Two peoples are found murdered at the ghostly Shambles Villa. Can Lionel Carmichael solve the crime?

An excerpt from ‘Death in Shambles: A Hill Station Mystery’, by Stephen Alter.

Stephen Alter

· Jan 25, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘Birdwatching’: A secret war is raging in the Himalayas in Stephen Alter’s new novel

Set against the backdrop of the Sino-Indian war of 1962.

Stephen Alter

· Feb 22, 2022 · 05:30 pm

In this novel Stephen Alter rewrites the tale of Mowgli and ‘Jungle Book’ in a new time and place

An excerpt from ‘Feral Dreams: Mowgli And His Mothers, A Fable’, by Stephen Alter.

Stephen Alter

· Oct 30, 2020 · 05:30 pm

How catastrophic will climate change in the Himalayas be for the rest of India (and the world)?

‘Wild Himalaya’ is Stephen Alter’s monumental history of mountain range explores its present and its future as well as its past.

Stephen Alter

· Aug 22, 2019 · 06:30 am

When a 13-year-old Jim Corbett uncovered a gruesome murder mystery in the hills of Nainital

Stephen Alter’s fictionalised tribute to the life of the famous hunter-conservationist has been shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.

Stephen Alter

· Oct 05, 2017 · 08:30 am

Was Jim Corbett an exterminator or a conservationist (or both)?

An excerpt from the illuminating introduction to a new edition of the eternal ‘Man-eaters of Kumaon’.

Stephen Alter

· Feb 09, 2017 · 08:30 am