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The SpyMasters Book Prize – Shortlist Announced
At SpyMasters, we love spy books. We love to read espionage books, as well as champion the genre and its authors. And so it is with great pleasure that we announce the inaugural SpyMasters Book Prize.
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Thomas Messel
Adam Staten discusses writing and his ancestor, Elizabeth Linley.
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Second Front, by Marc Milner
A fascinating treatise with much truth that Canada’s economic and military contribution has not received the recognition that it deserves.
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Thomas Messel
Thomas Messel has for forty years been a leading English furniture designer. He is also the author of two books. His non-fiction Oliver Messel in the Theatre of Design (Winner of the Speares Book Award 2012) was a comprehensive study of the life and work of his uncle, Oliver Messel. His current book, The Nightingale of Bath, is a historical fiction covering the life of his eighteenth-century ancestor, the singer and beacon of the Whig party, Elizabeth Linley.
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Sugar Plum
Set during the Second World War, the story combines historical details about the challenges of putting on ballet performances in London during the war, with a fictional tale where magic and reality intermingle during a production of Casse Noisette.
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