December, 1765. In the early hours of the morning, Sukey Maynard flees her home – a brothel in Covent Garden. Her maidenhood is about to be auctioned off to the highest bidder, and she is too frightened to stay....
It’s the 1990s. Susan Bliss is trying to make it all work. In L.A., she’s a burgeoning star with big hair and tight jeans, smouldering on the nation’s favourite TV drama. But in quiet New England, she’s wife to...
Vibrantly descriptive and evocative of the waning colonial world in Egypt during the mid-20th century, this debut historical novel by Jasmin Attia is the compelling story of a young Egyptian woman, Laila, who defies the restrictive traditional roles set...
I was beginning to feel it would be best not to settle down in areas recognisably Parisian, because places recognisably themselves tend to be fictitious. A writer is invited to Paris and finds himself living in an area that...
WHEN PHOTOGRAPHER KARAN SETH COMES TO BOMBAY INTENT ON IMMORTALIZING A CITY CHARGED BY CELEBRITY AND SENSATION, HE IS INSTANTLY DRAWN IN BY ITS ALLURE AND CRUELTY. ALONG THE WAY, HE DISCOVERS UNLIKELY ALLIES: SAMAR, AN ECCENTRIC PIANIST; ZAIRA,...
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