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- 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): India, Nepal, Thailand
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Nowhere To Goa is a travel adventure novel set in Nepal, India, and Thailand that takes off when Scott, a studious sophomore at Northwestern University, flies halfway around the world to bring home his troublesome twin brother who has...
- Location(s): Nepal
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1920s
June 1924. On the brutal North East Ridge of Mount Everest, famous adventurers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine vanish into the snow-whipped night. Daredevil explorer Richard Deacon devises a plan to follow in the men’s footsteps, accompanied only by...
- 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): 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...