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Roger Crowley's Conquerors has glowing review in Sunday Times
13 Sep 2015
The Sunday Times calls Conquerors: How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire ‘ …magnificently rip-roaring history of Portugal’s rise to world empire…Conquerors is a gloriously entertaining read…it reads like an epic, bursting with colour and excitement. Unlike many academics who have written about the age of European expansion, Crowley never wastes a syllable on post-colonial gobbledegook, but just cracks on with the action…Crowley makes a powerful case that it was the Portuguese, not the Spanish (and still less the British), who built the world’s first truly global empire…this prodigiously entertaining book.. http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/books/non_fiction/article1604491.ece
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First Amazon review for Stalin's Englishman is 5*
12 Sep 2015
A lovely first Amazon review ‘The book arrived today and I haven’t been able to put it down. Brilliantly crafted with lots of suspense, the many unknowns and unanswered questions about Guy Burgess have finally been revealed in Andrew Lownie’s ground-breaking biography. A must read for everyone who loves a damn good biography but also for readers following general twentieth century history. This colourful and honest portrayal of Burgess makes an important contribution to the public’s enduring fascination with the Cambridge spies and traitors.’
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Stalin's Englishman on Radio Scotland
12 Sep 2015
An interview with Andrew Lownie on his book Stalin’s Englishman can be heard 150-2.00 at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074hf7/episodes/player
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Great review for Roger Crowley's Conquerors
12 Sep 2015
Great review for Roger Crowley’s Conquerors: How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire in Financial Times ‘The story he has to tell may be a thrilling one but not every historian could tell it so thrillingly…’ http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/110c4a4c-5565-11e5-9846-de406ccb37f2.html#axzz3lWblPM6Q
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David Lough's book on Churchill begins serial in Daily Mail
12 Sep 2015
David Lough’s No More Champagne: Churchill and his Money begins its Daily Mail serial today http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3231410/Winston-spendaholic-teetered-brink-bankruptcy-saved-secret-backhanders-new-book-Chuchill-s-finances-reveals-spent-40-000-year-casinos-54-000-booze.html
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5* Daily Telegraph review for Stalin's Englishman
12 Sep 2015
The Daily Telegraph have given a 5* review to Stalin’s Englishman under the heading ‘An assured Life of the Cambridge spy overturns the view of him as a weak link’ …a comprehensive, fascinating and startlingly revisionist life. Far from being the joker in the pack, Lownie shows that Burgess was actually the ace in the hole…surely the definitive account of Burgess’s career as a spy, and a fully rounded biography, which is inevitably damning, but also necessarily sympathetic…Lownie’s treatment of his fiendishly complicated and revelatory material is assured, and he shapes his narrative brilliantly. Stalin’s Englishman is superb, more riveting than any spy novel.’
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Talk Europe interview on Stalin's Englishman
11 Sep 2015
Andrew Lownie’s interview on Guy Burgess for Talk Europe can be heard here www.talkradioeurope.com/clients/alownie.mp3
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Sins of the Mother no 7 this week
11 Sep 2015
Congratulations to Katy Weitz and Irene Kelly whose Sins of the Mother continues in the paperback non-fiction list - now at no 7,
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Stalin's Englishman reviewed in Independent
10 Sep 2015
A lovely review in the Independent of Stalin’s Englishman ‘As one of this country’s foremost literary agents, Andrew Lownie certainly knows what makes a good book, and in Stalin’s Englishman, he has delivered one of his own, many times over. This life – or, as his neat subtitle has it, "lives" – of Guy Burgess commands authority from page 1….The pace is brisk; the account of Burgess’s school days is, in its way, as absorbing as the pile-up of events surrounding his defection. The old ways of biography can still be the best.,,,a distinguished biography .’ http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/stalins-englishman-by-andrew-lownie-book-review-even-the-soviets-didnt-trust-guy-burgess-10494188.html
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First review for Stalin's Englishman
10 Sep 2015
The Guardian have reviewed Stalin’s English sayng ‘Is there anything significant left to say about members of the Cambridge spy ring, Moscow Centre’s “magnificent five”? The answer, judging by this book, is a resounding yes…Stalin’s Englishman tells the reader as much about the culture of a British elite in the 1930s, during the war and immediate postwar years, as about spying. .. Lownie has made a convincing case, demonstrating that even now the story of the Cambridge spy ring can continue to shock.’ The full review can be found http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/10/stalins-englishman-lives-guy-burgess-andrew-lownie-review
