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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...

Munnu: A Boy From Kashmir

Munnu: A Boy From Kashmir
  • Author(s): Malik Sajad
  • Location(s): Kashmir
  • Genre(s): Graphic Novel, Coming of Age
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

A beautifully drawn graphic novel that illuminates the conflicted land of Kashmir, through a young boy’s childhood. Seven-year-old Munnu is growing up in Indian-administered Kashmir. Life revolves around his family: Mama, Papa, sister Shahnaz, brothers Adil and Akhtar and,...

Murder in Old Bombay

Murder in Old Bombay
  • Author(s): Nev March
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 19th century

In 19th century Bombay, Captain Jim Agnihotri channels his idol, Sherlock Holmes, in Nev March’s Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award-winning debut. In 1892, Bombay is the centre of British India. Nearby, Captain Jim Agnihotri lies...

Murder Under a Red Moon

Murder Under a Red Moon
  • Author(s): Harini Nagendra
  • Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru)
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

When new bride Kaveri Murthy reluctantly agrees to investigate a minor crime during the blood moon eclipse to please her domineering mother-in-law, she doesn’t expect to stumble upon a murder – again. With anti-British sentiments on the rise, a...

My Life in 37 Therapies

My Life in 37 Therapies
  • Author(s): Kay Hutchison
  • Location(s): Egypt, Europe, Kerala, Philadelphia
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Present Day

Kay Hutchison had it all – the high-flying media career, a loving husband, the 5 star lifestyle but one day she realised she was empty and unhappy. Holidaying on the French Riviera she finally understood the things she had...

My Past is a Foreign Country

My Past is a Foreign Country
  • Author(s): Zeba Talkhani
  • Location(s): Germany, India, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Touching on often taboo subjects . . . Talkhani’s story of grit is a portrait of a young woman who refused to let others define her.’ ELLE 28-year-old Zeba Talkhani charts her experiences growing up in Saudi Arabia amid...

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