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Younguncle in the Himalayas by Vandana Singh
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £8.18Vandana Singh's first book, Younguncle Comes to Town, was an instant classic of children's literature. Now, in this highly anticipated follow-up, Younguncle finds himself on an adventure in the... -
Hour Past Midnight by Salma
RRP: £14.50Booksplease Price: £13.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788189884666Author Salma SalmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint ZubaanPublisher... -
A Passionate Life - Writings by and on Kamladevi Chattopadhyay Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay 9789384757830
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.98Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was a remarkable woman a gifted writer and an activist central to the making of the modern Indian nation. India's representative to the Global South for many years after... -
Contesting Nation: Gendered Violence in South Asia: Notes on the Postcolonial Present by Angana P Chatterji 9789381017876
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789381017876Author Angana P ChatterjiFormat HardbackPage Count 423Imprint ZubaanPublisher... -
Three Virgins – And Other Stories by Manjula Padmanabhan 9789381017616
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £8.26From the award-winning writer of the acclaimed play "Harvest", this debut collection of stories will electrify readers with its unusual, radical, and troubling themes. Here are ten tales, some new,... -
Gender, Violent Conflict and Development by Dubravka Zarkov 9788189013608
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788189013608Author Dubravka ZarkovFormat HardbackPage Count 330Imprint ZubaanPublisher Kali for... -
Freedom Fables - Satire and Politics in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain`s Writings Kalyani Dutta 9789385932489
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789385932489Author Kalyani DuttaFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint ZubaanPublisher... -
Aosenla's Story by Temsula Ao 9789384757984
Booksplease Price: £14.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789384757984Author Temsula AoFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint ZubaanPublisher... -
Her Piece of Sky: An Anthology of Hindi Women Writers by Deepa Agarwal 9789381017067
Booksplease Price: £7.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789381017067Author Deepa AgarwalFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint ZubaanPublisher Zubaan -
The Fear That Stalks Gender-Based Violence in Public Spaces by Sara Pilot
Booksplease Price: £21.53What are the underlying causes and consequences of gender-based violence in public spaces? Who defines what comprises the "public space" - and why are those spaces so often barred not only to women,... -
From Cork to Calcutta - My Mother's Story by Milty Bose
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £17.19Imelda Connor is a classic Irish lass-a fiery, red-headed beauty, quick to anger, and fiercely protective of her younger siblings. Growing up on a small farm in the rolling hills of County Cork, she... -
Nine Degrees of Justice - New Perspectives on Violence Against Women in India by Bishakha Datta
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £20.58From an early focus on rape, dowry, and sati - self-immolation - feminist struggles against violence to women in India have now moved to a wider terrain that includes issues rarely considered in the... -
The Business of Sex by Laxmi Murthy
Booksplease Price: £31.73Mainstream feminist discourse has failed to fully engage with commercial sex work. In a series of groundbreaking, previously unpublished essays, The Business of Sex corrects this lacuna. Moving... -
Vikram and the Vampire Natasha Sharma 9789384757649
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £8.46King Vikram has a devil of a dilemma! In order to gain power and wealth beyond his wildest dreams, he must deliver a corpse to the sorcerer Shaitanish. The only problem with this simple task is that... -
Bitter Wormwood Easterine Kire 9789381017029
RRP: £11.50Booksplease Price: £10.48Kohima, 2007. A young man has just been gunned down in cold blood - the latest casualty in the conflict that has brutalized the people of Nagaland, in the neglected northeastern corner of India. Rich... -
Genderscapes Revisioning Natural Resource Management by Sumi Krishna
Booksplease Price: £27.15Even in a realm that would seem to be as far removed from issues of gender as natural resource management, gender bias is pernicious and persistent, especially in India. Genderscapes looks at the... -
Squiggle Gets Stuck: All about muddled sentences by Natasha Sharma
Booksplease Price: £11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789384757960Author Natasha SharmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint ZubaanPublisher... -
Motherhood and Choice - Uncommon Mothers, Childfree Women Amrita Nandy 9789385932045
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.98As both the bedrock of human survival and an unchallenged part of the "normal" female life, motherhood expects and even compels women to be mothers both symbolic and corporeal. Motherhood and... -
Once Upon a Life – Burnt Curry and Bloody Rags: A Memoir by Temsula Ao
RRP: £14.50Booksplease Price: £12.83Born in 1945 in the Assamese town of Jorhat, Temsula Ao lost both her parents in quick succession when she was young. Left to fend for themselves, she and her five siblings ran wild, skipping school... -
A Family Secret: And Other Stories by Bijoya Sawian
RRP: £11.50Booksplease Price: £9.72On a rainy afternoon in Cherrapunji, the postman arrives with a letter for fourteen-year-old Saphira, and her life will never be the same. Dalinia, meanwhile, seems to have the perfect life:... -
The Song Seekers by Saswati Sengupta 9789381017036
