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The Girl Who Came Out of the Woods

The Girl Who Came Out of the Woods
  • Author(s): Emily Barr
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

Arty has always lived in the Clearing, a commune hidden in the forests of south India. But her happy life, separate from the rest of the world, is shattered after a terrible event. For the first time, Arty must...

The Goddess and the Thief

The Goddess and the Thief
  • Author(s): Essie Fox
  • Location(s): India, Windsor
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Gothic
  • Era(s): 19th Century

A beguiling novel of Victorian theft and obsession from the bestselling author of THE SOMNAMBULIST. Uprooted from her home in India, Alice is raised by her aunt, a spiritualist medium in Windsor. When the mysterious Mr Tilsbury enters their...

The Great Padma

The Great Padma
  • Author(s): Kazi Ashraf
  • Location(s): West Bengal
  • Genre(s): Historical, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Current

The first comprehensive book on the River Padma, considered the last leg of the Ganges, with a rich collection of new photographs and maps. ‘The Great Padma’ defines the life and history of the Bengal Delta, the largest delta...

The Guide

The Guide
  • Author(s): R K Narayan
  • Location(s): South India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Raju’s first stop after his release from prison is the barber’s shop Then he decides to take refuge in an abandoned temple. Raju used to be India’s most corrupt tourist guide – but now a peasant mistakes him for...

The Hill Station

The Hill Station
  • Author(s): J G Farrell
  • Location(s): Shimla (Simla)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century

A classic novel by a Booker Prize-winning author To the cool of the Simla hills comes a reluctant Dr McNab, with his wife and young niece. For Emily, romance is in the air. For the mysterious Mrs Forester, there...

The House of Blue Mangoes

The House of Blue Mangoes
  • Author(s): David Davidar
  • Location(s): South India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1899 - 1945

In 1899, in the south Indian village of Chevathar, Solomon Dorai is contemplating the imminent destruction of his world and everything he holds dear. As the thalaivar, or headman, of Chevathar, he seeks to preserve the village from both...

The House of Wives

The House of Wives
  • Author(s): Simon Choa-Johnston
  • Location(s): Hong Kong, Kolkata (Calcutta)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1850s

Calcutta 1841. Emanuel an ambitious Jewish merchant wants to make his fortune by trading opium with China. Over the ensuing decades Emanuel s success will be determined by two remarkable women Semah his dutiful first wife in Calcutta whose...

The Hundred-Foot Journey

The Hundred-Foot Journey
  • Author(s): Richard C Morais
  • Location(s): Paris, French Alps, Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

“Slumdog Millionaire meets Ratatouille” (The New York Times Book Review) in this “delicious fairytale-like read” (NPR) about family, nationality, and the mysteries of good taste. Born above his grandfather’s modest restaurant in Mumbai, Hassan Haji first experienced life through...

The Indian Bride

The Indian Bride
  • Author(s): Karin Fossum, Charlotte Barslund (translator)
  • Location(s): India, Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, In Translation
  • Era(s): early 2000s

When perpetual bachelor Gunder Jomann goes to India for two weeks and comes home married, the town of Elvestad is stunned. On the day the Indian bride is supposed to arrive, the battered body of a woman is found...

The Inheritance of Loss

The Inheritance of Loss
  • Author(s): Kiran Desai
  • Location(s): West Bengal, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The Inheritance of Loss is Kiran Desai’s extraordinary Man Booker Prize winning novel. High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion, home to three people, each dreaming of another time. The judge, broken by a world too messy for...

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