HOUSE OF ANANDA
How to Succeed at Life (By Failing Spectacularly)
The new memoir everyone will be talking about in 2026
“Laughed so hard I pulled a muscle. Then cried on the Tube. Then immediately bought my dad a white Mercedes just to wind him up.”
– Early reader (British-Indian, aged 38, still in therapy)
From the tin-roofed chaos of 1940s Kolkata to a Grade II-listed palace currently governed by cows, Ananda Paul has lived roughly nine lives – and blown most of them up in spectacular fashion.
He turned £28-a-week income support into a £22 million buy-to-let empire.
He nearly lost it all in 2008 while nursing cocktails and a divorce lawyer.
He fought HMRC for four years, won, then sued his accountant for fun.
He once left a trail of disintegrating shoe crumbs across a divorce courtroom.
And his dad still calls him Idiot Number One. In public. Loudly.
If you’ve ever:
* wanted to rebel against your parents with a scarlet Ferrari
* wondered how eggs can possibly have shells
* survived a tax inspection, a financial crash, or a family wedding
* believed that time + stupidity + cocktails eventually equals victory
…this book is your new best friend.
House of Ananda is the British-Indian Wolf of Wall Street you didn’t know you needed – only with more curry, more cows, and a lot more heart.
The bar opens at page one.
Available on amazon books and kindle.
