Opening lines: This is how (some of) the novels on the longlist of the 2018 Man Booker Prize begin

Scroll Staff

· Jul 25, 2018 · 08:30 am

Past and present go head to head in Bulbul Sharma’s novel set in the quiet mountain village of Shaya

Bulbul Sharma

· Jul 24, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Oceans and mountains, clairvoyants and ghosts, magic and reality all meet in this astonishing debut

Shubhangi Swarup

· Jul 23, 2018 · 08:30 am

Daman Singh’s ‘Kitty’s War’ explores lives and love in a railway town while two wars rage

Suneetha Balakrishnan

· Jul 22, 2018 · 08:30 am

A novel inspired by the deadly 1970 Bhola cyclone criss-crosses five decades of Bangladesh’s history

Arif Anwar

· Jul 20, 2018 · 08:30 am

The Arab Spring tears apart the life of a young radio jockey in Benyamin’s new novel

Benyamin

· Jul 19, 2018 · 08:30 am

William Faulkner wrote this novel after the markets crash of 1929. No wonder it talks of modern ills

Sarah Gleeson-White, The Conversation

· Jul 18, 2018 · 06:30 pm

In this novel, a Bangladeshi woman sets out to find out whether her husband has really been hanged

Anisul Hoque

· Jul 17, 2018 · 08:30 am

What does a young woman in Karachi do when she cannot go to college? Become a model, says this novel

Shandana Minhas

· Jul 16, 2018 · 06:30 pm

What happens when a teenager meets her personal jinn? This YA novel is anything but a fairytale

Sayali Palekar

· Jul 15, 2018 · 06:30 pm

Fake news, faeces, fear: Aditya Iyengar’s Mahabharata strips greatness and godliness from the war

Urmi Chanda-Vaz

· Jul 15, 2018 · 12:30 pm

‘Half The Night is Gone’: This unmistakably great novel stops short with its political provocations

Supriya Nair

· Jul 14, 2018 · 08:30 am

Goa’s liberation from the Portuguese forms the backdrop for this novel about freedom and identity

Sophia Lorena Benjamin

· Jul 13, 2018 · 05:30 pm

We know the story of the Buddha, but what about his wife Yasodhara?

Vanessa R Sasson

· Jul 12, 2018 · 08:30 am

Hallucinogens, two women living together, and ghosts from the past mark this deeply disturbing debut

Sangeetha Sreenivasan

· Jul 10, 2018 · 08:30 am

The teenagers who star in Paro Anand’s new YA book are all ‘othered’ by their friends

Paro Anand

· Jul 09, 2018 · 05:30 pm

‘I wanted to write a Mahabharata novel that spoke about the nature of masculinity’

Jai Arjun Singh

· Jul 07, 2018 · 07:45 am

The Independence movement and World War II rock a sleepy railway town in this historical novel

Daman Singh

· Jul 06, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Real estate woes, a midlife crisis and big, bad Delhi feature in this darkly comic debut novel

Chanchal Sanyal

· Jul 05, 2018 · 05:30 pm

A hidden arsenal from the ’93 Mumbai blasts resurfaces to deadly effect in Hussain Zaidi’s new novel

S Hussain Zaidi

· Jul 04, 2018 · 06:30 pm