The Translator: one of the top thrillers of 2023 and of the month for The Sunday Times/Times

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As the story develops though, I kept wondering why, if there are only a handful of transatlantic giga-data cables, the PM needed someone in Moscow to tell her where they make landfall.

This is a tough novel on many levels, dealing with abuse, cruelty, vicious sibling rivalry, mental illness, addiction and all kinds of distress. What are the odds that two translators, running the Moscow marathon with the FSB on their backs, can save the UK and much of Western Europe from economic meltdown? The scene is now set for a race against time; the need to get more information via Marina, to pass it on via Clive, using the setting of training for the imminent Moscow Marathon as a device. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed.A timely novel: a paper written for the Policy Exchange think tank by Rishi Sunak, now the UK Prime Minister but then a little-known backbencher, described an attack on undersea communication cables as the most “existential” threat we could face “short of nuclear or biological warfare”.

Clive Franklin, a Russian language expert in the Foreign Office, is summoned unexpectedly in 2017 to Moscow, to act as translator for the British Prime Minister. Behind the scenes in Moscow, from the Kremlin to the Lubyanka, by way of wonderfully satirical set pieces of extravagant parties on the shores of Crimea, where the President’s yacht dwarfs the cruiser Moskva, the Russian Black Sea flagship.Aidan Merivale Crawley MBE (10 April 1908 – 3 November 1993) [1] was a British journalist, television executive and editor, and politician.

Music courtesy of Guy Hale author of The Comeback Trail trilogy, featuring Jimmy Wayne - KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson. I also studied Russian and have been to Moscow so the descriptions and language added another layer of interest for me (not that you need to know the first think about Russia or indeed Russian to read this book). As an interpreter and translator I also challenge the pointless debate between interpreter and translator , especially since the book is in English ! Being set in 2017, the novel feels contemporary, but the subject matter doesn’t have to deal with the war against Ukraine, which would be a different kind of book.Her chance comes when her former flame Clive Franklin (Hugh Grant, if they ever film it) arrives in Moscow as the translator for a British delegation. Andrew Taylor continues his series about London after the Great Fire with this masterly instalment dealing with the seduction of Louise de Kérouaille by Charles II. But they too have eyes and ears, and proximity to power means they can pick up all sorts of intelligence.