Christine Manfield's ode to Indian cooking quickly immerses you in the colour, spice, strong flavours and glorious chaos of the sub-continent ... a cookbook that's practical, yes, but also full of heart. Gourmet Traveller. "This is my story of India, a story gathered across many visits, connecting with people in various walks of life. The recipes I've collected along the way reflect the stories of countless mothers, grandmothers, daughters, sons of...

Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from marvelling at the carving-covered Sun Temple in Konark, to drifting through the basilicas of Old Goa near Panaji, and grazing the streets after dark at the Sarafa Bazar food market in Indore.

A journey to the heart of human nature through three short masterpieces. "Novels written by Guatemalans are, by definition, exotic. Guatemalan novels set in the jungles of Petén, in North Africa, or in the south of India might not have the charm of strangeness, but strictly speaking, they should be called exotic," declares the author in the introduction to this memorable volume.

Holly Morris explores the bustling Delhi Metropolis, the Chandi Chowk market, the Red Fort of the Mughal emperor and boats along the Yamuna River. Ian Wright explores Delhi old city, takes a metro to Jhandelwalan, then heads south to Agra to visit the Taj Mahal and learn about the Mughal Empire at the Red Fort. In New Delhi, he tours the President of India's house and stays at the Imperial hotel before riding my motorbike to Hariewar and bathes in...

A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul's profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India. Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an abandoned temple near Madras, Naipaul encounters a dizzying cross-section of humanity: browbeaten government...

As he searched for evidence of Kali Yug, the "age of darkness" predicted by an ancient Hindu cosmology in a final epoch of strife and corruption, Dalrymple encountered a region that thrilled and surprised him. Venturing to places rarely visited by foreigners, he presents compelling portraits of a diverse range of figures. His love for the subcontinent comes across in every page, which makes its chronicles of political corruption, ethnic violence and...

Travellers Bobby Chin, Zay Harding, Katie Haswell, Holly Morris and Ian Wright explore the Asian subcontinent to illustrate the story of the rise and fall of the once mighty British empire.

"In India's long and diverse coastline, fish inhabit the heart of many aspects of life: food of course, and also culture, commerce, sports, history, and society. Journeying along the edges of the peninsula, Samanth Subramanian delivers a kaleidoscope of extraordinary stories. Following Fish conducts rich, journalistic investigations of the use of fish to treat asthmatics in Hyderabad; of the preparation and the process of eating West Bengal's prized...