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Queen Of Dreams

Queen Of Dreams
  • Author(s): Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  • Location(s): California, India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In QUEEN OF DREAMS, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni once more spins a fresh, spellbinding story of transformation. Rakhi, a young artist and divorced mother living in Berkeley, California, is struggling to keep her footing, with her family and her world...

Raj

Raj
  • Author(s): Gita Mehta
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

Born a princess of the Royal Household of Balmer, Jaya Singh is torn between the traditions of her upbringing and the ideals of the Mahatma, as India draws inexorably towards the bloody struggle for independence from the British Raj....

Rama and Sita: The Story of Diwali

Rama and Sita: The Story of Diwali
  • Author(s): Malachy Doyle, Christopher Corr (illustrator)
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

The perfect picture book to introduce children to Rama and Sita and the story of Diwali, with text by award-winning author Malachy Doyle and stunning, colourful illustrations from Christopher Corr. Rama and Sita live happily in the forest –...

Rani & Sukh

Rani & Sukh
  • Author(s): Bali Rai
  • Location(s): Punjab, Leicester
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s/2004

A powerful and gripping novel that sweeps the reader from modern-day Britain to the Punjab in the 1960s and back again in a ceaseless cycle of tragedy and conflict. 1950s Punjab – a secret affair goes terribly wrong and...

Red Maize

Red Maize
  • Author(s): Danesh Rana
  • Location(s): India, Jammu
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In the village of Morha Madana, overlooking the Chenab, the joys of harvesting ripe maize get sullied when, one summer,gun-toting militants of the tanzeem start swarming the hills. As the militants fight in the name of azadi, the villagerslives...

Revolution 2020: Love, Corruption, Ambition

Revolution 2020: Love, Corruption, Ambition
  • Author(s): Chetan Bhagat
  • Location(s): Varanasi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Once upon a time, in small-town India, there lived two intelligent boys. One wanted to use his intelligence to make money. One wanted to use his intelligence to create a revolution. The problem was, they both loved the same...

River of Gods

River of Gods
  • Author(s): Ian McDonald
  • Location(s): Varanasi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2047

As Mother India approaches her centenary, nine people are going about their business a gangster, a cop, his wife, a politician, a stand-up comic, a set designer, a journalist, a scientist, and a dropout. And so is Aj the...

Robert Baden-Powell: A Biography – foreword by Bear Grylls OBE

Robert Baden-Powell: A Biography – foreword by Bear Grylls OBE
  • Author(s): Lorraine Gibson
  • Location(s): Africa, Afghanistan, India, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Biography
  • Era(s): 1857 to present day

Robert Baden-Powell was Britain’s first celebrity. A conflicted character – militarist and pacifist, macho man and drag artist, elitist and socialist – he was one of the 20th century’s most influential and, latterly, controversial Englishmen, finding fame not once,...

Romantic Guerrilla

Romantic Guerrilla
  • Author(s): D S Kumar
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A bad-boy entrepreneur, Subash Bodhi runs the show in style at Guerrilla, an energy drink startup. He gets into a power struggle with a billionaire investor and heir of a family-run business group. As the power struggle escalates, he...

Run And Hide

Run And Hide
  • Author(s): Pankaj Mishra
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Arun knows there is only way out of this small railway town. He is about to enrol in the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, determined to make something of himself. But once there, he meets two friends who are...

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