Yeovil Literary Festival - Vaseem Khan
Bestselling crime fiction author Vaseem Khan takes us on an exhilarating journey from the last days of the Raj to the heart of modern India. Vaseem’s Malabar House series is set in 1950s India, just a few years after Indian independence, Gandhi's assassination, and the horrors of Partition. In this presentation, focusing on the latest in the series, Death of a Lesser God, Vaseem leads us from Bombay to Calcutta, the old colonial capital of British India, known as both the City of Dreadful Night and the City of Joy. An Englishman is set to hang… and the clock is ticking. The first book in the series, Midnight at Malabar House, won the Crime Writers Association Historical Dagger and was shortlisted for the Theakston’s Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year. The book introduced Inspector Persis Wadia, India’s first female police detective, and her co-investigator, English forensic scientist, Archie Blackfinch. Vaseem is also the author of the award-winning crime series the Baby Ganesh Agency. In 2023, he was elected the first non-white Chair of the 70-year-old UK Crime Writers Association.
Tickets: £9
Footlights: Discount applies
A £1.50 ticket levy is included in all stated ticket prices.
Yeovil Literary Festival Events last approximately 60 minutes.
