The Best of Ruskin Bond

brought effortlessly alive.’
Asian Age

Bond’s sentences are moist with dew and the mountain air, with charm, nostalgia and underplayed humour . . . [he is] our resident Wordsworth in prose.’
India Today

‘Bond is known for his seamless, gentle and lucid prose. . . . It takes Ruskin Bond to turn the ordinary into an extraordinary story.’
Tribune

‘Bond has the licence to thrill, and generations have been raised on his books, his ghost stories, his funny anecdotes, his warm, gentle wit.’
Today

‘There is an innate sensuality in the whole corpus. . . . Many feelings—of love, of lust, of joy, of hate, of disappointment, of bereavement, of exhilaration—ar

peepul was a cool tree to sit beneath. Its heart-shaped leaves spun round in the faintest breeze, sending currents of cool air down from its branches