Books

Justine Hardy’s non-fiction and fiction titles are the fruit of her twenty-year career as a journalist and writer based in India. They immerse the reader in radically different worlds: the realities of living in orthodox Islam in Kashmir, Tibetan festivals in the high Himalaya, the newspaper world of Delhi, Bollywood babes of the Hindi film industry, the rise of modern India, the cost of internal conflict.

Taken together, her books give a broad-spectrum view of a country now emerging as one of the heavyweights of the modern global economy whilst still remaining arrested in many of its own cultural anachronisms.

Book cover of Dust by Justine Hardy

Kate is a woman who chooses to work in Pakistan. She creates a second family for herself, far from the cherished warmth of her parents in rural Suffolk…

In the Valley of Mist

Mohammed Dar and his three brothers were born in a boat on a lake in Kashmir, a place of exquisite beauty that was to become a war zone and nuclear flashpoint. This Himalayan…

The Wonder House

Three women live on The Wonder House, a boat moored on Nagin Lake, and carved from the great cedars that watch over the Kashmir Valley. Suriya is mute, and carries a terrible secret.

Bollywood Boy

Welcome to Bollywood, the Hindi film dream machine. Enter Hrithik Roshan, new idol of the silver screen, seducing both the industry and the women 

Goat – A Story of Kashmir and Notting Hill

This text tells the story of the goat hair, gathered from herds that graze among the high-altitude monasteries of Little Tibet, woven in villages near the Kashmiri border ..

Scoop-Wallah – Life on a Delhi Daily

Scoop-Wallah – Life on a Delhi Daily is being re-published as part of Summersdale Publisher’s classic travel series on 2nd February 2009 with a new forward by the author.

The Ochre Border

First published in hardback in 1995, an account of the author’s journey with three friends to a valley in the Himalayas, unvisited for 70 years. ..