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Peredelkino- our dacha and first Russian home (c) Harriet Crawley BookTrail the locations in The Translator You may change or cancel your subscription or trial at any time online. Simply log into Settings & Account and select "Cancel" on the right-hand side. No doubt pleased by the authors copy/pasting of British state accussations against Russia, pretty much verbatim. The Translator is just my kind of Russian spy thriller. Harriet Crawley enfolds you a very timely espionage story that highlights everything about the current complexities of the political situation between Russia and the West, while evoking all those Cold War vibes that I adore.

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I really enjoyed this classic spy thriller. It's fast-paced, and the plot is definitely solid. You can tell she has done a tremendous amount of research, and it reflects in her writing. Prescient and pacey, this book sizzles with the author’s expertise.”-- Edward Lucas, author of The New Cold War: Putin's Threat to Russia and the West I love to ski. In London I play tennis a couple of times a week, and I’m still a big reader. I go to the theatre quite often, and I love inviting friends over to dinner. I always do the cooking, which I enjoy. My education was unusual. When I was still a teenager, from 14 to 16 years old, I was sent to European schools, where I was on the only foreigner, to learn French, German and Italian. This changed my life. 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.Dacha of Boris Pasternak in Peredelkino (c) Harriet Crawley BookTrail the locations in The Translator Clive is the translator for the British PM, he's off to Moscow. On arrival he encounters his ex girlfriend Marina, she is the Russian PMs interpretor. From my front window I could almost glimpse St. Basil’s. Almost, but not quite. But I carried the cupolas in my mind’s eye. Their twisted shapes seemed to mirror the twisted mind of the Russian President in my book. Shuggie Bain, by Douglas Stuart. It was turned down by 42 publishers and in 2020 it won the Booker Prize. We like to start our interviews by asking our authors to introduce themselves. Can you tell our readers a little about yourself?

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The issue that most annoyed me was that the description of Russia & its behaviour involved no imagination at all. First and foremost, I wanted to be a writer. The crime/suspense element came later. My first novel, The Goddaughter was published by Weidenfeld in 1975. My second novel, The Lovers and The Loved was published by Heineman in 1990. These are straightforward novels, love stories. Clive Franklin, a Russian language expert in the Foreign Office, is summoned unexpectedly to Moscow to act as translator for the British Prime Minister. His life is turned on its head when, after more than a decade, he discovers that his former lover, Marina Volina, is now the interpreter to the Russian President.When I lost my job in Moscow in January 2016, I knew that I wanted to write a novel set in Russia, and this novel would not be about me. I had spent the better part of 20 years in Russia, and I was hooked on the country and on its people. At the same time, like so many others, I was revolted by Putin and his politics. Little did I know that worse, much worse was to come.

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Harriet Crawley’s The Translator, has been described by Antony Beever as ‘a classic thriller of the new Cold War’. What advice would you give to any aspiring writers? What do you wish you’d known at the start of your own writing career?Fast-paced political-cum-spy thriller with a chilling ring of authenticity and an eerie closeness to present events in Ukraine. Unputdownable.' Xan Smiley, The Economist This is my first read by the author, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. We follow the story of Clive Franklin, a Russian language expert in the Foreign Office. He's then recruited to translate for the Prime Minister and travel to Moscow. There, he meets his ex-girlfriend Marina.