It is 1942 and the Jews are being deported from Belgium. Separated from his parents, seven-year-old Joseph must go into hiding. He is taken in the dead of night to an orphanage, the Villa Jaune, where the benign and enigmatic Father Pons presides over...

It is 1953 in colonial Kenya, and eight-year-old Vikram Lall witnesses the celebration of Queen Elizabeth's coronation, even as the Mau Mau guerilla war challenges British rule. Vic and his sister Deepa, whose grandfather came to Kenya from Punjab to build the railways, must...

It is 1973. A newly independent Bangladesh is collapsing under the weight of impending famine, unemployment and political corruption. In the midst of this upheaval, Uma, a Bengali from Calcutta, moves to Dhaka with her husband Iqbal. As the young woman learns to make...

It is 2007, and Karachi is thrumming with possibility for childhood friends Jogi and Billoo. They spend their days and nights in a euphoric haze of work, conversation, and laughter, unmoved by the trouble that seems to be brewing in parts of the city....

It is an idyllic life - sneaking behind her parents' backs to meet her half-Scottish lover, gazing enviously at her friends dancing at parties in their tight skirts, enjoying summers eating mangoes at her politician grandfather's villa. Until 1971, when new borders are defined...

It is the 1970s. After a bloody struggle, Bangladesh is an independent nation. But thousands are pouring into Dhaka from all over the country, looking for food and shelter. Amongst them is Nur Hussain, an uneducated young man from a remote village, who is...

It is the dawn of the twentieth century in Australia and a woman has done an unspeakable thing. Twenty-two-year-old Jessie has served a two-year sentence for horse rustling. As a condition of her release she is apprenticed to Fitzgerald 'Fitz' Henry, who wants a...

It is the early nineteenth century. The British East India Company has been bringing in Chinese slaves to work in the tea gardens of Assam. Amidst days of misery and toil, they slowly begin to find contentment in their day-to-day lives.In post-independence Assam, Mei...

It would have stayed as yet another unsolved murder, but for Inspector Borei Gowda, the investigating officer. As bodies begin to pile up one after the other, and it becomes clear that a serial killer is on the prowl, Gowda recognizes a pattern in...

It's the late 1980s and Anirban Roy, fresh from the dustbowls of Inner India, arrives on an alternative planet called JNU. Here Marx rules the graffiti, the pamphlets and the suggested reading list. But Freud, at least his sex thing, rules most minds.and Anirban...

It's the nineties and Kashmir is in turmoil. The tourism industry has taken a big hit and the youth are disillusioned, with no jobs or hopes for the future. In this climate, Malla Khaliq waits day after day for guests to arrive at his...

Jai and Mike grew up in the same neighbourhood in London and now they considering various legal and illegal options to grow rich together. While they were laying a plan, the two didn't take into account the various obstacles they'll have to stumble upon....

Javid - call him Jay - is a dope dealer living in West London. He goes to mosque on Friday, and he's just bought his pride and joy - a BMW. He lives with his mum, and life seems sweet.But his world is about...

Jeevan Sharma, an Indian immigrant in the US and a former taxi driver, manages his Pakistani landlord Shabbir Ahmads accounts in return for rent-free accommodation.The quiet rhythm of his days in Baltimore is punctuated only by interactions with his neighbours on 26th Street: Miss...

JFK ... A dying man's last word ... A plea, an accusation or a clue? That's what the police couldn't figure out. What they did know was that they had serial murders in broad daylight, and just one suspect with little motive ... Jatin...

Journalist Nicholas Schmidle worked in Pakistan from 2006-2008. Those two years have been arguably the most turbulent period of Pakistan's recent history, a time when President Pervez Musharraf lost his power and the Taliban found theirs. During his time there, Schmidle met and befriended...

June, along with Ron and several other insurgents, is fleeing their hideout in Bhutan after an army attack. With them is their injured, unconscious leader who is unlikely to survive the ordeal of their journey towards the Assam border. They carry him on a...

Kathakali from the southern-most tip of India, Kerala, is characterised by its exaggerated and extravagant style that delves into mythology for its sustenance. The book tries to demystify the elaborately defined body kinetics and the eloquent hand gestures, enhanced by the stylised make-up and...

Laila is on the entertainment beat a world full of vain heroines, egoistic superstars, spirited item girls, prissy stars ... To top it all, life in the newsroom is a series of deadline-driven bloopers. Adding to the mayhem is a sexy Bollywood journo-turned-item girl...

Lakeshore Christmas

Like her namesake Jack Kerouac, J.K. is always on the road, travelling Europe with her typewriter in a pillowcase. From J.K.'s irreverent, ironic perspective, Levy charts a new, dizzying, end-of-the-century world of shifting boundaries and displaced peoples.

Like most Indians, Karl and Kunal dream of becoming popular in Bollywood and playing a role in the making of blockbusters. They were just ordinary boys who changed their fate when they decided to fly to the Lee Strasberg Acting Studio with the intention...

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal">Lily Alex, a teenage girl who was forced to attend boarding school doesn't want to leave her grandfather. Her uneasy feeling turns out to be true when she discovers something that would change her life.<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal">This is a story...

