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The Last of Earth

By: Deepa Anappara
Narrated by: Rea Malhotra Mukhtyar
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From the Women's Prize longlisted author of Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line comes a mesmerising new novel set in mid-nineteenth century Tibet, known at the time as the Forbidden Kingdom.

In the mid-nineteenth century, the mountainous kingdom of Tibet is closed to outsiders. As European powers scramble for global dominance, this only increases the allure of this mysterious territory.

Two of those looking to undertake the treacherous journey across Tibet are Balram, an Indian schoolteacher, and Katherine, a fifty-year-old British explorer. He is hired as a guide to an ambitious British surveyor; she intends to be the first European woman to reach Lhasa, home to the legendary Potala Palace.

But both have more complex motivations for their expeditions, and as their secrets snap at their heels they encounter the same mysterious figure: a stranger who may hold the key to their survival.

©2026 Deepa Anappara (P)2026 W. F. Howes Ltd Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction
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This beautifully performed narrative in an even, soft voice and accent aligned with the location, vividly evokes two perilous journeys through a pristine land beset with dangers, exhaustion and bureaucracy.
The author explores the drama of Victorian adventurers with a postcolonial eye and instead of swashbuckling white heroes, it’s Indian Bahlram, a bearer, and Catherine, an English woman of mixed heritage, whose weary steps we follow as they pursue deeper and more amorphous victories than fame or glory.
We aren’t spared the grim, filthy reality of travelling hundreds of miles without changing clothes, but neither are we denied the most glorious descriptions of even small glimpses of clouds, night skies, towering mountains and candlelit settlements.
A beautifully written book exploring love, grief, and the human need to move our feet across the earth to rediscover ourselves.

Transport yourself to Tibet 1869

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Beautiful and Atmospheric and the narration was brought to life by the narrator’s calm sultry voice

Beautiful and Atmospheric

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