India
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A Brief History of the Great Moghuls: India’s Most Flamboyant Rulers
- £10.00
- A paperback edition of a book, previously published in 1971 by Cape, recounting the history of the six Moghul emperors who ruled India for nearly two hundred years. Contains 52 colour pages and 78 black and white illustrations.
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A Chance to die: the life and legacy of Amy Carmichael (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- A Chance to Die is a vibrant portrayal of Amy Carmichael, an Irish missionary and writer who spent fiftyÐthree years in south India without furlough. There she became known as 'Amma', or 'mother', as she founded the Dohnavur Fellowship, a refuge for underprivileged children. AmyÕs life of obedience and courage…
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A Rising Man (Sam Wyndham)
- £25.00
- An exceptional historical crime novel' C.J. Sansom. India, 1919. Desperate for a fresh start, Captain Sam Wyndham arrives to take up an important post in Calcutta's police force. He is soon called to the scene of a horrifying murder. The victim was a senior official, and a note left in…
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A Suitable Boy (SIGNED)
- £250.00
- Acclaimed as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy remains, twenty years after publication, one of the most entrancing and spellbinding works of fiction yet written. A love story as well as the tale of a country awakening from long years of colonial…
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Bhowani Junction
- £15.00
- The tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India are grippingly evoked in John Masters' classic 'Bhowani Junction'. Set in the late 1940s and first published in 1954 in the wake of Partition, the novel has increased in stature over the years. 'Bhowani Junction', along with Masters' other…
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Caravan of Dreams
- £12.00
- Caravan of Dreams distills the essence of Eastern thought in a feast of stories, sayings, poems and allegories, collected by one of the worldÕs leading experts in Oriental philosophy. Idries Shah builds up a complete picture of a single consciousness, relating mythology to reality, illuminating historical patterns, and presenting philosophical…
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Collected Stories (Tagore)
- £9.00
- This collection combines some of Tagore's more popular stories like The Cabuliwallah with lesser known ones like The Son of Rashmani, all of them bound together by a common theme-human fallibility. Tagore impartially delineates the mistakes of his charac-ters, their impulsive generosity and even their unthinking cruelty towards their fellow…
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Coming Home (signed)
- £25.00
- Spring, 1947. In a few months' time the British flag will be lowered all over India, and with Independence thousands of those who made their lives there - as planters, civil servants, or in the Indian army - will be returning to England. Among those coming home, as everyone speaks…
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Family Matters (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Nariman Vakeel, a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower, beset by Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past, lives in a once-elegant apartment with his two middle-aged stepchildren. When his condition worsens he is forced to take up residence with Roxana, his own daughter, her husband, Yezad, and their two young…
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Heat and Dust
- £40.00
- The beautiful, spoiled and bored Olivia, married to a civil servant, outrages society in the tiny, suffocating town of Satipur by eloping with an Indian prince. Fifty years later, her step-granddaughter goes back to the heat, the dust and the squalor of the bazaars to solve the enigma of Olivia's…
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Pather Panchali: Song of the Road (Folio)
- £12.00
- In the idyllic village of the Abode of Contentment, Durga and her little brother, Opu, grow up in a world of woods, orchards and adventure. Nurtured on their aunt's songs and stories, they dream of secret magical lands, forbidden gardens and the distant railroad. The grown-up world of debts, resentment…
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Sacred Games
- £25.00
- Sartaj, the only Sikh inspector in the whole of Mumbai, is used to being identified by his turban, beard and the sharp cut of his trousers. But 'the silky Sikh' is now past forty, his marriage is over and his career prospects are on the slide. When Sartaj gets an…
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Sea of Poppies – a novel
- £50.00
- Sea of Poppies boasts a varied collection of characters to love and hate, and provides wonderfully detailed descriptions . . . utterly involving and piles on tension until the very last page' Sunday Times At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old…
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Spying for Empire: The Great Game in Central and South Asia 1757-1947
- £35.00
- The Great Game was the struggle between Russia and Britain for imperial influence over southern and central Asia, immortalised by Rudyard Kipling in his novel Kim. For the British, the threat to India s frontiers compelled them to dispatch diplomats, or more clandestine agents, to survey, map and monitor the…
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Staying On: a novel
- £30.00
- Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot, with its eccentric inhabitants and archaic rituals left over from the days of the…
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The Blue Bedspread: A novel
- £20.00
- Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award Winner of the Best First Book Commonwealth WritersÕ Award for the Eurasia region. In a house on a Calcutta street, lit by the half-light of a yellow street lamp, lies a baby, one day old, wrapped in its hospital towel. In the next…
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The Crescent Moon
- £30.00
- "The Crescent Moon" by Rabindranath Tagore is a collection of poems and verses written self-translated from the original Bengali, specifically during the period known for its spiritual and artistic exploration in literature. 1st published in the year he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913, this primarily reflects on…
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The Giant Crab and other tales told from Old India
- £35.00
- Rouse's collection of these short stories were based on the Buddhist collection called The Jātaka, about the Buddha's former births, and originally published in 1897 by David Nutt. This edition beautifully produced with Heath Robinson's illustations.
