Novels by bestselling authors Jeffrey Archer and John Grisham are also on the cards
A revelatory book by the controversial A Raja, biographies of Amit Shah, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Netaji's aide ACN Nambiar, a definitive account of the 2G scam and novels by bestselling authors Jeffrey Archer and John Grisham – 2015 has an exciting line-up of national and international titles.
In My Defence by one of India's most controversial ministers Raja is "honest, hard-hitting and with no holds barred, an important and utterly absorbing book", says its publishers Penguin.
It will also come out with India's Biggest Fraud: How the 2G Scam Unravelled, an account of the 2G spectrum scam and its aftermath by J Gopikrishnan, the journalist who is credited with exposing the scam in 2008.
A number of biographies will also be released during the year - Modi's Man: The rise and rise of Amit Shah (Penguin) by Poornima Joshi; MSD - Dhoni's biography (Rupa) by Biswadeep Ghosh; Jack Gibson: A Life, a biography of the legendary principal of Mayo College in Ajmer by Laeeq Futehally (Hachette) and Rahul Dev Burman by Khagesh Dev Burman (Rupa).
Roli Books will publish biographies of Subhas Chandra Bose's deputy ACN Nambiar by Vappala Balachandran, Firaq Gorakhpuri by Ajai Mansingh and Sachin Tendulkar's legendary coach Ramakant Achrekar by Kunal Purandare and HarperCollins that of Sourav Ganguly – Cricket, Captaincy and Controversy by Saptarshi Sarkar.
Bestselling author Jeffrey Archer will release Mightier than the Sword, the fifth novel in the epic Clifton Chronicles series, ahead of the global launch. Swedish author Hakkan Nesser will also travel to India ahead of the release of his new book The Living and the Dead in Winsford. Both the books will be brought out by Pan Macmillan.
Two books by popular novelist John Grisham – Theodore Boone: The Fugitive and New Legal Thriller and J K Rowling's new offering Very Good Lives will be published by Hachette.
Oxford University Press will come out with two books by former Union minister Jairam Ramesh - Legislating for Equity: The Making of the 2013 Land Acquisition Law, co-authored by Muhammad Ali Khan, and Green Signals: Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in India.
Some books related to politics are Narendra Modi And The Election That Shook The World by former BBC correspondent and Downing Street communications expert Lance Price and The Great Indian Rope Trick: Does the future of Democracy Lie With India by Roderick Matthews (both Hachette); War Room: The People, Tactics and Technology Behind Narendra Modi's 2014 Win by Ullekh NP (Roli).
There are some cookbooks as well on the cards - Spice Tales by Marryam Reshii; Anoothi Vishal's Kayasth Culture and Cuisine (both Hachette), Lazzatnama (Rupa) by Pushpesh Pant, Zarine Khan Cookbook, by yesteryear actor Sanjay Khan's wife Zarine (Roli).
A couple of actors will come out with their books. Me, My Fiance and I Fu*!ed Up by Aarya Babbar is a comedy of errors set against the backdrop of the great Indian wedding while Murder in Bollywood is a Bollywood crime caper by Amjad Khan's son Shadaab Khan.
There will be other books related to films too. Reel India: Bollywood And Small Town India (Hachette India) by film critic Namrata Joshi deals with tales from the hinterland about India's obsession with cinema. Show Me Your Words: The Power of Language in Bollywood (Rupa) by Connie Haham is about terms used in the Hindi film industry. The Front Row: Conversations on Cinema (HarperCollins) by Anupama Chopra is based on the popular interview-based shows on television The Front Row.
Penguin will publish Another 100 Lyrics of Gulzar, translated by Sunjoy Shekhar which has anecdotes about some lyrics and illustrations by poet-lyricist himself while HarperCollins will come out with Javed Akhtar's In Other Words: Poems, a translations of his works from his Urdu collections Tarkash and Lava.
A number of books by the celebrated Ruskin Bond will be published this year. While his My Most Memorable Characters will be published by Aleph and Beetles, Bugs and School Stories by Rupa, Penguin imprint Puffin will come out with titles like Rusty and the Magic Mountain; Ranji's Wonderful Bat and Other Stories; The Parrot Who Wouldn't Talk and Other Stories and Escape from Java and Other Tales of Danger.
Penguin will also publish The Emergency: A Personal History by Coomi Kapoor; Neither a Hawk nor a Dove: An Insider's Account of Pakistan's Foreign Relations by Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri; Dilip Hiro's The Longest August; Aarushi: Anatomy of a Murder by Avirook Sen and God Help the Child by Toni Morrison.
Its fiction list includes Amitav Ghosh's final part of the Ibis Trilogy Flood of Fire; The Seeker by Karan Bajaj of Keep Off the Grass and Johnny Gone Down fame; Karan Ghelo: Gujarat's Last Rajput King by Nandshankar Mehta; and a translation of Anant Samant'ss cult Marathi novel Aiwa Maru.
The publishing house has a couple of books on Partition - Urvashi Butalia's Partition: The Long Shadow and Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition by Nisid Hajari.
Another interesting Penguin title is Bill Browder's Red Notice, a searing expose of the wholesale whitewash by Russian authorities of Sergei Magnitsky's imprisonment and murder.
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