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Kiss of Salt

Kiss of Salt
  • Author(s): Smita Bhattacharya
  • Location(s): Goa
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

*Heliconia Lane was a spot of heaven until you discover the secrets that lay behind its closed doors.* It was crazy really, for Darya to think she could have some peace and quiet at Heliconia Lane. Yes, it was...

Kurinji Flowers

Kurinji Flowers
  • Author(s): Clare Flynn
  • Location(s): Kerala
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s and 40s

An emotional love story set in the last days of colonial India After an abusive relationship with a predatory older man, debutante Ginny Dunbar is publicly disgraced when her artist lover exhibits a nude painting of her in a...

Lady Doctors

Lady Doctors
  • Author(s): Kavitha Rao
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1860s to 1930s

At a time when medicine is a highly sought-after career for Indian women, it is hard to imagine what it was like for the pioneers. The story of how firmly they were bound in fetters of family, caste and...

Land of the Living

Land of the Living
  • Author(s): Georgina Harding
  • Location(s): Nagaland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

Charlie’s experiences at the Battle of Kohima and the months he spent lost in the remote jungles of Nagaland during the Second World War are now history. Home and settled on a farm in Norfolk and newly married to...

Lands of Belonging: A History of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Britain

Lands of Belonging: A History of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Britain
  • Author(s): Donna and Vikesh Amey Bhatt, Salini Perera (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1900s onwards

Publishing for the 75th anniversary of the Partition of India in August 2022, this book is a unique exploration of the rich and complicated history of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Britain. There are many ways of telling the same...

Lemon Seas

Lemon Seas
  • Author(s): Neil Beardmore
  • Location(s): Goa
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

Goa: this was the break Rich had waited for, what with a broken marriage and his mother’s death. At last he could breathe again on a beach lined with palm trees. The discovery of the body of an Indian...

Living Banaras: Hindu Religion in Cultural Context

Living Banaras: Hindu Religion in Cultural Context
  • Author(s): Bradley R Hertel, Cynthia Ann Humes
  • Location(s): Varanasi
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

By focusing on contemporary popular religious traditions, the book represents a substantial contribution to the study of modern religious practices in Banaras, holy city of India. This book offers in-depth, ethnographic views of many contemporary popular religious practices that...

Looking for Lord Ganesh

Looking for Lord Ganesh
  • Author(s): Mahtab Narsimhan, Sonja Wimmer (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Anika has recently emigrated from India and is having a difficult time adjusting to life in a new country not to mention life in a new school. Remembering the advice her grandmother gave her, she prays to Lord Ganesh,...

Low

Low
  • Author(s): Jeet Thayil
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ullis went to the bathroom and carefully unfolded the business card and placed it on the sink. Then he rolled up a note and snorted the last of his wife’s ashes. Following the death of his wife, Dominic Ullis...

Martha’s Cross

Martha’s Cross
  • Author(s): Semanti Sinha Ray
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Martha’s Cross is the first book in a series of four, featuring Sue Gupta. She is an accidental detective whose maiden venture is solving a murder that took place sixty years ago in the small town of Bhind. While...

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