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- Location(s): Darjeeling, Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In the misty mountains of Darjeeling, a landslide entraps the guests and staff of a dilapidated hotel. Cooped up inside, two men exchange lingering glances. For carefree Neville, this is one of many exhilarating encounters, stolen kisses in stairways...
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
A motherless girl living with her grandmother and her uncle’s family in their bungalow in 1960s Bombay inadvertently unleashes a ghost, forcing the family to confront the shocking truth behind a drowning death that occurred there years earlier.
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ullis went to the bathroom and carefully unfolded the business card and placed it on the sink. Then he rolled up a note and snorted the last of his wife’s ashes. Following the death of his wife, Dominic Ullis...
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
A novel in two acts – told eighteen years apart – gives voice to both mother (Ayesha) and daughter (Mira) after an unplanned teen pregnancy led Ayesha to place Mira up for adoption. Seventeen-year-old Mira Fuller-Jensen was adopted by...
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1949/50
Bombay, New Year’s Eve, 1949 As India celebrates the arrival of a momentous new decade, Inspector Persis Wadia stands vigil in the basement of Malabar House, home to the city’s most unwanted unit of police officers. Six months after...
Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): N/A
All of Mumbai’s memories and castaway possessions come to die at the Deonar garbage mountains. And among these vast, teetering piles of discarded things – medical waste, rotten food, old clothes, broken glass and twisted metal – a small,...
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1991
A unique and unforgettable cast of characters shines through eight interconnected stories, influenced by true incidents from the 1990s to 2000s Mumbai. As the Indian economy opens up in 1991, Bombay (now Mumbai) – India’s financial hub, witnesses a...
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
Under the editorship of Altaf Tyewala. Following the Bombay Communal Riots of 1992 which saw neighbour pitched against neighbour in fierce bouts of internecine violence, came the retaliatory bomb blasts of 1993 and the name change to Mumbai in...
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Historical
- Era(s): Late 19th century
In 19th century Bombay, Captain Jim Agnihotri channels his idol, Sherlock Holmes, in Nev March’s Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award-winning debut. In 1892, Bombay is the centre of British India. Nearby, Captain Jim Agnihotri lies...
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
BOOKS. BOMBAY. ROMANCE. When her estranged father passes away, Fiza, fresh out of college, discovers that he has left her a tidy sum in the hope that she will open a bookshop… Overnight, Fiza’s placid life is thrown into...
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