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- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
Eden Gardens, Calcutta, the 1940s. In a ramshackle house, streets away from the grand colonial mansions of the British, live Maisy, her Mam and their ayah, Pushpa. Whiskey-fuelled and poverty-stricken, Mam entertains officers in the night – a disgrace...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1950
A novel set in Calcutta, shortly after the Partition of India. Along with other refugees from what is now Pakistan, a young woman makes her way to the teeming city of Calcutta and tries to adjust to a new...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Calcutta, 1967. Unnoticed by his family, Supratik has become dangerously involved in extremist political activism. Compelled by an idealistic desire to change his life and the world around him, all he leaves behind before disappearing is this note ....
Calcutta: Two Years in the City
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2009-2011
In 1999, Amit Chaudhuri moved back to Calcutta, the city in which he was born. It was a place he had loved in his youth and the place he had made his name writing about. But upon his return...
- Location(s): Darjeeling, India
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1800s
No 4 in the Lady Julia Grey series. The honeymoon of Lady Julia Grey and investigator Nicholas Brisbane is interrupted by the arrival of Julia’s sister, Portia, and brother, Plum. Jane, Portia’s former lover is in India, preganant and...
- 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...
- Location(s): Mayapur
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Most books on India written by foreigners share one trait: the authors visit India, then leave. Sorensen moved in, set up house, became a resident in a village on the banks of the Ganges river, and eventually called India...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), Penzance
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A café in Cornwall, October 2014. A frightening phone call to ROSE from her ex-husband Tom. ELLIE, their daughter, has not returned from her gap year. Is living in India helping the Untouchables. Terrified for her daughter’s safety she...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1920s
India, 1921. Haunted by his memories of the Great War, Captain Sam Wyndham is battling a serious addiction to opium that he must keep secret from his superiors in the Calcutta police force. When Sam is summoned to investigate...
- Location(s): Darjeeling, Nepal
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
Ellie Jeffreys arrives in Darjeeling with her British husband, en route to Kathmandu. They have ten-month-old, golden-haired twins, and despite appearing to be a happy family, Ellie’s relationship with the overbearing, philandering Francis is disintegrating. At a cocktail party,...