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Born in Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, in 1934, RUSKIN BOND grew up in Jamnagar, Dehra Dun and Shimla. His first novel. ' Room on the Roof', written when he was seventeen, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written over three hundred short stories, essays and novellas, and more than thirty books for children. He has also published two volumes of autobiography, 'Scenes from a Writer's Life', which describes his formative years growing up in Anglo-Indian, and 'The Lamp is Lit', a collection of essays and episodes from his journal.

He received the Sahitya Akademi award for English writing in India, and was awarded Padma Shree in 1999.

• The Rupa Book of Great Escapes
Ruskin Bond brings to the comfort and safety of our armchair a collection of inspiring and hair-raising stories of courage and wits, from dangerous and exotic locales all over the world.

• The Rupa Book of Heartwarming Stories
In a world rent apart with excitement-good and bad-this anthology brings together stories to restore one’s faith in the goodness of human nature.

• Panther's Moon and other Stories
Ten unforgettable tales of fascinating human encounters with animals and birds. Ruskin bond once again gives a marvelous collection of stories that enchant, amuse, and delight.

• The Road to the Bazar
These 16 stories make up the rich and varied collection in the Road to the Bazar. The author brings to life a town in northern India capturing the scenery, the people, the atmosphere, and shows that children are the same the world over.

• The Best of Ruskin Bond
This collection brings together the best of Ruskin Bond’s prose and poetry. For over four decades, by way of innumerable novels, essays, short stories, and poems, the author has mapped out and peopled a unique literary landscape. This anthology has selections from all of his major books.

• The Rupa Book of Shikar Stories
Thrilling tales of true adventure in the jungles of India! Big game hunters and others describe their encounters with man-eating tigers, musth elephants, panthers, and other predators in a land still teeming with wildlife.

• The India I Love
In this collection of prose and poems written specially for this book, Ruskin Bond looks back on his unique relationship with the country and its people, from the time he turned hi back on the West and came home, still only a boy, to take up the challenge of being a writer in a changing India.

• The Rupa Book of Ruskin Bond’s Himalayan Tales
Ruskin bond comes up with another exciting Rupa selection. This Book of Himalayan Tales is Ruskin Bond’s own collection of short stories, essays and poems. The theme for the collection is of course the hills.

• Delhi is not Far - A Novel
Few authors write with greater sensitivity and skill about little India than Ruskin Bond. Delhi Is Not Far, published here for the first time as a stand-alone novel, is a memorable story about small lives, with all the hallmarks of classic Ruskin Bond prose: nostalgia, charm, underplayed humour and quiet wisdom.

• Ghost Stories from the Raj
Ruskin Bond’s readers range from nine to ninety. It is fifty years since Ruskin Bond published his first story. He celebrates the occasion with this anthology. In this collection he presents a picture of a haunted India as seen and described by British writers, officials and travelers during the 19th and 20th centuries. Some ghosts are scary, some sad and some funny. All are entertaining.

• Rusty - The Boy from the Hills
This volume of Rusty stories, the first in a series, traces Rusty's development from early childhood to his early teens. Arranged in sequence for the first time ever, these stories will be a riveting read for younger and older children alike.

• Ghost Stories from the Raj
In this collection of 14 stories, Ruskin Bond presents a picture of a 'haunted India' as seen and described by British writers, officials and travelers during the 19th and 20th centuries. Some ghosts are scary, some sad and some funny. All are entertaining.

• The Rupa Book of Great Animal Stories
Here are exciting tales of hair-breadth escapes and thrilling encounters in the wild - stories of man's relationship with other living creatures, furred or feathered, fierce or friendly. All the stories were written out of the writers' own experiences.

• Strange Men Strange Places
Ruskin Bond has recreated the turbulent and colorful India of the 18th & 19th centuries with the soldiers of fortune strutting across the subcontinent. The saga of their lives and loves in Delhi, Jaipur, Aligarh, Sardhana, and Lucknow reads stranger than fiction.

