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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorDark Road to Darjeeling
Deanna Raybourn · 368 pages
The Henna Artist (First Time Trade)
Alka Joshi · 368 pages
Secret for a Nightingale
Victoria Holt · 415 pages
As a young girl in India, beautiful, high-spirited Susanna Pleydell had first became aware of her special gifts to soothe the sick. But she had sacrificed that calling when she married the dashing and sophisticated Aubrey St. Clare. When they return home to London, however, Aubrey has changed. Susanna discovers she has married a man with a weakness for opium and the occult. And even more menacing,
The Girl from the Tea Garden
Janet MacLeod Trotter · 464 pages
The Temple Dancer
John Speed · 366 pages
In seventeenth-century India, Maya, a high-priced dancer who has been bought for one of the most powerful men in Bijapur, faces dangerous obstacles in her caravan journey across the Mogul Empire to her new master.
East of the Sun
Julia Gregson · 602 pages
Autumn 1928. The Kaiser-i-Hind is en route to Bombay. In cabin D38, Viva Holloway, and inexperienced chaperone, feels as though she?s made a mistake. Her advert in The Lady had resulted in an assignment to escort three young charges to India. And overshadowing all three is the dangerously malevolent presence of Guy Glover. But nothing frightens Viva as much as her real reasons for the voyage.
Before the Rains
Dinah Jefferies · 409 pages
1930, Rajputana, India. Since her husband's death, 28-year-old photojournalist Eliza's only companion has been her camera. When the British Government send her to an Indian princely state to photograph the royal family, she's determined to make a name for herself. But when Eliza arrives at the palace she meets Jay, the Prince's handsome, brooding younger brother. Brought together by their desire t
The Duke of Shadows
Meredith Duran · 352 pages
From exotic sandstone palaces... Sick of tragedy, done with rebellion, Emmaline Martin vows to settle quietly into British Indian society. But when the pillars of privilege topple, her fiancé's betrayal leaves Emma no choice. She must turn for help to the one man whom she should not trust, but cannot resist: Julian Sinclair, the dangerous and dazzling heir to the Duke of Auburn. To the mar
Beneath a Marble Sky
John Shors · 334 pages
A Rising Man
Abir Mukherjee · 386 pages
Calcutta, 1919. Captain Sam Wyndham, former Scotland Yard detective, is a new arrival to Calcutta. Desperately seeking a fresh start after his experiences during the Great War, Wyndham has been recruited to head up a new post in the police force. He is immediately overwhelmed by the heady vibrancy of the tropical city, but with barely a moment to acclimatize or to deal with the ghosts that still h
The Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri · 406 pages
Brothers Subhash and Udayan Mitra pursue vastly different lives--Udayan in rebellion-torn Calcutta, Subhash in a quiet corner of America--until a shattering tragedy compels Subhash to return to India, where he endeavors to heal family wounds.
Death in Kashmir
M.M. Kaye · 332 pages
Mobnlit mountains, heart-stopping suspense, and sudden death -- all await you in Kashmir Sarah Parrish has traveled to the mountainous paradise of Kashmir for some skiing and much needed relaxation. But a pall is cast over the snow-capped peaks when two women in her party are found dead on the treacherous wintry slopes. Unable to shake off her conviction that these accidents were in fact mur
The Girl in the Garden
Kamala Nair · 305 pages
When Rakhee Singh is ten years old, her mother takes her from their Minnesota home to visit relatives in India. There she discovers a family secret that will haunt her. Only as a woman on the verge of marriage does Rakhee find the strength to confront the events of that summer and face the price of secrets.
Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen
Kavita Kane · 320 pages
The Folded Earth
Anuradha Roy · 272 pages
In a remote town in the Himalaya, Maya tries to put behind her a time of great sorrow. By day she teaches in a school and at night she types up drafts of a magnum opus by her landlord, a relic of princely India known to all as Diwan Sahib. Her bond with this eccentric, and her friendship with a peasant girl, Charu, give her the sense that she might be able to forge a new existence away from the de
Climbing the Stairs
Padma Venkatraman · 256 pages
A Flight Of Pigeons
Ruskin Bond · 152 pages
Rebel Queen
Michelle Moran · 354 pages
"When the British Empire sets its sights on India in the mid-nineteenth century, it expects a quick and easy conquest ... But when they arrive in the Kingdom of Jhansi, the British army is met with a surprising challenge. Instead of surrendering, Queen Lakshmi raises two armies--one male and one female--and rides into battle, determined to protect her country and her people. Although her soldiers
The Home and the World
Rabindranath Tagore, Sourindro Mohun Tagore
I mother, today there comes back to mind the vermilion mark at the parting of your hair, the sari which you used to wear, with its wide red border, and those wonderful eyes of yours, full of depth and peace. They came at the start of my life's journey, like the first streak of dawn, giving me golden provision to carry me on my way.
The Courtesan of Lucknow
Mirza Mohammad Hadi Ruswa
In a Far Country
Linda Holeman · 504 pages
Pree Fincastle, daughter of impoverished British missionaries in India, is left alone and destitute when tragedy strikes. Turned away by the Church, she embarks on a journey in search of Kai, the son of her mothers ayah, and the only person she can trust. But Kai is not the man Pree thought he was, and the secrets he holds will unlock the door to another world, another time and, shockingly, anothe
The Last Song Of Dusk
Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi · 304 pages
"Anuradha Patwardhan is a young woman of such legendary beauty the peacocks line up to bid her farewell when she leaves her family home to meet her future husband. As part of her dowry, she carries with her a gift for singing songs so alluring, it is said even the moon listens. Her suitor, Vardhmaan, is a well-to-do doctor so handsome, serious, and dashing that girls feign fevers to be examined by