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The Bombay Prince

The Bombay Prince
  • Author(s): Sujata Massey
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

(A Perveen Mistry Novel Book 3) November 1921. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales and future ruler of India, is arriving in Bombay to begin a fourmonth tour. The Indian subcontinent is chafing under British rule, and Bombay solicitor Perveen Mistry isn’t surprised when local unrest...

The Bridge Home

The Bridge Home
  • Author(s): Padma Viswanathan
  • Location(s): Chennai (Madras)
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Four determined homeless children make a life for themselves in Padma Venkatraman’s stirring middle-grade debut. Life is harsh on the teeming streets of Chennai, India, so when runaway sisters Viji and Rukku arrive, their prospects look grim. Very quickly,...

The Bureau of Second Chances

The Bureau of Second Chances
  • Author(s): Sheena Kalayil
  • Location(s): Kerala
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 21st Century

Is going back the only way to start again? After more than thirty years in London, recently-widowed Thomas Imbalil returns to India. He spends his first months in uncluttered isolation in his house overlooking the Arabian Sea, in a...

The Butcher of Benares

The Butcher of Benares
  • Author(s): Jakhar Mahendra
  • Location(s): Varanasi
  • Era(s): early 2000s

The shocking and brutal murder of a young American woman rips apart the peace of the ancient city of Benares. She is found to be a research scientist working with the Vatican Observatory, one of the oldest astronomical research...

The Christmas Holiday

The Christmas Holiday
  • Author(s): Maxine Morrey
  • Location(s): Florida, India, London, Malaysia (Malaya), Scotland
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As winter comes to London, journalist Mia Walker is desperately hoping for her big break as a travel writer, dreaming of exotic locations and sun-soaked beaches. When she’s invited to write a romantic travel piece that ends in a...

The Collaborator

The Collaborator
  • Author(s): Mirza Waheed
  • Location(s): Kashmir
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

This book shines a light on the often forgotten Kashmiri conflict through the eyes of a teenage boy who grows up in the remote village of Nowgam on the disputed Line of Control.

The Color of Our Sky

The Color of Our Sky
  • Author(s): Amita Trasi
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

In the spirit of Khaled Hosseini, Nadia Hashimi and Shilpi Somaya Gowda comes this powerful debut from a talented new voice a sweeping, emotional journey of two childhood friends in Mumbai, India, whose lives converge only to change forever...

The Dalai Lama’s Cat

The Dalai Lama’s Cat
  • Author(s): David Michie
  • Location(s): Dharamshala
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Not so much fly-on-the-wall as cat-on-the-sill, this is the warm-hearted tale of a small kitten rescued from the slums of New Delhi who finds herself in a beautiful sanctuary with sweeping views of the snow-capped Himalayas. In her exotic...

The Daughter from a Wishing Tree

The Daughter from a Wishing Tree
  • Author(s): Sudha Murty, Priyankar Gupta (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Did you know that the Trinity often turned to goddesses to defeat the asuras? Did you know that the first clone in the world was created by a woman? The women in Indian mythology might be fewer in number,...

The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu

The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu
  • Author(s): Tom Vater
  • Location(s): Nepal, India, Iran, Pakistan, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s, 1990s

A TENSE, FAST PACED AND KALEIDOSCOPIC PULP THRILLER, FOLLOWING THE LIVES OF TWO GENERATIONS OF DRIFTERS EMBROILED IN A SAGA OF SEX, DRUGS AND MURDER ON THE ROAD BETWEEN LONDON AND THE ROOF OF THE WORLD. In 1976, four...

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