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- Location(s): Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Travancore (until 1947)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
In the heat and the dust of the Indian south, the last hangman of the former princely state of Travancore commits his life to paper. In seven notebooks he remembers the people he has killed, calmly recalling the final...
- Location(s): Chennai (Madras), London
- Era(s): 1960s onwards
August, 1968: Babo Patel arrives in London from Madras, with curly hair, jhill mill teeth and dreams of becoming a success. When he meets the beautiful, auburn-haired Siân Jones, he falls in love instantly. She, like him, is in...
- Location(s): Tamil Nadu
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1922 to 1982
It’s spring 1920 in the small military town of Nandagiri in southeast India. Colonel Aylmer, commander of the Royal Irish Kildare Rangers, is in charge. A distance away, decently hidden from view, lies the native part of Nandagiri with...
- Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
This is the same book as The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. A very funny book about a retirement home in Bangalore, peopled by quirky British pensioners.
- Location(s): Kerala
- Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
Cassia can’t wait for her first visit to India – Bollywood glamour, new friends to admire her uber-cool street-dance moves…. But as she steps into real Indian life, NOTHING is as she expected… Cass is with her mum in...
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
- Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In the original this is These Foolish Things (which also features on the TF site) A very funny book about a retirement home in Bangalore, peopled by quirky British pensioners.
- Location(s): Tamil Nadu
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Tamil Nadu, 1968. Village landlords rule over a feudal system that forces peasants to break their backs in the fields or suffer beatings as punishment. In the misery of their daily lives it is little wonder that the Communist...
- 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...
- Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A knock on the door shouldn’t be a cause for alarm. But when Venkat finds two insolent young men on his doorstep, he knows something is off. They say they need to get in touch with his daughter Rekha,...
- Location(s): South India, Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s, Now
1929. When a passionate love affair threatens to leave Lucy in disgrace, she chooses a respectable marriage over a life of shame. With her husband, coffee-plantation-owner James, she travels to her new home in India, leaving her troubled past...
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