Selected journalism
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The death of an Anglo-Hungarian painting: anger grows over Trinity College’s lacklustre response
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Smiley’s back - plus intrigue and menace in Bahrain, Congo, London and 1930s Moscow
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The spectre of dissent: Britain’s new authoritarianism
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Back at Budapest’s Keleti station: the 2015 migrant crisis then and now
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Spies, secrets and an archive of British kompromat: best new thrillers
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Eruption: a volcanic thriller that should have stayed dormant
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Eighty years on, remembering the horror of the Hungarian Holocaust
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Chanel’s collaborative wartime New Look and the masterful Masters of the Air
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A Promised Land in Texas - a forgotten Zionist experiment
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Cold Crematorium: A Holocaust memoir worthy of Primo Levi
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Spies, plot twists and sky-high adventures from Pakistan to Whitehall
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The Holocaust: An Unfinished History - what does “Never Again” mean?
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How not to handle classified documents: a masterclass
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Killer thrillers: Gangs of London vs SAS Rogue Heroes
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Dirty cash, icy chills and 007 in peril – the best new thrillers
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How Rudolf Vrba escaped from Auschwitz to warn the world
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Fast-paced tales of intrigue from Leningrad to Lisbon - with echoes of le Carré
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Nine Quarters of Jerusalem - an evocative but unbalanced biography of the holy city
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Servant of the People: Life imitates art in Ukraine
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The Club: Turkish delight in glamorous 1950s Istanbul
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The American lawyer who freed Nazi industrialists and let them rebuild Germany
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Thirty years on: three decades of reporting adventures in Eastern Europe
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Spies, lies, murder, terrorists, intrigue, Nazis, the NKVD and more
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Billy Summers: Stephen King’s genre-bending mix of a novel
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The Paper: the dark, dramatic legacy of Croatia’s independence war
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The foreign correspondents turned successful thriller writers
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The Passenger: a powerful tale of life on the run from the Gestapo
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The heroic Jewish women who fought back against the Nazis
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A magpie-like spy writer: an interview with Mick Herron
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The Repair Shop: a touching treasure trove of memories
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Remembering Khamis Abulafia: broadcaster, baker, peacemaker
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The revolutionary Communist cult now embedded in the British establishment
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How the Wall Street roots of Jean Monnet, godfather of the EU, shaped our world
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Why crime writers need to move on from serial femicide
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The Muslim world’s chilling silence over the Uighurs’ plight
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The Nazi blueprint for post-war European integration
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We have been here before: the BBC’s Survivors
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Learning to fight in my fifties: adrenaline and the art of self-defence
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How to remember the Holocaust: read the stories of lives unlived
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Romania’s 1989 revolution has lessons for today’s protestors
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Watch out: there’s a digital Stasi in your pocket
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A Jewish renaissance in Budapest
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The ‘Lady Macbeth of the Balkans’
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Budapest, the haunted city: A writer’s life in the Hungarian capital
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Central Europe is winning the war over national identity
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Israel at 70: My return to a divided country