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A Woman Named Edith: Emigre, Photographer and Secret Agent – The Extraordinary Life of Edith Tudor Hart, by Daria Santini
A biography of Edith Tudor Hart that highlights her role in Soviet espionage while reassessing her life as a politically driven photographer.
There is something fitting in the idea of a photographer spy. Both espionage and photography require close attention to detail, an awareness of perspective, and an ability to manipulate reality. Sometimes, usefully, the activities overlap. Perhaps the most influential...
The White Lady: The Story of British Secret Service Networks Behind German Lines, by Helen Fry
A gripping, meticulously researched account of the White Lady espionage networks that reveals their crucial intelligence work across two world wars, while restoring the long-overlooked contributions of women to wartime resistance.
It is an enduring trope of spy fiction that finds retired spies, their glories long behind them, approached and re-activated for one final mission. But sometimes, reality outdoes fiction and Helen Fry’s masterly new study of wartime resistance in Belgium relates how...
Episode 238
Jane Thynne on The Judgement of Stars
Bestselling author Jane Thynne returns to talk about the newest book in the Clara Vine series.
Jane, It’s been a few years since the last Clara Vine novel was published. Can you tell is us about the character - and what inspired you to return to her story now in The Judgement of Stars? The original inspiration for Clara Vine came from several memoirs by women...
Goodnight Vienna, Jane Thynne Interview
In the first of a new series, bestselling author Jane Thynne discusses the city, the 1930s and the worrying times we’re now in.
Goodnight Vienna, Jane Thynne Interview. Jane, many congratulations on Midnight in Vienna. What is it about the city that made you want to set much of the book there? It’s impossible to think about twentieth century art, philosophy, psychology, or politics and not to...
Episode 166
Bonus Podcast 18
Queen High, by C.J. Carey
An alternate reality where Wallis Simpson is queen is a compulsive literary thriller.
Queen High is CJ Carey’s sequel to her much acclaimed novel Widowland, both books are counter factual dystopian novels in a similar vein to 1984, Fatherland and Brave New World. They are set in a 1950s Britain where Lord Halifax became Prime Minister rather than...