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- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
Eden Gardens, Calcutta, the 1940s. In a ramshackle house, streets away from the grand colonial mansions of the British, live Maisy, her Mam and their ayah, Pushpa. Whiskey-fuelled and poverty-stricken, Mam entertains officers in the night – a disgrace...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), Nimes, Paris, The Midlands
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s
‘Deftly interlacing present and past, King offers further fascinating insights into Holmes’s family while also delivering an intriguing mystery’- Washington Post September, 1925. After their recent adventures in Transylvania, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes look forward to spending time...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1950
A novel set in Calcutta, shortly after the Partition of India. Along with other refugees from what is now Pakistan, a young woman makes her way to the teeming city of Calcutta and tries to adjust to a new...
Calcutta: Two Years in the City
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2009-2011
In 1999, Amit Chaudhuri moved back to Calcutta, the city in which he was born. It was a place he had loved in his youth and the place he had made his name writing about. But upon his return...
- Location(s): Assam, Kolkata (Calcutta), London
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): Early 20th century
Calcutta police detective Captain Sam Wyndham and his quick-witted Indian Sergeant, Surrender-not Banerjee, are back for another rip-roaring adventure set in 1920s India. 1905, London. As a young constable, Sam Wyndham is on his usual East London beat when...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), Penzance
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A café in Cornwall, October 2014. A frightening phone call to ROSE from her ex-husband Tom. ELLIE, their daughter, has not returned from her gap year. Is living in India helping the Untouchables. Terrified for her daughter’s safety she...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1920s
India, 1921. Haunted by his memories of the Great War, Captain Sam Wyndham is battling a serious addiction to opium that he must keep secret from his superiors in the Calcutta police force. When Sam is summoned to investigate...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1920s
In the Burning Ghats of Calcutta where the dead are laid to rest, a man is found murdered, his throat cut from ear to ear. The body is that of a popular patron of the arts, a man who...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Calcutta, 1967. Unnoticed by his family, Supratik has become dangerously involved in extremist political activism. Compelled by an idealistic desire to change his life and the world around him, all he leaves behind before disappearing is this note ....
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), Rhode Island
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s to modern
From Subhash’s earliest memories, at every point, his brother was there. In the suburban streets of Calcutta where they wandered before dusk and in the hyacinth-strewn ponds where they played for hours on end, Udayan was always in his...










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