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Harp

Harp
  • Author(s): Nidhi Dalmia
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Set in the context of the zeitgeist and idealism of the late sixties, Harp is about love, longing and coming of age. The three main protagonists—a young man travelling in a Europe-less-travelled including the Iron Curtain, a young woman...

Inga

Inga
  • Author(s): Poile Sengupta
  • Location(s): Delhi, Kerala
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

If anyone could transform laughter to light, she did, Inga. Radiance upon radiance of laughter,chime upon bell chime of light sparkled and shone everywhere. It was as if the sky showered tiny star grains that scattered, glinting, on the...

Lahore

Lahore
  • Author(s): Manreet Sodhi Someshwar
  • Location(s): Delhi, Lahore
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

Book 1 of The Partition Trilogy In the months leading up to Independence, in Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhbhai Patel are engaged in deliberations with British Viceroy Dickie Mountbatten over the fate of the country. In Lahore, Sepoy Malik...

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...

Sideways on a Scooter

Sideways on a Scooter
  • Author(s): Miranda Kennedy
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

When twentysomething reporter Miranda Kennedy leaves her job in New York City and travels to India with no employment prospects, she longs to immerse herself in the turmoil and excitement of a rapidly developing country. What she quickly learns...

Singles and Spice

Singles and Spice
  • Author(s): Elaine Spires
  • Location(s): Delhi, Rajasthan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A singles’ holiday to India’s Golden Triangle – Taj Mahal, the pink city of Jaipur, tiger-spotting in Ranthambore, the noisy, crowded streets of Delhi – all go to make up a trip that is hot, humid and spicy. Eve...

The Peacock Spring

The Peacock Spring
  • Author(s): Rumer Godden
  • Location(s): India, Delhi
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Raj era

Una and her younger sister Hal have been abruptly summoned to live in New Delhi by their diplomat father Sir Edward Gwithiam. From the first meeting with their new tutor and companion, the beautiful Eurasian Alix Lamont, Una senses...

Things We Choose To Hide

Things We Choose To Hide
  • Author(s): Jane Riddell
  • Location(s): Florence, Delhi, Kashmir, Positano
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After ending a long-term relationship, Rachel Grosvenor goes to stay with friends in Florence, where she meets the attractive Sicilian businessman, Tommaso. Despite her friends’ concerns, she marries him weeks later, only to learn at the end of their...

We That Are Young

We That Are Young
  • Author(s): Preti Taneja
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Jivan Singh, the bastard scion of the Bapuji family, returns to his childhood home after a long absence – only to witness the unexpected resignation of the ageing Devraj Bapuji from the vast corporation he founded, Company India. On...

YOU BENEATH YOUR SKIN

YOU BENEATH YOUR SKIN
  • Author(s): Damyanti Biswas
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

LIES. AMBITION. FAMILY. It’s a dark, smog-choked new Delhi winter. Indian American single mother Anjali Morgan juggles her job as a psychiatrist with caring for her autistic teenage son. She is in a long-standing affair with ambitious police commissioner...

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