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The Sunset Club

The Sunset Club
  • Author(s): Khushwant Singh
  • Location(s): New Delhi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2009/10

Meet the members of the Sunset Club: Pandit Preetam Sharma; Nawab Barkatullah Baig and Sardar Boota Singh. Friends for over forty years; they are now in their eighties. And every evening; at the sunset hour; they sit together on...

The Tea Planter’s Bride (#2 India Tea Series)

The Tea Planter’s Bride (#2 India Tea Series)
  • Author(s): Janet MacLeod Trotter
  • Location(s): Assam, Punjab
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

When Sophie is suddenly orphaned at the age of six, she is taken from her parents’ tea plantation, the only home she has ever known, to be raised halfway across the world in Scotland. As the years pass and...

The Tea Planter’s Club

The Tea Planter’s Club
  • Author(s): Ann Bennett
  • Location(s): India, Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

From award-winning author Ann Bennett, comes a heart-breaking story of love and loss set in World War 2 Burma. In 1980, Edith Mayhew, proprietor of the Tea Planter’s Club in Calcutta, is preparing to sell up after years of...

THE TEA PLANTER’S DAUGHTER

THE TEA PLANTER’S DAUGHTER
  • Author(s): Janet MacLeod Trotter
  • Location(s): Assam, Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

Lush, green, fragrant: the Indian hills of Assam are full of promise. But eighteen-year-old Clarissa Belhaven is full of worry. The family tea plantation is suffering, and so is her father, still grieving over the untimely death of his...

The Time Traveller and the Tiger

The Time Traveller and the Tiger
  • Author(s): Tania Unsworth
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1940s

Face to face with the mightiest and most majestic predator in the jungle, Elsie is in awe of the tiger’s beauty. She’s on a mission to have the adventure of a lifetime, save the tiger and change the future....

The Tyre

The Tyre
  • Author(s): C J Dubois, E C Huntley
  • Location(s): Tamil Nadu
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Tyre tells the story of Ranji who barely manages to scrape a living gathering wood from the side of a busy road in Tamil Nadu, but accepts his lot uncomplainingly. His one and only concern is to feed...

The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters

The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters
  • Author(s): Balli Kaur Jaswal
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern Day

British-born Punjabi sisters Rajni, Jezmeen and Shirina have never been close but when their mother died, she had only one request: that they take a pilgrimage across India to carry out her final rites. While an extended family holiday...

The Vanishing of Ruth

The Vanishing of Ruth
  • Author(s): Janet MacLeod Trotter
  • Location(s): Central Asia, Europe, India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1970's and present day

1976: Ruth English and her lover Marcus, go missing in Afghanistan during an overland bus trip to Kathmandu. A generation later, Ruth’s niece Amber, haunted by the disintegration of her family, determines to get at the truth of their...

The Vibe

The Vibe
  • Author(s): Rae Stewart
  • Location(s): Goa
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Late 1990s

You go to Goa for sun, sea, sand and serious prawn curry. For cheap drugs, full moon parties and a time-warped hippy vibe. To find yourself, lose yourself, chill yourself right out. But murder? Police corruption? Obsessive revenge? Maybe...

The Village by the Sea

The Village by the Sea
  • Author(s): Anita Desai
  • Location(s): South East Asia, Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): timeless

The Village by the Sea is a survival story by the novelist Anita Desai. Set in a small fishing villlage near Bombay, Lila and Hari, aged 13 and 12, struggle to keep the family, including two young sisters, going...

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