The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Roy Arundhati'At magic hour, when the sun has gone but the light has not, armies of flying foxes unhinge themselves from the Banyan trees in the old graveyard and drift across the city like smoke . . .' So begins The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy's incredible follow up to The God of Small Things. We meet Anjum, who used to be Aftab, who runs a guest house in an Old Delhi graveyard and gathers around her the lost, the broken and the cast out. We meet

the innate value and dignity of human beings

Profoundly intertwined with human civilization

disturbing

in which Gabriel Conroy is gradually brought to a painful epiphany regarding the nature of his existence

misguided boy who stood by - will never forget

The author

A collection of short stories that were originally published in the 1960s and 1970s in The New Yorker

or high-end equipment to grow them

GLENN CLOSE

They follow the fortunes of the detective Martin Beck

Included in this volume is Shaw’s preface

named driver