fiction
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The JCB Prize for Literature shortlist: This is why each of the five novels deserves to win
Harsimran Gill
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Two translations and a debut novel on the shortlist of the 2018 JCB Prize for Literature
Scroll Staff
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This Commonwealth Prize winner’s new novel is more than a cross-border love story
Siddhartha Gigoo
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‘Increasingly, you can’t match the absurdist comedy going on around yourself’: Mohammed Hanif
Jai Arjun Singh
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In Shweta Bachchan-Nanda’s debut novel, new tenants arrive at Paradise Towers
Shweta Bachchan-Nanda
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This unusual novel uses interviews, WhatsApp chats, emails and reports to piece together a thriller
Nikhil Pradhan
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A mother-son duo escape to Paris from financial ruin and scandal in Patrick deWitt’s new novel
Patrick deWitt
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Parismita Singh’s short stories question whether ‘Peace Has Come’ to North East India
Sayali Palekar
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‘Kama’s Last Sutra’: An archaeologist is sent back in time to 11th century Khajuraho in this novel
Trisha Das
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With just two novels, Sally Rooney is fast becoming the definitive chronicler of millennial love
Neha Bhatt
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This Patna novel is not just about differences and disappointments, it’s a tribute to the ’90s
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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Neelesh Misra’s universe of rural imagination does not travel well from radio to a book
Devapriya Roy
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Myth, fact and fiction blend in this novel based on the murder of Tamil activist Rajani Thiranagama
TD Ramakrishnan
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‘Eating Wasps’: The soul of a writer lingers after her suicide in Anita Nair’s new novel
Anita Nair
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‘Acid’: A hallucinatory novel that overturns traditional ideas of family and motherhood
Apoorva Sripathi
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With his new novel ‘Jasmine Days’, Benyamin once again skilfully presents fiction as fact
Trisha Gupta
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Peshawar-Lahore-London: This novel follows four sisters who have to shake off past family glory
Najma Yusufi
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‘Polite Society’ isn’t just an adaptation of a Jane Austen classic, it sparkles on its own
Harsimran Gill
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If not in history books, here is a chance to read of the maritime king, Rajendra Chola I, in fiction
Urmi Chanda-Vaz
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‘Sea Prayer’: Khaled Hosseini’s new book reminds readers of his formula for literary success
M Saad