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The Margins

The Margins
  • Author(s): John Wigglesworth
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

They wanted to escape capitalism; instead, they created the perfect business. Only Ethan Hicks knows what happened up on the mountain, for everyone else is dead. Hundreds of them, hundreds of westerners, their bodies yet to be recovered from...

The Marriage Bureau for Rich People

The Marriage Bureau for Rich People
  • Author(s): Farahad Zama
  • Location(s): Andhra Pradesh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

What does somebody with a wealth of common sense do if retirement palls? Why, open a marriage bureau, of course. And soon Mr Ali, from beautiful Vizag in South India, sees his new business flourish as the indomitable Mrs...

The Marvelous Mirza Girls

The Marvelous Mirza Girls
  • Author(s): Sheba Karim
  • Location(s): New Delhi
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Gilmore Girls meets vibrant New Delhi in this thoughtful and hilarious new novel about a teen facing family expectations, relationship complications, and hidden secrets in a new country—sprinkled with Sheba Karim’s signature wit and steamy romance, and perfect for...

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
  • Author(s): Arundhati Roy
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on a journey of many years-the story spooling outwards from the cramped neighbourhoods of Old Delhi into the burgeoning new metropolis and beyond, to the Valley of Kashmir and the forests of...

The Monkey Bridge

The Monkey Bridge
  • Author(s): Fahimeh Amiri, Rafe Martin
  • Location(s): Varanasi
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): A long time ago

In the heart of Benares, on the banks of the river Ganges, stands a tree with fruit so perfect it can only be called treasure. How the tree got there is a tale of two rulers—one selfish and proud,...

The Moor’s Last Sigh

The Moor’s Last Sigh
  • Author(s): Salman Rushdie
  • Location(s): Kochi (Cochin), Mumbai (Bombay), Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1900 onwards

Moraes ‘Moor’ Zogoiby is the last in line of a crooked and fantastical dynasty of spice merchants and crime lords from Cochin. He is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As we travel with him on a route...

The Mumbai School for Murder

The Mumbai School for Murder
  • Author(s): Meeti Shroff-Shah
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(A Temple Hill Mystery Book 3) Discover a dazzlingly witty new whodunnit from India’s answer to Agatha Christie — CWA Dagger-shortlisted author Meeti Shroff-Shah! Mystery novelist Radhi Zaveri has a new job, teaching spoiled kids at Mumbai’s prestigious North...

The Namesake

The Namesake
  • Author(s): Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Location(s): India, Cambridge (Massachusetts)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

‘The Namesake’ is the story of a boy brought up Indian in America. ‘When her grandmother learned of Ashima’s pregnancy, she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family’s first sahib. And so Ashima and Ashoke have...

The Nidhi Kapoor Story

The Nidhi Kapoor Story
  • Author(s): Saurabh Garg
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Nidhi Kapoor is a very successful, second-generation film star. She is the daughter of the great Nishant Kapoor, who came out of nowhere to become the first real superstar in the 80s. The day before she is to start...

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...

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