RRP: £11.50Booksplease Price: £10.38In "The Song Seekers", the debut novel by Saswati Sengupta, the monsoon rains wash over the city of Kolkata while four women sit and read and talk in the kitchen of Kailash, the old mansion of the... -
Undoing Impunity - Speech After Sexual Violence by V. Geetha
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.37Acts of sexual violence are often committed with impunity-perpetrators do not consider their actions consequential. Yet throughout history, impunity for sexual violence has been challenged by... -
Breaching the Citadel - The India Papers Urvashi Butalia 9789384757786
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £24.54Breaching the Citadel, part of the Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia series, supported by the International Development Research Centre, Canada, puts India in focus, showcasing new and... -
Voices and Values - The Politics of Feminist Evaluation Ratna Sudarshan 9789385932397
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £17.49Over the last several years, regular evaluation of development programs has become essential in measuring and understanding their true impact. Feminist and gender-sensitive evaluations have gradually... -
High Wind by Tilottoma Misra
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £5.79Jeumon has a complicated story stuck in her head: her family's. In the newly-drawn boundaries of Assam and Meghalaya in 1972 India, young Jeumon wonders how she should define herself. Is she... -
The Madness of Waiting Muhammad Hadi Ruswa 9789381017708
RRP: £14.50Booksplease Price: £13.54Published in 1899, Muhammad Hadi Ruswa's famous novel "Umrao Jaan Ada" created a sensation when it came out, with its candid fictionalized account of the life of Umrao Jaan, based on a renowned... -
These Hills Called Home - Stories from a War Zone Temsula Ao 9789381017975
Booksplease Price: £17.73The Naga people of the troubled northeastern region of India have endured more than a century of bloodshed in their struggle for an independent Nagaland and a national identity. It is against this... -
Centrepiece - Women's Writing and Art from Northeast India by Parismita Singh
RRP: £26.50Booksplease Price: £23.91Though the northeastern region of India contains eight ethnically diverse, politically complex, and historically different states, it is often homogenized into a problematic category called "the... -
The Saga of Satisar by Chandrakanta Chandrakanta
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £17.49Combining myth, legend, geography, history, and politics, The Saga of Satisar is the panoramic history of the Kashmiri Pandits. In it, award-winning Hindi writer Chandrakanta unspools a novel that... -
Foxy Aesop: On the Edge Suniti Namjoshi 9789385932427
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.24"Why didn't you save the world?" This is the Sprite's cry. Meanwhile, Aesop tries to save his skin, make up his fables, and just live his life. Given the pitfalls of human nature, are these fables... -
Fault Lines of History - The India Papers II Uma Chakravarti 9789385932083
RRP: £37.50Booksplease Price: £32.78Fault Lines of History is the second volume in Zubaan's Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia series, to focus on India. This volume addresses the question of state impunity, arguing that when... -
All Passion Spent by Zaheda Hina
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.14In the mid-nineties, Birjees Dawar Ali leaves India to return to Pakistan to seek out a history left unfinished, a life from which she had earlier fled, nursing heartbreak and betrayal. But when she... -
The Mothers of Manipur – Twelve Women Who Made History by Teresa Rehman 9789384757762
Booksplease Price: £22.14July 15, 2004, Imphal (Manipur, India): An amazing scene unfolds in front of Kangla Fort, the headquarters of the Assam Rifles, a unit of the Indian army. Soldiers and officers watch aghast as twelve... -
Women Water Professionals Inspiring Stories from South Asia by De Krishna 9789381017197
Booksplease Price: £4.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789381017197Author De KrishnaFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint ZubaanPublisher... -
Partition: The Long Shadow Urvashi Butalia 9789383074778
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £29.92The Partition of British India into the nations of India and Pakistan in 1947 and the further redrawing of the borders in 1971 to create Bangladesh were major, wrenching events whose effects are... -
Suki by Suniti Namjoshi
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £13.92InSuki,Suniti Namjoshi weaves a witty and delightful tapestry from threads of longing, loss, memory, metaphor, and contemplation. Taken as a whole, the picture she draws is a stunning evocation of... -
Mobile Girls Koottam: Working Women Speak by Madhumita Dutta 9789390514458
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £10.88A humorous chronicle that explores contemporary media in the lives of Indian working women. In 2013 Madhumita Dutta, a doctoral student, went to do research in Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu... -
Bezubaan by Ashok Kumar Bajpai 9789393705051
Booksplease Price: £25.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789393705051Author Ashok Kumar BajpaiFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint IRA ImaginationsPublisher... -
Zeest-e-Zubaani by Sweta Mandal 9781636403779
Booksplease Price: £11.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636403779Author Sweta MandalFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint White Falcon PublishingPublisher... -
Off the Beaten Track - The Story of My Unconventional Life by Saeeda Bano
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £10.22Saeeda Bano was the first woman in India to work as a radio newsreader, known then and still as the doyenne of Urdu broadcasting. Over her unconventional and courageous life, she walked out of a...