On Thursdays, they are busy when thousands turn up with letters for them. Remember that if you’re buying books as a gift, we also offer a wide-range of book prints, gifts and greetings cards for readers of all ages! Check out our print studio and gift-shop today.Djinns live in the heart of Delhi: they are spirits tending to the faithful seeking help. If you’re buying your books as a gift, we can gift-wrap them in a lovely bundle and send them wherever in the world you wish! We can even hand-write your greetings card with your personal message. If we recommend books to you through this service, we’ll be able gather up those books and send them to you no matter where you are in the world. Our recommendations service is open for all to use. Moreover, we pride ourselves on being able to track down and obtain any book our customers want. He is the youngest Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has written and presented a six-part series on the buildings of the Raj for Channel 4. His fourth, ‘The Age of Kali’, was published in November 1998. His third, ‘From the Holy Mountain’, won the Scottish Arts Council Autumn Book Award and was shortlisted for the 1998 Thomas Cook Award. William Dalrymple’s first book, ‘In Xanadu’, won the Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award and the Scottish Arts Council Spring Book Award. ‘City of Djinns’ is an astonishing and sensitive portrait of a city, and confirms William Dalrymple as one of the most compelling explorers of India’s past and present.
He pursues Delhi’s interlacing layers of history along narrow alleys and broad boulevards, brilliantly conveying its intoxicating mix of mysticism and mayhem.
Lodging with the beady-eyed Mrs Puri and encountering an extraordinary array of characters – from elusive eunuchs to the last remnants of the Raj – William Dalrymple comes to know the bewildering city intimately.
‘But you would run away.’įrom the author of the Samuel Johnson prize shortlisted ‘The Return of a King’, this is William Dalrymple’s captivating memoir of a year spent in Delhi, a city watched over and protected by the mischievous invisible djinns.
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