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The Translator: one of the top thrillers of 2023 and of the month for The Sunday Times/Times

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I had ridden a horse through Scythian tombstones in the Altai, visited a former gulag on the White Sea and a winery on the Black Sea, and, in mid-January, flown across eight times zones to Yakutz in the Russian Far East, the coldest city on earth, where the average winter temperature is minus 50. Unbeknown to President Serov (you-know-who), his favourite interpreter, Marina Volina, has had enough.

a successful author and former television presenter of Collecting Now, married Gleb Shestakov in 1993 and then Julian Ayer in around 2001.

Her chance comes when her former flame Clive Franklin (Hugh Grant, if they ever film it) arrives in Moscow as the translator for a British delegation. As usual, her interests dovetail with those of her friend and suitor, James Marwood, and they work together to identify the dead man and his killer.

Clive Franklin, a Russian language expert in the Foreign Office, is summoned unexpectedly to Moscow to act as translator for the British Prime Minister.The genre would be ‘suspense fiction’, a term coined by the great Patricia Highsmith, and one I prefer to ‘thriller’. It follows the idea that wars between nations are primarily going to be fought on a technical footing rather than via physical fighting.

On 10th September 1988, her two brothers took off from Turin in a Cessna to fly to Oxfordshire and join Harriet for her 40th birthday. Having studied Russian and Soviet Studies at University, I have always been fascinated by the country and its politics. He played a total of 39 times for Oxford and 33 for Kent as well as eight times for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) as well as making a few appearances for other teams such as the Free Foresters. The novel is a really well-written and well-paced political thriller with a bit of everything in there – romance, spies, drama, all sorts. Joining the interesting subgenre of post-sentence crime fiction, journalist T M Logan’s seventh novel follows first-person narrator Heather Vernon as she emerges from prison on licence, having served nine years for the murder of her husband, Liam.Press photos have been available to the public for just a few years, and similar to baseball cards, they have attracted investors and collectors. He was descended from the younger brother of Sir Thomas Crawley-Boevey, 2nd Baronet (1744-1818), who inherited 1789 by special remainder as husband of the granddaughter of the first Baronet's brother, a rare remainder. A paragraph on the rear of the book from a paper written by none other than Rishi Sunak should have warned me to steer clear but i paid little attention at the time as i was quite excited to find a new novel that centres on a subject i have been following for many years. A few months later, a Russian friend who ran a gas processing company in Moscow offered her a job at a technical publishing company. Her granddaughter Anstice Katharine Gibbs married a Crawley cousin (Arthur Stafford Crawley) in 1903, and was mother of Aidan Merivale Crawley.

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