A thoughtless potboiler of a novel that doesn’t ask moral questions of its characters

Sunjeev Sahota’s Booker-shortlisted novel tells the story of illegal immigrants in Britain

Carrying a torch for Calcutta’s decadent old playhouses

A capacious debut novel provides Karachi with a cast of rough characters

The spiritual trip of an investment banker that’s about escape more than enlightenment

A modern day tale about the plight of elephants in their battle with humans

A novel set in a fictitious Bengali village fails to realise its ambitions

A slow-burning novel vivifies the life and loves of young gay men, moving between the Northeast, Delhi and London

A collection of translated short stories by the late Sunil Gangopadhyay reveals his preoccupation with man’s inhumanity

A newly translated selection of stories finds irony, poetry and wasted opportunity in the troubled history of the Subcontinent

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…