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Ramayana Unravelled
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“No epic has moved the consciousness of millions like the Ramayana. The appeal of the story of Rama is such that it has inspired the imagination of countless storytellers over the centuries, across the length and breadth of the subcontinent. From Jain poets to Bhavabhuti, from Kamban to Goswami Tulsidas, many have retold the Ramayana in their own language, infusing their own unique flavour.
Though the story of Rama is much loved and well-known, questions prevail. Ramayana Unravelled attempts to address some key concerns: How did his childhood and youth shape Rama? Why did Rama agree to go on vanvas – was it only to obey his father or was there more to it? How was the relationship of Rama and Seeta? Is the Ramayana inherently misogynist, considering the characterisation of Seeta, Shurpanakha, Kaikeyi and Tara? What led to the downfall of Ravan?”
රු3,200.00
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
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“From the international bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes a major history of how a changing climate has dramatically shaped the development-and demise-of civilisations across time.
A 2023 Highlight For: BBC News * Sunday Times Culture * Financial Times * New European * Guardian * New Statesman * The Times * The Week * Waterstones * Blackwell’s
When we think about history, we rarely pay much attention to the most destructive floods, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts or the ways that ecosystems have changed over time.
In The Earth Transformed, Peter Frankopan, one of the world’s leading historians, shows that the natural environment is a crucial, if not the defining, factor in global history – and not just of humankind. Volcanic eruptions, solar activities, atmospheric, oceanic and other shifts, as well as anthropogenic behaviour, are fundamental parts of the past and the present. In this magnificent and groundbreaking book, we learn about the origins of our species: about the development of religion and language and their relationships with the environment; about how the desire to centralise agricultural surplus formed the origins of the bureaucratic state; about how growing demands for harvests resulted in the increased shipment of enslaved peoples; about how efforts to understand and manipulate the weather have a long and deep history. All provide lessons of profound importance as we face a precarious future of rapid global warming.
Taking us from the Big Bang to the present day and beyond, The Earth Transformed forces us to reckon with humankind’s continuing efforts to make sense of the natural world.
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රු3,870.00
The New Silk Roads
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“All roads used to lead to Rome. Today, they lead to Beijing.’
When The Silk Roads was published in 2015, it became an instant classic. A major reassessment of world history, it compelled us to look at the past from a different perspective. The New Silk Roads brings this story up to date, addressing the present and future of a world that is changing dramatically.
Following the Silk Roads eastwards, from Europe through to China, by way of Russia and the Middle East, The New Silk Roads provides a timely reminder that we live in a world that is profoundly interconnected. In an age of Brexit and Trump, the themes of isolation and fragmentation permeating the western world stand in sharp contrast to events along the Silk Roads since 2015, where ties have been strengthened and mutual cooperation established. With brilliant insight, Peter Frankopan takes a fresh look at the network of relationships being formed along the length and breadth of the Silk Roads today, assessing the global reverberations of these continual shifts in the centre of power – all too often absent from headlines in the West.
This important – and ultimately hopeful – book asks us to reread who we are and where we are in the world, illuminating the themes on which all our lives and livelihoods depend.”
රු3,200.00
Arden Shakespeare Third Series Complete Works
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“This new Complete Works marks the completion of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series and includes the complete plays, poems and sonnets, edited by leading international scholars. New to this edition are the ‘apocryphal’ plays, part-written by Shakespeare: Double Falsehood, Sir Thomas More and King Edward III. The anthology is unique in giving all three extant texts of Hamlet from Shakespeare’s time: the first and second Quarto texts of 1603 and 1604-5, and the first Folio text of 1623.
With a simple alphabetical arrangement the Complete Works are easy to navigate, and the reader’s understanding and enjoyment are enhanced by the general introduction, short individual introductions to each text, a glossary and a bibliography. This handsome volume is ideal for readers keen to explore Shakespeare’s work and for anyone building their literary library.”
