Ruskin Bond
Legal name: Bond, Ruskin
Birth place: Kasauli, Punjab, British India
Birth date: 19 May 1934
Language: English
Bibliographic comments: See also under Asia-specific anthologies. Awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1957, the
Sahitya Akademi Award for English writing in India in 1992, and the Padma Shri for contributions to children’s literature in
1999. See also Debashis Bandyopadhyay.
Biographic comments: Of British descent, lifelong resident and citizen of India.
Collections
The Laughing Skull
2016
< October 2016, 1st editio
Rupa Publications
ISBN 978-81-291-4219-1
B-format paperback, ix+124 pages
₹195
Notes:
• Introduction by Ruskin Bond.
Fiction: Susanna's Seven Husbands // The Overcoat // On Fairy Hill // Bhoot-Aunty // A Face in the Dark // Eyes
of the Cat // From the Primaeval Past // Some Hill Station Ghosts // Pret in the House // A Traveller's Tale // The
Chakrata Cat // A Dreadful Gurgle // The White Pigeon // He Who Rides a Tiger // The Wind on Haunted Hill
The Best of Ruskin Bond
2000
< October 2018 edition
Penguin Books India
ISBN 978-0-14-024606-3
B-format paperback, 448 pages
₹499
Notes:
• Most genre contents are contained in a section titled 'Tales of the Macabre'.
Fiction: The Eyes Have It // The Thief // The Night Train at Deoli // The Photograph // My First Love // A Guardian
Angel // The Kitemaker // My Fathers Trees in Dehra // The Leopard // The Man Who Was Kipling // The Last
Time I Saw Delhi // From Small Beginnings // Would Astley Return? // The Funeral // The Room of Many Colours
// The Girl from Copenhagen // Tribute to a Dead Friend // A Job Well Done // The Trouble with Jinns // He Said It
with Arsenic // Hanging at the Mango-Tope // A Face in the Dark // Time Stops at Shamli
Essays / Vignettes / Travel Writing: Life at My Own Pace // The Old Gramophone // A Little World of Mud //
Adventures of a Book Lover // Upon an Old Wall Dreaming // A Golden Voice Remembered // At Home in India //
Getting the Juices Flowing // Bird Life in the City // Home Is Under the Big Top // Pedestrian in Peril // Escape to
Nowhere // In the Garden of My Dreams // Owls in the Family // Adventures in a Banyan Tree // From My
Notebook // Thus Spoke Crow // Ganga Descends // Beautiful Mandakini // The Magic of Tungnath // On the
Road to Badrinath // Flowers on the Ganga // Mathura's Hallowed Haunts // Footloose in Agra // Street of the Red
Well
Songs / Love Poems: Lost // Love Lyrics for Binya Devi // It Isn't Time That's Passing // Kites // Cherry Tree //
Lovers Observed // Lone Fox Dancing // Secondhand Shop in Hill Station // A Frog Screams // A Song for Lost
Friends
Extracts: from Flight of the Pigeons // from The Room on the Roof // The Lafunga // from Rosebud
Novel: Delhi Is Not Far
The Man Who Was Kipling
2017
< September 2017, 1st edition
Rupa Publications
ISBN 978-81-291-4851-3
B-format paperback, 207 pages
₹250
Notes:
• Introduction by Ruskin Bond.
Fiction: The Woman on Platform No. 8 // The Man Who Was Kipling // Death of a Familiar // A Case for Inspector
Lal // The Bent-Double Beggar // The Story of Madhu // All Creatures Great and Small // A Love of Long Ago //
The Bar That Time Forgot // The Last Tonga Ride // Calypso Christmas // Sita and the River
Captain Young’s Ghost: Ghostly Tales from the Indian Hills
2018
Library edition: October 2018, 1st edition, 2nd printing
Speaking Tiger Books
ISBN 978-93-86338-29-7
B-format paperback, 207 pages
₹250
Notes:
• 'Author's Note' by Ruskin Bond.
• Five stories are original to this collection (undetermined).
Fiction: Captain Young's Ghost // The Overcoat // The Black Bird // A Face in the Dark // Wilson's Bridge // The
Whistler // The Ghost in the Garden // The Haunted Bicycle // Binya // The Bar That Time Forgot // Whispering in
the Dark // Listen to the Wind // The Wind on Haunted Hill // The Chakrata Cat // The Face Beneath the Pillow // A
Dreadful Gurgle // An Incident at the Morgue // The Skull // Three in a Bed // The Monkeys // Topaz // Would
Astley Return? // Behind the Wall
Time Stops at Shamli and Other Stories
1990
< March 2015 edition
Penguin Books India
ISBN 978-0-14-012842-0
B-format paperback, 184 pages
₹199
Notes:
• Introduction by Ruskin Bond.
Fiction: The Funeral // The Room of Many Colours // Time Stops at Shamli // Most Beautiful // The Last Truck Ride
// The Fight // The Tunnel // The Summer Season // Going Home // Masterji // Listen to the Wind // The Haunted
Bicycle // Dead Man's Gift // Whispering in the Dark // He Said It with Arsenic // The Most Potent Medicine of All //
Hanging at the Mango-Tope // Eyes of the Cat // A Crow for All Seasons // A Tiger in the House // Tiger, Tiger,
Burning Bright // Follow Penguin
