2023 releases

Mallika is a painfully shy young woman growing up in the heart of a close-knit, sometimes stifling New Delhi colony. Though she is surrounded by love, her life is complicated...

Gilmore Girls meets vibrant New Delhi in this thoughtful and hilarious new novel about a teen facing family expectations, relationship complications, and hidden secrets in a new country — sprinkled...

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 House Next to the Factory shows a changing India over three decades through the lens of one family and the house that they live in.Life in the house is...

Creative writing professor Maneka Roy has not returned to India in years, and when she arrives in her home country to mourn the loss of her mother, she finds herself...

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...

Parables for a Planet in CrisisThe history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation — of both human life and the natural environment — and the origin of...

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...

Delhi, 1997: It is India's fiftieth year of independence, the year of Hindu nationalists and atomic bombs. But twelve-year-old Adi has a bigger problem: his Ma has gone missing —...

A teen girl seeking retribution against her backstabbing former best friend finds her plans slightly derailed once she catches the eye of a familiar, handsome marquess. Bestselling author Amalie Howard...

The Making of the World’s Largest Muslim Minority, 1947–1977 Another India tells the story of the world’s biggest religious minority. Weaving together vivid biographical portraits of a wide range of...

An epic historical heist novel of plundered treasure, savage empire, lasting love and a young man's dream to make his mark on the world. From an Indian American writer at...

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...

In the fourth rip-roaring thriller in the award-winning Malabar House series, Persis and Archie travel to the old colonial capital of Calcutta, where they collide head-on with the prejudices and...

Meet Tony — the first Indian to set foot on American soil.Among the settlers, slaves, and indentured servants that make the treacherous journey across the Atlantic to the New World...

THE HOUSE OF THE DRAGON MEETS SUCCESSION IN AN EPIC REIMAGINING OF THE MAHABHARATA SOME BALLADS ARE INKED IN BLOOD Bled dry by violent confrontations with the Magadhan Empire, the...

A lush tapestry of dreams, myth, and magic — perfect for fans of Holly Black, Roshani Chokshi, and Margaret Rogerson. Seven years ago, Tanvi was spirited away to the subterranean...

It takes a village to kill a child... The village of Teetarpur outside Delhi, is famous for nothing until one of its children is found dead, hanging from the branch...

ISOLATION Harith Athreya is taking a well-earned break at a boutique hotel in the Himalayan foothills. But his holiday is swiftly cut short when mysterious bloody handprints start appearing on...

Khuku, a housewife, is irritated with the Muslims because their call to prayer wakes her up early every morning; her husband, a retired businessman, has been hired to cure a...

From the author of Sojourn and Friend of My Youth, a novel that goes straight to the heart of a family, in all their hopes, desires and regrets.A year after...

**Includes a new foreword by Pankaj Mishra**From the award-winning author of Sojourn, a mesmerising novel about the powerful undercurrent of cultural and familial tradition in a society enthralled with the...

A stunning collection of short stories from the award-winning author of Sojourn and Friend of My Youth.Set across Bombay and Calcutta, Amit Chaudhuri's stories range from a divorcee about to...

One takeaway dinner. Two lonely hearts. Did somebody order a rom com? Gia thrives on risks. Ben plays it safe. She crossed continents to chase her London dream; he works...

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,...

Translated by Haydn TrowellYūka Ishii’s debut novel The Mud of a Century was a major literary success in Japan where it won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize.Several days after a once-in-a-century...

When they don't give us our birthright, we steal it.Eighteen-year-old Roshan is out for justice. Abandoned by her parents at birth and taken in by Jwala's most notorious bandit, she...

The final chapter in Alka Joshi’s New York Times bestselling Jaipur trilogy takes readers to 1970s Paris where Radha’s budding career as a perfumer must compete with the demands of...

Set during the partition of British India in 1947, a time when neighbor was pitted against neighbor and families were torn apart, award-winning author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel brings to...

In this bold and brilliant work from the award-winning author of The Nine-Chambered Heart, journeys across continents and centuries intertwine in a multi-layered saga that unfolds through the lives of...

The Asian literary phenomenon of the 90s.More magical than Mistry, more of a rollicking good read than Rushdie, more nerve-tinglingly imagined than Naipaul, here, perhaps, is the greatest Indian novel...

The First Gabriel Præst NovelMeet Gabriel Præst, an ex-Copenhagen cop (who dresses with panache), jazz aficionado, and relentless pursuer of truth as he explores Denmark’s Nazi-collaborator past and anti-Muslim present...

A young flower hunter gets embroiled in the succession politics of the Sultanate when she must retrieve the rarest and most powerful magical flower after giving it to the wrong...

A darkly funny, sharply observed, and deeply moving novel about the surprises and struggles of life in contemporary Delhi Alif is a middle-aged, mild-mannered history teacher, living in contemporary Delhi,...

ONE OF COSMOPOLITAN'S BEST BOOKS TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2023'A girl is a burden. A girl is a curse.'Madurai, 1992. A young mother in a poor family, Janani is...

A youth group's temple road trip through India is a liberating escape for a former mean girl and sunshine boy to explore their past and their feelings for each other...

This Hindu philosophy-inspired debut science fantasy follows a husband and wife racing to save their living city — and their troubled marriage — high above a jungle world besieged by...

From the acclaimed author of Immigrant, Montana comes a one-of-a-kind novel about memory, politics, a world of lies, and the ways in which truth can be not only stranger than...

A perfect miniature of a novel about arrivals and departures, new worlds and old homes.A beguiling, short and yet sweeping prose-poem, Afternoon Raag is the account of a young Bengali...

A lyrical and modern exploration of loneliness and failure-as well as a love letter to Homer and James Joyce — by one of our most celebrated writers.1985: twenty-two year old...

The prize-winning debut fiction work by Amit Chaudhuri, the author whose 'languorous, elliptical, beautiful prose is impressively impossible to put in any category at all' (Salman Rushie).Abhi, a Bengali boy,...

The second Harith Athreya mystery: A Golden Age-esque cosy crime set in contemporary India, for fans of Lucy Foley and Knives Out.SECRETSSeasoned detective Harith Athreya is back, this time to...

A groundbreaking book that will broaden and expand your thinking, whether you are a trauma survivor, a clinician, someone who loves a survivor, or someone seeking to understand abuse.The relationship...

A novel of modern India- of violence and prejudice, friendship and loyalty, community and tradition, and of a young man coming of age in a country on fireIndia, 1992. 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...

The third novel in the Detective Kamil Rahman Mystery series, THE DETECTIVE follows Kamil on his first case for the Met Police, while his former boss and restaurant manager, Anjoli...

*A Financial Times Book to Read in 2023*A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism- the British arrival in India...

One family's search for a better life — an immersive, kaleidoscopic debut for fans of Half of a Yellow Sun, Homegoingand PachinkoFOUR GENERATIONS. THREE SISTERS. ONE DIVIDED NATION.India, 1898. Pirbhai...

The Das sisters uncover a computer chip black market syndicate operating out of Singapore, willing to murder anyone who disrupts their profiteering. But who is the mastermind?The Das sisters investigate...

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...