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Bollywood Boy
(John Murray Paperbacks)
by Justine Hardy
Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2003 by John Murray Pubs Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-7195-6485-7, ISBN: 0-7195-6485-9

"Welcome to Bollywood. This is studio city, a fantasy-fodder factory, the Bombay-based film capital of the Indian subcontinent. Here every year the Hindi film industry pumps out twice as many pictures as Hollywood to satisfy the romantic cravings of its billion-strong audience, from the mobile-wielding classes who sit in the air-conditioned comfort of big-city cinemas, to the villagers transfixed by dancing images flickering on a dusty c ..."






Goat(Updated)
A Story of Kashmir & Notting Hill
by Justine Hardy
Paperback, 247 Pages, Published 2001 by John Murray Publishers Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-7195-6155-9, ISBN: 0-7195-6155-8

"This is a story about goat hair, gathered from herds that graze among the high-altitude monasteries of Little Tibet, woven in villages near the Kashmiri border with Pakistan, and sold to the ladies-who-lunch of London's Notting Hill. It is also the story of a beautiful valley with some ugly secrets. A journalist based in India, Justine Hardy started trading pashmina shawls as a way of raising money to support an education programme in s ..."






In the Valley of Mist
Kashmir's Long War - One Family's Extraordinary Story
by Justine Hardy
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2010 by Rider
ISBN-13: 978-1-84604-151-8, ISBN: 1-84604-151-1

"Mohammed Dar and his three brothers were born in a boat on a lake in Kashmir, a place of exquisite beauty that was to become a war zone and nuclear flashpoint. This Himalayan valley of water, mist and mountains was once one of India's greatest tourist draws. In 1989, it exploded into insurgency. Kashmir became a rallying cry for jihadi movements all over the region and Pakistan's backing of the conflict triggered, in part, its own Islam ..."






In the Valley of Mist(1st Edition)
Kashmir: One Family In A Changing World
by Justine Hardy
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2009 by Free Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-0289-3, ISBN: 1-4391-0289-9

"A personal, moving, and vibrant picture of one of the most beautiful and troubled places in the world, described through the experiences of one family, whose fortunes have changed dramatically with those of the region. If there is a paradise on earth, it is definitely here, here and only here," said the early seventeenth-century Mughal Emperor Jehangir when describing the Kashmir Valley. But for nearly twenty years this delicate mounta ..."






The Wonder House
by Justine Hardy
Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2007 by Grove Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4312-9, ISBN: 0-8021-4312-1

"“Rich with sensual detail, making for vivid impressions.”  — Publishers WeeklyJustine Hardy is an English journalist, a best-selling author, and a filmmaker who has spent much of the past fifteen years living in India. With her American debut, The Wonder House, Hardy has crafted an unforgettable love story set in the turbulent region of Kashmir, one of the most beautiful and broken places in the world. On Nagin Lake sits moored a houseb ..."






Goat
A Story of Kashmir and Notting Hill
by Justine Hardy
Hardcover, 247 Pages, Published 2000 by John Murray Publishers Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-7195-6145-0, ISBN: 0-7195-6145-0

"A journalist based in India, Justine Hardy started trading pashima shawls as a way of raising funds to support an education programme in some of Delhi's slum areas. This text tells the story of the goat hair, gathered from herds that graze among the high-altitude monasteries of Little Tibet, woven in villages near the Kashmiri border with Pakistan, and sold to ladies-who-lunch of London's Notting Hill."






Scoop-Wallah(Updated)
Life on a Delhi Daily
by Justine Hardy
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2000 by John Murray
ISBN-13: 978-0-7195-6148-1, ISBN: 0-7195-6148-5

"Challenged by a Kashmiri greengrocer in South Kensington, journalist Justine Hardy went to work for The Indian Express in New Delhi. This is an idiosyncratic, funny, and sad tale about writing as an outsider on the inside of a country where the newspapers are still printed on hot-metal machines and deadlines are missed because of cows at rush hour. India's clash of past and present continues to wrong-foot Justine as she tries to get her ..."






Scoop-Wallah(1st Edition)
Life on a Delhi Daily
by Justine Hardy
Hardcover, 266 Pages, Published 1999 by John Murray Pubs Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-7195-6140-5, ISBN: 0-7195-6140-X

"Mr. Singh, Kashmiri greengrocer to South Kensington, looked Justine Hardy in the eye over a cabbage. 'You are a journalist. You should be writing on one of our great newspapers. Then you will be starting to understand us.' So Justine Hardy goes to work for The Indian Express in New Delhi.Memories of Kipling's 'seven years' hard' as a reporter in India haunt her as she travels to Assam and finds the shadows of terrorism stalking the tea ..."