රු6,400.00
The Silk Roads
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“Many books have been written which claim to be “A New History of the World”. This one fully deserves the title…It is difficult, in a short review, to do justice to a book so ambitious, so detailed and so fascinating as this one’ The Times
The No. 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller – a major reassessment of world history in light of the economic and political renaissance in the re-emerging east.
A Sunday Times Book of the Decade
For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the west – in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search of riches and adventure. Sweeping right across Central Asia and deep into China and India, a region that once took centre stage is again rising to dominate global politics, commerce and culture.
A major reassessment of world history, The Silk Roads is a dazzling exploration of the forces that have driven the rise and fall of empires, determined the flow of ideas and goods and are now heralding a new dawn in international affairs.”
රු3,190.00
Return of a King
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“SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2013
‘Dazzling’ Sunday Times
‘Magnificent’ Guardian
‘Sparkling’ Daily Telegraph
In the spring of 1839, Britain invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the high mountain passes and re-established on the throne Shah Shuja ul-Mulk.
On the way in, the British faced little resistance. But after two years of occupation, the Afghan people rose in answer to the call for jihad and the country exploded into violent rebellion. The First Anglo-Afghan War ended in Britain’s greatest military humiliation of the nineteenth century: an entire army of the then most powerful nation in the world ambushed in retreat and utterly routed by poorly equipped tribesmen.
Using a range of forgotten Afghan and Indian sources, William Dalrymple’s masterful retelling of Britain’s greatest imperial disaster is a powerful parable of colonial ambition and cultural collision, folly and hubris. Return of a King is history at its most urgent and important.”
රු3,190.00
Helm Field Guides Birds of Sri Lanka
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From the title story’s fantastical inter-dimensional assassins to the steampunk dystopia of “Grey Rabbit, Crimson Mare, Coal Leopard” burrowing through the ruins of a civilisation destroyed by a plague, from Black Mirror-esque tales of blockchain cryptography (“Byzantine Empathy”) and Internet trolling (“Thoughts and Prayers”) to a three-story hard-SF arc about artificial intelligence and the singularity (“The Gods Will Not Be Chained”, “The Gods Will Not Be Slain” and “The Gods Have Not Died In Vain”), here are 17 interlinking visions that explore what it is to be human, and what it is like to abandon or transcend that. This collection confirms Ken Liu, author of the astonishing and multi-award winning The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, as one of speculative fiction’s greatest short story writers.”With a rich avifauna of more than 350 species that includes 29 endemics, the island of Sri Lanka is one of southern Asia’s most popular birding destination.
This new field guide provides full coverage of every species on the Sri Lanka list, including most vagrants, with particular emphasis placed on endemic species and races. Detailed text highlights key identification criteria, along with accurate colour maps. Packed with spectacular and detailed plates by leading bird artists such as Alan Harris, Tim Worfolk and John Cox, Birds of Sri Lanka is the definitive identification tool for the visiting birdwatcher.”
රු3,640.00
Pachinko
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This is a captivating book… Min Jin Lee’s novel takes us through four generations and each character’s search for identity and success. It’s a powerful story about resilience and compassion’ BARACK OBAMA. Yeongdo, Korea 1911. In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the family face ruin. But then Isak, a Christian minister, offers her a chance of salvation: a new life in Japan as his wife. Following a man she barely knows to a hostile country in which she has no friends, no home, and whose language she cannot speak, Sunja’s salvation is just the beginning of her story. Through eight decades and four generations, Pachinko is an epic tale of family, identity, love, death and survival.
රු2,730.00
A Curse So Dark and Lonely
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“Discover the epic, contemporary fantasy retelling of Beauty and the Beast from Brigid Kemmerer: the first in the spellbinding Cursebreakers series.
‘Everything you’d want in a retelling of a classic fairy tale’ JODI PICOULT
‘Absolutely spellbinding’ STEPHANIE GARBER
Fall in love, break the curse.
Break the curse, save the kingdom.
Prince Rhen, the heir to Emberfall, is cursed. Forced to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year over and over, he can only be freed by love. But at the end of each autumn he is transformed into a beast hell-bent on destruction, and after so many failed attempts, his kingdom and its people are barely holding on.
