This debut novel is based on the author's dramatic and extraordinary true story of life on the run in the Bombay underworld.

Casting an analytical eye over Indian attitudes, the author further investigates the feelings that the vast, mysterious and agonised continent has previously aroused in him. What he sees and what he hears only reinforce in him his conviction that India, wounded by a thousand years of foreign rule, has not yet found an ideology of regeneration.

An account of the author's first visit to India. This book describes the author's arrival in prohibition-dry Bombay, bearing whisky and cheap brandy, when he began to experience a sense of cultural estrangement from the subcontinent. It provides a revelation of India and of the author.

Presents an author's account of the many disguises she employs to dine undetected when she takes on the much coveted and highly prestigious job of New York Times restaurant critic. Through these spy games, she finds herself changed not just physically, but also in character.

The fourth book from the most acclaimed and gifted young travel writer of his generation, author of the best-selling In Xanadu, City of Djinns and From the Holy Mountain.

Vishnu, the odd-job man in a Bombay apartment block, lies dying on the staircase landing. Around him the lives of the apartment dwellers unfold - the warring housewives on the first floor, and the widower, alone and quietly grieving at the top of the building. Vishnu looks back on his affair with the seductive Padmini and comedy becomes tragedy.