set out to climb a mysterious mountain steeped in legend…
The residents of Pipalnagar, a dull and dusty small town, hope to one day leave behind their humdrum lives for the thrills of Delhi. Deep Chand, the barber, dreams of…
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…
The story of the Ganges, from her source to the sea, from old times to new, is the story of India’s civilization and culture, of the rise and fall 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…
Leo Buscaglia had one said that a single rose could be his garden and a single friend, his world. Ruskin Bond has picked up some of the best quotes, ideas…
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…
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…
‘ Who … whoo … whooo , cried the wind as it swept down from the Himalayan snows.’ The wild wind pushes open windows, chokes chimneys and blows away clothes…
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…
Dicky must have thought the General had something to do with his detention, or else he may have felt an explanation was due to him. Whatever his reasoning, he chose…
Time passes and yet it doesn’t pass; people come and go, the mountains remain. Mountains are permanent things. They are stubborn, they refuse to move…no matter how hard they try…
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…
Curated by Ruskin Bond, this book celebrates the magnificence of nature and his deep, abiding love for it.
‘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…
A beloved tale of genies, a magic lamp, an evil villain, and the remarkable adventures of a boy called Aladdin.
Fifteen-year-old Aladdin is befriended by a stranger who says he…
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…
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 all those who have trembled through Ruskin Bond’s tales of horror and mystery, here’s another collection of strange and dark stories from the master storyteller. Within these pages you…
An evergreen classic about friendship and growing up, by a master storyteller This book catches up with our favourite Rusty as he plunges not just into the cold pools of…
A delightful read… no one understands nature like Ruskin Bond and it takes his ability to put this wonder into words’-Deccan Chronicle For over half a century, Ruskin Bond has…
Part of the bestselling ‘Little Book’ series, a new title by India’s favourite author Ruskin Bond
What can a flower teach us about courage? Or a little red ant?
When…
In this delightful little book, Ruskin Bond writes about some of the most interesting insects, birds, trees and flowers he has observed. As a person with a deep and abiding…
In this fourth book of Rusty’s complete adventures, he goes abroad to fulfill his dream of becoming a writer.
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…
It was 1947, and life was about to change quite dramatically for most of us’ Thirteen-year-old Ruskin is back at school, doing what he loves-reading, goal-keeping, spending time with his…
‘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…
Thirteen hair-raising stories to make your flesh creep. Here are literary master pieces by Kipling, Saki, Algernon Blackwood and others with tales filled with chilling terror and unfathomable horror.
Who would you like to meet - the adventurous four feathers from the prep-school in Shimla or the Eurasian schoolboy and his funny grandmother who detests the dirty manners of…
