fiction
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Historical fiction: Can Begum Hazrat Mahal’s rebel army fight the British and secure Awadh’s future?
Malathi Ramachandran
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Fiction: How a Muslim man from Motihari deals with everyday life as right-wing extremism rises
Abdullah Khan
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Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Demon Copperhead’ and the enduring devastation of the opioid crisis
William Nash, The Conversation
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‘The Glass Pearls’: This novel by a Jewish writer is about a Nazi fearing the net closing in on him
Jai Arjun Singh
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How Indian book creators are finally making children’s books representative and inclusive
Rati Girish
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‘The American Boyfriend’: This mystery about mistaken identities makes for a leisurely vacation read
Sayari Debnath
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‘Human artists should create art that has only sparsely existed before’: Writer Karan Madhok
Saurabh Sharma
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Inaugural Rainbow Awards to honour queer literature and journalism
Scroll Staff
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This book tells the story of the Tamil queen who led an army of women against the East India Company
Shubendra
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Corazon, Angel, Donita live in Singapore as domestic workers. And their labour must remain unseen
Balli Kaur Jaswal
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Children’s fiction: Cordelia’s father is lost at sea, now she must find him
Tamzin Merchant
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A new novel connects India’s 19th and 20th centuries to its distant past and its apocalyptic future
Siddhartha Deb
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‘The Bandit Queens’: This joyous story of women fighting back brings happy endings to its characters
Shubhangi Tiwari
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‘Kalindi’: This 1930 novel recognised the rights of women and their power to dismantle caste
Anu Kumar
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Mythological fiction: This tale of love and revenge tells how Ramabhadra became Parashurama
Ranjith Radhakrishnan
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Fiction: Meena leaves behind her home in India for a new life in Nepal after marriage
Smriti Ravindra
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‘Fear and Lovely’: Anjana Appachana’s novel treats mental illness with incisive humour and realism
Veeksha Vagmita
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‘Chittacobra’ is a novel about desire and the complications of its pushes and pulls
Shubhangi Tiwari
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Fiction: How did brothers Hakka and Bukka Raya establish the Vijayanagara empire?
Buchi Ramagopal
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A new novel depicts the indignities and stranglehold of caste over Sikhs immigrants in Britain
Ujjal Dosanjh