Books like The Mystic Masseur
Ganesh Ramsumair, a failed schoolteacher in 1940s Trinidad, sets himself up as a masseur and then as a mystic healer.
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A House for Mr Biswas
Mohun Biswas, born in rural Trinidad with an extra finger and an unlucky horoscope, marries into the domineering Tulsi family and spends his life trying to own a house of his own.
Miguel Street
Linked stories of the eccentrics of a Port of Spain street in the 1940s, seen by a boy growing up among them.
Annie John
Annie John grows up in Antigua adored by her mother, until at twelve she begins to grow up and the love turns into a war.
A Burning
Jivan, a young Muslim woman from a Kolkata slum, is arrested for a terrorist attack on a train after a careless Facebook post, and two people who could help her have ambitions of their own.
Skipping Christmas
Luther and Nora Krank, their daughter abroad for the year, decide to skip Christmas and go on a Caribbean cruise instead, and their neighbours on Hemlock Street take it badly.
Staying On
Tusker and Lucy Smalley, a retired colonel and his wife, have stayed on in an Indian hill station after Independence, living in the annexe of a hotel whose owner wants them out.
Plain Tales from the Hills
Forty short tales of Anglo-Indian life at Simla and the plains: flirtations, scandals, soldiers, officials and the Indians around them, told in clipped, knowing sketches.
The Women at the Pump
In a small Norwegian coastal town, the gossip at the pump follows Oliver, a sailor who came home crippled, and everyone else whose business is everyone's business.
The Guide
Raju, a former tour guide just out of prison, shelters in a riverside temple and is taken by the villagers for a holy man, and when drought comes they want a miracle.
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Nikki, a law-school dropout in London, takes a job teaching creative writing at the Sikh community centre in Southall, and finds that the widows who sign up want to write erotica.
The Old Devils
Alun Weaver, a television personality who has made a career of being Welsh, comes home to South Wales with his wife Rhiannon, and old friends and old flames gather in the pubs.
The Lonely Londoners
Moses Aloetta, an old hand in London, meets the new arrivals from the West Indies at Waterloo station and helps them find rooms and work through the grey seasons of the 1950s.