All information sourced from publishers.Château Rouge, Amit ChaudhuriA writer is invited to Paris and finds himself living in an area that bears little resemblance to his idea of the city. With the passing of time, his disquiet translates into a way of seeking and experiencing a truer, more unlikely Paris.Château Rouge takes up residence in that area before floating freely through the city. It takes its time, exploring tangents, diversions, side streets, creeping into new spaces and remote angles, to open up fresh ground and appraise the city, the experience of travel, otherness – and the novel itself – anew.The Imitation Englishman, Devki PandeIt is 1916, and the First World War is raging across Europe. Madhusudan Chandra Joshi is a young Indian clerk working at the District Courts when he travels to Heidelberg to study law. There, a chance encounter with the mysterious revolutionary Amir Farooqui changes the course of his life.Drawn into the secretive Hindu–German Conspiracy, a revolutionary gun-running plot organised by Indians living in exile, Madhusudan finds himself caught up in a dangerous international struggle for Indian independence from British colonial rule. As the conspiracy unfolds across India, Europe and America, the outbreak of war makes it increasingly impossible for Madhusudan and Amir to remain in Heidelberg.Madhusudan travels to London, determined to continue his legal studies, while Amir heads to San Francisco in search of fellow revolutionaries. But London exposes Madhusudan to the harsh realities of British colonialism, racism and inequality. Far from home and caught between his ambitions and his growing political awareness, he must confront truths he can no longer escape.Moms, Shivani SibalA glamorous address, an immaculate home, a seemingly perfect family – Radhika Khanna appears to glide through Delhi society.Yet before dawn she is already on edge, coaxing her hair into place, weighing herself with dread, rehearsing the smile that keeps awkward questions at bay.When a confrontation at her daughter’s elite school turns Radhika from admired committee head to whispered cautionary tale, fissures spread through her meticulously managed world: fragile neighbourhood-mom alliances, an uneasy bond with her yoga teacher-friend and the carefully curated social media posts that mask an unbearable loneliness. As gala weekends and themed dinners hurtle towards a spectacular destination party in Rajasthan, Radhika is forced to pay the true price of her perfection.Diary of an Unseen Witness, Ampassayya Naveen, translated from the Telugu by Kalpana KannabiranWhen the Emergency descends upon India in 1975, Srinivasa Rao is an ordinary Telugu lecturer in an ordinary college in Andhra Pradesh, whose greatest loyalties are to his family and the routines of everyday life. While he loves Telugu literature, he keeps a distance from revolutionary and progressive writers’ organisations and has never considered himself a political activist. Yet one midnight in 1976, the police arrive at his door, and he is taken to a detention camp without explanation. Why was he arrested and detained? Is it a story he wrote long ago? Is it his friendships? Is it his occasional attendance at progressive literary gatherings? Is it his signature on a petition against the college management protesting unfair conditions? The reasons remain inscrutable to the end.Over 19 harrowing nights, Srinivasa Rao secretly records his thoughts on smuggled scraps of paper, under stolen shards of light, creating an intimate diary of fear, uncertainty and endurance. As he witnesses arbitrary arrests, interrogation, humiliation and the devastation wrought by unchecked state power, he is forced to confront unsettling questions about justice, freedom and the cost of remaining silent.Peace in the Land of the Dead: Stories, Lian Dousel Meet a demon who comforts its victim before possessing her, a live-in maid plotting quiet revenge, and a sceptic who falls in love with a spirit he set out to disprove.In Peace in the Land of the Dead, Lian Dousel’s debut collection, 12 stories carry readers to Manipur, where reality is blurred, heightened and transformed by the surreal. Our protagonists encounter demons that decide their fate and hear laments of sentient woodlands, wonder “what if” and find out too late, and confront us with the fragility and endurance of human life.Wandered the Traveller, Nisar Aziz Butt, translated from the Urdu by Daisy RockwellFirst published in 1955, Wandered the Traveller is a lost classic of South Asian literature – now available in English for the first time in Daisy Rockwell’s translation.Nisar Aziz Butt’s semi-autobiographical novel follows Afgar, a brilliant young Pashtun woman, from a turbulent orphaned childhood, through the cloistered world of a mountain sanatorium, to the brink of departure in pursuit of a doctorate at Cambridge. Fiercely intelligent yet yearning for love, Afgar measures each man she meets against the standards of her own restless mind, and finds them wanting.