Fiction
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A plague from the east ravages the world late in the 21st century, in Mary Shelley’s ‘The Last Man’
Mary Shelley
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Hilary Mantel’s latest in the Thomas Cromwell trilogy brings to life the ‘unbiographical’ Englishman
Janet Dickinson, The Conversation
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‘Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line’ is a classic coming-of-age novel of present day India
Jai Arjun Singh
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The old-fashioned whodunit makes a comeback in this novel set in the Shimla of the British Raj
Bulbul Sharma
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Two fathers, one Israeli and one Palestinian, are united in grief for their daughters in this novel
Colum McCann
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Kunal Basu’s latest novel in English depicts a search for motherhood as much as one for a mother
Avik Chanda
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‘I began with the premise that the universe was a bureaucracy and god was on indefinite leave’
Urvashi Bahuguna
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In this noir novella, a schoolteacher sucked into a maze of deceit to save her dying husband
Piyush Jha
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Crime thriller: Dead women with their hearts removed are being found. Is the Vasant Sena involved?
Uttaran Das Gupta
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This short story about the Nellie massacre is by Assam’s best-known ‘Miya poetry’ writer Hafiz Ahmed
Hafiz Ahmed
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Two soldiers, one a Hindu and the other a Muslim, (and a squirrel) soar across the sky in this novel
Amit Majmudar
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Nitasha Kaul’s novel follows the course of young lives caught up in Kashmir’s history and politics
Nitasha Kaul
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There’s something about Mary Higgins Clark (1927-2020): Remembering the bestselling suspense writer
Susan Haris
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Boyhood, friendship and the precarious state of democracy make the novel that is ‘The Cliffhangers’
Jaya Bhattacharji Rose
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‘Writing the first chapter in my narrator’s voice was how I learnt who he was’: Deepa Anappara
Urvashi Bahuguna
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What is love between millennials like? This novel might be India’s ‘Normal People’
Arjun Nath
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What makes a building go up in flames in this short story? How is it related to a secret illness?
Ipshita Nath
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Kashmir comes to the reader as a series of perceptions of reality in Siddhartha Gigoo’s new novel
Manisha Gangahar
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Indian doctors in the US confront race, tradition and personal conflicts in this Kannada novel
Guruprasad Kaginele
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In this novel, a British tourist is raped in Kerala, teens are suspected, communal fires are lit
Sabin Iqbal