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The Secret War of Julia Child

The Secret War of Julia Child
  • Author(s): Diana R Chambers
  • Location(s): Asia, Burma (Myanmar), China, India, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WWII

Before she was Julia Child, the famed “French Chef” who stole hearts, she was Julia McWilliams. Thirty years old and directionless, Julia took a job working for America’s first espionage agency, years before cooking or Paris entered the picture....

The Shadow Lines

The Shadow Lines
  • Author(s): Amitav Ghosh
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s to 1990s

A wide-eyed boy growing up in suburban Calcutta in the 1960s experiences the world through the eyes of others – an intoxicating older cousin, a grandmother who weaves stories from the past and a family in London whose lives...

The Siege of Krishnapur

The Siege of Krishnapur
  • Author(s): J G Farrell
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1850s

Based on the actual sieges at Cawnpore and Lucknow, this is a book based in Krishnapur, a fictional Indian town. Like the mysteriously appearing chapatis, life in British India seems, on the surface, innocuous enough. Farrell introduces us gradually...

The Story of My Assassins

The Story of My Assassins
  • Author(s): Tarun J Tejpal
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A sweeping saga of modern India, The Story of My Assassins is gripping from its first sentence: The morning I learnt I d been shot I was sitting in my office on the second floor looking out the big...

The Tainted

The Tainted
  • Author(s): Cauvery Madhavan
  • Location(s): Tamil Nadu
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1922 to 1982

It’s spring 1920 in the small military town of Nandagiri in southeast India. Colonel Aylmer, commander of the Royal Irish Kildare Rangers, is in charge. A distance away, decently hidden from view, lies the native part of Nandagiri with...

The Toss of a Lemon

The Toss of a Lemon
  • Author(s): Padma Viswanathan
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1896-1962

Spanning the lifetime of one woman (1896-1962), “The Toss of a Lemon” brings us intimately into a Brahmin household, into an India we’ve never before seen.Married at ten, widowed at eighteen, left with two children, Sivakami must wear widow’s...

The Towers of Silence (Raj Quartet 3)

The Towers of Silence (Raj Quartet 3)
  • Author(s): Paul Scott
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s onwards

The third in the Raj Quartet and each novel overlaps with the previous. It continues the story of the last days of British rule in India, told generally from the perspective of the British in India. The character of...

The Village

The Village
  • Author(s): Nikita Lalwani
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Ray, a young British-Asian woman arrives in the afternoon heat of a small village in India. She has come to live there for several months to make a documentary about the place. For this is no ordinary Indian village...

The Windfall

The Windfall
  • Author(s): Diksha Basu
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Anil Kumar Jha has worked hard and is ready to live well. After thirty years in a modest flat, he and his family are moving to Gurgaon, one of Delhi’s richest areas. But his wife, Bindu, is heartbroken about...

The Year of the Runaways

The Year of the Runaways
  • Author(s): Sunjeev Sahota
  • Location(s): India, Sheffield
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

The Year of the Runaways tells of the bold dreams and daily struggles of an unlikely family thrown together by circumstance. Thirteen young men live in a house in Sheffield, each in flight from India and in desperate search of...

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