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From Tibet to Pakistan, this title presents a mesmerising history of the Indus River's civilizations, emperors and explorers.

A brilliantly playful and entertaining first novel, Leela's Book weaves a wonderful tale of family life in contemporary Delhi.
Leela -- alluring, taciturn, haunted -- is returning to Delhi for the wedding of her husband's niece. After so many years in New York, she knows her arrival will unsettle precariously balanced lives. Twenty-five years ago her sister -- now dead -- was seduced by the groom's father and Leela has her own complicated past with him. Leela's is not the only disruptive presence at the wedding though. The groom's hedonistic twin sister arrives from London, reluctantly...

One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imperial expansion, and today is the cement of Pakistan s fractious union. Alice Albinia follows the river upstream, through two thousand miles of geography and back to a time five thousand years ago when a string of sophisticated cities grew on its banks. This turbulent history, entwined with a superlative travel narrative (The Guardian) leads us from the ruins of elaborate metropolises, to the...