Harper’s life has never been easy, but she’s learned to be tough enough to survive. She won’t let anything hold her back, not her cerebral palsy or her mother’s deteriorating health. But when she is sucked into Rhen’s world, nothing is as it seems. Powerful forces are standing against Emberfalll … and it will take more than a broken curse to save it from utter ruin.
The thrilling Cursebreakers series continues in A Heart So Fierce and Broken and A Vow So Bold and Deadly.
Don’t miss Brigid Kemmerer’s next blockbuster fantasy series, Defy the Night, coming this autumn.”
රු2,055.00
Piranesi
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“A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE KITSCHIES RED TENTACLE AWARD
The spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL, ‘one of our greatest living authors’ New York Magazine
Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has.
In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead. But mostly, he is alone.
Messages begin to appear, scratched out in chalk on the pavements. There is someone new in the House. But who are they and what do they want? Are they a friend or do they bring destruction and madness as the Other claims?
Lost texts must be found; secrets must be uncovered. The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous.
The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.”
රු2,950.00
The Graveyard Book
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When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who would have thought it would find safety and security in the local graveyard?Brought up by the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres, Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life from the dead. But for Bod there is also the danger of the murderer still looking for him – after all, he is the last remaining member of the family. A stunningly original novel deftly constructed over eight chapters, featuring every second year of Bod’s life, from babyhood to adolescence. Will Bod survive to be a man?
රු1,750.00
Tower of Dawn (Throne of Glass)
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One of the best fantasy book series of the past decade’ TIME A glorious empire. A desperate quest. An ancient secret. The search for allies extends to a new land in the sixth book of the #1 bestselling Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas. Chaol Westfall and Nesryn Faliq have arrived in the shining city of Antica to forge an alliance with the Khagan of the Southern Continent, whose vast armies are Erilea’s last hope. But they have also come to Antica for another purpose: to seek healing at the famed Torre Cesme for the wounds Chaol received in Rifthold. After enduring unspeakable horrors as a child at the hands of Adarlanian soldiers, Yrene Towers has no desire to help the young lord from Adarlan, let alone heal him. Yet she has sworn an oath to assist those in need, and she will honour it. But Lord Westfall carries his own dark past, and Yrene soon realises that those shadows could engulf them both. Chaol, Nesryn, and Yrene will have to draw on every scrap of their resilience to overcome the danger that surrounds them. But while they become entangled in the political webs of the khaganate, long-awaited answers slumber deep in the mountains, where warriors soar on legendary ruks. Answers that might offer their world a chance at survival … or doom them all. The final battle looms in this sixth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series.
රු3,350.00
Queen of Shadows
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Aelin Galathynius takes her place as queen in the fourth book of the #1 bestselling Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas.
Celaena Sardothien has embraced her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her throne, she must fight.
She will fight for her cousin, a warrior prepared to die for her. She will fight for her friend, a young man trapped in an unspeakable prison. And she will fight for her people, enslaved to a brutal king and awaiting their lost queen’s triumphant return.
Everyone Aelin loves has been taken from her. Everything she holds dear is in danger. But she has the heart of a queen-and that heart beats for vengeance.
In this fourth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series, no one will escape the queen’s wrath.
රු3,750.00
Coraline
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“The bewitching classic children’s novel by Neil Gaiman, featuring spellbinding illustrations from Chris Riddell and an exclusive new introduction by the author
‘I was enthralled … a marvellously strange and scary book’ Philip Pullman
‘A masterpiece’ Terry Pratchett
There is something strange about Coraline’s new home.
It’s not the mist, or the cat that always seems to be watching her, nor the signs of danger that Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, her new neighbours, read in the tea leaves. It’s the other house – the one behind the old door in the drawing room.
Another mother and father with black-button eyes and papery skin are waiting for Coraline to join them there. And they want her to stay with them. For ever. She knows that if she ventures through that door, she may never come back.
