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The Disappearance

The Disappearance
  • Author(s): Annabel Kantaria
  • Location(s): Cornwall, Greece, Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Dual timeline 1970s / 2017

In a family built on lies, who can you trust? Audrey Bailey will never forget the moment she met Ralph Templeton in the sweltering heat of a Bombay café. Her lonely life over, she was soon married with two...

The Dream Builders

The Dream Builders
  • Author(s): Oindrila Mukherjee
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After living in the US for years, Maneka Roy returns home to India to mourn the loss of her mother and finds herself in a new world. The booming, fictional city of Hrishipur where her father now lives is...

The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta

The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta
  • Author(s): Kushanava Choudhury
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

When Kushanava Choudhury arrived in New Jersey at the age of twelve, he had already migrated halfway around the world four times. After graduating from Princeton, he moved back to the world which his immigrant parents had abandoned, to...

The Far Cry

The Far Cry
  • Author(s): Emma Smith
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

This ‘savage comedy with a vicious streak’ (Elizabeth Bowen in “The Tatler” in 1949) describes the ‘second passage to India’ of ‘Teresa, whose elderly, willful father drags her off to spare her from the clutches of her mother…I can...

The Far Pavilions

The Far Pavilions
  • Author(s): M M Kaye
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

The Far Pavilions is the story of an English man – Ashton Pelham-Martyn – brought up as a Hindu. It is the story of his passionate, but dangerous love for Juli, an Indian princess. It is the story of...

The Fortune Teller of Kathmandu

The Fortune Teller of Kathmandu
  • Author(s): Ann Bennett
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar), Darjeeling, Kathmandu
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

A sweeping wartime tale of secrets and love, mystery and redemption, moving from the snow-capped Himalayas to the steamy heat of battle in the Burmese jungle. Perfect for fans of Dinah Jeffries, Victoria Hislop and Rosie Thomas. Hampshire, UK,...

The Foundling’s Daughter

The Foundling’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Ann Bennett
  • Location(s): India, Berkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930's/Present day

In 1934, Anna Foster, the young wife of a British Army Officer, privately harbouring pain and remorse, sets sail from Bombay on a fateful journey home, a letter from a charismatic stranger – orphanage superintendent, Reverend Ezra Burroughs –...

The Geranium Woman

The Geranium Woman
  • Author(s): Hazel Manuel
  • Location(s): India, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

While grieving the death of her father, the Parisian CEO of a corporate events company faces stark choices. Questioning what it means to ‘succeed’, she must decide whether to keep trying to build an ethically sound company, in keeping...

The Girl and the Tiger

The Girl and the Tiger
  • Author(s): Paul Rosolie
  • Location(s): Karnataka, Western Ghats
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

Isha is a girl who loves animals but struggles in the confines of school. When she is sent away to live with her grandparents on the Indian countryside, she discovers a sacred grove where a young Bengal tiger has...

The Girl from Lace Island

The Girl from Lace Island
  • Author(s): Joanna Rees
  • Location(s): Kerala
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1989 and 2016

Set on an island off Kerala… Some bonds will never break . . . 1989 When happy-go-lucky fifteen-year-old Leila is exiled from her exotic home on Lace Island to a cold English boarding school, it is just the beginning...

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