New Delhi: A revelatory book by the controversial A Raja, biographies of Amit Shah, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Netaji’s aide A C N Nambiar, a definitive account of the 2G scam and novels by bestselling authors Jeffrey Archer and John Grisham ? 2015 has an exciting line-up of national and international titles.
“In My Defence” by one of India’s most controversial ministers Raja is “honest, hard-hitting and with no holds barred, an important and utterly absorbing book”, says its publishers Penguin.
It will also come out with “India’s Biggest Fraud: How the 2G Scam Unravelled,” an account of the 2G spectrum scam and its aftermath by J Gopikrishnan, the journalist who is credited with exposing the scam in 2008.
A number of biographies will also be released during the year – “Modi’s Man: The rise and rise of Amit Shah” (Penguin) by Poornima Joshi; MSD – Dhoni?s biography (Rupa) by Biswadeep Ghosh; “Jack Gibson: A Life”, a biography of the legendary principal of Mayo College in Ajmer by Laeeq Futehally (Hachette) and Rahul Dev Burman by Khagesh Dev Burman (Rupa).
Roli Books will publish biographies of Subhas Chandra Bose’s deputy A C N Nambiar by Vappala Balachandran, Firaq Gorakhpuri by Ajai Mansingh and Sachin Tendulkar’s legendary coach Ramakant Achrekar by Kunal Purandare and HarperCollins that of Sourav Ganguly ? “Cricket, Captaincy and Controversy” by Saptarshi Sarkar.
Bestselling author Jeffrey Archer will release “Mightier than the Sword”, the fifth novel in the epic Clifton Chronicles series, ahead of the global launch. Swedish author Hakkan Nesser will also travel to India ahead of the release of his new book “The Living and the Dead in Winsford”. Both the books will be brought out by Pan Macmillan.
Two books by popular novelist John Grisham ? “Theodore Boone: The Fugitive” and “New Legal Thriller” and J K Rowling’s new offering “Very Good Lives” will be published by Hachette.
Oxford University Press will come out with two books by former Union minister Jairam Ramesh – “Legislating for Equity: The Making of the 2013 Land Acquisition Law,” co-authored by Muhammad Ali Khan, and “Green Signals: Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in India.”
Some books related to politics are “Narendra Modi And The Election That Shook The World” by former BBC correspondent and Downing Street communications expert Lance Price and “The Great Indian Rope Trick: Does the future of Democracy Lie With India” by Roderick Matthews (both Hachette); “War Room: The People, Tactics and Technology Behind Narendra Modi’s 2014 Win” by Ullekh NP (Roli). .
PTI
