The Beast in the Clouds is a true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s sons and their 1929 Himalayan expedition to prove the existence of the panda bear to the western world. The Himalayas – a snow-capped mountain range that hides treacherous glacier crossings, raiders poised  to attack unsuspecting travellers, with one of the most beautiful and fragile ecosystems in the world. In 1972 only other countries that had pandas were the USSR, North Korea and Britain. London’s best-known Panda, Chi Chi had been acquired outside the diplomatic system in 1958, when an Austrian dealer had exchanged some African big game for a … Continue reading Quest to find panda…

Cambridge educated, Calcutta-origin Pia Gosh-Roy, recipient of the 2017 Hamlin Garlnad Award and the 2019 Cagibi Macaron Prize, worked in advertising as a copy writer for over a decade before turning to fiction.  And I Am the Arrow is compulsive saga of three generations of women live in an art deco-style mansion in Calcutta that is clinging on to traces of grandeur, and the ghost of a man cut in two on a train track, spanning Calcutta, London and New York. Grandmother Niyoti, daughter-in-law Ira and granddaughter Mishu have been stalled by grief since Rathin, their adored son, husband and father, … Continue reading Tale of abuse and survival…

William Cohan, bestselling author of House of Cards and Power Failure, reveals in Money to Burn, the turbulent but true tale of Apollo, a powerful and controversial financial empire. Apollo Global Management, one of the world’s most formidable investment firms, has thrived in private equity and private credit, delivering staggering returns through aggressive takeovers and bold, contrarian bets. Leon black was in his second year at Harvard Business School when his famous father, a Jewish Pole originally named Eliasz Blachowicz,  who arrived in New York and went on to build United Brands, a banana -to-meatpacking conglomerate, but  he threw himself out of … Continue reading Explosive rise of private equity and private credit

Alice Hoffman is the bestselling author of Practical Magic, whose new literary fiction novel follows two brilliant young women in 1950s Cambridge, Massachusetts, as they become immersed in a mysterious secret group of witches at Radcliffe College known as the Lilith Society. By the 1950s, Cambridge, Massachusetts feels far removed from the legendary witch trials that marked its early days as a colony. Ava, a bright young woman from a small town in Maine, arrives for her first year at Radcliffe College. There she meets Lauren, her opposite in every way – the wild and brazen daughter of a wealthy … Continue reading Magical fiction….