Published by Birlinn in the UK
“A wonderful story, expertly told. What a film it would make!” (Sara Wheeler in The Spectator)
“A richly researched and compellingly written account” (John Keay in The Literary Review)
“A fast-paced, entertaining yet thoroughly researched work” (Jules Stewart, author of Spying for the Raj: the Pundits and the Mapping of the Himalaya, in The Geographical)
“A remarkable piece of detective work… a very valuable addition to how the Cold War played out in South Asia” (Michael Burleigh, author of Small Wars, Faraway Places)
“A gripping page-turner” (Govindan Nair in The Hindu)
“A substantial work of history” (Anjuli Kaul in Open Magazine)
“The last days of a Himalayan kingdom presented in glorious Technicolor” (Prajwal Parajuly, author of The Gurkha’s Daughter)
“It has all the ingredients for a major Feature Film: Love and hate, suspense and suspicion, great powers and small nations, a Shangri-la, beautiful foreign and Sikkimese princesses and a handsome king” (Sanjoy Hazarika in The Pioneer)
“Absorbing” (Free Press Journal)
Published by Penguin in India
“Duff draws out the remarkable story of Sikkim’s annexation and its last king” (DNA India)
“Andrew Duff has connected many dots… A thoroughly readable account” (Harish Khare in The Tribune)
“An act of remembrance for a land that once belonged to a fairy tale… excellent research work meets historical story-telling” (Financial Chronicle)
“An enthralling retelling of the Sikkim tragedy” (Barbara Crosette, author of So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas, in Passblue.com)
“Clearly the most comprehensive account so far of Sikkim’s fall” (The Calcutta Telegraph)
Andrew Duff 