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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...

The Virgins

The Virgins
  • Author(s): Siddharth Tripathi
  • Location(s): Varanasi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

How does one become a man? Three young friends are about to find out. With six unmarried sisters and a perennially drunk father, Pinku, a 19-year-old school dropout, has only one dream left: to marry the plump girl who’d...

The Wheel of Surya

The Wheel of Surya
  • Author(s): Jamila Gavin
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1947

A beautiful new edition of the first volume in the Surya Trilogy by Whitbread award-winning author Jamila Gavin. India, August 1947: Fleeing from their burnt-out village as civil war rages in the Punjab, Marvinder and Jaspal are separated from...

The White Shadow

The White Shadow
  • Author(s): Mona Verma
  • Location(s): Varanasi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

THE WHITE SHADOWS, the forlorn child widows in Banaras, Brinda and Debi, fight a valiant battle against the acrimonious oddities of the society they are ostracised from and their own desires. Sia and Uday visit Banaras, the most ancient...

The Wildings

The Wildings
  • Author(s): Nilanjana Roy, Prabha Mallya (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

Something is stirring in the heart of Old Delhi… Prowling, hunting and fighting amidst the crumbling ruins of one of Delhi’s oldest neighbourhoods, are the proud Wildings. These feral cats fear no one, go where they want and do...

The Youngest Suspect

The Youngest Suspect
  • Author(s): Peggy Mohan
  • Location(s): Gujarat
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

2002. The communal pogrom that indelibly altered the course of Gujarat. Set in the tense post-riots years, The Youngest Suspect is the story of Adil and, yes, of Gujarat. Adil and seventeen other young men are arrested in Ahmedabad,...

Things We Choose To Hide

Things We Choose To Hide
  • Author(s): Jane Riddell
  • Location(s): Florence, Delhi, Kashmir, Positano
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After ending a long-term relationship, Rachel Grosvenor goes to stay with friends in Florence, where she meets the attractive Sicilian businessman, Tommaso. Despite her friends’ concerns, she marries him weeks later, only to learn at the end of their...

Three men on motorcycles

Three men on motorcycles
  • Author(s): Ketan Joshi
  • Location(s): Ladakh
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modernn

‘Let’s go for a ride!’ This was the clarion call for Royal Enfield riders, but where should we go? Bharathi (the wife) – She Who Must Be Obeyed – sneers at our puny destination plans and orders us to...

Three Ways to Disappear

Three Ways to Disappear
  • Author(s): Katy Yocom
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Katy Yocom’s award-winning debut novel, Three Ways to Disappear, two families—one human, one tiger—follow parallel journeys in which the powerful drives to connect, love, and raise the next generation play out against the fact of loss and the...

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