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The Way It Falls: Collecting Rumer Godden
Godden wrote two volumes of autobiography that illuminated her life in India and beyond. These make fascinating reading, but it is in her fiction – beautifully crafted stories of growing up or cultural divides or spritual awakenings – that you will find Rumer Godden at her best. Her stories are deeply personal, but they’re also universal.
Paul Scott: The Raj Quartet
The 13-part adaptation of Scott’s The Jewel in the Crown caused an instant sensation when it debuted on U.S. television in December 1984. All the acclaim was of no use to the man whose superbly observed novels formed the basis of the series.
Barbara Cleverly: In & Out of India
Cleverly read an advertisement for a competition for a debut crime novel at about the same time she came upon a trunk full of family memorabilia. Some of the items belonged to a Brigadier Sandilands, who once commanded British troops in Peshawar, on India’s northwest frontier. How about a mystery set in India during the Raj?
Previously in Firsts
July/August 1995 – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Antiquarian Notes
Million-Dollar Modern Manuscripts
Books into Film
A Passage to India