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The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay

The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay
  • Author(s): Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Turn of 21st Century

WHEN PHOTOGRAPHER KARAN SETH COMES TO BOMBAY INTENT ON IMMORTALIZING A CITY CHARGED BY CELEBRITY AND SENSATION, HE IS INSTANTLY DRAWN IN BY ITS ALLURE AND CRUELTY. ALONG THE WAY, HE DISCOVERS UNLIKELY ALLIES: SAMAR, AN ECCENTRIC PIANIST; ZAIRA,...

The Moor’s Last Sigh

The Moor’s Last Sigh
  • Author(s): Salman Rushdie
  • Location(s): Kochi (Cochin), Mumbai (Bombay), Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1900 onwards

Moraes ‘Moor’ Zogoiby is the last in line of a crooked and fantastical dynasty of spice merchants and crime lords from Cochin. He is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As we travel with him on a route...

The Mumbai School for Murder

The Mumbai School for Murder
  • Author(s): Meeti Shroff-Shah
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(A Temple Hill Mystery Book 3) Discover a dazzlingly witty new whodunnit from India’s answer to Agatha Christie — CWA Dagger-shortlisted author Meeti Shroff-Shah! Mystery novelist Radhi Zaveri has a new job, teaching spoiled kids at Mumbai’s prestigious North...

The Nidhi Kapoor Story

The Nidhi Kapoor Story
  • Author(s): Saurabh Garg
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Nidhi Kapoor is a very successful, second-generation film star. She is the daughter of the great Nishant Kapoor, who came out of nowhere to become the first real superstar in the 80s. The day before she is to start...

The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown

The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown
  • Author(s): Vaseem Khan
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For centuries the Koh-i-Noor diamond has set man against man and king against king. Now part of the British Crown Jewels, the priceless gem is a prize that many have killed to possess. So when the Crown Jewels go...

The Rules of Arrangement

The Rules of Arrangement
  • Author(s): Anisha Bhatia
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Current

Zoya Sahni has a great education, a fulfilling job and a loving family (for the most part). But she is not the perfect Indian girl. She’s overweight, spunky and dark-skinned in a world that prizes the slim, obedient and...

The Secret of More

The Secret of More
  • Author(s): Tejaswini Apte-Rahm
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Into the beating heart of Bombay, a city that spins cotton into gold, a young man, Tatya, arrives to make a living. Ambitious and hard-working, he begins to make a name for himself in the city’s famed textile market....

The Shadows of Men

The Shadows of Men
  • Author(s): Abir Mukherjee
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay), Kolkata (Calcutta)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

Wyndham and Banerjee Book 5   Calcutta, 1923. When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his home, the city is on the brink of all-out religious war. Can officers of the Imperial Police Force, Captain Sam Wyndham and...

The Shawl of Midnight

The Shawl of Midnight
  • Author(s): Jacqueline St Joan
  • Location(s): Kashmir, Mumbai (Bombay), Pakistan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
  • Era(s): 1996-2015

All the women in Nafeesa’s family have been imprisoned, assassinated, scarred or exiled. Yes, every single one. Is it any wonder, then, that the surviving men in her family have kept those disturbing facts from her? But now Nafeesa...

The Song of Kahunsha

The Song of Kahunsha
  • Author(s): Anosh Irani
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1993

From one of Canada’s brightest literary stars – a startling and beautiful novel about abandonment, poverty, and violence, as well as loyalty, love, and hope, as seen through the eyes of a young homeless boy. It is 1993 and...

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