South Asia

A fearless, tender memoir from the prize-winning writer of Counting and Cracking. Shakthi lives with his family, in the house his great-grandparents built in Colombo, Sri Lanka, before the civil...

The Buddha in the World From Pankaj Mishra, the Windham-Campbell Prize-winning author of The World After Gaza, a meditation on the life and legacy of the Buddha, refracted through one man's...

How do you rebuild yourself when your whole world changes overnight? Thrust onto the public stage at fifteen years old after the Taliban's brutal attack on her life, Malala quickly...

The incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small ThingsArundhati Roy's first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both intimate and...

The incredible and courageous diary of an Afghan women's writing group during the Fall of Kabul 'A real-time, moving and intimate portrait of a year living under the Taliban' DUA LIPA'S...

A JOURNEY FROM CHILD BRIDE TO GLOBAL CHANGEMAKER. At just 10 years old, Sonita Alizada was nearly sold into marriage. By the time she turned 16, her price was set...

A True Story of Travel, Turmoil and Triumph The book begins with an account of a deeply transformative journey to Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq. Kaushik finds himself immersed in the...

The dramatic and immersive story of an ambitious young empress who was the only woman to ever rule the Mughal Empire. More than four centuries ago in India, a Muslim...

Three Begums revolves around the lives of three ordinary women-Hamida, Merryl and Saliha- who lived extraordinary, interwoven lives of fabulous joy, fierce pain, and untold trauma. Like many who came...

A Memoir Dr SA. If you saw my initials you would not know what they represent except that I am a doctor.My first name is Sarah. So now you know...

A Story of Courage, Hope and the Afghan Women’s Football Team SHORTLISTED FOR WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024A GUARDIAN AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024...

A Literary Memoir It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring...

'Sally's book is an exemplar of the best in the genre' Krishnan Srinivasan, The Statesman A blend of travel writing, memoir, history and current affairs that tells the story of Sri...

Chronicle of a Pakistani Journalist in Exile An urgent and compelling graphic memoir about a Pakistani investigative journalist at odds with his fundamentalist family and the Pakistani military that attempts...

The rebellious life of a novelist, screenwriter and revolutionary activist Born in Poona, India, Farrukh Dhondy came to England in 1964 and immersed himself in radical politics and the counterculture....

Arman is just a boy when he is forced to leave his home and embark on the most extraordinary journey. Separated from family and friends, he travels across mountains, land...

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,...

The inspiring memoir of the warrior for women who's defied the Taliban at every turn - doctor, public official, founder of schools and hospitals, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee 'I...

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...

A journey from religion to reasonIn much of the Muslim world, religion is the central foundation upon which family, community, morality, and identity are built. The inextricable embedment of religion...

The bestselling memoir of 2014 Nobel Prize winner, Malala Yousafzai, the school girl who stood up to the Taliban. In 2009 Malala Yousafzai began writing a blog on BBC Urdu...

Most of us know what it’s like to have our hopes dashed on moving house: the excitement fades and we realise the furniture doesn’t fit, the rent is no cheaper,...

Nobel Peace Prize winner and bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the faces behind the statistics and news stories we read or hear every day about the millions of...

21 Objects from a Continent DividedThe emotion and trauma of the Partition are buried deep, but Aanchal Malhotra has found a way to recover them. Through the possessions saved by...

The much-anticipated and inspiring memoir by Indra Nooyi, the trailblazing former CEO of PepsiCo, offering clear-eyed insight and a call to action for how our society can really blend work...

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...

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,...

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...

**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...

The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world's leading public intellectuals Where is 'home'? For Amartya Sen, home has been many places — Dhaka in...

For readers of War Doctor and Educated, a doctor's story of grit and resilience, from the war torn streets of Kabul to saving lives around the world.Born in war-torn Afghanistan,...

Afghan Women on Courage, Freedom, and the Fight to Be HeardA collection of first-hand accounts from courageous Afghan women who refuse to be silenced in the face of the Taliban.After...

Stories of Life and Death from the Forgotten Guardians of EverestChanging the narrative of mountaineering books, Sherpa focuses on the people who live and work on the roof of the...

In this extraordinary book, an acclaimed young war reporter chronicles a dangerous journey on the smuggler's road to Europe, accompanying his friend, an Afghan refugee, in search of a better...

'A brave new voice that reaches out to us all' — Miranda Doyle, author of A Book of Untruths 28-year-old Zeba Talkhani charts her experiences growing up in Saudi Arabia...

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,...

Translated by Zaman StanizaiAn Afghan Mother's Letter to her SonAn exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother’s unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. How...

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 Woman's Battle in a Man's World. As Featured in the Netflix documentary IN HER HANDSI am one of the lucky ones. I got out of Afghanistan alive when the...

We did not stay in our houses. Not in the way our grandmothers had, or our mothers. We went out a little more and veiled ourselves a little less. Some...

The extraordinary story of how a leading Buddhist monk overcame persecution, addiction and trauma to find enlightenmentLama Yeshe didn't see a car until he was 15-years-old and growing up in...

The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education An extraordinary memoir of a young woman from Afghanistan and her struggle to rise above the circumstances into which...

This is not a book about divorce. It’s not a book about God, either. You might think it is a book about goodness and what it means to be a...

The story of the Tamil family that captured our hearts It was dawn in the small rural town of Biloela. Loud thumps on the front door signalled the start of...

A Whimsical Journey through Gardens and LifeIt is spring in Melbourne and I am not there.I had a taste for it before I left for India. The japonica was flowering...

Michael Ondaatje's remarkable masterpiece of a family memoir, reissued to mark 40 years since its first publication'During certain hours, at certain years in our lives, we see ourselves as remnants...

Losing everything and finding Australia I lost my possessions, my salary, my status, my career, my country. And in that fall, I gained everything. Bhutan is known as the land...