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Meet Me in Mumbai

Meet Me in Mumbai
  • Author(s): Sabina Khan, Muhammed Sajid (Cover Artist)
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A novel in two acts – told eighteen years apart – gives voice to both mother (Ayesha) and daughter (Mira) after an unplanned teen pregnancy led Ayesha to place Mira up for adoption. Seventeen-year-old Mira Fuller-Jensen was adopted by...

Memoirs of a Political Officer’s Wife in Tibet, Sikkim & Bhutan

Memoirs of a Political Officer’s Wife in Tibet, Sikkim & Bhutan
  • Author(s): Margaret D Williamson
  • Location(s): Bhutan, Sikkim, Tibet
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1930's

Wonderful book of Margaret’s memoirs of travelling on horseback on official tours in India, Tibet and Bhutan with her Political Officer husband in the 1930’s and of all the wonderful friendships they made – including the Bhutanese royal family!...

Midnight at Malabar House

Midnight at Malabar House
  • Author(s): Vaseem Khan
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1949/50

Bombay, New Year’s Eve, 1949 As India celebrates the arrival of a momentous new decade, Inspector Persis Wadia stands vigil in the basement of Malabar House, home to the city’s most unwanted unit of police officers. Six months after...

Mina vs. the Monsoon

Mina vs. the Monsoon
  • Author(s): Rukhsanna Guidroz, Debasmita Dasgupta (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Mina loves to play soccer all year round. Nothing comes close to it. But when the monsoon arrives, Mina is stuck indoors and she can’t help feeling restless and bored. Her ammi doesn’t understand. The doodhwalla doesn’t understand. That’s...

Mistress

Mistress
  • Author(s): Anita Nair
  • Location(s): Kerala
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When travel writer Christopher Stewart arrives at a riverside resort in Kerala to meet Koman, Radha’s uncle and a famous Kathakali dancer, he enters a world of masks and repressed emotions. From their first meeting, both Radha and her...

Monsoon Mists

Monsoon Mists
  • Author(s): Christina Courtenay
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1700s

Against the untamed beauty of breathtaking India, a haunted Scotsman and a misunderstood widow are entangled in a dangerous dance of deception and forbidden desire. Young widow Zarmina Miller has spent her life defying expectations. Fiercely self-reliant, she has...

Mother Mary Comes To Me

Mother Mary Comes To Me
  • Author(s): Arundhati Roy
  • Location(s): Delhi, Kerala
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs

The incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy’s first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the...

Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings

Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings
  • Author(s): Saumya Roy
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): N/A

All of Mumbai’s memories and castaway possessions come to die at the Deonar garbage mountains. And among these vast, teetering piles of discarded things – medical waste, rotten food, old clothes, broken glass and twisted metal – a small,...

Mumbai Matinee

Mumbai Matinee
  • Author(s): Ajay Kaul
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1991

A unique and unforgettable cast of characters shines through eight interconnected stories, influenced by true incidents from the 1990s to 2000s Mumbai. As the Indian economy opens up in 1991, Bombay (now Mumbai) – India’s financial hub, witnesses a...

Mumbai Noir

Mumbai Noir
  • Author(s): Altaf Tyewala
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

Under the editorship of Altaf Tyewala. Following the Bombay Communal Riots of 1992 which saw neighbour pitched against neighbour in fierce bouts of internecine violence, came the retaliatory bomb blasts of 1993 and the name change to Mumbai in...

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