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BOOKS TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2024

KNIFE

By Salman Rushdie

Penguin Random House/ Non-fiction

This is a book that one wishes never had to be written. Rushdie’s brave new memoir is a gripping account of surviving an attempt on his life 30 years after the fatwa was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first time and in unforgettable detail about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, KNIFE is a powerful, deeply personal and ultimately uplifting meditation on life, loss, love, the power of art, finding the strength to keep going, and to stand up again. It releases on April 16, 2024.

THE GREAT FLAP OF 1942: How the British Raj Panicked Over a Japanese Non-Invasion

By Mukund Padmanabhan

Penguin Random House/ Non-fiction

‘The Great Flap’ was an expression used by British bureaucrats to

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