Slumdog Millionaire

Q & A

The International Bestseller Filmed as Slumdog Millionaire

The bestselling, award-winning novel behind the Oscar-winning film SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, directed by Danny Boyle

This brilliant story, as colossal, vibrant and chaotic as India itself... is not to be missed

Poignant, funny, rich... with an utterly orignal and brilliant structure at its heart

Mingling broad humour with incisive social comment, Q&amp;A is absorbing and richly entertaining reading

This lively picaresque novel has an original and telling premise... a colourful portrait of Indian society is painted with remarkable lightness and wit

A hugely successful mixture of satire and intrigue

An engaging and surprisingly informative read

This novel is part homage to the larger-than-life Bollywood film industry, and the characters and story are so engaging that you really have to read on to find out how it all comes together in the end

One of the most delightful reads i've enjoyed in years

Q&amp;A is popular fiction at its best and brightest. The prose is efficient and the characters are briskly drawn in strong, sharp colours. Swarup clearly understands his job. As an exercise in genre, the novel is a triumph and that was before the movie-makers got to work

Vikas Swarup is a member of the Indian Foreign Service and is based in Delhi. Q&amp;A has won many awards, and is translated into 40 languages so far. It is the book behind the mult-Oscar winning film, Slumdog Millionaire. His second novel, Six Suspects, is available as a Black Swan paperback and ebook and is soon to be made into a film.

The bestselling book behind the Oscar-winning film SLUMDOG MILLLIONAIRE directed by Danny Boyle 
 
'An absorbing and richly entertaining read' Times 
 
Former tiffinboy Ram Mohammad Thomas has just got twelve questions correct on a TV quiz-show to win a cool one billion rupees. But he is brutally slung in prison on suspicion of cheating. Because how can a kid from the slums know who Shakespeare was, unless he is cheating? 
 
In the order of the questions on the show, Ram tells us which incredible adventures in his life on the streets gave him the answers. From orphanages to brothels, gangsters to beggar-masters, and into the homes of Bollywood's rich and famous, Ram's story is brimming with the chaotic comedy, heart-stopping tragedy and joyousness of modern India. 
 
'Popular fiction at its best and brightest' Guardian 
'Colourful' Sunday Telegraph 
'Poignant, funny, rich' MEG ROSOFF, bestselling author of HOW I LIVE NOW 
'Not to be missed' Observer

Vikas Swarup

I do not normally recommend crime novels more than 500 pages long, but I am making an exception with Vikas Swarup It's unusual, witty, quirkily, cleverly plotted, intelligent, and along the way it's an informative satire on Indian politics and values...a rollicking good read

Fascinating, multi-voiced slice of Indian life across the castes with political corruption at its centre...a lovely, lovely book

Much to enjoy..the solution in the final pages is particularly cunning

Swarup has a redeeming eye for the disparites that define Indian society

A Bollywood version of the board game Clue with a strain of screwball comedy thrown in. Its stock characters are easily identified: the Bureaucrat, the Actress, the Tribal, the Thief, the Politician and the American. Each attended the party at which a man named Vicky Rai, a playboy film producer, was murdered. Each has a gun and a motive. And although the story's geographical span is even bigger than India, the whole thing feels handily confined to the kind of isolated, air-tight setting that Agatha Christie's readers love.Thanks to such a schematic setup "Six Suspects" is gleeful, sneaky fun. But it's also a much more freewheeling book than the format implies. Mr. Swarup, an Indian diplomat, brings a worldly range of attributes to his potentially simple story. And he winds up delivering a rambling critique of Indian culture, taking shots at everything from racism to reality TV. Yet Mr. Swarup's style stays light and playful, preferring to err on the side of broad high jinks rather than high seriousness...A refreshing oddity. It bears no resemblance to the cookie-cutter genre books of this season

A teeming, beguiling Indian panorama wrapped in a clever whodunit.

A blockbuster of a story that begins with a murder, then delves into the lives and motives of the six suspects. The reader becomes intimately involved with each suspect while being treated to an eye-opening account of life in India (4 1/2 stars)

Streaming on Disney Hotstar as THE GREAT INDIAN MURDER

Vicky Rai, the son of a high-profile Minister, has been shot dead by one of the guests at his own party. They are a glitzy bunch, but among them the police find six strange, displaced characters with a gun in their possession. each of them steaming with a secret motive. 
 
India's wiliest investigative journalist, Arun Advani, makes it his mission to nail the murderer. In doing so, the amazing, tender and touching, techni-colour lives of six eccentric personalities unravel before our eyes. But can we trust Advani? Or does he have another agenda in mind...?

Vikas Swarup

Praise for Six Suspects

I do not normally recommend crime novels more than 500 pages long, but I am making an exception with Vikas Swarup It's unusual, witty, quirkily, cleverly plotted, intelligent, and along the way it's an informative s ...

Gleeful, sneaky fun

Fascinating, multi-voiced slice of Indian life across the castes with political corruption at its centre...a lovely, lovely book

I do not normally recommend crime novels more than 500 pages long, but I am making an exception with Vikas Swarup It's unusual, witty, quirkily, cleverly plotted, intelligent, and along the way it's an informative s ...

Gleeful, sneaky fun

Fascinating, multi-voiced slice of Indian life across the castes with political corruption at its centre...a lovely, lovely book

I do not normally recommend crime novels more than 500 pages long, but I am making an exception with Vikas Swarup It's unusual, witty, quirkily, cleverly plotted, intelligent, and along the way it's an informative s ...

Gleeful, sneaky fun

Fascinating, multi-voiced slice of Indian life across the castes with political corruption at its centre...a lovely, lovely book

Books by Vikas Swarup

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