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One family's escape from the Taliban and their fight to save their son. A powerful tale of a family in crisis, and a moving love letter to the NHS. Herat,...

From the Hugo Award nominee S.B. Divya, Zero Dark Thirty meets The Social Network in this science fiction thriller about artificial intelligence, sentience, and labor rights in a near future...

Sunlight on a Broken Column, first published in 1961, is an unforgettable coming-of-age story set against the turbulent background of Partition. 'My life changed. It had been restricted by invisible...

Exploring identity, class struggles, and romance, Hunted by the Sky is a gripping adventure set in a world inspired by medieval India. Dangerous circumstances bring them together. . . deadly...

Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop There is a vast cultural movement emerging from beyond the Western world. Truly global in its range and allure, it is the biggest challenge...

When Esmae wins a contest of skill, she sets off events that trigger an inevitable and unwinnable war that pits her against the family she would give anything to return...

Danyal Jilani doesn't lack confidence. He may not be the smartest guy in the room, but he's funny, gorgeous, and going to make a great chef one day. His father...

Rising like a Storm is the dramatic conclusion to the Wrath of Ambar duology, written by the talented Tanaz Bhathena. A girl with a mark, a boy with her soul....

From the Man Booker prize-winning author of The White Tiger Danny — Dhananjaya Rajaratnam — is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, denied refugee status after he has fled from his...

A girl in a new country. A dark secret left behind. A dead body which might tell all. Ever since she was adopted from an orphanage in Sri Lanka, Paloma...

Spanning more than half a century and cities from New Delhi to Atlanta, Anjali Enjeti’s debut is a heartfelt and human portrait of the long shadow of the Partition of...

A prizewinning literary epic of the subcontinent, nature, climate and love. ** The phenomenal Indian bestseller ****Winner of the Tata Lit Live Best First Book of the Year Award **...

For fans of Morgan Matson's Save the Date and Sandhya Menon's When Dimple Met Rishi(streaming as Mismatched on Netflix) comes a fun and lighthearted novel about one teen's summer tackling...

Old and young. White and brown. Male and female. British. Indian. Other. Four strangers arrive in India for a wedding. Together, they climb a mountain — but will they see...

A funny, poignant, and surprising novel about a goat's life in rural India by the greatest living Tamil author. A farmer in India is watching the sun set over his...

The redoubtable Perveen Mistry makes her triumphant return to solve a shocking murder on the streets of 1920s Bombay November, 1921. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales and future ruler of...

Essays 2003-2020A collection of the finest essays by the 'Best of the Booker' winner, following on from his much-acclaimed STEP ACROSS THIS LINESalman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of...

The heart-rending story of a child 'Tampa' refugee who grew up to become a Fulbright scholar, highlighting the plight and potential of refugees everywhere. When the Taliban were at the...

Postcolonial Literature and Radical Universalism The World in a Grain of Sand offers a framework for reading literature from the global South that goes against the grain of dominant theories...

Hidden Stories from Women of Afghanistan Compelling, enlightening, heart-breaking, Dear Zari is a collection of true stories from women in Afghanistan that is more urgent now than ever. Dear Zari...

On 3 June 1947, as British India descended into chaos, its division into two states was announced. For months the violence and civil unrest escalated. With millions of others, Marina...

A haunting and elegiac love story set in a spoiled paradise, as vital and as relevant today as when it was first published. A single lighted match banishes Triton from...

Illustrated by Salman ToorThousands of islands rise from the rivers' rich silts, crowned with forests of mangrove, rising on stilts. This is the Sundarban, where great rivers give birth; to...

A chance sighting on a bus; a letter which should never have been read; a pianist with a secret that touches the heart of her music...AN EQUAL MUSIC is a...

'This is where I begin. This blank page draws me nearer to you, the day sweltering, my courage quickens, the curtains billowing and the punkah swaying, the punkah rattling as...

