fiction
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Read at home: Meet Amma Bi and Jumman in this short story by actor Pankaj Kapur
Pankaj Kapur
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Read at home: Imagine a place run entirely by women. A man discovers it – and is appalled
Amita Kanekar
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NYT No 1 bestseller Sarah J Maas is back with a new fantasy series: ‘House of Earth and Blood’
Sarah J Maas
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This novel throws new light on the world of the living by showing us how a dead man might see it
Harsimran Gill
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‘The Play Of Dolls’: Kunwar Narain’s early short fiction also shows why he was a legendary poet
Kunwar Narain
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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