Scottish Literary Connections to India and Nepal
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Add to BasketBlue Eyes - - Paperback
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Set in Gandhi's volatile India, the story opens with Anjali, aged 18, about to be burnt alive on her husband's funeral pyre - the conventional widowAEs fate. After a dramatic escape, things go badly wrong and she embarks on an extraordinary, often terrifying, journey of discovery. -
Add to BasketIndian English - - Paperback
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This text is a descriptive account of English as it is used in India. English is a second language to most of its speakers. In its 400-year history it has acquired its own character, yet still looks to native varieties of English for norms. -
Add to BasketThe Ganga And The Tay: A Poetic Conversation Between The Ganges And The Tay - - Paperback
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This is an epic concrete poem in which the River Ganges and the River Tay relate the historical importance of the ties between India and Scotland and their contemporary relevance as a natural symbol of continuity and peace. -
Add to BasketTwice Born - - Paperback
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Have you ever read a book about Glasgow seen through the eyes of first generation Indians? 'Twice Born' does just that. It follows the life of a young couple from India and their experiences in Glasgow, peeling away the layers and presenting a simmering progress of their life. -
Add to BasketThe Paradise Trail - - Hardback
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A witty, wildly funny, poignant and, at times, tragic novel about the passing of an age where nothing seems to matter until the hard, cruel, real world comes knocking at the door. In Calcutta in 1971, as India declares war on Pakistan, a group of backpackers are holed up in the flea-pit Lux Hotel. -
Add to BasketA Step In The Dark - - Paperback
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Married at 18 to the dashing Jack, beautiful Elizabeth Ravenhart is devastated when their dazzling party of a marriage is cut tragically short. 20 years later, a knock on her door sets in motion a chain of events that no one could have foreseen. -
Add to BasketThe Cobra King Of Kathmandu - - Paperback
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John and Philippa travel to Nepal and India on the trail of a lost talisman and mysterious assassins who murder by snakebite. Their race to unravel some venomous clues turns into a desperate rescue mission when their djinn-uncle is captured by the Cult of Nine Cobras. -
Add to BasketThe Vanishing Act Of Esme Lennox - - Paperback
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Set between the 1930s and the present, Maggie O'Farrell's novel is the story of Esme, a woman edited out of her family's history, and of the secrets that come to light when, 60 years later, she is released from care, and a young woman, Iris, discovers the great aunt she never knew she had. -
Add to BasketThe Silk Princess - - Paperback
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When Rosie finds a silk picture frame decorated with a little princess sitting on an elephant, she is whisked away on another adventure, this time in India. But she can't find the little princess. She meets Suvita, who tells her that she lives with her uncle because her mother & father are dead & that she's definitely not a princess. -
Add to BasketIndia: The Elephant's Blessing - - Hardback
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'India - the elephant's blessing' follows Aline Dobbie's two long journeys through Southern India in 2005 and 2006. She attempts to show India at every level, from the poverty-stricken to the grasping rich, from the quiet beauty of the wildlife parks to the humbling grace of ancient temples.
Last modified Tuesday 07 September 2010
