Manisha, who now also has a foot in the Nepali film industry, will soon be launching a third novel penned by Sheeba Shivangini Shah, who is married to the nephew of the deposed king, Lt Col Bikash Bikram Shah.

Facing my Phantoms, published by Rupa, is a semi-autobiographical novel, tracing the migration of Sheeba's family, the turmoil in Nepal, the reign of four different kings and the 10-year Maoist insurgency.

The book launch is being handled by an event management company.

A special list of invitees will be drawn up by Devyani Singh nee Rana, whom Nepal's crown prince Dipendra wanted to marry before he died in a carnage in the palace in which the then king and queen also perished.

The April 24 launch will be followed by a second one in Kathmandu at the Hotel de l'Annapurna where the former royal family still holds stakes.

The 34-year-old former princess debuted as an author in 2003 with "Loyals of the crown", a mammoth tale of the court intrigue and bloodbath in 1846 when a junior queen of the Shah dynasty ordered a mass killing of noblemen in revenge after her lover was murdered.