Crossword Bookstore to Host International Bestselling Author Jeffrey Archer on Five City Tour to In

MUMBAI, India - Feb. 19, 2015 - PRLog -- Mumbai, 19th February 2015: International bestselling author Jeffrey Archer is set to make his second visit to India. The Author will be on a five-city tour to launch and promote his upcoming book "Mightier than the Sword", the fifth and final book in the compelling "Clifton Chronicles" series to be released globally on February 24, 2015.

Hosted by Crossword - India’s leading lifestyle bookstore he will travel to Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Kolkata from 2nd to 6th March as part of his tour. This rare occasion will provide a once in a lifetime chance for readers and fans to meet the author who has written several bestselling books such as Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less, The Clifton Chronicles, The Sins of the Father and Best Kept Secret.

Announcing the tour, Mr Kinjal Shah CEO- Crossword Bookstore said “We are delighted to host Mr. Archer’s visit, he is one of the finest and the most successful international authors in India. We are glad that he chose to visit India to launch his books. His store visits and book-signing sessions are big crowd-pullers and we are happy that Crossword is one of the few bookstores to organize this tour for Indian fans & readers.

Jeffrey Archer will be interacting with fans and readers at Crossword bookstores in Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad & Kolkata:

MUMBAI: Monday 2nd March at 7.00pm at Crossword Kemps Corner

PUNE: Tuesday 3rd March at 6.30pm - Crossword Aundh

BANGALORE: Wednesday 4th March at 7.00pm - Crossword Mantri Mall

HYDERABAD: Thursday 5th March at 6.30pm Crossword- Inorbit Mall, Cyberabad Hi-Tech City,

KOLKATA: Friday 6th March at 7.00pm - Crossword Rajahat, City Centre II

About Crossword Bookstore

Crossword Bookstores Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary Company of Shopper's Stop Ltd - India's leading department store chain with 97 stores, across 30 cities in India and as on today is India's fastest growing chain of bookstores. At Crossword we aim to be a point of cultural and social interaction where authors and poets hold court, where children are regaled, where people gravitate to be informed, to be entertained, even enlightened. Crossword vision is to build community centers for readers across the Country. Crossword launched the Crossword Book Award in 1998 to recognize and reward the best of Indian writing across Fiction, Non Fiction, Children's, Translation & Popular

Since its inception in 15th October 1992, It has been featured in Advertising Age International, USA, as one of the Marketing Superstars for 1994. The Bookseller, UK, has also described it as 'being on the cutting edge of retailing' in India. Crossword was ranked the 6th most admired retailer in India by Business world for the year 2006. It also won the Star Retailer Award for the Best Lifestyle Retailer in Books & Music in 2011. Crossword won the Retailer of the Year Award - Leisure (Books, Music and Gifts Category) at the Images Retail Awards 2005 & 2007& 2009. Crossword received the Federation of Indian Publishers Award for excellence in Publishing for the year 2004 on 18th June 2005 at the hands of Shri Arjun Singh, Minister of Human Resource Development. It won the Debutant E-retailer of the year - books - at India eRetail Awards 2012. In 2013 Crossword also won The ET Retail Award for Marketing for ‘Crossword Popular Award’. It won the Best Book retailer award in 2014 at the Indian Retail Awards

About the book

Mightier than the Sword opens with an IRA bomb exploding during the M. V. Buckingham's maiden voyage across the Atlantic-but how many passengers lose their lives?

When Harry Clifton visits his publisher in New York, he learns that he has been elected as the new president of English PEN and immediately launches a campaign for the release of a fellow author, Anatoly Babakov, who's imprisoned in Siberia. Babakov's crime? Writing a book called Uncle Joe, a devastating insight into what it was like to work for Stalin. So determined is Harry to see Babakov released and the book published, that he puts his own life in danger.

His wife Emma, chairman of Barrington Shipping, is facing the repercussions of the IRA attack on the Buckingham. Some board members feel she should resign and Lady Virginia Fenwick will stop at nothing to cause Emma's downfall.

Sir Giles Barrington is now a minister of the Crown and looks set for even higher office, until an official trip to Berlin does not end as a diplomatic success. Once again, Giles's political career is thrown off balance by none other than his old adversary, Major Alex Fisher, who once again stands against him at the election. But who wins this time?

In London, Harry and Emma's son, Sebastian, is quickly making a name for himself at Farthing's Bank in London and has proposed to the beautiful young American, Samantha. But the despicable Adrian Sloane, a man interested only in his own advancement and the ruin of Sebastian, will stop at nothing to remove his rival.

Jeffrey Archer's compelling Clifton Chronicles continue in this, his most accomplished novel to date. With all the trademark twists and turns that have made him one of the world's most popular authors, the spellbinding story of the Clifton and the Barrington families continues.

About Author Jeffrey Archer:

Jeffrey Archer, whose novels and short stories include Kane and Abel, A Prisoner of Birthand Cat O' Nine Tales, has topped the bestseller lists around the world, with sales of over 270 million copies. He is the only author ever to have been a number one bestseller in fiction (Eighteen times), short stories (Four times) and non-fiction (The Prison Diaries). The author is married to Dame Mary Archer and they have two sons and two grandsons.