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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...

Night Theatre

Night Theatre
  • Author(s): Vikram Paralkar
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As dusk approaches, a former surgeon goes about closing up his dilapidated clinic in rural India. His day, like all his days, has been long and hard. His medical supplies arrive late if at all, the electrics in the...

Of Serpent Born

Of Serpent Born
  • Author(s): Jacqueline Zacharias
  • Location(s): York, Kerala
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

Anitha has just turned sixteen. She is intelligent and studious, but she feels like a misfit amongst her peers at school and in her own extended family. Having lost her father tragically when she was a baby, she still...

Off the Beaten Track: My Crazy Year in Asia

Off the Beaten Track: My Crazy Year in Asia
  • Author(s): Frank Kusy
  • Location(s): India, Australia, London, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Humour
  • Era(s): 1980s

One man. Four continents. And a love-crazed travel writer going off the beaten track… In 1989, Frank Kusy found himself the unwilling love pawn of a booted and bodiced Boadicea on a Harley low rider. Then he fell in...

Oleander Girl

Oleander Girl
  • Author(s): Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Although she was orphaned at birth, Korobi Roy has enjoyed a privileged childhood with her adoring grandparents, spending her first seventeen years in a beautiful, crumbling old mansion in Kolkata, India. But she is troubled by the silence that...

One Small Voice

One Small Voice
  • Author(s): Santanu Bhattacharya
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

India, 1992. The country is ablaze with riots. In Lucknow, ten-year-old Shubhankar witnesses a terrible act of mob violence that will alter the course of his life: one to which his family turn a blind eye. As he approaches...

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