Riya: 10 books

With everything from heart wrenching memoir to dark transgressive laughs and unexpected tales of noir, The Truth about Cows is a collection of shorts perfect for a quick read wherever you might need one. Check out a little crime fiction while waiting for the bus and get a preview of the next character...

High up in the Chitrakoot tree, Koki the cockatoo spends her day immersed in her books. But after the other cockatoos tell her she doesn’t have a voice, Koki sets off on a search for what she’s missing – and ends up finding something even better.

Sex, drugs, and gangster rap come together in this deliciously transgressive novel to show you a side of crazy you never knew you wanted to see. When twenty-five year old Jane moves back to her hometown in order to care for her schizophrenic aunt, miscarriage and an unfaithful fiancé fresh...

Set in a dystopian future so obsessed with physical beauty that girls and women are kidnapped and dismembered for their perfect body parts, The Last Magdalene is a fast paced novella that is sure to give even the most jaded reader goose bumps. Join Rosario for a heart pounding adventure as she escapes...

What would you do if everything you were taught about your home planet was a lie? What would you do if you were Left Behind? ENDIRION is a thirteen year old boy like any other. Except his skin is green and it glows. And he doesn’t have any hair on his head or anywhere else on his body. Oh and he...

After learning the truth about their home planet in The Forbidden Voyage, thirteen year old aliens Endirion and Harlo find themselves on the run and blasting through space in a stolen ship. They’ve escaped the marshals who were close on their tail only to find themselves hurtling toward a whole...

The smartest decision Daniel Long ever made was to take a hit out on his own life. Too scared to kill himself but also too scared to live, he is a sad, pathetic man; a miserable martyr of depression. A year after he was dumped by his self-centered alcoholic girlfriend, he still wallows in the...

Some victims aren't victims for long. Some victims lie in wait. Some victims bite back. Dentata takes over where Jane. left off, continuing the transgressive fiction tradition that introduced readers to The Circle, a rough and tumble group of women who live life on the edge—reveling...

When a naughty girl is thrown out of the school, then her parents are forced to take some action. Life plays a game with her, game of love. Who will win this game? Rabia or Destiny?

This is a collection of short stories by a mother-and-daughter duo. The mother, when she was a kid, used to spend her childhood evenings sitting under the window cornice, reading Rabindranath Tagore and Satyajit Ray. Then when she grows up, she gets acquainted with Rituparno, a storyteller par excellence....