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The Night Diary

The Night Diary
  • Author(s): Veera Hiranandani
  • Location(s): India, Pakistan
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1947, India's Partition

In the vein of Inside Out and Back Again and The War That Saved My Life comes a poignant, personal, and hopeful tale of India’s partition, and of one girl’s journey to find a new home in a divided...

The Orphans

The Orphans
  • Author(s): Annemarie Neary
  • Location(s): Goa, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Eight-year-old Jess and her little brother were playing at the water’s edge when their parents vanished. For hours the children held hands and waited for them to return. But nobody ever came back. Years later, Jess has become a...

The Other Side of the World

The Other Side of the World
  • Author(s): Stephanie Bishop
  • Location(s): Australia, Cambridge, India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Cambridge 1963. Charlotte struggles to reconnect with the woman she was before children, and to find the time and energy to paint. Her husband, Henry, cannot face the thought of another English winter. A brochure slipped through the letterbox...

The Pagoda Tree

The Pagoda Tree
  • Author(s): Claire Scobie
  • Location(s): Chennai (Madras), Thanjavur (Tanjore)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Tamil Nadu, southern India, 1765. Maya plays among the towering granite temples in the ancient city of Tanjore. Like her mother before her, she is destined to become a devadasi, a dancer for the temple. On the day of...

The Palace of Illusions

The Palace of Illusions
  • Author(s): Chitra Divakaruni
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction

The Palace of Illusions takes us back to a time that is half-history, half-myth, and wholly magical; narrated by Panchaali, the wife of the five Pandava brothers, we are — finally — given a woman’s take on the timeless tale...

The Pallampur Predicament

The Pallampur Predicament
  • Author(s): Brian Stoddart
  • Location(s): Chennai (Madras)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s India

The murder of a local rajah sees Superintendent Chris Le Fanu and his assistant, Muhammad Habubullah encounter local intrigue as well as British secret agents as they attempt to find the culprits. As they do so, they find the...

The Passage to India

The Passage to India
  • Author(s): Allan Mallinson
  • Location(s): Kodagu (Coorg)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1830s

It is 1831, riots and rebellions are widespread . . . In England, the new government is facing protests against the attempts of the Tory-dominated House of Lords to thwart the passing of the Reform Bill. In India, relations...

The Patient Assassin

The Patient Assassin
  • Author(s): Anita Anand
  • Location(s): Amritsar, World
  • Genre(s): Biography, Historical
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century

Anita Anand tells the remarkable story of one Indian’s twenty-year quest for revenge, taking him around the world in search of those he held responsible for the Amritsar massacre of 1919, which cost the lives of hundreds. When Sir...

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...

The Perfumist of Paris

The Perfumist of Paris
  • Author(s): Alka Joshi
  • Location(s): Agra, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

(The Jaipur Trilogy Book 3) From the author of Reese’s Book Club Pick The Henna Artist, the final chapter in Alka Joshi’s New York Times bestselling Jaipur trilogy takes readers to 1970s Paris, where Radha’s budding career as a...

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