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ONE OF THE OBSERVER 'S 'TEN DEBUT NOVELISTS' OF 2021 'Powerful and heartbreaking' OBSERVER 'Gripping... Razak painstakingly paints a portrait of a family; their rituals, their private languages, their shared...

Indian diplomacy, a veteran told Shashi Tharoor many years ago, is like the love-making of an elephant: it is conducted at a very high level, accompanied by much bellowing, and...

WINNER OF THE 2025 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern...

The book titled Christ in India: Essays Towards a Hindu-Christian Dialogue by the author Bede Griffiths. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The Indian state of West Bengal is home to one of the world's most vibrant traditions of goddess worship. The year's biggest holidays are devoted to the goddesses Durga and...

A champion of civil rights and a leading light in India's struggle for independence, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was one of the iconic figures of the 20th century. He is best...

'It was not predictable in any sense and kept me so gripped I could not put it down' Meet Kavithri. Outcast. Underdog. Survivor. Kavi is a Taemu. Her people, once...

In a series of legal battles starting in 1882, South Asian Muslims made up of modernists, traditionalists, reformists, Shias and Sunnis attempted to modify the laws relating to their places...

The nine centuries described in this book, ending with the political upheavals of the 7th century CE, coincide with a golden age of Indian civilization. In the context of political...

India's greatest curries, made easy! From world-famous classics to lesser-known regional specialties, 50 Easy Indian Curries is a collection of some of India's easiest (and most delicious) curries. With recipes...

Simple, fresh and delicious East and South India-inspired recipes with a modern twist for flavourful, everyday snacks, dinners and desserts. From the 1.5 million-copy bestselling author of The Roasting Tin...

Ramachandra Guha is one of the world's foremost historians and writers on cricket. Here he is offering three books to Picador. The first will be an Indian history of a...

A highly entertaining and moving journal chronicling J. R. Ackerley's time in India In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the Private Secretary...

'A sparkling debut, full of tenderness and mischief. It's as if Roth and Narayan had a baby' - Aatish Taseer It is a day of triumph for Appa and Amma,...

'If you read one book about India, read this one.' - Geeta Anand, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of The Cure 'Mountain Tales is a remarkable feat of immersive reporting and...

Written for beginners this ancient Shambhala guide considers all the major principles of yoga including diet, morality, mantras, and Hatha Yoga itself. Special atte ntion is given to more esoteric...

The 40th-anniversary edition of the beloved classic book on Indian home cooking, with 11 new recipes and gorgeous illustrations. Originally published in 1982, Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cookery was the book...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A love letter to Bombay told through food and stories, including their legendary black daal' Yotam Ottolenghi At long last, Dishoom share the secrets to their...

' Riveting. This highly readable and entertaining book ... finally sets the record straight on the history of the Koh-i-Noor ' Tarquin Hall, Sunday Times ' Dynamic, original and supremely...

LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 'Beautifully written, ridiculously erudite, warm and open-hearted' The Times 'Compelling and poignant' Guardian 'This is travel writing at its best' Observer Internationally bestselling William...

THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Waterstones and TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR A SPECTATOR and History Today BOOK OF THE YEAR A revolutionary new history of the diffusion...

Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year meets The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Where'd You Go Bernadette in this witty novel about coming of (middle) age and discovering that you...

_________________ OVER 15 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE _________________ ' Eat Pray Love has been passed from woman to woman like the secret of life' - Sunday Times 'A defining work...

The gripping story of Indira Gandhi's premiership-and the profound influence she had on India Indira Gandhi's ascent as prime minister of India in 1966 was entirely unforeseen. But she soon...

A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan "Eloquently discusses the making of India and Pakistan after British rule on the subcontinent...

'An important contribution ... Delving lucidly into the most significant ideological battles of the era, this book deftly outlines the thinking and dialogue that laid the foundations of the Republic...

The New India is the unforgettable account of the struggle between modern forces and ancient ideas to shape the young country's destiny. It reveals a picture of a nation on...

How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and...

A showcase of the best food in India today with authentic recipes. Special sections fold out to reveal photographs of spices, seafood, sweets, street food, breads and tea.

🌟One of the Telegraph 's 50 BEST CHILDREN'S BOOKS OF ALL TIME🌟The stunning novel from Jamila Gavin, bestselling and award-winning author of Coram Boy and The Wheel of Surya ."Flawless"...

Delve into this debut fantasy and journey through the Spice Gates as Amir, a young man born with the ability to travel between the eight kingdoms, unravels the power that...

This book tells the story of one man's adventures with an elephant. There is no better way to see India than on the back of an elephant, which is exactly...

Evie and Maryam are in the same class at school, uneasily thrown together at the start of a new term as they start a project together looking into their family...

The New India is the unforgettable account of the struggle between modern forces and ancient ideas to shape the young country's destiny. It reveals a picture of a nation on...

Spiritual adventurers, philosophical monks or religious transvestites, the Sadhus of India are worshipped by Hindus as representatives of the gods. Liberated from physical concerns, these mystics form a vital and...

The book titled Paul Scott's Raj by the author Robin Moore. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Snow leopards and Cossacks can both be dangerous. But to young British officers in India in the nineteenth century there was only one thing more exciting than shooting wild game...

Originally published in 1929, this is Stein's account of the expeditions he mounted following in the footsteps of Alexander the Great during the triumphant invasion that, interestingly, left no trace...

The pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India's independence movement, pioneer of non-violent resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience (satyagraha), honoured in India as 'father of nation', Mohandas K....

The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries - from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize-winning,...

The House Next to the Factory shows a changing India over three decades through the lens of one family and the house that they live in. Life in the house...

This is a book of narrative reportage six years in the making. It describes how ideology and technological ambition have reshaped India's nascent democracy and follows a diverse cast of...

It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...

In late 1941, President Roosevelt agonised over the rapid advances of the Japanese forces in Asia; they seemed unstoppable. He foresaw their intentions of taking India and linking up with...

The book titled Mary Martin: a Double Life: Australia - India 1915-1973 by the author Julie Lewis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE A FINALIST FOR THE MOORE PRIZE A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A gripping and rigorous crime story about the murder of...

A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE A FINALIST FOR THE MOORE PRIZE A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A gripping and rigorous crime story about the murder of...