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- Location(s): Kabul, Kolkata (Calcutta), London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th Century
The novel begins in Kabul with the arrival of Burnes, an ambitious young Scot, eager to open up the country to the English. News of his arrival soon reaches the Amir, for whom “the arrival of the new European...
- 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...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): First half 20th Century
1916, Calcutta. A man pauses for breath outside the ruins of Jheeter’s Gate station knowing he has only hours to live. Pursued by assassins, he must ensure the safety of two newborn twins, before disappearing into the night to...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Future
- Era(s): Near future
In a near-future Kolkata beset by flooding and famine, Ma, her two-year-old daughter Mishti, and her elderly father Dadu are just days from leaving the collapsing city behind to join Ma’s husband in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After procuring long-awaited...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 1919
The winner of the Harvill Secker/Daily Telegraph crime writing competition Captain Sam Wyndham, former Scotland Yard detective, is a new arrival to Calcutta. Desperately seeking a fresh start after his experiences during the Great War, Wyndham has been recruited to...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 60s and present day
Varsha Gupta wants fish for her lunch. Her family can’t understand it; the three-year-old has never tasted fish in her life. The Guptas are strict vegetarians and don’t allow it inside their Calcutta mansion. But Varsha claims she can...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Although she was orphaned at birth, Korobi Roy has enjoyed a privileged childhood with her adoring grandparents, spending her first seventeen years in a beautiful, crumbling old mansion in Kolkata, India. But she is troubled by the silence that...










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