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- Location(s): Kerala
- Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
Cassia can’t wait for her first visit to India – Bollywood glamour, new friends to admire her uber-cool street-dance moves…. But as she steps into real Indian life, NOTHING is as she expected… Cass is with her mum in...
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
- Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In the original this is These Foolish Things (which also features on the TF site) A very funny book about a retirement home in Bangalore, peopled by quirky British pensioners.
- Location(s): Kottayam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
This is the story of Rahel and Estha, twins growing up among the banana vats and peppercorns of their blind grandmother’s factory, and amid scenes of political turbulence in Kerala. Armed only with the innocence of youth, they fashion...
- Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru)
- Genre(s): Fiction
Two families. One city. Too many secrets Anand is a Bangalore success story: successful, well-married, rich. At least, that’s how he appears. But if his little factory is to grow, he needs land and money and, in the New...
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
- Location(s): Chennai (Madras)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Seventeen-year-old Unni has done something terrible. The only clue to his actions lies in a comic strip he has drawn, which has fallen into the hands of his father Ousep – a nocturnal anarchist with a wife who is...
- Location(s): Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Travancore (until 1947)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
In the heat and the dust of the Indian south, the last hangman of the former princely state of Travancore commits his life to paper. In seven notebooks he remembers the people he has killed, calmly recalling the final...
- Location(s): Chennai (Madras), London
- Era(s): 1960s onwards
August, 1968: Babo Patel arrives in London from Madras, with curly hair, jhill mill teeth and dreams of becoming a success. When he meets the beautiful, auburn-haired Siân Jones, he falls in love instantly. She, like him, is in...
- Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
This is the same book as The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. A very funny book about a retirement home in Bangalore, peopled by quirky British pensioners.