A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned –a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late?

Some poems are written. Others are living. Poems for Cigarettes by Priyanshu Modi is a collection born from quiet moments, heavy emotions, and the versions of ourselves we rarely put into words. Every poem carries a memory, a feeling, and a piece of the journey from escape to self-discovery. If you've ever found comfort in words, this book might feel like it was written for you. Priyanshu Modi is a poet and filmmaker from Delhi, India. He has been writing poems for most of his life. First, they were an escape. Then, a way to express. Then, a way to observe. And eventually, a way of being himself.