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

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Clive Franklin is a Foreign Office translator, summoned at the last minute to accompany the British prime minister to a meeting with the Russian president. The author is to be joined by a former British ambassador to Russia, Sir Roderic Lyne, on a tour to discuss the political relevence of her novel. Clive is brought urgently back to work, to accompany a delegation to Moscow, headed by the Prime Minister. Helped by a fellow inhabitant of her ‘approved premises’ and by an obsessive freelance journalist, she tracks down everyone who might have played a part in stitching her up. Our hero would be the translator (he hates the word ‘interpreter’) assigned to the British Prime Minister, while our heroine would act as interpreter for the Russian President.

A genre-bending story that sustains the difficult balancing act of melding a love story with a tale of espionage in the process shedding light on what is happening in Russia today. At the British Embassy, Clive learns of a pending Russian assault on undersea cables linking the US to the UK which would paralyse Western communications. Harriet Crawley speaks about the Crawley Gap Year Scholarships in memory of her brothers ( "The Crawley Gap Year Scholarship". Clive and Marina's relationships shed light on so many aspects of the mass of contradictions that make up modern Russia, from the cynical machinations of the corridors of the Kremlin, through the rise of the oligarchs, and right down to the political unrest on the streets. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Belle is an appealing figure, telling the reader her story as she swims every morning, braving the cold of Southwold’s winter sea.

Marina is part of President Serov's inner circle but she is tired of this life, especially after the death of her foster son. Unbeknown to President Serov (you-know-who), his favourite interpreter, Marina Volina, has had enough.When Clive Franklin is seconded to accompany the Prime Minister on an important trip, little does he know that he will meet his old lover Marina again across the table during negotiations, nor that he'll be the go-between for information about a Russian threat to the transatlantic cables that link North America and Europe from Marina. a plump, whitehaired woman in her late sixties with alert brown eyes and several moles on her round face; she also had a bad back and arthritic fingers. He held the seat through two general elections, [9] before resigning in 1967 to become Chairman of London Weekend Television where he remained until 1973. Soon, he’s back down south, they’ve kitted him out with a new diplomatic passport, new suit etc, and a four week supply of insulin, for Clive is diabetic; everything has been catered for.

Now her licence conditions preclude her from having any contact with them or anyone who took part in the trial. The idea of Serov wanting to be the ‘Russian Bear’, the cult of personality around him and the blatant desire for power and standing in the world.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. Harriet Crawley’s The Translator centres on a Russian plan to attack Britain by cutting the cables off the Cornish coast that carry internet traffic across the Atlantic. I had ridden a horse through Scythian tombstones in the Altai, visited a former gulag on the White Sea and a winery on the Black Sea, and, in mid-January, flown across eight times zones to Yakutz in the Russian Far East, the coldest city on earth, where the average winter temperature is minus 50. The killer has taken the apparently living child and is demanding that the dead woman’s bereaved family pay a ransom in cryptocurrency.