Books

House of Spirits

Antara Datta

A tapestry of two families, one upper-class and the other desperately poor, united by happenstance

Amit Majmudar: ‘There Are No Atheists in the Trenches’

Amit Majmudar’s tragicomic novel of friendship between a Hindu and a Muslim, during the First World War, shows a way to reconciliation and healing. The author in conversation with Urvashi Bahuguna

The Self-Isolated Sleuth

Arup K Chatterjee

What Sherlock Holmes can tell us about surviving pandemics

Future Present

Andaleeb Wajid

Lavanya Lakshminarayan’s debut work of fiction tells of a time when nations have fallen and corporations are running the world

An Outsider’s Gaze

Sharanya Manivannan

A contemporary ethnographic work on isolated tribes that trespasses too often

Ode to Nature

Vaishali Rawat

A journey across Asia’s most beautiful wildernesses

Harlan Coben: ‘I like starting with a placid lake. I can then just drop a small pebble and see what happens’

Lhendup G Bhutia

In his latest novel, Harlan Coben writes about a feral child being adopted. The master of the suburban thriller tells Lhendup G Bhutia why pleasant families make for compelling stories

Mantel’s Genius

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

The final novel in the Thomas Cromwell trilogy proves how the kingmaker can make for a more compelling story than the king

Tinker a Tale

Sophia Khan

The everyday ingenuity we see around us is at the heart of steampunk, a genre defined by its combination of modern technology and anachronistic settings