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- 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): 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...
- Location(s): Chennai (Madras), Hyderabad, Telegana
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s India
Superintendent Chris Le Fanu returns from the Straits Settlements to find his Madras Indian Police Service colleagues struggling with an outbreak of Hindu-Muslim tension. This particularly affects his assistant, Muhammad Habibullah, who feels that Muslim interests are being ignored....
- Location(s): South India, Silicon Valley
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
In trendy Silicon Valley, Priya has everything she needs—a loving husband, a career, and a home—but the one thing she wants most is the child she’s unable to have. In a Southern Indian village, Asha doesn’t have much—raising two...