Ministry Of Utmost Happiness PbAt magic hour; when the sun has gone but the light has not, armies of flying foxes unhinge themselves from the Banyan trees in the old graveyard and drift across the city like smoke . . .' So begins The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy's incredible follow up to The God of Small Things. We meet Anjum, who used to be Aftab, who runs a guest house in an Old Delhi graveyard and gathers around her the lost, the broken and the cast out. We meet

Stop going through life

after which he published another best-seller

Ranjit Desai

everyone must confront their deepest fears before it’s too late

Train to Pakistan is a classic of modern Indian fiction

and philosophy

The author

His obsession

you lost track of this mentor as you made your way

Using every available weapon she has

monkeys and mice and scorpions and hidden treasures

powerful politicians