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‘The Odd Book of Baby Names’: A haunting sense of loss runs beneath the bleak comedy of this novel
Saloni Sharma
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‘400 Days’: Despite its clichéd ingredients, Chetan Bhagat’s new novel is his most readable yet
Sahana Hegde
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Booker Prize: Damon Galgut’s ‘The Promise’ is a reminder of South Africa’s difficult journey
Daniel Conway, The Conversation
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‘Best Intentions’: Politics, fundamentalism, family, love, and society collide in this debut novel
Simran Dhir
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‘400 days’: Chetan Bhagat’s new novel targets Diwali sales with the formula of mystery meets romance
Chetan Bhagat
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Namita Gokhale’s new novel locates the Covid-19 crisis within the Indian joint family
Namita Gokhale
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Five of the best new crime novels to read this autumn (and one golden oldie)
Alec Charles, The Conversation
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Nawaaz Ahmed’s novel ‘Radiant Fugitives’ inspects troubled relationships but still offers hope
Saloni Sharma
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‘The Earthspinner’: Anuradha Roy’s new novel fluidly tells unconnected stories and overwhelms you
Gayathri Sankar
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Sally Rooney’s ‘Beautiful World, Where Are You’ uncovers confessions from ageing millennials
Isa Ayidh
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‘Earthspinner’: Anuradha Roy’s intricate new novel is centred on a potter and a horse he creates
Anuradha Roy
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‘Radiant Fugitives’: This novel is told from the point of view of a child at the moment of his birth
Nawaaz Ahmed
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‘Rajmohan’s Wife’: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s English novel was a true potboiler
Oindrila Mukherjee
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‘The Illuminated’: A mother and a daughter confront religious fundamentalism in this debut novel
Anindita Ghose
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Walter Scott at 250: So much more than a great historical novelist
Daniel Cook, The Conversation
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‘The Khan’: A successful London lawyer runs into her murdered father’s crime syndicate in this novel
Saima Mir
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Why Teju Cole’s ‘Open City’, published ten years ago, is a liberal arts and humanities novel
Rahul Jayaram
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A new novel paints an unusual world of cockfights, politics, rajahs – and gory violence
Sidharth Singh
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Ravinder Singh is back with a new romance, and it’s about a writer of romantic novels
Ravinder Singh
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What happens when you inherit trauma? This debut novel imagines answers to a troubling question
Naheed Phiroze Patel