Author

Amitav Ghosh

30 books, mostly literary fiction, for Brilliance Audio and John Murray, 2005–2026

Amitav Ghosh is an Indian Bengali novelist and essayist who began publishing with The Circle of Reason in 1986. His acclaimed fiction, including The Shadow Lines, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, and the Ibis Trilogy, combines expansive historical narratives with themes of migration, colonialism, identity, and cultural displacement. He also writes influential nonfiction on climate change, empire, and environmental crisis, including The Great Derangement, The Nutmeg’s Curse, and Smoke and Ashes.