Bestsellers

From the Booker-shortlisted author: one man's whirlwind weekend of self-destructive grief. Ullis went to the bathroom and carefully unfolded the business card and placed it on the sink. Then he...

What happens when an innocent prank goes horribly wrong? Natasha, Riya, Anjali and Katherine were best friends in college — each different from the other yet inseparable — until that...

'Listen to me, child. You will be a woman soon and must behave well and with modesty. The Kazi will ask you three times whether you will marry Kalloo Mian....

Caste as Lived ExperienceCaste, as it is experienced in everyday life, is the pièce de résistance of this book. Thirty-two voices narrate how from childhood to adulthood, caste intruded upon...

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...

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...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

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,...

An eccentric and charming cookbook from Dishoom, with over 100 recipes from the much-loved restaurantsAt long last, Dishoom share the secrets to their much sought-after Bombay comfort food — the...

*A SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH* Kamil Rahman, disgraced detective, turned waiter, is about to find himself embroiled in a case that might just change his life...for better...

A novel by Pankaj Mishra, author of RUN AND HIDE and AGE OF ANGER WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION 1989. In the holy...

Amalie Howard whisks you away with a historical romance full of drama, true love, and the perfect happily ever after. Sometimes, finding love means flouting the rules... Born to a...

Pretty Woman meets the Bridgertons in this witty, vivacious historical take on 90s romcoms by USA Today bestselling author Amalie Howard. Lord Lysander Blackstone, the stern Duke of Montcroix, has...

In New York Times bestselling author Alka Joshi’s new novel, henna artist Lakshmi arranges for her protégé, Malik, to intern at the Jaipur palace in a tale rich in character,...

Translated by Shamya DasguptaaIt’s the mid-to-late 1800s and the British have banished Wajid Ali Shah — the nawab of Awadh in Lucknow — to Calcutta. To the sound of the...

Lakesong is a debut collection of poems by Lakshmi Kanchi (also known as SoulReserve) published in collaboration with Centre for Stories and Red River Press in Delhi. Featuring poems that...

The Timeless Epic of Duty, Love, and RedemptionDiscover the Ramayana — one of India's most celebrated epics, and a story that transcends time itself.The tale of Rama, the exiled prince...

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

This is the age of vice, where pleasure and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the...

Vegetarian and Vegan Indian Dishes with Heart and SoulWith food inspired by India's incredibly rich and varied food scene, Rohit Ghai has gained a reputation for colourful, flavour-rich curries that...

Home-Cooked Food Brought To You By Darjeeling ExpressLet Asma Khan feed your soul with this collection of authentic Indian recipes. Follow the route of the Darjeeling Express train from Bengal,...

A young cinephile leaves his rural village in India with big dreams, only to find himself trapped in menial jobs and forced to work off a debt he may never...

A darkly comic, boundary-pushing debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who attends a mysterious language school that boasts complete fluency in just ten days, but at a secret,...

Stories from India’s Poorest Districts A classic of investigative reporting and social inquiry by the authority on Indian rural poverty, published outside of India for the first time with a...

The residents of Pipalnagar, a dull and dusty small town, hope to one day leave behind their humdrum lives for the thrills of Delhi. Deep Chand, the barber, dreams of...

Curry takes you on a culinary journey through the diverse and delicious world of regional Indian curries. Full of insights into the origins and the variety that make these curries truly...

'Riotously audacious and entertaining – cinematic, jazzlike, a humdinger of a novel' KAMILA SHAMSIE 'A maximalist epic that grabs you by the collar' THE STATESMAN 'A wild romp that ends...

An aspiring teen art curator who’s sworn off love spends a semester in India, where the first boy to give her butterflies again has a royally surprising secret—part of the...

A Journey into India’s Vanishing Landscapes “Marginlands is a tour de force, a magnificent first book about India’s marginalized landscapes and inhabitants, written with compassion, compressed elegance of observation, and...

Amalie Howard whisks you away with a historical romance full of drama, true love, and the perfect happily ever after. Sometimes, finding love means flouting the rules... Born to a...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 For all fans of Hot Milk comes a searing debut novel about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal. In her youth, Tara was wild....

Bestselling author Amalie Howard delivers the unputdownable companion novel to Queen Bee, Lady Knight, which follows the daughter of a duke defying the rules of high society in regency-era London with the...

A shattering study of disaffection and belonging … This is a concise novel of staggering depth …Disturbing, deep and utterly extraordinary' Bidisha, ObserverAn Irish Times Book of the Year 2019Escaping her...

A Rising Power Takes its Place Among Rivals The pace of change in Asian geopolitics is accelerating. What role will India play in a rebalanced Asian system? Asian geopolitics has...

'Vaseem Khan writes with charm and wit, and an eye for detail that transports the reader entirely. I couldn't love this series more' CHRIS WHITAKER 'Historical fiction at its finest' MAIL ON...

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 religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.” In 1938 Mahatma Gandhi wrote a bracing and, at times, discomfiting essay on the claims...

She's chosen her own future. Madras, India: The orphaned girls of St Ursulas convent are destined to be nuns or servants but seventeen-year-old Savi dreams of escape. Responsible and good with...

A BRAND NEW sun-drenched, forced proximity rom-com beach read for 2024 ‘A simply gorgeous slow-burning love story’. Natasha Harding, Sun A totally gorgeous and escapist romcom that will hook fans...

A Silk Road epic fantasy full of magic and mystery A breathtaking Silk Road-inspired epic fantasy, an ode to the power of storytelling and an adventure story filled with magic...

In this dazzling sequel to the The Surviving Sky, Ahilya and Iravan risk everything—their lives, their culture, and their fragile marriage—in pursuit of the earth-shattering truth about their existence. "Breathtakingly...

The Bharat Party has come to power after an intensely divisive election. Naren, a jaded Wall Street consultant, is lured home to Mumbai by their promise of ' better days...

  The New India is the unforgettable account of the struggle between modern forces and ancient ideas to shape the young country's destiny. It reveals a picture of a nation on...

The fourth instalment of the Kamil Rahman murder mystery series, THE SPY sees Kamil and his amateur-sleuth restaurant manager partner, Anjoli thrown into the midst of a terrorist plotONE BOY...

The Instant Sunday Times #1 Bestseller - a moving, life-affirming memoir about survival and the power of love to heal, from Booker Prize winner Salman RushdieOn the morning of 12 August 2022,...

When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to find how the lives of the 19th century sailors and soldiers...

This tale of motherly love blends the page-turning urgency of The Girl in the Red Coat with the political force of Slumdog Millionaire to create a searing parable of a...