Unhurried Tales: My Favourite Novellas brings together, for the very
first time, Ruskin Bond's favourite (and finest) novellas. The stories
in this book include Time Stops at Shamli (written in 1956 and published
for the first time in 1987); The Blue Umbrella, which has been a
bestseller for the last forty years; Angry River, which was a longer
work when it was first written; Bus Stop, Pipalnagar; Night of the
Leopard; The Last Tiger and Tales of Fosterganj, his latest novella,
which was published in 2013. These stories speak of a world that has
long vanished, but it is a world that has lost none of its power to
enchant. Whether we are accompanying Sita on her perilous journey down
the angry river or Bisnu as he gets the better of a dangerous leopard,
whether we delight in Binya's joy at owning her blue umbrella or are
saddened by the fate of the last tiger.