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Finally coloured Sam and Suren!

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→ Books I loved in 2020: A Rising man, by Abir Mukherjee

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Jhalak Prize 2017 Shortlist

The Jhalak Prize seeks to celebrate books by British-based BAME writers, open to both fiction and non-fiction. Here is the inaugural shortlist.

Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge for the story of November 23rd, 2013, a day when ten children in the US were killed by gunfire.

The Girl of Ink & Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave for a YA adventure about a young girl on a quest to find her missing friend and save their island home.

A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee for a crime thriller about a Scotland Yard detective new to Calcutta, investigating a murder with ties to the British Raj.

The Bone Readers by Jacob Ross for a detective story set on the Caribbean island of Camaho, where cultural tradition meets cutting edge forensics.

Speak Gigantular by Irenosen Okojie for a short story collection with razor sharp insight into the darkest corners of the human experience.

Black & British: A Forgotten History by David Olugosa (not pictured) for a rich exploration of the relationship between Britain and the people of Africa.

You can find out more about the Jhalak Prize here. The winner will be announced 17th March.

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Quote of the Day – July 17, 2026

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It pissed me off that the book 6 cover didn't match the previous ones at all, so I made one. It's currently on my ebook file, but if I buy a physical copy I'm making a matching back and spine to print as dust jacket

#Abir Mukherjee #The Burning grounds #A rising man #Sam Wyndham #Suren Banerjee

Reading the pinnacle by Abir Mukherjee and one of these characters is literally Sam Wyndham without the ptsd? And he’s allowed to say fuck

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Here is how I imagine the Sam Wyndham & Suren Banerjee series to end: They all make it to 1947 when India gains independence and the British leave.

Suren gets Taggarts job in poetic justice. The very first thing he said in book 1 was that if the British were gone, qualified Indians would have to take up their positions and what would be more fitting than for Suren to become chief commissioner of the police of all of Bengal? He has the experience, the seniority (he would be around 50), the right family name and he is clever enough for it. He is filling a position the English vacate like he wanted when he was young, but in an independent country like he wants as an adult. He has also achieved what his family wanted, being now an important figure and doing something in a free India instead of serving the British. He also surpassed his brothers, because there are many barristers and doctors, but here's only one chief commissioner.

Sam is still a detective, but he would be forced to take things slower because he'd be in his sixties. With the history of drugs, cigarettes and alcohol, he is no longer able to chase criminals over rooftops. Instead he finally manages to make things official with Annie, for multiple reasons. First, they're on their 20th breakup and since they always get back together, they have been pretty much working through marital problems the entire time. It's something he never got to do with Sarah! Secondly, he has pretty much made good on his promise not to become a stuck up Englishman for 20+ years and that's pretty admirable. Back in book 1 Annie told him that India changes Englishmen and they would start to feel superior, but for all his flaws, Sam never gained that one. He might also need to marry Annie for a green card in order to stay in Calcutta at all.

Finally, I think it would be a good ending for Sam, the former sahib man, to marry a woman richer and more financially capable than him, to report to an Indian boss and to feel at peace with it. Indian independence finally gave him a chance to be close friends on equal footing with Suren, and to marry Annie as man and woman instead of Anglo-Indian and sahib. The empire is falling apart, but he has finally got his life back together.

#he builds a home for himself re-using the bricks of the destroyed colonial world #the empire HAD to break before he could build anything #Sam wyndham #Suren Banerjee #abir mukherjee #a rising man #book 6 has kind of jossed this #but this was my endgame based on books 1-5

Books of Abir Mukherjee in order

Abir Mukherjee is the author of the bestselling Wyndham & Banerjee series of books. Abir won the CWA Endeavour Dagger for best historical crime novel of 2017 for his debut novel, A Rising Man. He then followed that up with his second novel, A Necessary Evil, that won the Wilbur Smith Award for Adventure Writing.

Wyndham & Banerjee Mysteries

A Rising Man (2016) — Buy on Amazon!

A Necessary Evil (2017) — Buy on Amazon!

Smoke and Ashes (2018) — Buy on Amazon!

Death in the East (2019) — Buy on Amazon!

The Shadows of Men (2021) — Buy on Amazon!

The Burning Grounds (2025) — Buy on Amazon!

Sin

Sin is the New Love (2018) — Buy on Amazon!

The Sinful Silence (2021) — Buy on Amazon!

Standalone Novels

Hunted (2024) — Buy on Amazon!