• Ruskin Bond - Collected Fiction
In addition to over fifty short stories, the selection includes all the longer works by Ruskin Bond. Also included is The Sensualist, a novella which created controversy and has not been published in book form before. In a career spanning four decades, Ruskin Bond has mapped out and peopled a unique literary landscape. This omnibus edition brings together all his published fiction, remarkable for its charm and quiet wisdom. This collection is a fitting tribute to one of the best storytellers of contemporary India.

• Ruskin Bond's Treasury of Stories for Children
Ruskin Bond, the master storyteller, is at his inventive best when spinning out yarns for children. For over four decades, the author has conjured up an enchanting literary landscape in which children play an integral role. This collection brings together thirty-seven of his finest stories for children including some that have never been published in India before.

• Friends in Small Places
This collection brings together the best of Ruskin Bond's cameos, all beautifully imagined and crafted, inspired by people who have left a lasting impression on him. Taken together, the pieces in this collection constitute a magnificent evocation of the real India by one of the country's best storytellers.

• A Season of Ghosts
The stories in this collection are set amidst the mists and mellow magic of Bond's beloved mountains described with Bond's inimitable lyricism.

• The Penguin Book of Classical Indian Love Stories and Lyrics
A compilation of love stories and poems from the classical literature and folklore of India. Both passionate and sensuous in its contents, this book is sure to appeal to the romantic in all of us.

• Tales and Legends from India
India is more than a land - it is an atmosphere - and this book is designed to give the readers the feel of India and recapture some of its old magic.

• The Penguin Book of Indian Ghost Stories
Have you ever experienced the supernatural. Ever seen a ghost? Ruskin Bond has, in this excellent collection of spine chilling tales of the supernatural. ‘The Meerutgraveyard, Anath Babu’s terror, ghost of Korya Khar, The Mark of the Beast, Brown Hand’ - these stories are sure to scare the living daylights

• The Rupa Laughter Omnibus
Ruskin Bond declares that he had great fun in putting together this anthology of hilarious stories, humorous articles, and comic verse. The reader will share his enjoyment. You will smile, chuckle, or laugh out loud, whether it is at an account of a crazy cricket match, or a cheese that smells to high heaven, or a goat that goes berserk in a posh drawing room.

• Hanuman to the Rescue
In this simple, classical style, Ruskin Bond has given young readers a powerful retelling of a much-loved story which lies at the heart of Hindu religious mythology.

• The Blue Umbrella
As soon as Binya saw the beautiful silk umbrella, she wanted it. She wanted it so badly that she was willing to give her lucky pendant in exchange. But there were many who envied Binya her treasured possession, and the most envious was old Ram who decided that

• Angry River
It was a small island, set in the middle of the big river, yet large enough for Sita and her grandparents to live there. Then, one day, grandmother was ill and had to be taken by boat to the nearest hospital. Sita was left alone, and river swirled angrily

• The Room on the Roof
Rusty, a sixteen-year Anglo-Indian boy, unhappy with the strict ways of his English guardian, runs away from home to live with Indian friends. He is enchanted with Hindu festivals and other aspects of Indian life, and is lost forever to the European community.

Has a special magic of its own.

• Scenes from a Writer's Life
Ruskin's first full-fledged autobiographical book covers his formative years. The world of Anglo-India, with its conflicting pulls, comes alive as he tells his story.

With a subtle sense of irony punctuated by his own inimically pungent humor, Bond masters the art of conveying the drama and pathos of ordinary

• Children's Omnibus
This superbly illustrated book contains many of Ruskin Bond's best stories, including the ever popular Grandfather's Private Zoo, Angry River, the Blue Umberella and many more. His charming cameos of small town life in India are to be found in the Road to the Bazaar, while the hilarious Ghost Trouble

• The Adventures of Rusty
Here's another fabulous book written by India's best known and much loved writer of children's books. The book gives a vivid and interesting account of the adventures of Rusty. Some of the exciting chapters are Granny's fabulous kitchen, A narrow escape, Dacoits outside Jaipur, A meeting by moonlight and many

• New Fiction for the Young (Set of 3 Books)
India is land of stories, rich in legends, parables and myths. Chandamama has enriched many generations of young minds with these stories. This set of 3 books features stories from the pen of famous writers Ruskin Bond and Manoj Das. All stories are well illustrated by Sisir Dutta.

