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Kamala Markandaya was born and brought up in South India. She attended various schools there and later went on to Madras University. She has worked as a journalist and writer in both England and India. Her first novel, the classic, Nectar in a Sieve, was published in 1954 and has been translated into fifteen languages.

• Possession
A poignant and dramatic story of contemporary East and West.

Lady Caroline is used to getting her own way: and Anasuya, an Indian writer, watches without astonishment as the humble peasant-boy Valmiki, who expresses himself in painting, is suddenly swept away from his village to London, Caroline's luxurious house, and smart

• A Handful of Rice
An extremely fascinating work of art which is compulsively readable and gratifying in a most complete way. The novel depicts the hard struggle of life in a modern city and its demoralization

• Nectar in a Sieve
A Book of the Month Club Selection, this novel by a known fiction writer which remains popular since its first publication in 1956.

• A Handful of Rice
A poignant novel about the triumph of the human spirit over poverty’s privations and predicaments. In A Handful of Rice, Kamala Markandaya, best-selling author of Nectar in a Sieve, once again recreates the life of the poor with compassion and respect, presenting an overwhelmingly real book. Nectar in a Sieve and this novel continues to be taught in universities in India and abroad.

• Bombay Tiger
Gloriously rich in incident and character and marked by Markandaya's deep humanity, Bombay Tiger is the work of a major writer at the height of her powers. Its posthumous publication is a literary event of the greatest significance.

• Some Inner Fury
Some Inner Fury is Kamala Markandaya’s assertion of how no one can stand apart, undecided, when a country is divided.It is the story of Mirabai, a young woman from a partly Westernized Hindu family in pre-Independent India.

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