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

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Please remember it can take some time for your bank or credit card company to process and post the refund too. 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.

Summary report on the papers of Arthur Stafford Crawley (1876-1948), canon of Windsor and Anstice Katharine Crawley (1881-1963) in the muniments of St George's Chapel, Windsor (reference: GB-0260-M. He then lost heavily in the Lloyd's crash and at the time of his death, Crawley was virtually penniless. Fast-paced political-cum-spy thriller with a chilling ring of authenticity and an eerie closeness to present events in Ukraine. Then on the British side we have Rose, who is ‘working’ for the British Council, befriender of Clive.Moscow, centre of Russian power and a city I knew better than London, would be at the epicentre of my story. I did enjoy this book because it is page-turningly easy and there is literally nothing difficult about the plot.

No doubt pleased by the authors copy/pasting of British state accussations against Russia, pretty much verbatim. He appeared on 'In the News' and 'Viewfinder' on BBC, and became Independent Television News's first editor-in-chief, but later rejoined the BBC. What are the odds that two translators, running the Moscow marathon with the FSB on their backs, can save the UK and much of Western Europe from economic meltdown?The book also suggests reasons for crime fiction’s popularity then and now, quoting one commentator who believes that reading a thriller has much the same effect on the brain as snorting cocaine. Heather always felt that her parents-in-law looked down on her, though her sister-in-law, Amy, was a friend as well as a useful substitute carer for Heather’s two boys. In this expanded version of her PhD thesis, Jane Custance Baker offers an entertaining analysis of the clues provided by descriptions of clothes in interwar crime fiction. It was a gripping tale of espionage, secrets and lies and kept me up till very early in the morning!