India
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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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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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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…
- 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
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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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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:…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket