Fiction
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‘Anti-Clock’: A complicated man’s complicated relationship with religion – and with revenge
Yamini Krishnan
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‘Little America’: A man creates an enclave of unrestrained behaviour in orthodox Pakistan
Zain Saeed
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‘Are you a boy or a girl?’ This YA novel explores what coming of age as a gay teenager can be like
Payal Dhar
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This novel follows the passionate relationship between a cricket-loving former prince and a singer
Abhishek Bhatt
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‘The Begum and the Dastan’: A novel that shows how to write history without condoning it
Isa Ayidh
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Walter Scott at 250: So much more than a great historical novelist
Daniel Cook, The Conversation
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‘Mortuary Tales’: A new book of uncanny stories from Mumbai of horror, real or imagined
Kashif Mashaik
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A coffin-maker and a clock that can make time go backwards bring magical realism to this novel
VJ James
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A tragic love story in Marathi, set on a ship on the brink of WWII, gets an English translation
Vishram Bedekar
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Opening lines from Louise Erdrich’s Pulitzer Prize winner ‘The Night Watchman’ and other novels
Louise Erdrich
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When ‘allergic to commitment’ meets ‘toxic bachelor’: A novel of the long-distance relationship
Anjali Joseph
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What can happen in a country when extremists take over? This novel foresees its future
Shah Tazrian Ashrafi
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‘Shamal Days’: Marked by sorrow and self-loathing, this novel of neuroses is an absorbing read
Sahana Hegde
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‘Fifty-five Pillars, Red Walls’: Classic Hindi novel set in girls’ college gets English translation
Usha Priyamvada
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Diksha Basu’s ‘Destination Wedding’ shortlisted for the Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction
Diksha Basu
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Naheed Patel’s debut novel says a lot about its unlikeable narrator, and more about you, the reader
Gayathri Sankar
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A new novel paints an unusual world of cockfights, politics, rajahs – and gory violence
Sidharth Singh
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The loneliness of the expatriate Indian in West Asia lies at the heart of this novel
Sabin Iqbal
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Why American climate fiction is fuelling age-old stereotypes about modern migration
Bryan Yazell, The Conversation
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Biggles turns 122: Why those who grew up in the 20th Century can never forget the fictional pilot
Ajay Mankotia