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The SpyMasters Book Prize – Longlist 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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AUTHOR INTERVIEW
Andrew Taylor on A Schooling in Murder
The author discusses the wartime setting, narrative choices and historical research behind his latest murder mystery.
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Those Who Are About To Die: Gladiators and the Roman Mind, by Harry Sidebottom
A study of gladiators that uses the arena to examine life and attitudes in Ancient Rome.
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Daria Santini
Daria Santini was born in Rome and educated in Italy and Germany. Her most recent books – The Exiles. Actors, Artists and Writers Who Fled the Nazis for London (Bloomsbury 2019) and A Woman Named Edith. Émigré, Photographer, Secret Agent: the Extraordinary Life of Edith Tudor Hart (Yale University Press 2026) – move beyond her earlier academic work to explore biography and cultural history in a wider, more personal register.
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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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Issue 28 Out Now
The Tragedy of Korea
Robert Lyman on the Korean War
Tessa Dunlop on Monuments to the Fallen
Max Hastings on D-Day: Sword Beach
Gretchen Friemann on the Anglo-Irish Treaty
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