New Fiction by Afghan Women "My pen is the wing of a bird; it will tell you those thoughts we are not allowed to think, those dreams we are not...

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021, a thrilling and heartbreaking story of love, family, survival and betrayal from the prize-winning author of The Year of the Runaways Mehar, a young...

Winner of the 2019 Mary Higgins Clark AwardWinner of the 2019 Lefty Award for Best Historical NovelWinner of the the 2018 Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel'Perveen Mistry is a...

ONE OF THE OBSERVER'S 'TEN DEBUT NOVELISTS' OF 2021 Delhi, 1946. Ma and Bappu are liberal intellectuals teaching at the local university. Their fourteen year-old daughter — precocious, headstrong Alma...

A fresh, smart series featuring besties of Indian descent who find love in the big city. Three best friends. Three loves. Three cultural explosions waiting to happen. Kiran Mathur knows...

An Ordinary Killing A masterly and agenda-setting inquest into how the deaths of two teenage girls shone a light into the darkest corners of a nation Katra Sadatganj. A tiny...

A deeply moving novel about tradition, love, war and the sorrow & hope exile will bring. 'The women arrive first, on an afternoon like any other, when Henna is safely...

**THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER** Welcome to The Death Zone. Fourteen mountains on Earth tower over 8,000 metres above sea level, an altitude where the brain and body withers...

An instant New York Times bestseller! Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by...

Moving between two continents over a troubled century, We Are All Birds of Uganda is a multi-layered, moving and immensely resonant novel of generational love, loss and what it means...

A poetic meditation on identity, loss, and loneliness from the bestselling poet and visual artistAn all-new illustrated poetry collection from the bestselling author of yesterday i was the moon, New...

In this thought-provoking and entertaining debut novel about of a multicultural family, a dying billionaire matriarch leaks news of her death early so she can examine her legacy-a decision that...

Gripping, immersive, and full of Vaseem Khan's trademark wit, this is historical fiction at its finest.A priceless manuscript. A missing scholar. A trail of riddles.Bombay, 1950. For over a century,...

Preeti Patel only has room in her life for family, friends, and her career as a doctor. So when her ex-boyfriend — and man she never forgot — turns up...

Translated by Sunandini Banerjee May 1992. In Russia, Boris Yeltsin is showing millions of communists the spectre of capitalism. Yugoslavia is disintegrating. United Germany is uncertain about their next move,...

In his first poetry volume, internationally renowned publisher Naveen Kishore has produced a collection of poems that, with compassion, protest society’s cruelty.Throughout Knotted Grief, Kishore lays bare the nature of...

Nationalism and the Fate of DemocracyThere are over a billion Indians alive today. But are some more Indian than others?To answer this question, one that is central to the identity...

She's All That goes desi in this hilarious, affecting, and sweetly romantic comedy by the author of More Than Just a Pretty Face.Arsalan has learned everything he knows from Nana,...

Someone approaches Keshav with a case that the police consider a hopeless one. Will he be able to crack it with his best friend, Saurabh? Keshav is desperately trying to...

On 6 September 2018, a decades-long battle to decriminalise queer intimacy in India came to an end. The Supreme Court of India ruled that Section 377, the colonial anti-sodomy law,...

‘At magic hour; when the sun has gone but the light has not, armies of flying foxes unhinge themselves from the Banyan trees in the old graveyard and drift across...

An exquisitely written novel following three brilliantly memorable characters on their path to radicalisation, from one of Pakistan's most influential figures.Anita lives in Karachi's biggest slum. Her mother is a...

The second psychological thriller from Trisha Sakhlecha, author of Your Truth or Mine? In politics there is always someone determined to reveal past secrets, and now a young Indian minister...

How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill WomenExplore real women’s tales of healthcare trauma and medical misogyny with this meticulously researched, in-depth examination of the women’s health crisis in America...

Four siblings. A country in ruin. One quest to save them all.Vira is desperate to get out of her mother's shadow and establish her legacy as a revered queen of...