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The Sandalwood Tree

The Sandalwood Tree
  • Author(s): Elle Newmark
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1947

It is 1947, and Evie and Martin Mitchell have just arrived in the Indian village of Masoorla with their five-year-old son. But cracks soon appear in their marriage as Evie struggles to adapt to her new life, and Martin...

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
  • Author(s): Maggie O'Farrell
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Tulip Season

Tulip Season
  • Author(s): Bharti Kirchner
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay), Seattle
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Kareena Sinha, an Indian-American domestic-violence counselor, disappears from her Seattle home. When the police dismiss suspicions that she herself was a victim of spousal abuse, her best friend, Mitra Basu, a young landscape designer, resolves to find her. Mitra’s...

Yoga School Dropout

Yoga School Dropout
  • Author(s): Lucy Edge
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the true story of one girls escape from the rat race to explore a variety of ways of deepening her interest in yoga. She travels to India and goes from Ashram to Ashram, Guru to Guru, Yoga...

The White Tiger

The White Tiger
  • Author(s): Aravind Adiga
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Balram Halwai, the eponymous ‘white tiger’, is a diminutive, overweight ex-teashop worker who now earns his living as a chauffeur. But this is only one side of his protean personality: he deals in confidence scams, over-ambitious business promotions (built...

Being Indian: Inside the Real India

Being Indian: Inside the Real India
  • Author(s): Pavan K Varma
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of the 20th Century

Varma shows how India’s self-image has been distorted by simplistic myth-making, and sets out to find instead what it really means to be Indian at the beginning of a new century which is likely to see India grow into...

Death in the Air

Death in the Air
  • Author(s): Ram Murali
  • Location(s): Indian Himalayan Region
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Welcome to Samsara, a world-class spa nestled in the Indian Himalayas where all your wishes are just a gilded notecard away. Ro Krishna has just checked in. With his rakish charm, Oxford education, perfect hair, he has it all...

India after Gandhi

India after Gandhi
  • Author(s): Ramachandra Guha
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s onwards

Much of this book deals with political history, together with topics such as the wars with Pakistan and China, communal violence, and economic development. A well written and throughtful account of one country’s history.

Mistaken Modernity: India between Worlds

Mistaken Modernity: India between Worlds
  • Author(s): Dipankar Gupta
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

From Hindu notions of dirt, South Asia’s preference for women leaders to patronage in democratic politics, the author resolves many of the paradoxes of contemporary India in this book.

Origins of Love

Origins of Love
  • Author(s): Kishwar Desai
  • Location(s): Delhi, India, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In Delhi a small baby lies alone and abandoned. The product of IVF and surrogacy, she had been so coveted – until she was born with a fatal illness. No one knows how the infection could have been transferred...

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