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Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors

Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors
  • Author(s): Aravind Jayan
  • Location(s): Kerala
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporaryu

It is a day of triumph for Appa and Amma, who have driven home a shiny new Honda Civic to show off to their neighbours in Blue Hills housing colony. But their eldest son Sreenath is behaving strangely, and...

The Bangalore Detectives Club

The Bangalore Detectives Club
  • Author(s): Harini Nagendra
  • Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru)
  • Genre(s): Cosy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Solving crimes isn’t easy. Add a jealous mother-in-law and having to wear a flowing sari into the mix, and you’ve got a problem. When clever, headstrong Kaveri moves to Bangalore to marry doctor Ramu, she’s resigned herself to a...

The Bridge Home

The Bridge Home
  • Author(s): Padma Viswanathan
  • Location(s): Chennai (Madras)
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Four determined homeless children make a life for themselves in Padma Venkatraman’s stirring middle-grade debut. Life is harsh on the teeming streets of Chennai, India, so when runaway sisters Viji and Rukku arrive, their prospects look grim. Very quickly,...

The Bureau of Second Chances

The Bureau of Second Chances
  • Author(s): Sheena Kalayil
  • Location(s): Kerala
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 21st Century

Is going back the only way to start again? After more than thirty years in London, recently-widowed Thomas Imbalil returns to India. He spends his first months in uncluttered isolation in his house overlooking the Arabian Sea, in a...

The Covenant of Water

The Covenant of Water
  • Author(s): Abraham Verghese
  • Location(s): Kerala, South India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1900-1977

‘One of the best books I’ve read in my entire life. It’s epic. It’s transportive . . . It was unputdownable!’ Oprah Winfrey, OprahDaily.com Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water follows a family in southern...

The Girl and the Tiger

The Girl and the Tiger
  • Author(s): Paul Rosolie
  • Location(s): Karnataka, Western Ghats
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

Isha is a girl who loves animals but struggles in the confines of school. When she is sent away to live with her grandparents on the Indian countryside, she discovers a sacred grove where a young Bengal tiger has...

The Girl from Lace Island

The Girl from Lace Island
  • Author(s): Joanna Rees
  • Location(s): Kerala
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1989 and 2016

Set on an island off Kerala… Some bonds will never break . . . 1989 When happy-go-lucky fifteen-year-old Leila is exiled from her exotic home on Lace Island to a cold English boarding school, it is just the beginning...

The Girl from Trichy

The Girl from Trichy
  • Author(s): Gita V Reddy
  • Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“Appa enna solluvaro? What will Appa say?” Malathi comes from a conservative family. When she takes up a job in Bengaluru, her father gives her a list of conditions. Falling in love is definitely not among them! Aditya is...

The Guide

The Guide
  • Author(s): R K Narayan
  • Location(s): South India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Raju’s first stop after his release from prison is the barber’s shop Then he decides to take refuge in an abandoned temple. Raju used to be India’s most corrupt tourist guide – but now a peasant mistakes him for...

The House of Blue Mangoes

The House of Blue Mangoes
  • Author(s): David Davidar
  • Location(s): South India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1899 - 1945

In 1899, in the south Indian village of Chevathar, Solomon Dorai is contemplating the imminent destruction of his world and everything he holds dear. As the thalaivar, or headman, of Chevathar, he seeks to preserve the village from both...

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