• The Rupa Book of Wicked Stories
Here is yet another collectible volume form the master anthologist, Ruskin bond. With his own subtle brand of humour, Mr Bond skillfully and creatively compiles a set of short stories, all of which have a strand of wickedness of some kind running through them. Sometimes the protagonists are wicked; sometimes the author is.

• The Rupa Books of Thrills and Spills
Another collectible from master anthologiser, Ruskin bond, this volume does more than keep you on the edge of your seat!

• Landour Days - A Writer’s Journal
Bond is an inveterate diarist, but over the years he finds that the nature of what he wants to record has changed, for ‘In the autumn of my life, I grow reflective. In this volume, he ponders on the experience of being a writer, on writers he has known and those he loves reading, and on critics, handwriting and typewriters.

• The Hidden Pool
A brand new edition of Ruskin Bond’s first novel for children. This lost classic is a magical tale of adventure and friendship, told in Ruskin Bond’s inimitable style.

• The Lamp is Lit
Autobiographical sketches and stories from India's best-loved writer in English. Nostalgic and heart-warming, full of wisdom and charm, this work provides a fascinating glimpse into the life of ' our very own resident Wordsworth in prose'.

For over four decades now, by way of innumerable short stories, essays, poems and

• Rusty Goes to London
Rusty Goes to London is the fourth book in Puffin's new series of the complete escapades of rusty; this is the first time that all the Rusty stores are available in chronological order. Full of interesting stories and memorable characters, Rusty Goes to London is a book that will delight all of Ruskin Bond's young fans.

• Quakes and Flames (Set of 2 books)
This set includes two delightfully written and well-illustrated story books for children. The titles are (1) Quakes and Flames and (2) The World of Trees

• The Rupa Book of Scary Stories
Here are literary masterpieces by Kipling, Saki, Algerson Blackwood and others, brought together by your favorite author, editor, and ghost hunger Ruskin Bond. His popular anthologies for Rupa bring you the best of suspense, mystery, and the supernatural.

• Rusty Runs Away
After the immense popularity of Rusty, the Boy from the Hills, this book takes Rusty's story forward to his adolescent years. Adventurous and thought provoking at the same time, Rusty Runs Away is a book that children and young adults everywhere will enjoy.

• The Penguin Book of Indian Railway Stories
The stories in this collection capture the essence of the Indian Railway - from the small-town station, at the time of the Raj, to the present day big-city station bursting at the seams. In this anthology, one of India's best-known writers makes a selection of the greatest railway stories he subcontinent has produced.

• The Rupa Book of Haunted Houses
Haunted houses are injurious to health. From his haunted rocking chair, Ruskin Bond takes you on a goose-pimply tour of some famous haunted houses in fiction.

• The Landour Cookbook: Over Hundred Years of Hillside Cooking
Complied into The Landour Cookbook are the recipes showing the intermingling of European, American and Indian flavors which created a unique Anglo-Indian aroma that spared all over the hills.

• The Room on the Roof / Vagrants in the Valley - Two Novels of Adolescence
'Vagrants in the Valley' carries on where 'The Room on the Roof' leaves off, narrating the adolescent Rusty's further wanderings and adventures in search of an identity. Who was he, and where did he come from?

• A Flight of Pigeons - A Novel
Based on true events and filmed as Junoon, this narrative is a haunting story, rich in detail and drama and told with Ruskin Bond's trademark simplicity and deep humanity.

• The Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories
The best of a lifetime of stories from a short story writer of rare distinction. Ruskin Bond's stories are predominantly set in the beautiful hill country of Garhwal where he has made his home for the last twenty-five years.

