Amit Chaudhuri’s new novel is interested not in events but the interruptions

A majestic celebration of the cultural diversity of the subcontinent

The undiminished solar power of Kazuo Ishiguro’s imagination

Mirza Ghalib is a detective in this historical novel by Raza Mir

An immigrant’s tale in London raises ethical questions

In the final instalment of the Jesus trilogy, JM Coetzee shows that everything we do and desire culminates in loss

Isabel Allende’s new novel follows exiles in search of a home in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War

The romance of south Mumbai

Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys bears powerful witness to brutality and oppression that are all too real

A harrowing and fully realised response to toxic events arising from urban decay

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…