Hachette India, 2023. In twenty-five exhilarating stories, Manjula Padmanabhan brings her trademark twist to familiar reality, dreaming up inventive futures and capturing today’s world with equal flair.

Hachette India, 2020. An updated version of the travel memoir first published by Picador, in 1999. The author spent five months in Germany and Holland, chasing after weight loss, enlightenment and two tall Dutchmen.

Collected Plays, Vol I / Hachette India, 2020. Six full length plays, including Lights Out and Harvest. General Introduction common to both books, plus separate introductions to individual plays.

Collected Plays, Vol II / Hachette India, 2020. 20 short performance pieces, including Hidden Fires and The Wish. General Introduction common to both books, plus separate introductions to individual plays.

Worldview Editions. A stand-alone edition of the author’s first play.

Hachette India, 2019 (Author’s name on the cover is Magnolia). Arvee, a white laboratory mouse, finds friendship and adventure in his new life as a house pet.

Hachette India, 2019 (Author’s name on the cover is Magnolia) When a new threat looms over his friends, Arvee, the white laboratory mouse must find a way to save them all.

Hachette India, 2017. The Onassis award winning play about selling organs, souls and human dignity in the global market place.

Published by Hachette India, 2015. In a chaotic future world, a man risks everything, including his own body, to find safe haven for his precious young daughter.

Published by Hachette India, 2015 (second edition). Meiji is the last little girl left alive in a country ruled by a brotherhood of savage Generals.

Hachette India Children’s Books, 2015 (originally entitled GENERAL ASSEMBLY, published by Scholastic India in “Plays for Schools” 2007).

Zubaan, 2013. A collection of short stories including FEAST, about a European vampire visiting India for the first time.

Penguin Books India, 2005. Three profusely illustrated stories about three funny, feisty and fearless girls.

Penguin Books India, 2005. A collection of SUKI cartoon strips from the pages of the Sunday Observer, Bombay, 1982-1986.

Penguin Books India, 2004. A collection of short stories: flavourful, funny, disturbing.

Macmillan Childrens Books, 2004 (Author’s name on the cover: Manjula Padma).When a new threat looms over his friends, Arvee, the white laboratory mouse must find a way to save them all.

Macmillan Childrens Books, 2003 (Author’s name on the cover: Manjula Padma). Arvee, a white laboratory mouse, finds friendship and adventure in his new life as a house pet.

Seagull Books, 2003. Five short and provocative dramatic monologues about communal strife, identity and human dignity.

Duckfoot Press, 2000 (out of print). A collection of SUKI cartoons from the pages of The Pioneer, New Delhi, mid-1990s.

Picador India, 1999 (first edition, Picador UK & India). A travel memoir, set in the mid ‘70s, when the author spent five months in Germany and Holland chasing weight loss, enlightenment and two men.

Kali for Women, 1998 (this edition out of print). The Onassis award willing play about selling organs, souls and human dignity in the global market place.

Kali for Women, 1996 (out of print). A collection of short stories, including A GOVERNMENT OF INDIA UNDERTAKING about a govt. department of reincarnation.

Singular visions of the future that will thrill, amuse, startle and intrigue. On an ordinary morning, the citizens of Karachi wake up to find the sea missing from their shores.

Tulika Books, 2021. Twenty-six animals, one for each alphabet, with pictures and rhymed verse!

Tulika Books, 2017. On a trip to the Taj Mahal, Minnie secretly brings Pooni along though animals aren’t allowed in. But wait – the naughty cat slips off on her own adventure!

Tulika Books, 2017. A little girl learns about the creatures of the night, through pictures and verse.

Tulika Books, 2016. A killer asteroid and a little girl with a plan to save the Earth!

Tulika Books, 2013. A picture puzzle book in which young readers must pick a number of different figures from amongst groups of similar ones.

Tulika Books, 2011. A picture-travel and puzzle book in which a family of six travels around the world. Young readers can try to figure out their itinerary from clues in the pictures.

Tulika Books, 2010. A picture puzzle book in which young readers must find the two matching figures amongst a group of similar images.

Tulika Books, 2009. Children’s picture book in which a little girl goes out on the streets, looking for her little orange cat, Pooni.

Tulika Books, 2007. A picture puzzle book in which young readers must pick out the single element that is different from all the others in a group.

National Book Trust, 1986. A textless picture book in which mother and her two children go shopping at their local market, encountering a number of characters and creatures along the way.

Thomson Press, 1979.

India Book House, 1977.

An alphabet symphony that doesn’t play by any rules! From A to zany Z, the 26 letters freely frolic in nonsense verse along with Manjula Padmanabhan’s witty and refined illustrations.