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Harp

Harp
  • Author(s): Nidhi Dalmia
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Set in the context of the zeitgeist and idealism of the late sixties, Harp is about love, longing and coming of age. The three main protagonists—a young man travelling in a Europe-less-travelled including the Iron Curtain, a young woman...

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
  • Author(s): J K Rowling
  • Location(s): United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Children, Fiction

Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly...

Harry’s Game

Harry’s Game
  • Author(s): Gerald Seymour
  • Location(s): Belfast
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

A British cabinet minister is gunned down on a London street by an IRA assassin. In the wake of national outcry, the authorities must find the hitman. But the trail is long cold, the killer gone to ground in...

Harsh Times

Harsh Times
  • Author(s): Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Location(s): Guatemala
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

The new novel from the Nobel Prize-winning master of fiction — the true story of Guatemala’s political turmoil of the 1950s. Guatemala, 1954. A CIA-supported military coup topples the government. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off...

Harvest

Harvest
  • Author(s): Michael Steward
  • Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Laura Clayton, a British teacher working in Beijing, goes missing, former Met detective-turned private investigator Ed Vaughan is hired to search for her. But within hours of arriving in the Chinese capital to start their investigation, Vaughan and...

Harvest of Thorns

Harvest of Thorns
  • Author(s): Shimmer Chinodya
  • Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Harvest of Thorns tells the story of Benjamin Tichafa who grows up in Rhodesia in the 1960s. From a conservative, religious family, but exposed to the heady ideas of the black nationalist movements, the young student is pulled in...

Harvest the Wind

Harvest the Wind
  • Author(s): Toni Morgan
  • Location(s): South Central Idaho
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WWII

Virginia Franconi left home at eighteen like the hounds of hell were nipping at her heels. Now, in her mid-twenties, she returns to the family farm in Idaho. Her sour, belligerent father, once an iron-fisted ruler, is weak and...

Hatchet / Hamartia

Hatchet / Hamartia
  • Author(s): Carmen Boullosa
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Poetry
  • Era(s): Modern

A bilingual poetry collection in which a microwave, a fly, a soup, a football match, a train, or a child in the subway serve as pretexts to explain the tragic nature of life when death is involved. One with...

Haunted Blood

Haunted Blood
  • Author(s): Elik Katzav
  • Location(s): Israel
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

David used to be a police detective before he was shamefully dismissed for claiming that a demon possessed an old priest. Now, he is taking odd jobs as a private eye and investigating the disappearance of a missing boy....

Haunting Bombay

Haunting Bombay
  • Author(s): Shilpa Agarwal
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

A motherless girl living with her grandmother and her uncle’s family in their bungalow in 1960s Bombay inadvertently unleashes a ghost, forcing the family to confront the shocking truth behind a drowning death that occurred there years earlier.

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