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The first English novel was about talking cats and its author had to keep it hidden for 10 years
Frances Babbage, The Conversation Rachel Stenner, The Conversation
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‘Pyjamas Are Forgiving’: An excerpt from Twinkle Khanna’s new book (and her first novel)
Twinkle Khanna
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A mother-son duo escape to Paris from financial ruin and scandal in Patrick deWitt’s new novel
Patrick deWitt
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‘It is the story of India itself’: Abdullah Khan on a debut novel that was 20 years in the making
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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This Patna novel is not just about differences and disappointments, it’s a tribute to the ’90s
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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‘Eating Wasps’: The soul of a writer lingers after her suicide in Anita Nair’s new novel
Anita Nair
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‘Acid’: A hallucinatory novel that overturns traditional ideas of family and motherhood
Apoorva Sripathi
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With his new novel ‘Jasmine Days’, Benyamin once again skilfully presents fiction as fact
Trisha Gupta
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Watch the ‘trailer’ for Chetan Bhagat’s new novel, an ‘unlove story’ titled ‘The Girl in Room 105’
Scroll Staff
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Emma in Delhi: Mahesh Rao’s new novel sets Jane Austen’s classic amongst the capital’s swish set
Mahesh Rao
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‘English, August’ is getting a special 30-year edition. But does it still hold up in 2018?
Supriya Nair
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Manu Bhattathiri’s fictional town of Karuthupuzha returns. It’s still Malgudi for the 21st Century
Suneetha Balakrishnan
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‘Latitudes of Longing’: An exceptional debut novel that shows nothing (and nobody) is set in stone
Urvashi Bahuguna
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Past and present go head to head in Bulbul Sharma’s novel set in the quiet mountain village of Shaya
Bulbul Sharma
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The Arab Spring tears apart the life of a young radio jockey in Benyamin’s new novel
Benyamin
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‘Half The Night is Gone’: This unmistakably great novel stops short with its political provocations
Supriya Nair
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Goa’s liberation from the Portuguese forms the backdrop for this novel about freedom and identity
Sophia Lorena Benjamin
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In this contemporary novel, Tulsidas’s Ramayana is a leitmotif
Amitabha Bagchi
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This debut novel captures family life in Karachi as well as Pakistan’s most tumultuous decade
Urvashi Bahuguna
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Pioneering writer Agyeya’s classic novel ‘Shekhar’ was a trailblazer in Hindi literature
Agyeya