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| Author: | E. M. Forster |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Catalogue number: | 143230 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 12 days |
Although younger generations may know David Lean’s 1984 film, E M Forster’s “A Passage to India” remains a masterly, at times compelling snapshot of an era which still has echoes of prejudice with today...
| Author: | Rudyard Kipling |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 143229 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
“Kim”, Rudyard Kipling’s epic rendition of the imperial experience in India, is arguably his greatest piece of long prose.
Kim, a boy growing into early manhood and the lama, an old ascetic priest - are...
| Author: | Amitav Ghosh |
| Publisher: | John Murray |
| Catalogue number: | 166088 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008
“Sea of Poppies”, the latest novel from celebrated Indian author Amitav Ghosh (The Glass Palace, the Hungry Tide), is a historical sea epic, already receiving...
| Author: | Michelle de Kretser |
| Publisher: | Chatto & Windus |
| Catalogue number: | 170268 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008
“The Lost Dog” is the latest novel from one of Australia’s most promising young talents, Michelle de Kretser. Tom Loxley is holed up in a remote cottage in the...
| Author: | Aravind Adiga |
| Publisher: | Atlantic Books |
| Catalogue number: | 168219 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008
Meet Balram Halwi, the “White Tiger”: servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer - who, over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of an absurd...
| Author: | Vikram Chandra |
| Publisher: | Faber and Faber |
| Catalogue number: | 157987 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Seven years in the making, “Sacred Games” is an epic of exceptional richness and power. Vikram Chandra’s novel draws the reader deep into the life of detective Sartaj Singh - and into the criminal underworld...
| Author: | Rohinton Mistry |
| Publisher: | Faber and Faber |
| Catalogue number: | 148622 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
In “Tales from Firozsha Baag”, Rohinton Mistry brilliantly captures the crowded, throbbing life of India.
In the novel’s eleven intersecting stories, Mistry reveals the rich, complex patterns of life...
| Author: | Salman Rushdie |
| Publisher: | Jonathan Cape |
| Catalogue number: | 164330 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008
From one of the world’s most famous living authors, Salman Rushdie, comes “The Enchantress of Florence”, a tale of historical intrigue, love and power. Longlisted...
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A Passage to India - E M Forster
Here, in an excerpt from his A Universe of Books, Peter Whitfield provides an intriguing insight as to why A Passage to India was to be the last novel written by the tormented British author, E M Forster...
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Most people remember Delhi as somewhere unfortunately close to the inner-circle of hell, a result of the fact that they arrive and proceed, shell-shocked and heat-exhausted, to a thankless-battle with Indian bureaucracy to book their onward journey. But there's fun to be had there, I promise. South Delhi is where it's at. For a fantastic evening meal, head to...
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The Mapping of the Indian Continent
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Travel writing competition 2007 winners announced
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