Bloomsbury Publishing : India Launch

Bloomsbury Publishing‘s public launch took place last night at FIO, Garden of Five Senses. Nigel Newton – Founder & Chief Executive, Richard Charkin – Executive Director, Wendy Pallot – Group Finance director, Alexandra Pringle – Editor-in-Chief @alexandrapring and Rajiv Beri – Managing Director Bloomsbury India were present along with guests from the Indian Literati.

Pink lanterns strung with tuberose garlands, mojitos, music and the best of literary Delhi: Bloomsbury India is launched @bloomsburybooks— Alexandra Pringle (@AlexandraPring) September 22, 2012

There were books carefully propped at various spots throughout the venue. @shadeheart was intrigued by City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age by P.D. Smith in particular. I think he spent the evening reading about 15 pages of the book and is now looking to purchase it.

There was a Chinese delegation present at the launch as well. And well-known authors.

Above: I love what Alexandra was wearing! Elegant & different.

Stray dogs silhouetted against halogen lamps late night at the Garden of Five Senses as we leave.

Pretty pink coaster I nicked from one of the tables. The rare one that hadn’t been used *grin*. The wine was fabulous. They were serving L’Opera Shiraz Merlot and another one that I can’t recall the name of. Thankfully none of the horrible Indian wines. The food was lovely too. Bumped into @samitbasu again after the first time at the launch of The Wildings by @nilanjanaroy Thanks Diya for inviting us. More power to publishing and literature in India!