This deliciously creepy, gripping novel is packed with glorious illustrations by Chris Riddell, and is guaranteed to delight and entrance readers of all ages.”
රු1,750.00
The Priory of the Orange Tree
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“Epic’ Guardian
‘Majestic’ Daily Mail
‘Escapism at its finest – Shannon, we salute you’ Stylist
An enthralling, epic fantasy about a world on the brink of war with dragons – and the women who must lead the fight to save it.
The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction – but assassins are getting closer to her door.
Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic.
Across the dark sea, Tané has trained to be a dragonrider since she was a child, but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel.
Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep.”
රු3,750.00
Defend the Dawn
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“The heart-stopping second book in the thrilling Defy the Night series: a blockbuster fantasy saga about a star-crossed romance and a girl who will do anything for justice.
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The embers of revolution continue to simmer in Kandala. The country is still plagued by disease, and the only cure is a scarce moonflower elixir only the rich can afford.
Tessa Cade has gone from masked outlaw to palace advisor – and she’s determined to help the people of Kandala. With supplies of the moonflower running out, Tessa embarks with Prince Corrick on an uncertain journey to the mysterious neighbouring kingdom of Ostriary.
The journey could be their only chance to save the people of Kandala – but it will hold untold danger for both Tessa and Prince Corrick as they navigate perilous waters and confront their feelings for each other. No one is who they seem to be, and the consequences will be dangerous and unpredictable …
It’s time to rise up and DEFEND THE DAWN.”
රු2,650.00
The Assassin’s Blade
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Find out where the Throne of Glass journey began in this irresistible bind-up of all five of #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas’s Assassin novellas Celaena Sardothien is Adarlan’s most feared assassin. As part of the Assassins’ Guild, her allegiance is to her master, Arobynn Hamel, yet Celaena listens to no one and trusts only her fellow killer-for-hire, Sam. In these action-packed prequel novellas – together in one edition for the first time – Celaena embarks on five daring missions. They take her from remote islands to hostile deserts, where she fights to liberate slaves and seeks to avenge the tyrannous. But she is acting against Arobynn’s orders and could suffer an unimaginable punishment for such treachery . . . Explore the dark underworld of this kick-ass heroine and find out how the legend begins in the five page-turning prequel novellas to the New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series. Celaena Sardothien is Adarlan’s most feared assassin. As part of the Assassins’ Guild, her allegiance is to her master, Arobynn Hamel, yet Celaena listens to no one and trusts only her fellow killer-for-hire, Sam. In these action-packed prequel novellas – together in one edition for the first time – Celaena embarks on five daring missions. They take her from remote islands to hostile deserts, where she fights to liberate slaves and seeks to avenge the tyrannous. But she is acting against Arobynn’s orders and could suffer an unimaginable punishment for such treachery .Explore the dark underworld of this kick-ass heroine and find out how the legend begins in the five page-turning prequel novellas to the New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series.
