Fiction
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Mysteries, Mumbai and monsters: This Young Adult novel has all the makings of a pageturner
Shabnam Minwalla
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Darjeeling then and Darjeeling now: Spot the difference in Nepali writer Indra Bahadur Rai’s novel
Indra Bahadur Rai
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A reader’s guide to the five books on the fiction shortlist of the Crossword Book Jury Awards
Harsimran Gill
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‘Mara and Dann’: Doris Lessing’s futuristic novel embodies a journey away from our dismal world
Rajat Chaudhuri
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These may be the stories you don’t know about women you know
Neha Bhatt
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Why is love furious, fleeting, and foreign? Ask Janice Pariat’s new novel
Apoorva Sripathi
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Ruskin Bond has published a collection of his finest novellas for the ultimate blast from the past
Ruskin Bond
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‘Poetry should be listed under fiction’: Watch Jeet Thayil on ‘The Book of Chocolate Saints’
Scroll Staff
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Why HarperCollins India is pushing hard to sign up the biggest names in Indian commercial fiction
Harsimran Gill
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It’s hard to believe this novel is by the man who wrote the TV hits ‘Mad Men’ and ‘Sopranos’
Ankita Chawla
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Here comes India’s own Malory Towers or St Clare’s: A new boarding school series
A Coven
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Why are so many women (and some men) making ‘Cat Person’ the first viral short story of the net?
Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan
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This book about books (and readers) can only make you love books (all over again)
Kavitha Rao
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‘On The Road’: Jack Kerouac’s madcap novel about wild people in a car gave a voice to a generation
Rajat Chaudhuri
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‘She looked at him angrily’: Six rules for writing an ‘urban thriller’ from a successful author
Akash Verma
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Bad Sex in Fiction award: How to write your romp and still ensure you don’t win it
Catherine Cole, The Conversation
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Elena Ferrante is writing again, over a year after a journalist ‘unmasked’ her identity
Scroll Staff
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Was Padmavati a powerless victim or the maker of her own destiny? A new novel tells a story
Anuja Chandramouli
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In Janice Pariat’s new novel, a woman’s story is told by nine different characters from her life
Janice Pariat
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Giving birth or taking care? This novel raises troubling questions about parenthood
Urvashi Bahuguna