Kirjahaku

It's Rani's sister's wedding and Rani has been given the most important job of all. However, what started as a fun game of hide and seek looks as though it might go horribly wrong, until Rani's mummy saves the day.

In a small Indian village in 1900, nineteen-year-old Jaya Devani yearns for a freedom beyond the confines of the life expected of her. When she begins a tumultuous love affair with her British colonial employer she finds herself on course for a new life as an ayah, a nanny, in London. Arriving on British shores as the suffragette movement is growing, Jaya begins to grapple with a choice: can she really find freedom in the arms of her lover, or will she have to seek out her own way to be truly free?

Rani's mummy asks for her help in choosing a sari as a birthday present for her aunty who will be visiting from Bangladesh. Rani is excited, but with so much choice, which colour will she pick?

Lascar is the epic story of one man's journeyto fulfil his destiny.When Ayan discovers his brother has cancer, the need to covermedical expenses compels him to leave poverty-stricken Bengaland emulate their late father by becoming a Lascar, shovellingcoal in the bowels of the steamships trading between India andEngland. The brutal reality of this existence leaves Ayan fearingfor his life. Fleeing the ship, he disappears into the bitter-coldstreets of Victorian London.What follows is a true test of faith, as Ayan experiences love, loss, prejudice and extreme injustice. After serving time for acrime he did not commit, the kindness of a new friend, and achance meeting with a young half-caste street urchin changeseverything, prompting Ayan to re-examine his life.