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Death in the East

Death in the East
  • Author(s): Abir Mukherjee
  • Location(s): Assam, Kolkata (Calcutta), London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

Calcutta police detective Captain Sam Wyndham and his quick-witted Indian Sergeant, Surrender-not Banerjee, are back for another rip-roaring adventure set in 1920s India. 1905, London. As a young constable, Sam Wyndham is on his usual East London beat when...

Teatime for the Firefly

Teatime for the Firefly
  • Author(s): Shona Patel
  • Location(s): Assam
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1940s

Assam comes to life through Layla’s eyes and when she moves to Aynakhal, and excellently brings to life the colonial society of the tea plantations. Atmospheric and a beautiful portrayal of what love means.

The Secret Children

The Secret Children
  • Author(s): Alison McQueen
  • Location(s): Assam
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

Assam, 1925. James MacDonald is one of the sons of empire who has no yearning for England. Running a tea plantation, he loves India and is reluctant to choose a British bride from the eager crowds sent over. But...

Keeping In Touch

Keeping In Touch
  • Author(s): Anjali Jospeh
  • Location(s): Assam, Oxford
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): present

Meet Ved, a British investor heading back to his Indian roots with a business proposition: a lightbulb called the Everlasting Lucifer. Meet Keteki, an art curator with a nomadic lifestyle, on her way home to Assam. In Heathrow airport,...

The Tea Planter’s Bride (#2 India Tea Series)

The Tea Planter’s Bride (#2 India Tea Series)
  • Author(s): Janet MacLeod Trotter
  • Location(s): Assam, Punjab
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

When Sophie is suddenly orphaned at the age of six, she is taken from her parents’ tea plantation, the only home she has ever known, to be raised halfway across the world in Scotland. As the years pass and...

THE TEA PLANTER’S DAUGHTER

THE TEA PLANTER’S DAUGHTER
  • Author(s): Janet MacLeod Trotter
  • Location(s): Assam, Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

Lush, green, fragrant: the Indian hills of Assam are full of promise. But eighteen-year-old Clarissa Belhaven is full of worry. The family tea plantation is suffering, and so is her father, still grieving over the untimely death of his...

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