Alas, the beautiful view from his study to the church on the hill and the graveyard where he is buried has now been obliterated by a housing estate for the rich. The Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, was caught admitting that world leaders are tired of the Ukraine war and looking to. Moscow, centre of Russian power and a city I knew better than London, would be at the epicentre of my story. I haven’t read anything else by Harriet Crawley, but based on this I would read more of her novels, and if you enjoy a good spy thriller I can definitely recommend this one! The idea of Serov wanting to be the ‘Russian Bear’, the cult of personality around him and the blatant desire for power and standing in the world.

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But the orchard and the garden were meticulously neat, and there were new blue shutters on the old wooden dacha. He is planning to cut Britain’s underwater internet cables and trusts Marina absolutely — which is a mistake, for she wants out. The author is to be joined by a former British ambassador to Russia, Sir Roderic Lyne, on a tour to discuss the political relevence of her novel.Unions had been expecting confirmation of up to 3,000 job losses at Port Talbot in South Wales and associated businesses.

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I married my Russian husband in 1993 and then moved to Russia in 1994, after the death of my father. And when that happens (which is rare, but it does happen) you feel that you are flying on some magic carpet. Book of the M onth:”A thriller must have something about it if it can survive being inspired by a policy paper written by the prime minister. I needed details of so much, from the latest running shoes to the garden at the back of Downing Street, not to mention cyber and military expertise.

The idea of making two interpreters the key protagonists came right at the very start, no doubt because I had spent hours grappling with impossible Russian grammar, and was addicted to the language, even though my Russian was far from perfect. For a while I wondered if the book had been written before February 24th 2022 but published anyway, regardless of Putin’s brainstorm.

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Josh Siaw, who went from a London council estate to become a partner at a City law firm, has been named as the most influential black Briton in the law. The central character voted for her because he "is tired of men destroying the planet", he voted for her merely "because she was a woman". Clive's appearance stirs feelings she thought were long buried, and through him she sees a possibility that she might escape the position she is in.

If you’d like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. In the 1970s I started an art business with my two brothers and from 1975-79 I lived and worked in Teheran. She lived and worked there for 20 years and speaks Russian fluently – yet if, like me, you miss the mention on page one that, although published in 2023, the story is set in 2017, you’ll think you’re in a parallel reality. Thank you to Bitter Lemon Press and Random Things Tours for a review copy of the novel in exchange for an honest review.

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One of the bleakest discoveries of the pandemic was quite how many people imagined themselves to be amateur epidemiologists brimming with compelling insights on lockdowns and vaccine science.

Crawley, herself a fluent Russian speaker, steadily ramps up the tension and Moscow and the Kremlin are finely drawn, although there could be more menace in Marina’s interactions with her boss. The Times has observed troops on the outskirts of Beit Hanoun, a town in the north of the Gaza Strip, but the images taken by Planet Labs, a commercial. We were delighted here at You’re Booked to have the chance to interview Harriet Crawley, author of our April Book of the Month, The Translator.