In 1880, eight-year-old Raju and his family board a ship from India to work on the sugar cane plantations in South Africa.Little does Raju realise how this new journey to the ‘Dark Continent’ of Africa will change his life forever. Trapped by poverty and forced to grow up quickly, Raju works under a tyrannical hostile environment, facing the harsh realities of what it means to be an ‘indentured labourer’.One summer, Raju meets eight-year-old Sipho, an African child who works ...

Twelve-year-old Pooja has never done anything this crazy in her life stealing a book, lying or skipping classes OMG! Who has she become? Pooja is the perfect student, the perfect daughter with the perfect grades. But this is what happens when your parents send you packing to an international boarding school without your permission!A few years ago a Magic Man told Pooja, “Soon your life will change. The curse of the Age of Darkness will only disappear if you help unravel the mystery ins...

One day can change your life...A heartwarming novel set during a street party for the Queen's jubileeIt's 1977, the day of the Queen's Silver Jubilee, when a photographer captures a moment forever: a festive street party with bunting and Union Jacks fluttering in the breeze and, right in the centre of the frame, a small Asian boy staring intensely at the camera. The photo becomes infamous when it is adopted as a symbol of everything that is great and good ab...

In her twenties, journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty. So when an airport beggar read her palm and told her she would return to India—and for love—she screamed, “Never!” and gave the country, and him, the finger.But eleven years later, the prophecy comes true. When the love of Sarah’s life is posted to India, she quits her dream job to move to the most polluted city on earth, New Delhi. For Sarah t...

A hilarious, escapist romcom from the author of CONFESSIONS OF A FORTY-SOMETHING F##K UP!Love is the greatest mystery of all . . .Meet Ruby Miller: a writer who makes happy-ever-afters happen. Until she discovers her fiancé is a lying cheat, and loses her faith in love. When her sister invites her on a beach holiday to Goa to forget about him, Ruby jumps on a plane . . . and headfirst into an extraordinary adventure.Stolen bags, a...

Another great title in the best-selling Go Girl series. Ching Ching can’t wait for Christmas. She loves wrapping presents, looking at twinkling fairy lights and eating yummy treats. But then she finds out that Christmas can be sad and lonely for some people. What can Ching Ching do to help?

Nine-year-old Meena can’t wait to grow up and break free from her parents. But, as the daughter of the only Punjabi family in the mining village of Tollington, her struggle for independence is different from most.Meena wants fishfingers and chips, not chapati and dhal; she wants an English Christmas, not the usual interminable Punjabi festivities – but more than anything, she wants to roam the backyards of working-class Tollington with feisty Anita Rutter and her gang.Blond...

HAS YOUR LIFE BEEN A FAILURE? LET'S MAKE YOUR DEATH A SUCCESS.With the twenty-first century just a distant memory and the world in environmental chaos, many people have lost the will to live. And business is brisk at The Suicide Shop.Run by the Tuvache family for generations, the shop offers a huge range of ways to end it all, with something to fit every budget.The Tuvaches go mournfully about their business, proud of the morbid service they provide. Until ...

"Congratulations," said Dr Chawla. "You are having the malaria."And so begins Russell McGilton's comic adventure as he attempts to cycle from Bombay to Beijing in the quest of writing his travel opus.Pedalling furiously for China, McGilton's tour de force rides the reader through an honest handlebar view on the absurdities and fragile wonders of travel from the saddle. He rides, he falls, he gets chased by wild dogs, eats things he shouldn't, battles tropic...

Evening Standard's Wander List Guide to 2019 GetawaysGuardian's Best Summer Books, 2018"A beautiful, brilliant modern classic." Sabrina Mahfouz , GuardianNeha has just been diagnosed with the same terminal cancer that killed her mother. Was this her destiny? She codes a computer program to find out, one that intricately maps out her entire life and the lives of those closest to her: her dad...

August 15th, 2047. Happy Hundredth Birthday, India ... On the eve of Mother India's hundredth birthday, ten people are doing ten very different things. In the next few weeks, all these people will be swept together to decide the fate of the nation. From gangsters to government advisors, from superstitious street-boys to scientists to computer-generated soap stars, River of Gods shows a civilization in flux - a river of gods.RIVER OF GODS is an epic SF novel as sprawling, vibrant an...

A tremendous first novel from an exciting young author.Feted for its electric chaos, the city of Bombay also accommodates pockets of calm. In one such enclave, Mohan, a middle-aged letter writer – the last of a dying profession – sits under a banyan tree in Fort, furnishing missives for village migrants, disenchanted lovers, and when pickings are slim, filling in money order forms. But Mohan's true passion is collecting second-hand books; he's particularly attached to novels with m...