Check back every Friday for a new set of five! This week's selection includes Manju Kapur, Eunice de Souza, Kishwar Desai, Rukmini Bhaya Nair and the non-fiction narrative 'Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora?'.
Difficult Daughters by Manju Kapur
Set in the backdrop of the Partition of 1947, the novel follows Virmati's unusual path to independence, be it in the sphere of love or education.
Learn from the Almond Leaf by Eunice de Souza
The poetry collection has roughly 30 poems, each brimming with powerful emotions written in her characteristic casual idiom.
Witness the Night by Kishwar Desai
A social worker investigates an unusual case: a young girl is found in critical condition along with the corpses of thirteen family members in their house in a small town of Northern India.
The Hyoid Bone by Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Nair's debut collection of poetry where, in Nissim Ezekiel's words, "the freedom of free verse is combined with an impressive formal control" (from The Sunday Times).
Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora? by Essar Batool, Ifrah Butt, Munaza Rashid, Natasha Rather and Samreena Mushtaq
A non-fiction book centred around the 1991 mass rape by the Indian army in the villages of Kunan and Poshpora.
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