Fiction
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June fiction: Six new fiction titles by Indian writers that probe the unseen of everyday life
Scroll Staff
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Fiction: Passion turns to peril when an untimely death threatens to implicate a policeman in murder
Amit Lodha
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Fiction: Ten-year-old Narois’s mother is preparing to leave, while her father struggles to adapt
Lopa Ghosh
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Fiction: Asha questions the meaning of home and self-determination against the backdrop of the Raj
Uma Lohray
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Fiction: The death of a young woman brings up a frenzy of questions and unlikely discoveries
Sundar Sarukkai
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For children: Young detectives suspect something sinister when a woman is pronounced a ‘witch’
Mallika Ravikumar
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Sunday book pick: In ‘Small Boat’, no one is at fault when 27 migrants drown in international waters
Sayari Debnath
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‘Tales from Qabristan’: A novel about a young man’s childhood memories is as vivid as a photograph
Ananya Kaushik
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Fiction: Satya flees to India after Partition and risks her life to secretly rescue abducted women
Natasha Sharma
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Fiction: Two bodies wash ashore. Soon, a murder case considered solved years ago is open again
Kishore Ram
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Fiction: Harassed and bullied, Arvind finally finds an opportunity to avenge his humiliation
Shreyas Rajagopal
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Fiction: Sanjana is trying to divorce Killian. But there’s a problem. He is missing
Sanjena Sathian
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Translated historical fiction: Shivaji and Aurangzeb’s bloody battle for the control of the Deccan
Vishwas Patil Nadeem Khan
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Fiction: Should Kosuke sell his father’s shrine or should he take over and continue his legacy?
Radhika Jha
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Fiction: Payal agrees to marry an Ukrainian mafia boss’s son after escaping an attempt on her life
Noor Juman
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‘The Ex-Daughters of Tolstoy House’: How much blood must be spilled before the cycle is broken?
Suchismita Ghosh
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Sunday book pick: The rootless marriage of an Englishman and a Bengali woman in ‘Memories of Rain’
Sayari Debnath
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Fiction: A woman wakes up confused in a hospital and realises that she has no idea who she is
Shashi Warrier
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Shortlisted for 2025 International Booker Prize: An excerpt from ‘Small Boat’ by Vincent Delecroix
Vincent Delecroix Helen Stevenson
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For children: Agalya has been cast as Rapunzel in the school play, but her excitement is short-lived
Divya Anand