• The Rupa Book of True Tales of Mystery and Adventure
Ruskin Bond dips into his archives and comes up with another exciting anthology. Danger ! Perilous journeys lie ahead…

• When Darkness Falls and Other Stories
A new collection of stories by India's best-loved writer in English. Humorous, sad and nostalgic, the stories in this collection are a treat for all of Ruskin Bond's fans.

• Ruskin Bond's Book of Nature
A collector's edition, this volume proves again that for the serenity and lyricism of his prose and his sharp yet sympathetic eye, Ruskin Bond has few equals.

• A Face In The Dark and Other Hauntings
This collection brings together all of Ruskin Bond’s tales of the paranormal written over five decades. Comprising twenty-eight classic stories that range from the chilling to the whimsical , this book is perfect collection to have by your bedside when the moon is up.

• Rusty Comes Home
Full of charming and idiosyncratic characters, these stories of love, loss and adventure will appeal to young readers of all ages.

• Roads to Mussoorie
With an endearing affection and nostalgia for his home of over forty years, Ruskin bond describes his many journeys to, from and around Mussoorie, and then delves into the daily scandals surrounding his life and friends in the (not so) sleepy hill town.

• The Ruskin Bond Omnibus - Volume III
This superb volume contains many of Ruskin Bond’s favourite stories from his archives. The stories in this volume are fascinating accounts by numerous writers about their real life encounters. This volume comprises three different anthologies, each with a unique them of its own.

• Parvaaz (HINDI)
This book is a Hindi translation of English original fiction. Shyam Benegal, famous cinema personality, adopted this story for his well-known film "Janoon".

• Thrilling Tales - A Selection of Hair-raising Adventures
The test of a good story, Ruskin Bond says, is when a writer is able to catch a young reader’s attention from page one, preferably paragraph one, and hold it to the end. Each one of the stories that he has included in this collection pass this test, and with flying colours.Filled with conflict, suspense and adventure this book is a page-turner from beginning to end.

• Haju Amara Vruksho Deharama Uge Chhe (GUJARATI)
This book is Gujarati translation of Sahjitya Akademi award-winning short stories collection in English - Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra by Ruskin Bond.

• Funny Side Up
A brilliant collection of essays, stories and poems by writer par excellence, Ruskin bond. With an ability to look at ordinary situations with unique wit and acuity, Ruskin Bond invites us into his home, his countryside, his life.

• Tales of the Open Road
This volume presents the collection of Ruskin Bond’s travel writing over fifty years

• Too Much Trouble
In this delightful collection, Ruskin Bond takes us to Dehra Dun, where the young narrator lives with his grandparents and a host of troublesome guests, including an elusive python, a naughty monkey, and even a mischievous ghost!

• The Rupa Book of Favourite Fairy Tales
Of magical stories loved by children all over the globe, fairy tales have remained firm favourites of readers for centuries. In this collection, Ruskin Bond offers to you his favourite fairy tales, bringing together some amazing, unusual tales from all over the world-China, France, New Zealand, From The Green Man of Sinai-a tale from ancient Egypt, to Jivaka the Boy Wonder-a tale from India.

• The Puffin Good Reading Guide for Children
With an introduction by Ruskin Bond, India’s best known children’s writer in English, The Puffin Good Reading Guide is an invaluable resource for children who love books, as well as for parents and friends looking for the right book for the young people in their lives.

• The Puffin Book of Classic School Stories
A collection of all-time favourite school stories. Meet the world’s naughtiest boys and girls, the best and the worst students and some really famous children in this book as they make their way through school. Read about David Copperfield and his friendship with Steerforth, Tom Brown trying to find his feet in Rugby school, and Jane Eyre fighting poverty and disease in a school for orphans.

• Amader Gachhpala Dehrate Ekhono Janmay (BENGALI)
This book is Bangla translation of Sahitya Akademi award winning English short story collection - Our Trees stillGrow in Dehra. Semi-autobiographical in nature, these stories span the period from the author's childhood to the present. We are introduced, in a series of beautifully imagined and crafted cameos, to the author's family, friends, and various other people who left a lasting impression on him.

