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Coming Home
  • Author(s): Smitha Vishwanath
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2006-2010

Twenty-six-year-old, Shanaya, finds her idea of home and family ripped apart when she loses her mother. Her effort to drown herself in her job proves to be financially rewarding and her work is recognized by the organisation. But, even...

Consumed By Obsession

Consumed By Obsession
  • Author(s): Sunira S
  • Location(s): West India
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“Two people so different yet so alike. The one thing that unites them is obsession.” ‘Consumed By Obsession’ is the story of a grieving widower, Raj, who is convinced his wife’s grisly death is not an accident. Raj becomes...

Courting India

Courting India
  • Author(s): Nandini Das
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1600s

SHORTLISTED FOR THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA CROWN AWARDS When Thomas Roe arrived in India in 1616 as James I’s first ambassador to the Mughal Empire, the English...

Crimson City (Muzaffar Jang, #4)

Crimson City (Muzaffar Jang, #4)
  • Author(s): Madhulika Liddle
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 17th century - Mughal Empire

A serial killer is terrorizing Dilli and Mughal nobleman and detective Muzaffar Jang might have finally met his match. In the spring of 1657, the Mughal armies have reached the Deccan, besieging the Fort of Bidar. Back home in...

Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir

Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir
  • Author(s): Basharat Peer
  • Location(s): Kashmir
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Late 1980s

“Curfewed Night” is a brave and unforgettable piece of literary reporting that reveals the personal stories behind one of the most brutal conflicts in modern times. Since 1989, when the separatist movement exploded, more than seventy thousand people have...

Custody

Custody
  • Author(s): Manju Kapur
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Largely set in upper-middle-class Delhi in the 1990s, kapur’s fifthe novel opens iwth a premise familiar in fables – that the beautiful and lucky can do what they want, usually at the expense of the less fortunate. The story...

Daughters of India

Daughters of India
  • Author(s): Jill McGivering
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century/WW2

Isabel, born into the British Raj, and Asha, a young Hindu girl, both consider India their home. Mischance will bring them together and drive them from the bustle of Delhi to the shores of the Andaman Islands, from glittering...

Dead Meat

Dead Meat
  • Author(s): Ankush Saikia
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A body recovered from a tandoor oven. A young accountant missing with a suitcase full of cash. A city in the heady grip of T20 fever. Private eye Arjun Arora works the streets of Delhi dealing with the shady...

Dead to Them

Dead to Them
  • Author(s): Smita Bhattacharya
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 21st century

Moira Madhwa is the typical young, beautiful and successful urban woman until the day she goes missing. Her friends start looking for her, but quickly realize nothing is as it seems. Moira had kept devastating secrets—secrets that could wreck...

Death in Shangri-La

Death in Shangri-La
  • Author(s): Yigal Zur
  • Location(s): India, Israel
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

Terrorism in one of the world’s flashpoints Dotan Naor, a former Israeli security agent, now private investigator, agrees to locate the missing son of ruthless Israeli arms merchant Willy Mizrachi. Willy is desperate to find his only son, Itiel,...

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