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The Jewel in the Crown
- £120.00
- India 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…
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The Moor’s Last Sigh
- £15.00
- Salman Rushdie's greatest novel' Sunday Times Moraes 'Moor' Zogoiby is the last in line of a crooked and fantastical dynasty of spice merchants and crime lords from Cochin. He is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As we travel with him on a route that takes him from India…
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THE NEAR AND THE FAR Containing The Root And The Flower & The Pool Of Vishnu
- £15.00
- Leopold Hamilton Myers (1881-1944) was a British novelist who took his own life during the war. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.[3] His trilogy/tetralogy The Root and the Flower, set in India at the time of Akbar, is his major work and was recognised by the…
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The Utopians: Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society
- £20.00
- Fascinating and richly documented . . . Few books manage to be so informative and so entertaining.' Ð Sunday Times. Santiniketan-Sriniketan in India, Dartington Hall in England, Atarashiki Mura in Japan, the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in France, the Bruderhof in Germany and Trabuco College in America:…
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The World Elsewhere and other stories
- £25.00
- Nirmal Verma (1929Ð2005) was a Hindi writer, novelist, activist and translator. He is credited as being one of the pioneers of the Nai Kahani (New Story) literary movement of Hindi literature, wherein his first collection of stories, Parinde (Birds) is considered its first signature. This anthology collects a number of…
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The World of Nagaraj
- £10.00
- Narayan's 14th novel to be set in the imaginary town of Malgudi is the tale of Nagaraj, a contentedly aimless man whose only mission in life is to write a great treatise on the sanskrit scholar Narada. His comfortable existence of writing and drinking coffee and observing the world from…
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A Brief History of the Great Moghuls: India’s Most Flamboyant Rulers
- £10.00
- A paperback edition of a book, previously published in 1971 by Cape, recounting the history of the six Moghul emperors who ruled India for nearly two hundred years. Contains 52 colour pages and 78 black and white illustrations.
- Add to basket
-
A Chance to die: the life and legacy of Amy Carmichael (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- A Chance to Die is a vibrant portrayal of Amy Carmichael, an Irish missionary and writer who spent fiftyÐthree years in south India without furlough. There she became known as 'Amma', or 'mother', as she founded the Dohnavur Fellowship, a refuge for underprivileged children. AmyÕs life of obedience and courage…
- Add to basket
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A Rising Man (Sam Wyndham)
- £25.00
- An exceptional historical crime novel' C.J. Sansom. India, 1919. Desperate for a fresh start, Captain Sam Wyndham arrives to take up an important post in Calcutta's police force. He is soon called to the scene of a horrifying murder. The victim was a senior official, and a note left in…
- Add to basket
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A Suitable Boy (SIGNED)
- £250.00
- Acclaimed as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy remains, twenty years after publication, one of the most entrancing and spellbinding works of fiction yet written. A love story as well as the tale of a country awakening from long years of colonial…
- Add to basket
-
Bhowani Junction
- £15.00
- The tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India are grippingly evoked in John Masters' classic 'Bhowani Junction'. Set in the late 1940s and first published in 1954 in the wake of Partition, the novel has increased in stature over the years. 'Bhowani Junction', along with Masters' other…
- Add to basket
-
Caravan of Dreams
- £12.00
- Caravan of Dreams distills the essence of Eastern thought in a feast of stories, sayings, poems and allegories, collected by one of the worldÕs leading experts in Oriental philosophy. Idries Shah builds up a complete picture of a single consciousness, relating mythology to reality, illuminating historical patterns, and presenting philosophical…
- Add to basket
-
Collected Stories (Tagore)
- £9.00
- This collection combines some of Tagore's more popular stories like The Cabuliwallah with lesser known ones like The Son of Rashmani, all of them bound together by a common theme-human fallibility. Tagore impartially delineates the mistakes of his charac-ters, their impulsive generosity and even their unthinking cruelty towards their fellow…
- Add to basket
-
Coming Home (signed)
- £25.00
- Spring, 1947. In a few months' time the British flag will be lowered all over India, and with Independence thousands of those who made their lives there - as planters, civil servants, or in the Indian army - will be returning to England. Among those coming home, as everyone speaks…
- Add to basket
-
