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Book from Pakistan is bestseller again
Thursday, October 21, 2010 02:42:43 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
"Granta: The Magazine of New Writing Pakistan", a compilation by
various Pakistani writers, continued to be number one in the
non-fiction section of the bestseller list this week while Man
Booker Prize winner "The Finkler Question" by Howard Jacobson
topped the fiction group.
The top 10 in each section are:
Non-fiction
1. "Granta: The Magazine of New Writing Pakistan"
Author: Compilation by various Pakistani writers
Publisher: Granta Publishing
Price: Rs.599.00
2. "First Draft"
Author: B.G. Verghese
Publisher: Tranquebar
Price: Rs.695.00
3. "Churchill's Secret War"
Author: Madhusree Mukerjee
Publisher: Tranquebar
Price: Rs.495.00
4. "Tony Blair: A Journey"
Author: Tony Blair
Publisher: Hutchinson
Price: Rs.999.00
5. "Finding Delhi"
Author: Bharati Chaturvedi
Publisher: Penguin/Viking
Price: Rs.350.00
6. "Ambani & Sons"
Author: Hamish McDonald
Publisher: Roli Books
Price: Rs.395.00
7. "Mumbai Fables"
Author: Gyan Prakash
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.599.00
8. "The Delhi Walla: Food + Drink"
Author: Mayank Austen Soofi
Publisher: Collins
Price: Rs.199.00
9. "The Delhi Walla: Monuments"
Author: Mayank Austen Soofi
Publisher: Collins
Price: Rs.199.00
10. "The Delhi Walla: Hangouts"
Author: Mayank Austen Soofi
Publisher: Collins
Price: Rs.199.00
Fiction
1. "The Finkler Question"
Author: Howard Jacobson
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Rs.299.00
2. "Luka and the Fire of Life"
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Price: Rs.499.00
3. "Freedom"
Author: Jonathan Franzen
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Price: Rs.694.00
4. "The Slap"
Author: Christos Tsiolkas
Publisher: Tuskar Rock Press
Price: Rs.450.00
5. "The Immortals of Meluha"
Author: Amish Tripathi
Publisher: Westland
Price: Rs.295.00
6. "The Cobra"
Author: Frederick Forsyth
Publisher: Corgi Books
Price: Rs.299.00
7. "Worth Dying For"
Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Bantam Press
Price: Rs.550.00
8. "Shadow Princess"
Author: Indu Sundaresan
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.399.00
9. "After Taste"
Author: Namita Devidayal
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.399.00
10. "Secrets and Sins"
Author: Jaishree Misra
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.299.00
(Source: Bahri Sons,
New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are
available online)
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