IN AN ANTIQUE LAND is a subversive history in the guise of a traveller's tale. When the author stumbles across a slave narrative in the margins of an ancient text, his curiosity is piqued. What follows is a ten year search, which brings...

A Christian Science Monitor Best Fiction Book of the YearA Guardian Best Book of the YearA San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearThe stunningly vibrant final novel in the bestselling Ibis TrilogyIt is 1839 and China has embargoed...

Faszinierende Familiensaga und dramatische Liebesgeschichte in einem, das ist der neue Roman von Amitav Gosh. "Der Doktor Schiwago des Fernen Osten" (INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY) fand mit seinem farbenprächtigen Epos über Liebe und Krieg in...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of YearA NPR Best Book of the YearIn Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies, the Ibis began its treacherous journey across the Indian Ocean, bound for the cane...

From the author of "The Glass Palace" the widely-acclaimed bestseller, this is a rich, exotic saga set in Calcutta and in the vast archipelago of islands in the Bay of Bengal. An eccentric, wealthy Scotsman enters the deadly terrain of...

The first in an epic trilogy, Sea of Poppies is "a remarkably rich saga . . . which has plenty of action and adventure à la Dumas, but moments also of Tolstoyan penetration--and a drop or two of Dickensian sentiment" (The Observer...

It is in his home town of Kolkata that Dr Anil Kumar Munshi meets, by chance, his distant relative Kanai Dutt, who upends his view of the world with a single word: bundook. Gun.A writer and folklorist, Munshi has for years dedicated his...

One of the finest writers of his generation' Financial TimesJungle-nama is a wonderful illustrated verse adaptation of a fable from the Sundarbans, the legend of Bon Bibi, which lies at the heart of his novel Gun Island,The Ganga, in her...

From Victorian lndia to near-future New York, The Calcutta Chromosome takes readers on a wondrous journey through time as a computer programmer trapped in a mind-numbing job hits upon a curious item that will forever change his life....

Named a Best Book of Fall by Vulture, Chicago Review of Books and AmazonFrom the award-winning author of the bestselling epic Ibis trilogy comes a globetrotting, folkloric adventure novel about family and heritageBundook. Gun. A common...

The sequel to the Man Booker shortlisted "Sea Of Poppies", opening a fascinating historical window on the opium wars and the shocking colonial exploits in the East. 'Any good historical novel should teach the reader some history as well...

'Do not miss this book' NAOMI KLEIN, author of This Changes EverythingThe history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human life and the natural environment - and the origin of our contemporary climate...