MUMBAI: Frog Books Mumbai, a division of Net Act Communications, will launch three books in October.

The books include Urban Voice: Essays from the Indian Subcontinent, a collection of poems called Under a Quicksilver Moon and a fiction called A New Friend. The publisher has announced that the launch will take place in Mumbai on 18 October.

Urban Voice is a collection of essays contributed by Rehan Ansari, Sanjaya Baru, Dilip Chitre, Aditha Dissanayake, Dilip D'souza, V Gangadhar, Ramachandra Guha, Rohit Gupta, Kiron Kasbekar, Margaret Mascarenhas, Meena Menon, Sevanti Ninan, Frederick Noronha, Aakar Patel, Dilip Raote, Kalpish Ratna, C P Surendran and Suma Varughese. It has been priced at Rs 150.

Under a Quicksilver Moon is a collection of poems by Abhilash Warrier, priced at Rs 100 and A New Friend is a translated version of a Spanish novel by Nacho Blanco, priced at Rs 50.

As an initial offer, the three books together is being priced at Rs 200. Frog Books has earlier published CrossRoads and The Rape of News.