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

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Crawley made his first-class cricket debut in May 1927, playing for Oxford University against Harlequins.

She married Andrew Crawley, son of Aidan Merivale Crawley and Harriet Virginia Spencer Cowles, in 1986. There was some hard editing yet to come, but also the reward of finding a brilliant independent publisher in Bitter Lemon Press. The author has taken the idea of such an incendiary and fragile political scenario, added a layer of intrigue and spycraft to the story, and drawn both a fascinating comparison and fast-paced read with an ending that allows for further stories with this fearless set of characters.Marina stuns Clive with the news that she's ready to help the UK to stop the attack, betraying her country for a new identity and a new life. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Anyone who visits my blog regularly will know that spies and secret agents populate my favourite thrillers, and there are plenty in Harriet Crawley’s splendid new novel The Translator. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

I’ve just been to the packed launch party of her fourth novel, The Translator, flagged by both the Times and the Sunday Times as their Thriller of the Month. This is a brilliant political thriller that manages to highlight some thought-provoking issues and certainly makes the reader think. When her former lover, Clive Franklin, arrives in Moscow to translate for the visiting British prime minister, Marina passes him what she learns, while drawing increasing suspicion from some very dangerous enemies. A chance remark here in London made everything fall in place: a former diplomat in Moscow told me, ‘At top level negotiations between heads of state, the interpreters are invisible.

A genre-bending story that sustains the difficult balancing act of melding a love story with a tale of espionage in the process shedding light on what is happening in Russia today. What are the odds that two lovers, running the Moscow marathon with the FSB on their backs, can save Western Europe from economic meltdown? This shows all the descendants of the Crawley-Boevey baronets, starting with the 2nd Baronet and his brothers.

He’s been asked to be the interpreter for the British Prime Minister, Martha Maitland, at a meeting with President Serov. It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance. 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.Fast-paced and convincing, Belle’s story builds to a dramatic climax before ending with a neat, quiet and disturbing twist. After serving on night patrols over the English Channel he was sent ostensibly as an assistant air attaché to Turkey in April 1940, cover for intelligence work in the Balkans in Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, being smuggled out of Sofia when the Germans invaded the latter country in March 1941. A genre-bending story that sustains the difficult balancing act of melding a rekindled yet passionate love story with a tale of espionage.

Marina stuns Clive with the news that she’s ready to help stop the attack, betraying her country for a new identity and a new life….Describes Harriet Ayer's efforts to build a memorial to her husband, and relates some of the family tragedies. His paternal grandfather was George Baden Crawley (1833–1879), a successful railway contractor [13] and his wife Inez.