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

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At the embassy, Clive learns of a Russian plot to cut the undersea cables linking the US to the UK which would paralyse communications and collapse the Western economy. Clive Franklin is a Foreign Office translator, summoned at the last minute to accompany the British prime minister to a meeting with the Russian president. Andrew Hayward Crawley (1947−1988 [21]), married Sarah Lawrence in 1986 and had one son and a posthumous daughter. For almost twenty years Harriet had one foot in Moscow where she launched a technical publishing business for a Russian oil and gas company.

Clive’s opposite number in Russia is an old love, Marina Volina, who left him to marry one of her fellow countrymen and whom he hasn’t seen for a decade. Her granddaughter Anstice Katharine Gibbs married a Crawley cousin (Arthur Stafford Crawley) in 1903, and was mother of Aidan Merivale Crawley. But it did feel nice to look up Neglinnaya street etc on Google maps and see what Metropol hotel looks like , now that we can’t go there! Work has to stop when the mutilated corpse of a man is found on her site, along with the body of the night watchman’s dog. As Rishi Sunak identified some years ago, in today’s internet-based society such an attack would be devastating.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I had spent the better part of 20 years in Russia, and I was hooked on the country and on its people. Clive Franklin, a Russian language expert in the Foreign Office, is summoned unexpectedly to Moscow to act as translator for the British Prime Minister. 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.

This is a tough novel on many levels, dealing with abuse, cruelty, vicious sibling rivalry, mental illness, addiction and all kinds of distress. A thriller must have something about it if it can survive being inspired by a policy paper written by the prime minister. The novel is set between 1999 and 2013, with some sections narrated by Carmel and some by her mother. Her son, Spencer, who works in venture capital, tried to keep her spirits up, saying, ‘Mum, all you need is one person to say “yes”. We assist them in setting their prints free for future generations to access and appreciate them and their historical value.What are the odds that two lovers, running the Moscow marathon with the FSB on their backs, can save Western Europe from economic meltdown? Apparently, the author lived in Moscow for a number of years, and this has surely informed the powerful sense of place that she has created within the novel. The scene is now set for a race against time; the need to get more information via Marina, to pass it on via Clive, using the setting of training for the imminent Moscow Marathon as a device. I loved the mix of complicated spycraft with a simple underlying plot – which is hugely complex in details – if you can get them! The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Andrew Taylor continues his series about London after the Great Fire with this masterly instalment dealing with the seduction of Louise de Kérouaille by Charles II.There was some hard editing yet to come, but also the reward of finding a brilliant independent publisher in Bitter Lemon Press. We are dropped into their story when the police launch an investigation into the death of an elderly man in a large and gloomy house. Between political lines and the tensions between countries, the book gives you such a great journey in a time that is dependant on the communications link to keep the countries running smoothly.

The Translator deals with a Russian plot to cut the undersea communication cables linking Britain to America and cripple our economy. 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. 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. 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 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.We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. In fact, he is at Lochleven, which coincidentally recently featured as a location in Peter May’s climate thriller A Winter Grave. With our high quality and fast digitizing process, we help newspaper archives in converting their physical prints into digital format.