Sophie Weston

Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step
by Edward De Bono

This book offers a practical explanation of how creativity works. It teaches readers to go beyond "vertical" mode of thought to tap the potential of lateral thinking.

The Guilty and other stories:Vaasanthi
by Vaasanthi .

Uma and Maadhav, traumatized victims of their childhood, have agonized for two decades to unravel the painful mystery of their mother's suicide. More isolated and alone, their father Balasubramanian too grapples with a past that does not cease to haunt him....

This anthology is a veritable treat with its many tales and the twists---

A young bride takes courage in her hands to defy a tyrannical social custom. For decades a patriarch has lorded over the numerous women in the household, until one of them rebels. Declared mad by the husband, a wife is forced to confinement in a sanatorium. Nostalgia tugs at an expatriate as he is haunted by the fear that his roots will fade away.

This is a translated section of original piece by Gomathi Narayanan and V. Ramnarayan.

The Constant Gardener
by John le Carre

Frightening, heartbreaking, and exquisitely calibrated, John le Carré's novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle near northern Kenya's Lake Turkana, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover and traveling companion, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has vanished from the scene of the crime. Tessa's much older husband, Justin, a career diplomat at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive.

A master chronicler of the deceptions and betrayals of ordinary people caught in political conflict, le Carré portrays, in The Constant Gardener, the dark side of unbridled capitalism. His eighteenth novel is also the profoundly moving story of a man whom tragedy elevates. Justin Quayle, amateur gardener and ineffectual bureaucrat, seemingly oblivious to his wife's cause, discovers his own resources and the extraordinary courage of the woman he barely had time to love.