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Delirious Delhi : Inside India's Incredible Capital

10 best books like Delirious Delhi : Inside India's Incredible Capital (Dave Prager): Death Beside the Seaside, The Wall, Transition, The Labyrinth Index, The '86 Fix: A 1980s Time Travel Novel, Christmas at The Grange, An Orc on the Wild Side, The Best Travel Writing 2010, The Outcast Hours, Clovenhoof's Diary: July

Death Beside the Seaside
AuthorT E Kinsey
July 1910. Lady Hardcastle and her tireless sidekick Flo have finally embarked on a long-overdue seaside break. But just as they’re wavering between ice creams and donkey rides, their fellow guests start to go missing—and the duo find themselves with a hysterical hotel manager and a case to solve.The...
The Wall
AuthorJohn Lanchester
ISBN1324001631
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2019

Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall―an enormous concrete barrier around its entire coastline. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate...
Transition
AuthorIain M. Banks
ISBN0316071986
There is a world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Such a world requires a firm hand and a guiding light. But does it need the Concern: an all-powerful...
The Labyrinth Index
AuthorCharles Stross
The arrival of vast, alien, inhuman intelligences reshaped the landscape for human affairs across the world, and the United Kingdom is no exception. Things have changed in Britain since the dread elder god Nyarlathotep ascended to the rank of Prime Minister. Mhari Murphy, recently elevated to the...
The '86 Fix: A 1980s Time Travel Novel
AuthorKeith A. Pearson
Imagine if you could travel back in time to when you were sixteen.

Imagine if you could spend one weekend reliving your past — would you change anything?

Everything wrong with Craig Pelling’s life can be traced back to 1986 and the moment he popped in to a newsagent for a can of Coke....
Christmas at The Grange
AuthorT E Kinsey
It’s Christmas 1909, and for once Lady Hardcastle—respectable gentlewoman, amateur spy—and her lady’s maid, Florence Armstrong, are setting sleuthing aside. They are invited to the festivities up at The Grange, as guests of Sir Hector and Lady Farley-Stroud.But barely have corks been...
An Orc on the Wild Side
AuthorTom Holt
ISBN0316270857
An Orc on the Wild Side is the latest comic masterpiece from one of the funniest writers in fantasy.


Winter is coming, so why not get away from it all?


Being the Dark Lord and Prince of Evil is not as much fun as it sounds, particularly if you are a basically decent person....
The Best Travel Writing 2010
AuthorJames O'Reilly
ISBN1932361898
The Best Travel Writing 2010 is the seventh volume in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing �€" from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual...
The Outcast Hours
AuthorMahvesh Murad
ISBN1781085749
Bold new anthology from the acclaimed editors of The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories

We live our lives in the daylight. Our stories take place under the sun: bright, clear, unafraid.

This is not a book of those stories.

These are the stories of people who live at night;...
Clovenhoof's Diary: July
AuthorHeide Goody
It’s nearly the end of the school year. But St Michael’s Secondary School still has some surprises in store for its newest member of staff.

Jeremy Clovenhoof has spent six years living the quiet life in the suburbs after losing his job as Lord of Hell and has spent the last year sharing his...
Nothing Ventured
AuthorJeffrey Archer
ISBN1250200768
Nothing Ventured heralds the start of a brand new series in the style of Jeffrey Archer’s #1 New York Times bestselling Clifton Chronicles: introducing Detective William Warwick. But this is not a detective story, this is a story about the making of a detective . . .

William Warwick has always...
Chai, Chai
AuthorBishwanath Ghosh
ISBN9380032862
Biswanath Ghosh paints an amazing and mystical picture in this book, where he starts his journey from the Itarsi Station, Madhya Pradesh.

Chai, Chai: Travels in Places Where You Stop But Never Get Off allows the reader to join the author-narrator while he experiences new places and faces....
Jaffle Inc
AuthorHeide Goody
Alice works for Jaffle Tech incorporated, the world’s biggest technology company and the creator of the Jaffle Port, the brain implant that gives users direct access to global communications, social networks and every knowledge source on the planet.
Alice is on Jaffle Standard, the free service...
Empire Games
AuthorCharles Stross
ISBN0765337568
The year is 2020. It's seventeen years since the Revolution overthrew the last king of the New British Empire, and the newly-reconstituted North American Commonwealth is developing rapidly, on course to defeat the French and bring democracy to a troubled world. But Miriam Burgeson, commissioner...
Tuned Out
AuthorKeith A. Pearson
"One of those books which leaves you feeling bereft when you get to the end. An addictive page-turner laced with hilarity, poignancy and nostalgia."

Toby Grant spends his days working for a digital marketing agency and his nights stressing about how unfair life is for his generation. With...
The Forest of Enchantments
AuthorChitra Banerjee Divakaruni
ISBN9353025982
The Ramayana, one of the world’s greatest epics, is also a tragic love story. In this brilliant retelling, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni places Sita at the centre of the novel: this is Sita’s version.

The Forest of Enchantments is also a very human story of some of the other women in the epic,...
The Oshkosh Connection
AuthorAndrew Watts
A Pakistani intelligence officer secretly communicates with a Mexican drug cartel.
A lobbyist is assassinated in the suburbs of Northern Virginia.
A US Senator receives death threats from a shadowy group.
There is a connection. And Max Fend has only days to discover what it is.

The...
Glidepath
AuthorAndrew Watts
The FBI wants him arrested.

The CIA wants him to disappear.

And the owner of a Russian mercenary group wants him dead.

But what is hiding in the CIA's top secret personnel file on Max Fend? The one that even his FBI investigator isn't allowed to see?

A mysterious cyber...
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