 | Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £4.18 / Used from: £0.01 Set between Pakistan and India in the era following partition. The very best book ever written - The Best of the Bookers. Magic Realism attains perfection.
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 | The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Set between Portuguese India and Bombay, the central character leads us on a journey through three generations of a displaced family.
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 | The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Another Booker Prize winner. Beautifully poetic story of twins Rahel and Estha.
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 | The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Set in the Afghan warzone of the 1970s, following the fortunes of a boy in a country invaded by Russia and then taken over by the Taliban.
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 | Q and A (filmed as Slumdog Millionaire) by Vikas Swarup
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 Best known as the novel filmed as Slumdog Millionaire. Confronting and uplifting in equal measure.
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 | The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £5.67 / Used from: £2.94 Another story of displacement. Forget the fatwa controversy - this is just a story of great beauty.
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 | The Siege Of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Yet another Booker winner. Set in the last days of British India, reflecting on the good and bad of colonialism.
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 | The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.39 Easy-to-read Booker Prize winner about a ruthless Bombay social climber.
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 | The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £2.14 Set between Mughul India and sixteenth century Italy. reminiscent of Arabian Nights, but with Rushdie's flair for beautiful prose.
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 | White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Mostly set in London, but exploring themes of immigration and displacement from all corners of the world, including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
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 | The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Another story of dislocation. Set in the sixties in Bombay and New York, about two musical superstars.
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 | Lajja (Shame) by T. Nasrin
Buy used from: £2.10 A fictional study of religious extremism in Bangladesh.
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 | Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.01 Evocative, magical fiction based in Kashmir. Shalimar is an assassin bent on revenge for a long-ago infidelity.
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 | Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Buy new: £4.59 / Used from: £0.01 Another novel based in London, but telling the back-story of a Bangladeshi immigrant family and how they deal with life in a foreign environment.
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 | The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Buy new: £4.61 / Used from: £0.01 The new world pitted against the old. Told from the foothills of the Himalayas.
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 | The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Buy new: £4.60 / Used from: £0.01 Exciting and beautifully written. A Pakistani Muslim moves to America and back again after 9/11.
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 | A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £2.95 1970s India. A study of caste, religion and family.
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 | The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £0.01 Comedy becomes tragedy as we read the story of a man and his love affair with Padmini and Bombay.
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 | The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.90 The story of Gogol, the son of Bengali immigrants to America who desperately wants to hold onto his Indian heritage.
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 | Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Buy new: £6.27 / Used from: £3.99 An epic journey through India and Afghanistan.
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