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Death of a Lesser God

Death of a Lesser God
  • Author(s): Vaseem Khan
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950

In the fourth rip-roaring thriller in the award-winning Malabar House series, Persis and Archie travel to the old colonial capital of Calcutta, where they collide head-on with the prejudices and bloody politics of an era engulfed in flame. Can...

Delhi: A Novel

Delhi: A Novel
  • Author(s): Khushwant Singh
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 17th to 20th Centuries

Dellhi is not far

Dellhi is not far
  • Author(s): Ruskin Bond
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Arun, a struggling writer of urdu thrillers, feels trapped in dull and dusty Pipalnagar, where nothing ever happens. He hopes to write a blockbuster one day, and escape to Delhi. Meanwhile, he falls in love with a young prostitute,...

Destiny at Trichy

Destiny at Trichy
  • Author(s): Julie Marsh, Michael Maher
  • Location(s): Trichy (Tiruchirappalli)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After travelling in India for 5 months, Michael and Julie meet with a dramatic accident in the revered temple city of Trichy, Tamil Nadu. Their hotel is blacked out and dangerously engulfed by an electrical fire; the only escape,...

Dial and Talk Foreign at Once

Dial and Talk Foreign at Once
  • Author(s): Frank Kusy
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Humour, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1980s

The clock is ticking. Can Frank cover India for a travel guide in 66 days? Or will he crash and burn? When Frank Kusy is challenged by his publisher to research a book on India in just 66 days,...

Dignity

Dignity
  • Author(s): Alys Conran
  • Location(s): India, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century and modern

Magda is a former scientist with a bad temper and a sharp tongue, now living alone in a huge house by the sea. Confined to a wheelchair, her once spotless home crumbling around her, she gets through carers at...

Disobedient Women

Disobedient Women
  • Author(s): Sangeeta Mulay
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set in contemporary India, Sangeeta Mulay’s unforgettable debut novel is a compelling story of four unforgettable characters: Aparna – a courageous campaigner of rationality and freedom of expression. Will the patriarchal grip of a Hindu nationalist government and a...

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
  • Author(s): Deepa Anappara
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nine-year-old Jai watches too many reality cop shows, thinks he’s smarter than his friend Pari (even though she always gets top marks) and considers himself to be a better boss than Faiz (even though Faiz is the one with...

Dreams Of Rivers And Seas

Dreams Of Rivers And Seas
  • Author(s): Tim Parks
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Just days after controversial anthropologist Albert James writes these elusive lines to his son John, he is dead. Abandoning his girlfriend in London, John flies to Delhi to join his mother in mourning. But the nature of his father’s...

Eastern Horizons

Eastern Horizons
  • Author(s): Levison Wood
  • Location(s): Central Asia, India, Russia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Levison Wood was only 22 when he decided to hitch-hike from England to India through Russia, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, but he wasn’t the conventional follower of the hippy trail. A fascination with the deeds of the early explorers,...

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