Long Road to Mercyand is the heart-pounding first novel in the FBI Special Agent Atlee Pine series by bestselling author David Baldacci. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe . . .'It is thirty years since FBI special agent Atlee Pine's twin sister, Mercy, was taken from...

Long years ago, as India made its tryst with destiny and the soul of a nation long suppressed was torn asunder, a story of love and compassion ensued . . . Sahitya Akademi awardee Shiv K. Kumar brings us a Partition novel that will...

Longlisted for the Orange Prize 2012. He planned to steal with these horses, who were all better than they looked on paper. The trick was to get in and get out fast. But could he really pull it off? Could he be that sure,...

Look for your sister after each dive. Never forget. If you see her, you are safe.'Hana and her little sister Emi are part of an island community ofand haenyo, women who make their living from diving deep into the sea off the southernmost tip...

Love blooms in the wreckage of violence. It blooms even as hearts turn strangers and brothers enemies. It blooms even as rivers of blood flow, passions are inflamed, and hatred stalks the land. Love knows no boundaries. No caste. No religion. Love can strike...

Love is the magic word. Minakshi Thakur has revealed the hearts and souls of lovers like you and I. When love is real, the lovers are so unreal. Salil and Nayan never think of the thinkable and tangible. Its a novel with a rare...

Madeleine Slade, the daughter of British Admiral, sets her heart on becoming Bapu's greatest disciple, who embraces her into the fold of his ashram, and renames her Mira after a devotee of Krishna.

Mae has watched as her three older sisters have gone through the process of finding their place in the world and faced the challenges of parenthood head on. Now ready to spread her wings beyond her close-knit family, Mae is ready to take the...

Mainao and alfred are forced to leave their village for delhi in search of employment. Ill - adjusted to city life they return to their village only to find their house burnt down and family destroyed by bodo militants. A half - burnt bus...

mina Bennisand has come back to her childhood home in Morocco to attend her sister's wedding. The time has come for her to confront her strict, traditionalist father with the secret she has kept for more than a year - her American husband Max.Amina's...

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'Ms De shocks India, and much of its literary set like no other writer today' New York Times on Bollywood Nights 'A throbbing, pulsating novel of passion and pain, betrayal and bitterness' Indian Review on Bollywood Nights --This text refers to an alternate Paperback...

Mumtaz, daughter of Shabanu, has lived with her father's traditional Muslim family for 10 years, enduring the scorn of her auntie Leyla day in and day out. Her only protectors are her uncle Omar and Baba, patriarch of the Amirzai tribe, but even they...

Murder comes to the White House The wife of the White House deputy chief of staff has been beaten to death, and their one-year-old daughter is missing. DC police lieutenant Sam Holland is in charge of the murder investigation, but she's forced to collaborate...

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My husband was not a monster. No matter what they say...The day my husband, Michael, stepped in front of a lorry after being questioned by the police, my world fell apart. He was devoted to me and our six-year-old daughter. But they'd connected him...

My life was simple: repetitive, predictable. Then the predictability blew away like vapour when the bomb fell.' Seven-year-old Parvati's perfect world came crashing down the night the bomb fell on her house and she lost her mother and grandmother. Her father, an army officer...

Naila Pasha, heir to the Pasha Carpet Factory, believes that money can guarantee long-lasting happiness in a marriage. Her daughters, however, aren't so easily convinced by this logic. For Sabina, Eisha, Laila and Sophia, marriage is a matter of the heart rather than a...

Neelams hysterectomy at thirty hastens her into a sexless middle age and changes her relationship with her husband Ari. Their marriage remains stagnant until an unexpected telegram announces the visit of Aris ex-girlfriend Esha. By coincidence, their college professor Mahanam also arrives at their...

Nine-year-old Suleiman is just awakening to the wider world beyond the games on the hot pavement outside his home and beyond the loving embrace of his parents. He becomes the man of the house when his father goes away on business, but then he...

Nitin is thrilled to join the No. 1 Bollywood music composer Sunil Kumar. And it looks as though the love of his life, Aditi, has feelings for him too. He is feeling on top of the world. But all his dreams come crashing down...

No right, no wrong. No destiny, no karma, no kismat. It's all there, the tide of circumstances, events and results. That impels him to know more about his history if there was one of a cindered family tree. His father, somewhere on the other...

November, 1921. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales and future ruler of India, is arriving in Bombay to begin a four-month tour. The Indian subcontinent is chafing under British rule, and Bombay solicitor Perveen Mistry isn't surprised when local unrest over the royal arrival spirals...

On 1 November 1984, a day after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination, a nineteen-year-old student, Raj, travels back from a class trip with his mentor, Professor Singh. As the group disembark at Delhi station a mob surrounds the professor, throws a tyre over him,...

On a sultry, rainy Bombay day, Nisha, an impressionable teenager, meets God in the college canteen and falls in love with his ragged, bearded looks and crude, streetwise manners. God patronizingly accepts her into his group' and it is in this way that their...

On a trip of a lifetime to India, Bea is given an unexpected fiftieth birthday present - an hour with a celebrated clairvoyant. Unlucky in love, Bea learns that her true soulmate is still out there ̶ and that he's someone she knew in...

On and on we dream, we wish, we love - no matter that the dreams come to an end, the wishes evolve or that love dissipates like dust in the wind perhaps, what matters only is that we have lived long enough to dream,...