Broken Threads: My Family from Empire to Independence

by Mishal Husain

Genres: Nonfiction

320 pages, Paperback

Published May 8, 2025

About the author

Mishal Husain is one of the presenters of BBC Radio 4’s influential Today programme and the television news on BBC One. Her work has taken her from Davos to Rohingya refugee camps and from interviewing Prime Ministers to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Mishal has been named by the Sunday Times as one of the 500 most influential people in Britain. Born in the UK in 1973, she grew up in the Middle East and was later educated at Cambridge University, where she read law.

Reviews

[Simon Pitman · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful family history covering an incredibly difficult period both politically and religiously.

A fascinating read and well worth anybody’s time.

A brilliant journalist process also to be a brilliant author and family historian.