Jack, the Lady Killer2 reviews H.R.F. Keating Poisoned Pen Press, 2000 A good mystery that is in verse + Experienced a verse novel In 1935, England reigns over the Indian subcontinent. Just graduating from school, Jack Stealton arrives in Punjab, India to join the Imperial Police Service. His supervisor, FHR Guthrie makes sure the new recruit understands that he represents England at all times. It is imperative that he ...             One Last Look12 reviews Susanna Moore Vintage, 2004 Fascinating narrator... + Susanna Moore evokes a most exotic world, a time long past & characters forever transformed. + I Loved this Book ...not someone to trust or like, but an astonishing portrayal. Eleanor's voice stayed with me long after I read the book. I have read several of Susanna Moore's books now, and am in awe of the unique perspective she gives her characters. They tend to be passionate but amoral, intelligent but ...             Bhowani Junction1 review John Masters Souvenir Press, 2001 A novel about an Anglo-Indian's search for her identity. Victoria Jones is a 28-year old Anglo-Indian (mixed Indian and European blood) living in Bhowani in the turbulent months leading to Indian independence. This novel explores her search for where she will belong in the "new" India- she does her searching through her liaisons with a fellow ...             Kowloon Tong: A Novel of Hong Kong30 reviews Paul Theroux Mariner Books, 1998 One of Several Essential Books on Hong Kong for Visitors + Highly evocative of Hong Kong I knew This Hong Kong classic is both a great read and a great help for Westerners planning to live in, or visit Hong Kong. I first read it when I lived there in the late 90's, even began reading it on the Star Ferry when it came out in early 1997. Bunt is an old "Hong Kong Belonger", British, lives atop ...             The Sepoy Mutiny (Alexander Sheridan Adventures)2 reviews V. A. Stuart McBooks Press, 2001 Couldn't put it down This book is the second in a series of historical novels about the British East India Company, a mercantile corporation that essentially conquered and ruled India with the blessing of the British Crown and its own private armies. The novels are based closely on actual events (serving officers and ...             An Insular Possession1 review Timothy Mo Paddleless Press, 2002 Leisurely, well-researched novel Leisurely may be the best word to describe this novel set during the first Opium War and the founding of the British settlement at Hong Kong. Timothy Mo takes his time letting us get to know Gideon Chase and Walter Eastman and a large cast of traders, artists, debutantes and warriors who shared a ...             The Mutiny Julian Rathbone Little, Brown Book Group, 2007             Sharpe's Tiger (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #1)85 reviews Bernard Cornwell Harper Paperbacks, 1999 Delightful, amid all the luxury and misery of colonial India + Sharpe's Tiger + Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe's Adventures) + A great read - can't put it down + A fine book and fun reading...             Ogilvie and the Uprising Philip McCutchan Severn House Publishers, 2004 The latest in the series of Captain Ogilvie adventures On the north-west frontier of India, the Rajah of Drosh has rebelled, resulting in heavy battalion losses. To make matters worse, the irascible and intemperate Major Lord Brora has gone AWOL and has been sighted consorting with the rebel Rajah. Ogilvie is once again seconded into Political Service in order to find out more, while his regiment ...             Honorable Company: A Novel of India Before the Raj8 reviews Allan Mallinson Bantam, 2000 Hervey in India + A good read I found this book a bit less interesting than the first in the series. Perhaps the pace was a lot slower. Hervey is now off to India where he finds much adventure, an a lot of Byzantine politics. The political world of India in the early 19th century is well portrayed. One can see where the ...             The Splendor of Silence: A Novel11 reviews Indu Sundaresan Washington Square Press, 2007 One of My All Time Favorite Novels + A GREAT READ + The Splendor of Silence + Splender of Silence review             Zemindar25 reviews VALERIE FITZGERALD RH Canada UK Dist, 1987 Brilliant! + My Favorite + One of the best book I have ever read! + I just had to sit back and say WOW!! at the end of this book             A Raj Collection: On the Face of the Waters, Siri Ram--Revolutionist, Indigo, The Wild Sweet Witch Flora Annie Steel, Edmund Candler, ... Oxford University Press, USA, 2005 This collection of Raj novels will appeal to general readers as well as scholars of Anglo-Indian writing and British colonial history and literature. It includes Flora Annie Steel's On the Face of the Waters (1896), Edmund Candler's Siri Ram Revolutionist (1912), Christine Weston's Indigo (1943), and Philip Mason's Wild Sweet Witch (1947), along with a comprehensive introduction by Saros Cowasjee.             A Singular Hostage11 reviews Thalassa Ali Bantam, 2002 Great Story, Dazzling Period Detail, Real Insight into Islamic Culture + wonderfully different historical adventure + Exotic, heroic and spiritual You can read this marvelous novel for the spell-binding story alone, but you'll take away much more. Especially if your mission as a reader is to find out about Islamic culture through richly imagined fictional characters that come alive before your eyes. You will be transported through sight, ...             Heat and Dust31 reviews Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Counterpoint, 1999 One of the Better India Tales + Recommended + Gentle and Endearing Style + Straddling 1947             The Piano Tuner: A Novel148 reviews Daniel Mason Vintage, 2003 The Piano Tuner + A Good Read + The Piano Tuner: A Unique Journey In October 1886, Edgar Drake receives an odd telegram from the British War Offices. The telegram contains a request that he leave his wife in London to travel the jungles of Burma, where he'd find an Erard grand piano that is in need of repairing. The piano belongs to an army surgeon major by the ...             The End of Nana Sahib: The Steam House Jules Verne Fredonia Books (NL), 2003 This story is dated a few years after the Indian Mutiny. A party of men travel many miles in a wonderful moving house, drawn by a marvelous steam elephant. Their many adventures, and the doings of Nana Sahib, the fiend of the Mutiny and his final overthrow, are very exciting.             Shalimar10 reviews Rebecca Ryman Le Livre de Poche, 2002 History, Mystery, Espionage and Love in late 19C India + Authentic India + I need more books by this author! Shalimar begins in 1890 shortly after the death of Emma Wyncliffe's father, who was found frozen on a glacier high in the Himalayas during an archeological expedition that went tragically awry. The Wyncliffe's are left with little funds and Emma's brother David in the throes of gambling bets and ...             Six Days in Marapore: A Novel Paul Scott University Of Chicago Press, 2005 In this swiftly paced and lyrical novel about British expatriates at the time of Indian independence, Paul Scott grapples with the themes of race, possession, and history that dominate all four novels of his masterpiece, The Raj Quartet , especially The Jewel in the Crown . As always, Scott fills his book with vivid characters: the seductive, bigoted war widow; the sophisticated, wily Hindu ...             The Raj Quartet: The Jewel in the Crown/the Day of the Scorpion/the Towers of Silence/a Division of the Spoils11 reviews Paul Scott William Morrow & Co, 1984 Masterpiece Literature + The Arrows of Philoctetes + A masterpiece. + Raj Quartet + An unquestionable masterpiece.