A stand-alone novel set in the tea-fields of 1930s Ceylon. Shades of Somerset Maugham.
The Pavilion in the Clouds
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Edition:Hardback978184697589905/08/2021From a Bookshelf nearby
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Ajay and his friends find an abandoned printing press and set up their newspaper - the Mumbai Sun. Their investigations naturally get them into hot water - will justice and the pursuit of tr... read more
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Up airy mountains and down rushy glens: Gill brings us culinary treasures from Kashmir and some more robust Ladakhi fare.
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Amrit Kaur was a Punjabi princess who lived in Paris in the 1930s, and who sold her jewellery to help save Jews. Arrested by the Gestapo, she died in a concentration camp.
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There are those who swear he was a spy, others who insist he was too scatty or essentially lazy to be one. Whatever the truth, he was an exceptional linguist (Iranian, Afghan Persian, Arabic... read more