Books like The Siege of Krishnapur
In 1857 India, British colonials shelter in a residency under Sepoy siege and conduct, in the wreckage of the Great Exhibition, a comedy of civilizational collapse.
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Troubles
In 1919, Major Brendan Archer, shaken by the war, arrives at a crumbling hotel on the Irish coast to see the fiancée he barely remembers, and watches the building, and the empire, fall apart around him.
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.
Sea of Poppies
A young Indian woman is torn from her family by the opium trade and cast onto a ship bound for Mauritius, in the first volume of an epic trilogy.
The Man Who Would Be King
Stories of British India, among them two ex-soldiers and con men who set out for remote Kafiristan intending to make themselves kings.
Iceland's Bell
At the end of the seventeenth century, under Danish rule, Jón Hreggviðsson, a poor farmer accused of killing the king's hangman, wanders Iceland and Europe while a scholar collects the country's ancient manuscripts.
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.
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.
My Early Life
Churchill's account of his first thirty years: an unhappy schoolboy at Harrow, a cavalry officer in India and the Sudan, a war correspondent captured by the Boers, and a young man entering Parliament.
Bosnian Chronicle
In 1807 a French consul arrives in Travnik, the remote seat of the Ottoman vizier of Bosnia, followed by an Austrian rival, and both spend years trying to make sense of the place.
A Passage to India
An English woman, a Muslim doctor, and a British magistrate collide in colonial India, and a young woman's accusation in a cave exposes the fissures of empire.
The Mystic Masseur
Ganesh Ramsumair, a failed schoolteacher in 1940s Trinidad, sets himself up as a masseur and then as a mystic healer.
The Far Pavilions
An English officer raised as a Hindu returns to India and falls in love across the divide of empire, religion, and the Afghan wars.