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From one of the most famous writers of India comes another novel that will make the young adults of India fall in love all over again. The novel, 'When Only Love Remains' by Durjoy Datta is a novel that is bound to make some readers reach out for tis

This book is the third in line, which features the life-struggles and love story of the main characters, Avantika and Deb. The book is for light reading and mostly appeals to young readers who are looking for a story that they can relate to. The book

In northern India, an eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression after the death of her husband, and then resurfaces to gain a new lease on life. Her determination to fly in the face of convention - including striking up a friendship with a t

Madhav is an aspiring writer stuck in a dead-end corporate job that gives him no joy and no time to write his book. But there’s more to him than meets the eye. He has been hiding a secret all his life-which, if revealed, may shatter the very existenc

Love can happen anywhere, with anyone… Kabir Thapar is the spoilt son of a rich capitalist in Mumbai. His mother’s sudden death scars him for life, leaving him at loggerheads with his father who finds himself a new wife in no time. As Kabir embarks

Roofs are meant for wild things. They are meant for romance and play. A place to dry pickles and grains while exchanging gossip about quiet caresses.But above all, they are realms of freedom. This is the story of Chachcho and Lalna and their much- t

KR Meera’s new novel, The Poison of Love, is a cautionary tale about the much abused and mythified emotion of love. The daughter of an IPS officer, the beautiful Tulsi has just graduated with a record score from IIT and is engaged to be married to a

In winter 2004, a writer met a young girl on a night train journey. To pass the time, she offered to tell a story. However, she had a condition: that he make it into his second book. He hesitated, but asked what the story was about. The girl said

Hangwoman is the English translation of one of the famous contemporary Malayalam novels namely Arachar, written by K. R. Meera. The English translation was done by J. Devika and released by Arundathy Roy. The book has won numerous accolades: The Kend

A bomb explodes in a university cafe, claiming the lives of nineteen students. The Empty Space begins with the identification of those nineteen dead. The mother who enters the cafe last to identify the nineteenth body brings home her dead eighteen-ye

Young and impressionable, Prema is deeply infatuated with Yudas, the enigmatic man who dredges corpses from the bottom of the nearby lake. Longing to be rescued from the tyranny of her father, a former policeman who zealously tortured Naxalite rebels

On full moon nights, from deep within the lagoons of Mattakalappu, Ilankai, mysterious sounds emerge. During the three decades of civil war, it is said, those sounds had ceased. The mermaid Ila, who has lived in those waters for a long, long time, sp

When shots ring out on Grand Trunk Road, Nargis’s life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud-a fellow architect-is caught in the crossfire and dies before she can confess to him her greatest secret. Under threat from a powerful military i

Love is not consolation, it is light.’ From the author of Maps for Lost Lovers comes a searing, exquisitely written novel set in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the months following 9/11 – a story of war, of one family’s losses, and of the simplest, m

Marcus Caldwell, and English widower and Muslim convert, lives in an old perfume factory in the shadow of the Tora Bora mountains in Afghanistan. Lara, a Russian woman, arrives at his home one day in search of her brother, a Soviet soldier who disapp

September 1838. A storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and three ships - the Ibis, the Anahita and the Redruth - and those aboard are caught in the whirlwind. River of Smoke follows the fortunes of these men and women to the crowded harbours of China w

In an unnamed English town, Jugnu and his lover Chanda have disappeared. Rumours abound in the close-knit Pakistani community and then, on a snow-covered January morning, Chanda’s brothers are arrested for murder. Telling the story of the next twelve

Set during a monsoon season in the 1980s in a small town in Pakistan, Season of the Rainbirds is centred on the mysterious reappearance of a sack of letters lost in a train crash nineteen years previously. Could the letters have any bearing on Judge

Intertwining history with mystery, Blue Jade is a captivating story about historical artefacts falling into the wrong hands. Neelam, starting her career as an art curator, discovers a precious relic hidden inside a statue of Mirabai, the legendary Ra

The Silent Monument stands witness to a murder the killing of a journalist who discovered its secret, an old scroll, hidden in the caverns of the Taj Mahal. The journalist's feisty widow Manzil is burdened with the ancient artifact, the contents of w