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Varanasi

Varanasi
  • Author(s): Jae Watson
  • Location(s): Varanasi
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Following the break-up of her relationship and unsure of her life’s direction, Marianne leaves a London still reverberating from the terrorist bombings to travel for a year with the mysterious and beautiful Sara. However, deep into the heart of...

Victory City

Victory City
  • Author(s): Salman Rushdie
  • Location(s): South India
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1300s-1600s

In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa...

Water Days

Water Days
  • Author(s): Sundar Sarukkai
  • Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 1990s

THE DEATH OF A YOUNG WOMAN GALVANISES HER FAMILY AND NEIGHBOURHOOD INTO A FRENZY OF QUESTIONS AND UNLIKELY DISCOVERIES. At the cusp of the millennium, in a fast-changing neighbourhood in Bangalore, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi form a...

We Are Animals

We Are Animals
  • Author(s): Tim Ewins
  • Location(s): Goa, World
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present looking back

A cow looks out to sea, dreaming of a life that involves grass. Jan is also looking out to sea. He’s in Goa, dreaming of the passport-thief who stole his heart (and his passport) forty-six years ago. Back then,...

We That Are Young

We That Are Young
  • Author(s): Preti Taneja
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Jivan Singh, the bastard scion of the Bapuji family, returns to his childhood home after a long absence – only to witness the unexpected resignation of the ageing Devraj Bapuji from the vast corporation he founded, Company India. On...

What the Body Remembers

What the Body Remembers
  • Author(s): Shauna Singh Baldwin
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1947

Out of the rich culture of India and the brutal drama of the 1947 Partition comes this lush and eloquent debut novel about two women married to the same man. Roop is a young girl whose mother has died...

What the Body Remembers

What the Body Remembers
  • Author(s): Shauna Singh Baldwin
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Out of the rich culture of India and the brutal drama of the 1947 Partition comes this lush and eloquent debut novel about two women married to the same man. Roop is a young girl whose mother has died...

What Will People Think?

What Will People Think?
  • Author(s): Vedashree Khambete-Sharma
  • Location(s): India, Vile Parle
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ila has her pride. And she’s about to discover just how much trouble that can be… It’s 1976 and in the Vile Parle suburb of Mumbai, bastion of the Maharashtrian middle-class, Ila Bendre’s mother is determined to get her...

When the Mountains Roared

When the Mountains Roared
  • Author(s): Jess Butterworth
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): timeless

I thought we’d live here forever … but then, I thought Mum would be here forever too. When Ruby’s dad uproots her from Australia to set up a hotel in the mountains of India, Ruby is devastated. Not only...

YOU BENEATH YOUR SKIN

YOU BENEATH YOUR SKIN
  • Author(s): Damyanti Biswas
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

LIES. AMBITION. FAMILY. It’s a dark, smog-choked new Delhi winter. Indian American single mother Anjali Morgan juggles her job as a psychiatrist with caring for her autistic teenage son. She is in a long-standing affair with ambitious police commissioner...

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