The literary scene has been quiet for some time now, but as the heat of summer gradually recedes, quite a few literary festivals and gatherings are on the cards. With such crowd-pulling platforms for publicity and launch of new books scheduled in the coming months, many works of interest by headline authors will soon hit the stores

.The past two months had witnessed a significant number of fiction releases, but in September, non-fiction rules the roost. The only promising fiction title for the month marks the return of Commonwealth Writers' Prize winning author Nayantara Sahgal. Here are a few books that we can't wait to read this September:

"When the Moon Shines by Day" by Nayantara Sahgal (Speaking Tiger)

India has changed. Rehana finds her father's books on medieval history have"disappeared" from bookstores and libraries. Her young domestic help, Abdul, discovers it is safer to be called Morari Lal in the street, but there is no such protection from vigilante fury for his Dalit friend, Suraj. Kamlesh, a diplomat and writer, comes up against official wrath for his anti-war views. A bomb goes off at Cyrus Batliwala's gallery on the opening day of an art show. Presiding over this new world is the Director of Cultural Transformation, whose smiling affability masks a relentless agenda to create a Hindu master race. In this atmosphere, Rehana and her three book-club friends, Nandini, Aruna and Lily, meet every week to discuss a book one of them has chosen -- their oasis of peace amidst the harshness of reality -- even as Rehana's German friend, Franz Rohner, haunted by his country's Nazi past, warns her of what is to come. All revolutions, he wryly observes, follow the same path. But is India about to prove him wrong? In this brilliant, dystopian satire, Nayantara Sahgal draws a telling portrait of our times.

"Husain: Portrait of an Artist" by Ila Pal (Harper Collins)

Six years after first seeing him on a rainy day outside Mumbai's Jehangir Art Gallery, Ila Pal met the star painter for the first time in 1961. It was the beginning of a long and enriching association between an eager student of art and M.F. Husain -- a journey that lasted 50 years. This book is a product of that friendship. Filled with anecdotes about his charisma, his sharp wit, his sense of wonder about the world at large and his insatiable hunger for love, this warm and personalised biography traces his evolution through his many avatars. It also delves into the artist's exile from his homeland at the fag end of his life, exploring the question of creative licence in a climate where people's sentiments are easily hurt and where censorship rules the roost like never before.

"Barefoot To Boots" by Novy Kapadia (Penguin)

Few football-crazy fans today may be aware that India was once called the "Brazil of Asia". Or that the rivalry between East Bengal and Mohun Bagan is ranked among the top 50 club rivalries in the world. This the only book on Indian football that provides a comprehensive view of clubs and players outside of Calcutta (Kolkata) -- in Hyderabad and Bangalore, as also in Kerala, Punjab, Goa and the northeast. It describes major international tournaments where India performed brilliantly (the 1956 Olympics, the 1962 Asian Games, the 1964 Asian Cup, the 2003 ASEAN Club Championship, the 2016 AFC Cup) and provides an overview of famous domestic tournaments like Durand, IFA Shield and the Federation Cup.

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