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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
Escaping Communism: Peter Kasl Interviewed
Peter Kasl reflects on his childhood escape from communist Czechoslovakia, the realities of life under surveillance, and rebuilding a new life in the United States.
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Eleanor: A 200-Mile Walk in Search of England’s Lost Queen, by Alice Loxton
A thoughtful mix of history and travel writing that follows Eleanor of Castile’s funeral route, using a modern retracing of the journey to explore medieval grief, place and memory.
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Melanie Singh Hughes
Melanie Singh Hughes is the author of Delhi - City of Spies which was published in October 2025.
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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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