රු2,850.00
Eat Pray Love
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IT’S 3 A.M. AND ELIZABETH GILBERT IS SOBBING ON THE BATHROOM FLOOR. SHE’S IN HER THIRTIES, SHE HAS A HUSBAND, A HOUSE, THEY’RE TRYING FOR A BABY – AND SHE DOESN’T WANT ANY OF IT. A BITTER DIVORCE AND A TURBULENT LOVE AFFAIR LATER, SHE EMERGES BATTERED AND BEWILDERED AND REALISES IT IS TIME TO PURSUE HER OWN JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF THREE THINGS SHE HAS BEEN MISSING: PLEASURE, DEVOTION AND BALANCE. SO SHE TRAVELS TO ROME, WHERE SHE LEARNS ITALIAN FROM HANDSOME,
රු2,900.00
101 Youth Rugby Drills (101 Drills)
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Designed specifically for younger players, 101 Youth Rugby Drills is the practice bible for youth rugby coaches. It contains a range of progressive practice drills to help young players develop. Fun, educational and challenging, all drills are illustrated and cover the essential technical skills required to introduce rugby,
රු1,162.00
Throne Of Glass
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THE BOOK THAT STARTED THE PHENOMENON. SARAH J. MAAS’S GLOBAL #1 BESTSELLING THRONE OF GLASS SERIES HAS TAKEN THE WORLD BY STORM. MEET CELAENA SARDOTHIEN. BEAUTIFUL. DEADLY. DESTINED FOR GREATNESS. IN THE DARK, FILTHY SALT MINES OF ENDOVIER, AN EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL IS SERVING A LIFE SENTENCE. SHE IS A TRAINED ASSASSIN, THE BEST OF HER KIND, BUT SHE MADE A FATAL MISTAKE. SHE GOT CAUGHT. YOUNG CAPTAIN WESTFALL OFFERS HER A DEAL: HER FREEDOM IN RETURN FOR ONE HUGE SACRIFICE. CELAENA MUST REPRESENT THE PRINCE IN A TO-THE-DEATH TOURNAMENT – FIGHTING THE MOST GIFTED THIEVES AND ASSASSINS IN THE LAND. LIVE OR DIE, CELAENA WILL BE FREE. WIN OR LOSE, SHE IS ABOUT TO DISCOVER HER TRUE DESTINY. BUT WILL HER ASSASSIN’S HEART BE MELTED?
රු3,350.00
Heir Of Fire
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THE THIRD INSTALMENT TO THE GLOBAL #1 BESTSELLING SERIES.AS THE KING OF ADARLAN’S ASSASSIN, CELAENA SARDOTHIEN IS BOUND TO SERVE THE TYRANT WHO SLAUGHTERED HER DEAR FRIEND. BUT SHE HAS VOWED TO MAKE HIM PAY. THE ANSWERS CELAENA NEEDS TO DESTROY THE KING LIE ACROSS THE SEA WENDLYN. AND CHAOL, CAPTAIN OF THE KING’S GUARD, HAS PUT HIS FUTURE IN JEOPARDY TO SEND HER THERE.
රු3,350.00
Lost Connection
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DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY ARE NOW AT EPIDEMIC LEVELS. WHY? ACROSS THE WORLD, SCIENTISTS HAVE UNCOVERED EVIDENCE FOR NINE DIFFERENT CAUSES. SOME ARE IN OUR BIOLOGY, BUT MOST ARE IN THE WAY WE ARE LIVING TODAY.LOST CONNECTIONS OFFERS A RADICAL NEW WAY OF THINKING ABOUT THIS CRISIS. IT SHOWS THAT ONCE WE UNDERSTAND THE REAL CAUSES, WE CAN BEGIN TO TURN TO PIONEERING NEW SOLUTIONS – ONES THAT OFFER REAL HOPE.
රු2,720.00
Big Magic
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READERS OF ALL AGES AND WALKS OF LIFE HAVE DRAWN INSPIRATION FROM ELIZABETH GILBERT’S BOOKS FOR YEARS. NOW, THIS BELOVED AUTHOR SHARES HER WISDOM AND UNIQUE UNDERSTANDING OF CREATIVITY, SHATTERING THE PERCEPTIONS OF MYSTERY AND SUFFERING THAT SURROUND THE PROCESS – AND SHOWING US ALL JUST HOW EASY IT CAN BE. BY SHARING STORIES FROM HER OWN LIFE, AS WELL AS THOSE FROM HER FRIENDS AND THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE INSPIRED HER, ELIZABETH GILBERT CHALLENGES US TO EMBRACE OUR CURIOSITY, TACKLE WHAT WE MOST LOVE AND FACE DOWN WHAT WE MOST FEAR. WHETHER YOU LONG TO WRITE A BOOK, CREATE ART, COPE WITH CHALLENGES AT WORK, EMBARK ON A LONG-HELD DREAM OR SIMPLY TO MAKE YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE MORE VIVID AND REWARDING, BIG MAGIC WILL TAKE YOU ON A JOURNEY OF EXPLORATION FILLED WITH WONDER AND UNEXPECTED JOYS.
රු2,720.00