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Missy

Missy
  • Author(s): Raghav Rao
  • Location(s): Chennai (Madras), Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s / present day

She’s chosen her own future. Madras, India: The orphaned girls of St Ursula’s convent are destined to be nuns or servants but seventeen-year-old Savi dreams of escape. Responsible and good with languages, she’s taken on as governess for the...

Nowhere to Goa

Nowhere to Goa
  • Author(s): Doug E Jones
  • 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...

Paro

Paro
  • Author(s): Namita Gokhale
  • Location(s): Delhi, Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Set amidst the elite circles of Mumbai and Delhi, Paro: Dreams of Passion follows the enigmatic protagonist as she navigates a labyrinth of desire, ambition and betrayal. Through the sharp and observant eyes of Priya, a keen diarist and...

Serious Men

Serious Men
  • Author(s): Manu Jospeh
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

Ayyan Mani is a man born to greater things, which wouldn’t surprise his neighbours in the vast tenement building in which he lives, where to be sober and employed practically makes a man a legend. He works as an...

Shadowed in Silk

Shadowed in Silk
  • Author(s): Christine Lindsay
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

She was invisible to those who should have loved her. After the Great War, Abby Fraser returns to India, where her husband is stationed with the British army. She has longed to go home to the land of glittering...

Someone Else’s Garden

Someone Else’s Garden
  • Author(s): Dipika Rai
  • Location(s): Gopalpur
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A big, intensely involving and evocative Indian novel, perfect for fans of Vikas Swarup’s Slumdog Millioniare, with its emotive and, ultimately, redemptive story. ‘Will she recall that night? Or is it one of those too horrible times that her...

The Argumentative Indian

The Argumentative Indian
  • Author(s): Amartya Sen
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Various

India is a very diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs, and a veritable feast of viewpoints. The Argumentative Indian brings together an illuminating selection of writings from Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen that...

The Lotus Queen

The Lotus Queen
  • Author(s): Rikin Khamar
  • Location(s): Rajasthan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 14th Century

As the Rajputs face total destruction, Padmini knows but one route to freedom and honour. It is a decision that would lead her people to a fate yet unheard of in history. A decision that would affect an entire...

The Midnight Palace

The Midnight Palace
  • Author(s): Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
  • 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...

The Naked Tourist

The Naked Tourist
  • Author(s): Lawrence Osborne
  • Location(s): Dubai, India, South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Osborne travels from Dubai, to Calcutta, on to the Andamans, Bangkok, Bali and finally Papua New Guineau. An opinionated and insightful view of these wonderful places with a bit of history thrown in.

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