The Ochre Border
(Travel Literature)
by Ms Justine Hardy
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 1995 by Constable
ISBN-13: 978-0-09-474090-7, ISBN: 0-09-474090-9

"First published in hardback in 1995, an account of the author's journey with three friends to a valley in the Himalayas, unvisited for 70 years. Situated on the Indo-Tiberian border, it is an area which is completely untouched by the modern world."






In the Valley of Mist
Kashmir: One Family in a Changing World (Paperback)
by Justine Hardy
Paperback, Published 2013 by Free Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4767-4575-6, ISBN: 1-4767-4575-7






Scoop-Wallah
Life on a Delhi Daily
by Justine Hardy
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2012 by Summersdale
ISBN-13: 978-1-84024-724-4, ISBN: 1-84024-724-X

"A journalist's new-life adventure exploring all India has to offer A chance conversation with her greengrocer about the portrayal of India in the media inspired journalist Justine Hardy to leave London and spend a year working at the Indian Express in New Delhi. Her new life—with a quirky landlord who turns out to be a former Rajput prince—takes her all over India, from polo matches and the manicured lawns of Assam tea gardens to city s ..."






In the Valley of Mist
Kashmir's Long War - One Family's Extraordinary Story
by Justine Hardy
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2009 by Rider & Co
ISBN-13: 978-1-84604-146-4, ISBN: 1-84604-146-5

"Mohammed Dar and his three brothers were born in a boat on a lake in Kashmir, a place of exquisite beauty that was to become a war zone and nuclear flashpoint. This work tells their story of living through the destruction of their adored homeland."






THE WONDER HOUSE
by Justine Hardy
Hardcover, 386 Pages, Published 2006 by Grove/Atlantic
ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-1822-6, ISBN: 0-8021-1822-4

"On a houseboat moored on Nagin Lake in the Valley of Kashmir, Gracie Singh, an aging Yorkshirewoman, has been living out her widowhood since the death of her Indian husband, fashioning herself a new family with two Kashmiri women, Suriya ..."






Dust
by Justine Hardy
Hardcover, 310 Pages, Published 2021 by Batik Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-73659-755-2, ISBN: 1-73659-755-8

"Kate is a woman who choses to work in Pakistan."






Bollywood Boy(1st Edition)
by Justine Hardy
Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 2002 by John Murray
ISBN-13: 978-0-7195-6154-2, ISBN: 0-7195-6154-X

"Welcome to Bollywood. This is studio city, a fantasy-fodder factory, the Bombay-based film capital of the Indian subcontinent."






Scoop-Wallah
Life on a Delhi Daily
by Justine Hardy
320 Pages, Published 2009 by Summersdale Publishers Ltd - Row
ISBN-13: 978-0-85765-968-2, ISBN: 0-85765-968-5

"' A chance conversation with her greengrocer about the portrayal of India in the media inspired journalist Justine Hardy to leave London and, following in the footsteps of Rudyard Kipling, spend a year working at The Indian Express in New ..."






In the Valley of Mist
Kashmir - One Family in a Changing World
by Justine Hardy
224 Pages, Published 2009 by Simon And Schuster
ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-2784-1, ISBN: 1-4391-2784-0

"... for all that has been done and can be done. dr. arshad Hussain and Parveena ahanger, for all that you are doing for your ... to Judith kendra at rider and amber Qureshi at Free Press for seeing into the heart of this story, and to sue lascelles, ..."






The Ochre Border
A Journey Through the Tibetan Frontierlands
by Ms Justine Hardy
Paperback, 191 Pages, Published 1995 by Trans-Atlantic Pubns
ISBN-13: 978-0-09-476310-4, ISBN: 0-09-476310-0






The Wonder House justine-hardy(Updated)
by Justinef Hardy
Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2006 by Atlantic Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-84354-434-0, ISBN: 1-84354-434-2






Scoop-Wallah
Life on a Delhi Daily
by Justine Hardy
320 Pages, Published 2009 by Summersdale Publishers Ltd - Row
ISBN-13: 978-0-85765-966-8, ISBN: 0-85765-966-9

"... the gang at The Indian Express; Rani Sahiba and Maharaj Sahib at Hailey Road; Vijai and Rani Lal in Delhi and Pragpur; ... My love to Paddy and the boys in the office, Tarun, Dev, Manoher, Yaatendra and Sashi, to Gita for your enthusiasm ..."



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