Secrets

This brilliant collection of stories richly evokes the Dehradun of old but all is not as it seems in this sleepy town behind the tranquil facade Dehra is home to a cast of colourful characters. The dashing young army captain in ‘At Green’s Hotel’ might be the perfect gentleman-or a murderer. And in ‘The Skeleton in the Cupboard’ an old scandal is revived leading to wholly unexpected results. By turns charming and poignant witty and exhilarating Secrets is vintage Bond. About the Author Ruskin Bond's first novel The Room on the Roof written when he was seventeen won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novels (including Vagrants in the Valley A Flight of Pigeons and Delhi Is Not Far) essays poems and children's books many of which have been published by Penguin India.He has also written over 500 short stories and articles that have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993 and the Padma Shri in 1999.