Half-LionWhen P. V. Narasimha Rao became the unlikely prime minister of India in 1991, he inherited economic crisis, violent insurgencies and a nation adrift. Despite being unloved by his people, mistrusted by his party, a minority in Parliament and ruling under the shadow of 10 Janpath, Rao reinvented India, at home and abroad. With exclusive access to Rao's never before seen personal papers as well as over a hundred interviews, this definitive biography

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE AWARD-WINNING LEILA

and soon his bulletins were being eagerly consumed by readers around the country and beyond

a boy counts sheep as he tries to fall asleep

from the roosting peregrine falcons near my parents' house in Northampton to the white-tailed eagles on the west coast of Scotland

Duke's raised her to be deadly--he never counted on her being disloyal

Mind maps and Mnemonics for longer retention

in the house she grew up in

Does the law of conservation of mass apply when a human transforms into a wolf in the moonlight

and the British Empire was commanding ever larger parts of the globe

the inexorable rise of intelligent machines

But they are wrong

If she's going to foil his plot and save her school