First published in 1954 in the wake of the partition of India, John Masters’ great novel Bhowani Junction has increased in stature over the years. Standing between E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India and the acclaimed works of later writers such...
The story of the Rock of Gibraltar, told from a fictional point of view by taking various fictional characters and exploring a scene from their lives. It begins with prehistoric times and includes episodes of the Romans, the Visigoths, the Turks,...
Far, Far the Mountain Peak is a portrayal of twenty years in the life of Peter Savage, British civil servant and mountaineer. A man of ruthless will and ambition from his Cambridge days to his time of near glory in India, Peter Savage is determined...
Goddess in the Flesh.
To Kendrick she was a promiscuous harlot who stood in the way of his ambitions; to Mohan she was consort, mistress, and wife; to Smith she was a pagan goddess of sex; and to her people she was queen.
Possessed by many but...