Family Matters (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Nariman Vakeel, a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower, beset by Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past, lives in a once-elegant apartment with his two middle-aged stepchildren. When his condition worsens he is forced to take up residence with Roxana, his own daughter, her husband, Yezad, and their two young…
- Add to basket
-
Heat and Dust
- £40.00
- The beautiful, spoiled and bored Olivia, married to a civil servant, outrages society in the tiny, suffocating town of Satipur by eloping with an Indian prince. Fifty years later, her step-granddaughter goes back to the heat, the dust and the squalor of the bazaars to solve the enigma of Olivia's…
- Add to basket
-
Pather Panchali: Song of the Road (Folio)
- £12.00
- In the idyllic village of the Abode of Contentment, Durga and her little brother, Opu, grow up in a world of woods, orchards and adventure. Nurtured on their aunt's songs and stories, they dream of secret magical lands, forbidden gardens and the distant railroad. The grown-up world of debts, resentment…
- Add to basket
-
Sacred Games
- £25.00
- Sartaj, the only Sikh inspector in the whole of Mumbai, is used to being identified by his turban, beard and the sharp cut of his trousers. But 'the silky Sikh' is now past forty, his marriage is over and his career prospects are on the slide. When Sartaj gets an…
- Add to basket
-
Sea of Poppies – a novel
- £50.00
- Sea of Poppies boasts a varied collection of characters to love and hate, and provides wonderfully detailed descriptions . . . utterly involving and piles on tension until the very last page' Sunday Times At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old…
- Add to basket
-
Spying for Empire: The Great Game in Central and South Asia 1757-1947
- £35.00
- The Great Game was the struggle between Russia and Britain for imperial influence over southern and central Asia, immortalised by Rudyard Kipling in his novel Kim. For the British, the threat to India s frontiers compelled them to dispatch diplomats, or more clandestine agents, to survey, map and monitor the…
- Add to basket
-
Staying On: a novel
- £30.00
- Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot, with its eccentric inhabitants and archaic rituals left over from the days of the…
- Add to basket
-
The Blue Bedspread: A novel
- £20.00
- Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award Winner of the Best First Book Commonwealth WritersÕ Award for the Eurasia region. In a house on a Calcutta street, lit by the half-light of a yellow street lamp, lies a baby, one day old, wrapped in its hospital towel. In the next…
- Add to basket
-
The Crescent Moon
- £30.00
- "The Crescent Moon" by Rabindranath Tagore is a collection of poems and verses written self-translated from the original Bengali, specifically during the period known for its spiritual and artistic exploration in literature. 1st published in the year he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913, this primarily reflects on…
- Add to basket
-
The Giant Crab and other tales told from Old India
- £35.00
- Rouse's collection of these short stories were based on the Buddhist collection called The Jātaka, about the Buddha's former births, and originally published in 1897 by David Nutt. This edition beautifully produced with Heath Robinson's illustations.
- Add to basket
-
The Jewel in the Crown
- £120.00
- India 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…
- Add to basket
-
The Moor’s Last Sigh
- £15.00
- Salman Rushdie's greatest novel' Sunday Times Moraes 'Moor' Zogoiby is the last in line of a crooked and fantastical dynasty of spice merchants and crime lords from Cochin. He is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As we travel with him on a route that takes him from India…
- Add to basket
-
THE NEAR AND THE FAR Containing The Root And The Flower & The Pool Of Vishnu
- £15.00
- Leopold Hamilton Myers (1881-1944) was a British novelist who took his own life during the war. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.[3] His trilogy/tetralogy The Root and the Flower, set in India at the time of Akbar, is his major work and was recognised by the…
- Add to basket
-
The Utopians: Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society
- £20.00
- Fascinating and richly documented . . . Few books manage to be so informative and so entertaining.' Ð Sunday Times. Santiniketan-Sriniketan in India, Dartington Hall in England, Atarashiki Mura in Japan, the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in France, the Bruderhof in Germany and Trabuco College in America:…
- Add to basket
-
The World Elsewhere and other stories
- £25.00
- Nirmal Verma (1929Ð2005) was a Hindi writer, novelist, activist and translator. He is credited as being one of the pioneers of the Nai Kahani (New Story) literary movement of Hindi literature, wherein his first collection of stories, Parinde (Birds) is considered its first signature. This anthology collects a number of…
- Add to basket
-
The World of Nagaraj
- £10.00
- Narayan's 14th novel to be set in the imaginary town of Malgudi is the tale of Nagaraj, a contentedly aimless man whose only mission in life is to write a great treatise on the sanskrit scholar Narada. His comfortable existence of writing and drinking coffee and observing the world from…
- Add to basket