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Grave Island

Grave Island
  • Author(s): Andrew Smyth
  • Location(s): East Africa, London, Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery

When Philip Hennessey is thrown out of army intelligence after evidence is fabricated against him, his ex-wife’s school friend asks him to investigate the sudden death of her father, who she thinks has been murdered. Philip soon discovers a...

Heat and Dust

Heat and Dust
  • Author(s): Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1920s, 1970s

A marvellously written book which looks at anglo-Indian relations, through the stories of two women. Set in colonial India of the 1920s and the independent India of the seventies, when the lure of India for disenfranchised youth was at...

If You Look for Me, I am Not Here

If You Look for Me, I am Not Here
  • Author(s): Sarayu Srivatsa
  • Location(s): Machilipatnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Post 1947

When Malika loses her longed-for daughter at birth, it is not the only loss in the family: the surviving twin -a boy – loses the love of his mother. He grows up needing to be the daughter his mother...

In the Mirror, a Peacock Danced

In the Mirror, a Peacock Danced
  • Author(s): Justine Bothwick
  • Location(s): Agra, Portsmouth
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s - 1950s

Agra, 1938: Eighteen-year-old Florence Hunt has grown up riding horses past the Taj Mahal and chasing peacocks through her backyard under the critical gaze of her father. Increasingly enamoured with his work on the booming railway, Florence yearns to...

India Becoming

India Becoming
  • Author(s): Akash Kapur
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1990s onwards

The book is divided into two parts. The first focuses on all the positives, the expanding middle classes, the proliferation of women in the workplace, the new businesses and construction and culture. The second is about the destruction and...

India Rising

India Rising
  • Author(s): Oliver Balch
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction

India is on the up. Historically derided as the lumbering elephant of Asia, this vast sub-continent has quickened its pace. The economy is booming. Tens of millions have been pulled out of poverty. Software and service companies abound. Millionaire...

India Treasures

India Treasures
  • Author(s): Gary Worthington
  • Location(s): Rajasthan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Various

India Treasures is a monumental work of fiction covering the sweep of Indian history. A search through palaces and a maze-like fortress for a Maharaja’s legendary hidden treasure weaves together stories of danger and romance, and of spiritual and...

India: A Portrait

India: A Portrait
  • Author(s): Patrick French
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 2000s and various

India takes the reader on an extraordinary journey, geographically from the remote Buddhist north to the tropical far south and socially from the new multi-millionaires to the many Indians still crushed by caste and poverty. This is the book...

India: The Road Ahead

India: The Road Ahead
  • Author(s): Mark Tully
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

In this book Tully writes chapters about Indian society, historical issues, the caste system, and uses his own observations to draw conclusions about where India might be heading.

It Must’ve Been Something He Wrote

It Must’ve Been Something He Wrote
  • Author(s): Nikita Deshpande
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When obsessive book-lover (ahem, book snob) Amruta – Ruta – Adarkar arrives in Delhi to work as a marketing executive for Parker-Hailey’s Publishing, she learns that the world of books is not as cozy as she’d imagined. Her eccentric...

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