The Great Retreat

Ruskin Bond is the author of several bestselling novels and
collections of short stories, essays and poems. These include The Room
on the Roof (winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), A Flight of
Pigeons, The Night Train at Deoli, Time Stops at Shamli, Our Trees Still
Grow in Dehra (winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award), Angry River, The
Blue Umbrella, Rain in the Mountains, Roads to Mussoorie, A Little Night
Music, Tigers for Dinner, Tales of Fosterganj, and A Gathering of
Friends.

Ruskin Bond was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government
of India in 1999, a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Delhi government
in 2012 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014