50 Writers, 50 BooksThis book is the first of its kind 50 essays by 50 writers who thought so passionately of their favourite book that they leapt to the task of representing it here. Within these pages, Siddharth Chowdhury celebrates Upamanyu Chatterjee as a bona fide home grown rockstar and Anita Roy quotes David Godwins description of The God of Small Things as a shot of heroin in the arm. They are all celebrating moments of rupture in literary history. Not all of

· Project planning

Asterix and Obelix must go prospecting in the Middle East in ASTERIX AND THE BLACK GOLD

and so achieve our unbound potential

such as the forgotten theft of the Mona Lisa

Manila Takes Manhattan

Celebrate springtime with this big

After the death of a sister two high school friends kiss all night and binge-watch Winona Ryder movies

With the Germans massing their forces in the west to engage the French and the British

where dissidents shelter in the forest

and will not be let out again until midday

This is Easter 1934 and Julius' stepfather and mother are keen members of Oswald Mosley's new party

hungry leaches