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Nick Taussig

British novelist and film producer

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The Big Issue – Nick Taussig, Five Crime Novels Everyone Should Read Before They Die

3rd September 20136th January 2019 Nick Taussig 1 min read

“A dazzling study of mental anguish and moral dilemma” Author Nick Taussig picks his essential crime fiction reads… The Big Issue, 7 August 2013   […]

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Independent – Five-minute memoir: Nick Taussig recalls a particularly trying trip across Russia

3rd September 20136th January 2019 Nick Taussig 4 mins read

‘Mother Russia’ had long intrigued the author, but a journey across the country almost changed his mind… The Independent, 3 August 2013 A lifelong student […]

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4 stars in The Sun for “The Distinguished Assassin”

12th June 20133rd March 2020 Nick Taussig 0 mins read
Blog, Featured_home, Fiction, Literature, Non-Fiction, Russia, The Distinguished Assassin, The Paradoxical

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevskii

25th March 20136th January 2019 Nick Taussig 4 mins read

Man is a wolf to man, according to The Grand Inquisitor in Dostoevskii’s The Brothers Karamazov. He has no inclination to be good, but is […]

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Why I wrote “The Distinguished Assassin”

14th March 20133rd March 2020 epitone 4 mins read

As a postgraduate student of Russian literature at the University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies in 1995, I will never forget […]

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What constitutes a really great work of fiction?

10th August 2012 epitone 2 mins read

We have all done it, set down eagerly to read a new book and come away disappointed after the first few pages. It is not […]

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“The Distinguished Assassin”, Second Extract

21st January 20113rd March 2020 epitone 5 mins read

29th December ‘52 At Kirovskaya, Natasha stands on the escalator as it descends into the bowels of Moscow. She recalls how just over a week […]

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“Don Don”, Chapter 2

21st January 20113rd March 2020 epitone 3 mins read

I opened my eyes at three o’clock in the morning as the temple bell tower sounded: I always woke at the same time. I no […]

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“Don Don”, Chapter 1

21st January 20113rd March 2020 epitone 2 mins read

There was me at my table in Bucci’s, new Italian on Lexington up near the Chrysler Building, been there about a year and I liked […]

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“Love and Mayhem”, from Chapter 3

20th January 20113rd March 2020 epitone 3 mins read

The bus he gets on is packed. He scans the bottom deck for an empty seat, then goes upstairs. As he reaches the top, he […]

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