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The Glass Palace
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Amitav Ghosh |
Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create … |
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Shalimar
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Rebecca Ryman |
A novel of 19th century India featuring romantic intrigue and political rivalry between Britain, Russia and China. The protagonists are a British couple in a marriage of convenience which grows into … |
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Night Train to Jamalpur
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Andrew Martin |
North East India, 1923. On the broiling Night Mail from Calcutta to Jamalpur, a man is shot dead in a first class compartment. Detective Inspector Jim Stringer was sleeping in the next compartment al… |
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With Clive in India, or, The beginnings of an empire
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G. A. Henty |
Sent to India to make his fortune as a merchant, an English youth returns home after a ten-year adventure in which he makes a fortune and receives military honors while assisting the triumph of Briti… |
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The Himalayan summer
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T. Louise Brown |
Ellie Jeffreys arrives in Darjeeling with her British husband, en route to Kathmandu. They have ten-month-old, golden-haired twins, and despite appearing to be a happy family, Ellie's relationship wi… |
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Ragtime in Simla
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Barbara Cleverly |
Simla 1922. While the rest of India bakes in the hot season, up in the pine-scented coolness of the Himalayan hills the English have recreated a vision of home. Here are half-timbered houses, amateur… |
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Sharpe's Triumph
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Bernard Cornwell |
E-book Extras: Bernard Cornwell On: The Origin of Richard Sharpe; Sharpe's Adventures; Sharpe's Trafalgar.The next installment in Bernard Cornwell’s wildly popular Sharpe series.Richard Sharpe and th… |
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The last Kashmiri rose
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Barbara Cleverly |
"It is 1922, in Panikhat, located on the plains fifty miles from Calcutta. In March of each of the past five years the wife of a cavalry officer in the Bengal Greys has met with a violent and terrify… |
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The half-hearted
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John Buchan |
In the closing years of the 19th century, Lewis Haystoun, a dilettante and coward, falls for Alice Wishart, a guest at a Scottish country house party hosted by Lady Manorwater. Ill at ease in his own… |
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