A rare treat, Waterstones Gower Street is very excited to host an evening with Sam Dalrymple, debut author of Shattered Lands.Already a #1 bestseller in India and named 'one of the best history books to read in 2025' by The Week, Dalrymple appears at Gower Street after an extensive book tour to give a talk on his fascinating book. This is a great opportunity to have all your questions answered about the history this book contains as well as get signed copies on the night.A history of modern South Asia told through five partitions that reshaped it.As recently as 1928, a vast swathe of Asia – India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, Bhutan, Yemen, Oman, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait – were bound together under a single imperial banner, an entity known officially as the ‘Indian Empire’, or more simply as the Raj.Shattered Lands, for the first time, presents the whole story of how the Indian Empire was unmade. How a single, sprawling dominion became twelve modern nations. How maps were redrawn in boardrooms and on battlefields, by politicians in London and revolutionaries in Delhi, by kings in remote palaces and soldiers in trenches.
Sam Dalrymple is a Delhi-raised Scottish Historian and award-winning filmmaker. He graduated from Oxford University as a Persian and Sanskrit scholar and also studied at the University of Isfahan and Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in Iran. His writing as appeared in the New York Times and The Spectator as well as featuring in TIME, The New Yorker and The Economist.
