London. Chatto & Windus. 2020. 346pp, 23.4 x 15.2cm. A very good paperback copy. "Nine-year-old Jai watches too many reality cop shows, thinks he's smarter than his friend Pari (even though she always gets top marks) and considers himself to be a better boss than Faiz (even though Faiz is..... More
United Kingdom: Cornerstone, 2014. 310pp, paperback. The wonderful fourth outing for Delhi detective Vish Puri - named 'the Indian Hercule Poirot' by the Financial Times. When India's Love Commandos rescue a young woman from a high-caste family who has been forbidden from marrying an untouchable, she looks set to live..... More
London. Mulholland Books & Hodder. 2017. 362pp, paperback. The second book in the heartwarming and charming Baby Ganesh series For centuries the Koh-i-Noor diamond has set man against man and king against king. Now part of the British Crown Jewels, the priceless gem is a prize that many have killed..... More
Melbourne. Brass Monkey Books. 2011. 156pp, paperback. A mother farewells her dead children on an unusual pilgrimage; a wife’s affair with an old schoolfriend brings unexpected joy and pain; a young domestic worker rediscovers the husband she thought she had lost. Mridula Koshy tells the stories of ordinary women in..... More
Melbourne. Transit Lounge. 2020. x + 293pp, 23.3 x 15.2 cm. Paperback copy. "An encounter with 'Elephants with Headlights' is a collision between east and west, modernity and tradition - between driverless cars and ancient lore - and a world that needs revolutionary reappraisal. In this world, Savitri, named after..... More
London. Vintage. 2018. 374pp, paperback. The fabulously wealthy kingdom of Sambalpore is home to tigers, elephants, diamond mines and the beautiful Palace of the Sun. But when the heir to the throne is assassinated in the presence of Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant `Surrender-not' Banerjee, they discover a kingdom riven..... More
London. Vintage. 2019. 332pp, paperback. "India, 1921. Captain Sam Wyndham is battling a serious addiction to opium that he must keep secret from his superiors in the Calcutta police force. But Wyndham finds himself in a tight spot when he stumbles across a corpse in an opium den. When he..... More
United Kingdom. Penguin Books Ltd., 2015. 339pp, paperback. This title was longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2016. Mirza Waheed's extraordinary new novel The Book of Gold Leaves is a heartbreaking love story set in war-torn Kashmir. In an ancient house in the city of Srinagar, Faiz..... More
