2022 Releases

A girl walks through the slums of Kolkata holding an armful of books. She returns home smelling of smoke, and checks her most prized possession: a brand-new smartphone, purchased in...

An Improvisation on Indian MusicBy turns essay, memoir and cultural study, Finding the Raga is Amit Chaudhuri's singular account of his discovery of, and enduring passion for, North Indian music:...

*A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND NEW STATESMAN*An extraordinary reimagining of the New Testament from the points of view of the women who became the disciples...

In the village of Great Wyrley near Birmingham, someone is mutilating horses. Someone is also sending threatening letters to the vicarage, where the vicar, Shahpur Edalji, is a Parsi convert...

Vividly set against the backdrop of 19th century India and the British-owned sugarcane plantations of Natal, written with great tenderness and lyricism, Children of Sugarcane paints an intimate and wrenching...

Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway BelongingsA city struggling with the cost of its appetites. A rubbish mountain eighteen stories high. And the people who call it home.All...

Does your mind wander?Do you find it hard to concentrate?Do you jump from one task to another?Are you stressed? Anxious? Depressed? Fearful?The life you want is within reach by learning...

From Persia to Bombay: recipes & tales from the ancient cultureFrom Dinaz Aunty's incredible tamarind and coconut fish curry, lamb stewed with cinnamon and Hunza apricots, to baked custards infused...

With fascism on the march once more, this is an urgent dispatch from one of the great writers and intellectuals of our time'Azadi!' — Urdu for 'freedom' — is the...

Saroja and Kumaresan are young and in love. After meeting in a small southern Indian town, where Kumaresan works at a soda bottling shop, they quickly marry before returning to...

In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks and Other AstonishmentsA sparkling collection of essays about the natural world, illustrated throughout — a magnificent bestiary, and an unforgettable book of sustenance, resilience...

Award-winning writer Abir Mukherjee is back with another brilliant Wyndham and Banerjee mystery novel set in 1920s Colonial India.Calcutta, 1923.When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his home, the...

Newly revised for the seventy-fifth anniversary of partition, Kavita Puri conducts a vital reappraisal of empire, revisiting the stories of those collected in the 2017 edition and reflecting on recent...

Recipes, Memories and Inspiration from Sri Lankan Homes, Streets and BeyondThe hotly anticipated first cookbook from the multi-award winning and acclaimed Hoppers restaurants in LondonWelcome to Hoppers, where the flavours,...

Love, Death and the Quest for Utopia in AurovilleA spellbinding story about love, faith, the search for utopia — and the oftendevastating cost of idealism.It’s the late 1960s, and two...

A Lifelong Love Affair With The Most Subtle And Sophisticated Game Known To HumankindFrom one of India’s finest writers, thinkers and commentators, a memoir of a love affair with cricket.As...

A BookRiot Must-Read South Asian Book of 2022 She grew up battling the monsters that live in the black seas, but it couldn't prepare her to face the cunning cruelty...

Fearless verse to find your voiceFrom international poetry sensation Nikita Gill comes her highly anticipated YA debut These Are the Words: an empowering, feminist and beautifully illustrated poetry collection exploring...

'Tagore's life reminds me to take a step back. The time he allowed himself to learn and dream was a commitment of years and decades.' — Rupi KaurRabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)...

A staggering debut novel of murder, loyalty, love, and survival at all costs, set in the teeming underbelly of Calcutta's most infamous neighbourhood.In Calcutta's notorious red-light district, Lalee aspires to...

A JM JourneyTranslated from Bengali by Nazes AfrozWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY TARAN KHAN, author of Shadow CityAn intrepid traveller and true cosmopolitan, legendary Bengali writer Syed Mujtaba Ali spent...

Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award Winner of the Best First Book Commonwealth Writers’ Award for the Eurasia regionThe Blue Bedspread is a searingly honest story about the love...

60 Bold, Authentic Dishes Everyone Needs to TryNeha Mathur brings the best, most authentic Indian dishes to her popular blog Whisk Affair, and now she’s bringing them to you in...

With a Twist of SpiceA brand-new baking collection from Bake Off's Chetna Makan, with over 80 deliciously-tempting recipes that combine her love of simple home cooking with creative flavour twists.Chetna's...

Over 100 traditional recipesLaxmi Khurana's recipes have been handed down to her through the generations, and admired by her family and friends.Here, in her classic curry cookbook, she makes them...

Around the world in 22 murders… MURDER. BLACKMAIL. REVENGE. From Lagos to Mexico City, Australia to the Caribbean, Toronto to Los Angeles, Darjeeling to rural New Zealand, London to New...

A brilliant young writer from India with a funny, moving debut that perfectly captures the perils of online culture Appa and Amma have driven home a shiny new Honda Civic...

Where the Cobbled Path Leads is a folk fantasy novel, interweaving fantasy fiction with Naga spirit stories and folklore.Eleven-year-old Vime is struggling to come to terms with the demise of...

This gorgeously imagined YA debut blends shades of Neil Gaiman’s Stardust and a breathtaking landscape of Hindu mythology into a radiant contemporary fantasy.The daughter of a star and a mortal,...

Graduating into a recession, Sneha tries on adulthood like an ill-fitting suit. Moving to a new city, she embraces all that it has to offer: friends that feel like family,...

In this transfixing novel, a young woman comes of age in 1960s- and 1970s-era Bombay, a vanished world that is complex and indelibly rendered. Vidya’s childhood is marked by the...

Utterly compulsive, totally original and with a truly jaw-on-the-floor twist, this is a thriller like no otherCharming and handsome, Ricky Manfredi is living an idyllic playboy life when, out of...

Mist, mountains, murder...Ageing millionaire Bhaskar Fernandez has invited his relatives to the remote and possibly haunted Greybrooke Manor in the misty Nilgiris for the last time. He knows that his...

In this riveting and immersive novel, bestselling author Thrity Umrigar tells the story of two couples and the sometimes dangerous and heartbreaking challenges of love across a cultural divide.Indian American...

A Silk Road epic fantasy full of magic and mysteryAll legends are born of truths. And just as much lies. These are mine. Judge me for what you will. But...

She found magic in the most unlikely of places. Mika Moon follows three rules: hide your magic, keep your head down, and stay away from other witches. Mika is good...