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Singles and Spice

Singles and Spice
  • Author(s): Elaine Spires
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A singles’ holiday to India’s Golden Triangle – Taj Mahal, the pink city of Jaipur, tiger-spotting in Ranthambore, the noisy, crowded streets of Delhi – all go to make up a trip that is hot, humid and spicy. Eve...

The Kama Sutra Diaries

The Kama Sutra Diaries
  • Author(s): Sally Howard
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Sally Howard, a self-confessed child of the Western Sexual Revolution, sets out on a sexploration through modern India by train, plane and auto-rickshaw. From the heat of anti-rape protest on the streets of New Delhi to the cool hills...

The Love Detective

The Love Detective
  • Author(s): Alexandra Potter
  • Location(s): Goa, India
  • Era(s): Modern

‘In a way, I’m a bit of a love detective. Because what’s a greater mystery than love?’ Meet Ruby Miller. A writer who makes happy-ever-afters happen. Until she discovers her fiance is a lying cheat and loses her faith...

The Recession Groom

The Recession Groom
  • Author(s): Vani
  • Location(s): India, Toronto
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Parshuraman Joshi, 27, handsome, Hindu-Brahmin, IT Professional, settled in Canada, earns a five-figure Canadian dollar salary ! These are credentials that would make any young man hot on the Indian wedding market, so it’s no wonder that Parshuraman’s family...

A Cut-Like Wound

A Cut-Like Wound
  • Author(s): Anita Nair
  • Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s the first day of Ramadan in heat-soaked Bangalore. A young man begins to dress: makeup, a sari and expensive pearl earrings. He is transformed into Bhuvana. She is a hijra, a transgender seeking love in the bazaars of...

A Division of the Spoils (Raj Quartet 4)

A Division of the Spoils (Raj Quartet 4)
  • Author(s): Paul Scott
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s onwards

This is the fourth and final book in the Raj Quartet. Once again, the cast of interesting characters is huge: the atmosphere of the time is brilliantly captured and the variety of scenes/plots is well mastered. The book is...

A Handful of Rice

A Handful of Rice
  • Author(s): Kamala Markandaya
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

“Hey you!” he wanted to shout, but he could not: you had to get in the habit of it first, he thought, and you didn’t acquire the habit until you were on the up-and-up, not down and out like...

A Lovesong for India

A Lovesong for India
  • Author(s): Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  • Location(s): Delhi, India
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

Don’t be deceived by the title of this collection of stories. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala – the only writer to have won both the Booker and two Oscars – is a post-Raj realist, not a romantic. Not for the first...

A Madras Miasma

A Madras Miasma
  • Author(s): Brian Stoddart
  • Location(s): Chennai (Madras)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

Madras in the 1920s. The British are slowly losing the grip on the subcontinent. The end of the colonial enterprise is in sight and the city on India’s east coast is teeming with intrigue. A grisly murder takes place...

A Passage to India

A Passage to India
  • Author(s): E M Forster
  • Location(s): Patna (Bankipur)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

Said to be based on Bankipur, a suburb of Patna. When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced ‘Anglo-Indian’ community. Determined to...

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