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  • A Corpse in Calcutta

    by Allan Scarfe ...
    When Phillip Cutler, a young Australian, takes a photograph in Calcutta he intrudes into a vortex of murder and political intrigue, the potential to trigger a war. His holiday turns into a terror-stricken flight across the plains of the Ganges and through the streets of Delhi.From the President’s palace to the peasant’s pallet, no-one is what they seem. Cutler is deceived by both enemies and ... Read more

    $3.93 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • J P His Biography

    by Allan Scarfe ...
    This revised edition brings to a close the fascinating life story of Jayaprakash Narayan, one of the last outstanding moral and political figures who carried forward Gandhi’s legacy of non-violent mass struggle and village self-sufficiency into post-Independence India. The biography vividly illustrates JP’s infinite capacity for reflection and change, working relentlessly as he did for issues as ... Read more

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  • The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra

    by Vaseem Khan ...
    Series Book 1 - A Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation
    On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra inherits two unexpected mysteries—an elephant and an unsolved murder.The first is the case of a drowned boy, whose suspicious death no one seems to want solved. And the second is a baby elephant.As his search for clues takes him across the teeming city of Mumbai, from its grand high rises to its sprawling slums and deep into its murky underworld, ... Read more

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  • The Jewel In The Crown

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    BOOK ONE OF THE RAJ QUARTETIndia 1942: everything is in flux. World War II has shown that the British are not invincible and the self-rule lobby is gaining many supporters. Against this background, Daphne Manners, a young English girl, is brutally raped in the Bibighat Gardens. The racism, brutality and hatred launched upon the head of her young Indian lover echo the dreadful violence perpetrated ... Read more

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  • The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown

    by Vaseem Khan ...
    Series series A Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation
    In the second instalment of a charming mystery series, a Mumbai-based investigator and his elephant partner are on the hunt for the Queen of England's stolen Crown Jewels.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 to possess.So when the Crown Jewels go on display in ... Read more

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  • The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star

    by Vaseem Khan ...
    Series Book 3 - A Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation
    The third installment in a charming mystery series set in Mumbai, featuring an inspector and his inherited elephant partner, who must track down a missing Bollywood star.Mumbai is a city that thrives on extravagant spectacles and larger-than-life characters—but as Chopra is about to discover, even in the city of dreams, there is no guarantee of a happy ending.Rising star and incorrigible playboy ... Read more

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  • Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?

    Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardAnita Rau Badami's acclaimed novel Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? chronicles the stories of three women, linked in love and tragedy, over a span of fifty years, sweeping from the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 to the explosion of Air India flight 182 off the coast of Ireland in 1985. Alive with Badami's warmth and humanity, and brimming with ... Read more

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  • Sacred Games

    A Novel

    Now a Netflix original series"SACRED GAMES [is] as hard to put down as it is to pick up."— New York Times Book Review"Bold, fresh and big…SACRED GAMES deserves praise for its ambitions but also for its terrific achievement"— Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air.Seven years in the making, Sacred Games is an epic of exceptional richness and power. Vikram Chandra's novel draws the ... ... Read more

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  • Tibetan Foothold

    by Dervla Murphy ...
    After her epic journey from Ireland to India by bicycle in 1963, Dervla Murphy immersed herself in the life of the sub-continent, working for six months in an orphanage for Tibetan children in Northern India. She fell in love with the 'Tiblets' - the cheerful, uncomplaining, independent and affectionate children of the new Tibet-in-exile - but she also managed to explore India's Tibetan frontier, ... Read more

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  • Under a Monsoon Cloud: An Inspector Ghote Mystery

    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    What had until recently been a police sergeant is now lying at Ghote's feet bleeding its last. An accident it may have been, but Ghote saw exactly what happened, and it's his duty to arrest the killer. Isn't it? Or can the inspector better serve his beloved police force by disposing of the body, by concealing a crime? And if he does, will he manage to keep his terrible secret?As an Inquiry begins ... Read more

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  • The Waiting Land

    A Spell in Nepal

    by Dervla Murphy ...
    The Waiting Land is an exploration of Nepal by a feisty, generous-hearted young Irish woman in the spring of 1965. The third in a series of books tracing Dervla's involvement with the self-sufficient mountain cultures of the Himalayas, she is lured by the chance to work again with Tibetan refugees - this time a group of five hundred lodged in tents in the remote Pokhara valley. Once established in ... Read more

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