About the book Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime… Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for the first time to accompany her husband on a missionary posting to India. Deep in the exquisite heart of Kashmir lies the lakeside city of Srinagar, where the British live on carved wooden houseboats and dance, flirt and gossip as if there is no war. But the battles draw closer, and life in Srinagar becomes less frivolous when the men are sent away to fight. Nerys is caught up in a dangerous friendship, and by the time she is reunited with her husband, the innocent Welsh bride has become a different woman. Years later, when Mair Ellis clears out her father’s house, she finds an exquisite antique shawl, a lock of child’s hair wrapped within its folds. Tracing her grandparents’ roots back to Kashmir, Mair embarks on a quest that will change her life forever.
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Q & A / Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup
Former tiffinboy Ram Mohammad Thomas has just got twelve questions correct on a TV quiz-show to win a cool one billion rupees. But he is brutally slung in prison on suspicion of cheating. Because how can a kid from the slums know who Shakespeare was, unless he is pulling a fast one. In the order of the questions on the show, Ram tells us which incredible adventures in his life on the streets gave him the answers. From orphanages to brothels, gangsters to beggar-masters, and into the homes of Bollywood's rich and famous, Ram's story is brimming with the chaotic comedy, heart-stopping tragedy and tear-inducing joyousness of modern India.
Tiger hills by Sarita Mandanna
About the book 'Tiger Hills' is a sweeping multigenerational story set in a coffee plantation in Coorg, southern India, in the 19th century. The novel begins with the birth of Devi, a special child, who befriends a young boy whose mother has died in tragic circumstances. Reviewed by Abbotts Ann WI Best read so far… Continue reading Tiger hills by Sarita Mandanna
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
As the characters move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to love, A Fine Balance creates an enduring panorama of the human spirit in an inhuman state.
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
A fantasy adventure novel where Piscine Molitor ″Pi″ Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry, survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
Amulya Malladi – Mango Season
This beautiful novel takes us to modern India during the height of the summer’s mango season. Heat, passion, and controversy explode as a woman is forced to decide between romance and tradition.
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
This is a collection of stories that explore the heart of family life and the immigrant experience, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'Interpreter of Maladies' and 'The Namesakes'.
The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru
The Impressionist is Hari Kunzru's sweeping novel of India, empire and identity.
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Sea of Poppies (2008) is a novel by Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008. The story is set prior to the First Opium War, on the banks of the holy river Ganges and in Calcutta.
Passage to India – E. M. Forster
A Passage to India is a novel by English author E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s.