• Ejak Uraneea Paar (ASSAMESE)
This book carries Assamese translation of English Novel -a Flight of Pigeons by Ruskin Bond. It has been translated by Bandita Phukan.

• Payra Udal (BENGALI)
This book carries Bengali translation of English Novel -A Flight of Pigeons by noted English novelist Ruskin Bond. It has been translated by Deviprasad Bondyopadhyaya. Based on true events and filmed as Junoon, this narrative is a haunting story, rich in detail and drama and told with Ruskin Bond's trademark simplicity and deep humanity.

• The Ruskin Bond Omnibus - Part I
Here’s a treat for Ruskin Bond fans-The Ruskin Bond Omnibus Vol-I. These tales, selected by Ruskin bond, are about mystery, adventure, suspense, and crime-themes of enduring appeal to the reader.

• The Ruskin Bond Omnibus - Part II
Here’s a treat for Ruskin Bond fans-The Ruskin Bond Omnibus Vol-II. This superb volume contains carefully selected stories form Ruskin Bond’s Archives. The tales in this collection are haunting and ghostly and will thrill readers. In Ghost Stories from the Raj, Ruskin bond unfolds a picture of haunted India as witnessed by British writers, officials, and travelers during pre-Independence India.

• The Ruskin Bond Omnibus - Part III
Here’s a treat for Ruskin Bond fans-The Ruskin Bond Omnibus Vol-III. This superb volume contains many of Ruskin bond’s favourite stories from his archives. The stories in this volume are fascinating accounts by numerous writers about their real life encounters. This volume comprises three different anthologies, each with a unique them of its own.

• The Ruskin Bond Omnibus - Vol. 4
This superb volume contains carefully selected stories from Ruskin Bond’s archives. These are fascinating tales conveying a gamut of themes – love, laughter, the sinister, and the goodness of human nature. The fifteen stories in this collection bring to the readers warmth, hope, and the joie de vivre so important to our existence.

• Ruskin Bond's Green Book
These are not papers to be read out at environmental seminars. These are stories about real experiences, written to be read and enjoyed. It is so important to take time off to renew one's faith in the things one loves.

• Favourite Stories For Boys
This book brings together stories written specially for boys by the finest children’s writers in India—Ruskin Bond, Ranjit Lal, Shashi Warrier, Jerry Pinto, Poile Sengupta, Asha Nehemiah, Paro Anand, and many others. Funny, scary, exciting, thought-provoking, these stories for and about boys are sure to become ones favourites.

• Shudders In The Dark
Those who believe in the cold light of reason and its certain triumph over darkness are in for a surprise. These select tales are meant to arouse nervousness not to be overcome by simple rationality. Written by the best in the genre, this collection has some of the most incredible tales of panic and thrill, horror and alarm.

• Tales of the Open Road
Tales of the Open Road is a collection of Ruskin Bond’s travel writing over fifty years.Enriched by rare photographs that Ruskin took during his travels,this book is a celebration of small-town and rural India by its most engaging chronicler.

• Once Upon A Time In The Doon…
The richness and diversity of the Doon is beautifully captured in these personal stories and vignettes of the writers who have lived in Doon long enough to enjoy its beauty and also witnessed the changes that have take place.

• Kabootron ki Udaan (HINDI)
This book is Hindi translation of Ruskin Bond's popular novel. Based on true events and filmed as Junoon, this narrative is a haunting story, rich in detail and drama and told with Ruskin Bond's trademark simplicity and deep humanity.

• Book of Humour
Marked by the signature charm and subtle wit of one of India's best loved writers, Ruskin Bond's Book of Humour will make even the hardened among us crack a smile. A delectable offering from a writer who not only knows how to make us laugh but also knows how to laugh at himself.

• Potpourri
Potpourri is a collection of choicest stories from the treasure trove of the indisputable master storyteller Ruskin Bond. Filled with warmth and gentle humour, this book captures the timeless rhythm of life in the mountains, adventures at sea, and thrill in an alien land. Hand-picked personally by Ruskin Bond, it is truly a collector’s item and a treat for all his fans.

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