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- Location(s): Nepal, The Himalayas, Tibet
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
This is about the trip from Nepal into Tibet – Thurbon has his usual eye for the wonderful detail and insight. His tales of seekers, refugees and mystics richly populate Tibetan history and Buddhist belief.
- Location(s): Nepal
- Era(s): Modern
Love and marriage brought American anthropologist Elizabeth Enslin to a world she never planned to make her own: a life among Brahman in-laws in a remote village in the plains of Nepal. As she faced the challenges of married...
- Location(s): Nepal, The Himalayas
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
When Jake tells Lyssa it’s not working, she knows he’s not talking about the toaster. What she doesn’t realise is that he has been seduced by another woman. Lyssa’s immediate reaction is to sob into her pillow and wait...
- Location(s): London, Nepal, Tibet
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
‘Sometimes you just have to do something, don’t you? Sometimes an injustice comes along and you think ‘No, this cannot be’, and rather than just turn off the TV, you know it’s time to act’ So begins Isabel Losada’s...
- Location(s): Kathmandu, The Himalayas
- Genre(s): Travelogue, Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Set against the backdrop of one of the most colourful countries in the world, A Glimpse of Eternal Snows is an inspiring story of courage, love and a family’s determination to give their child the best life possible. In...
- Location(s): Nepal
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1978
In August 1978, thirteen women left San Francisco for the Nepal Himalaya to make history as the first Americans—and the first women—to scale the treacherous slopes of Annapurna I, the world’s tenth highest peak. Expedition leader Arlene Blum here...
- Location(s): Nepal
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
From the first Nepali author writing in English to be published in the West, Arresting God in Kathmandu brilliantly explores the nature of desire and spirituality in a changing society. With the assurance and unsentimental wisdom of a long-established...
- Location(s): Mount Manaslu
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
IT’S ICE COLD. YOU’RE MILES FROM HELP. AND ONE OF YOU WILL BE NEXT . . . Pre-order next year’s most gripping thriller now, and ensure you’re the first to read the book that everyone will be talking about…...
- Location(s): Nepal
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Called “a Buddhist Chekhov” by the San Francisco Chronicle, Samrat Upadhyay’s writing has been praised by Amitav Ghosh and Suketu Mehta, and compared with the work of Akhil Sharma and Jhumpa Lahiri. Upadhyay’s novel, Buddha’s Orphans, uses Nepal’s political...
- Location(s): Nepal
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Chandra and Deena’s family has a smoky oil lamp at home, which makes their baby brother cough. Then one day at the market, the sisters spot a man selling lamps that are powered by the sun instead of kerosene...
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