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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
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Marcel Berlins reviews “The Distinguished Assassin” in The Times

10th June 20133rd March 2020 Nick Taussig 1 min read

“The Distinguished Assassin is Professor Aleksei Klebnikov, banished to a Gulag labour camp in 1949 on trumped-up charges. Set free in 1952, he becomes a hitman […]

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Listen to a short exclusive extract from “The Distinguished Assassin”

27th May 20133rd March 2020 Nick Taussig 1 min read

A short exclusive extract from “The Distinguished Assassin”, read by the author

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Watch “The Distinguished Assassin” Trailer

27th May 20133rd March 2020 Nick Taussig 1 min read

“The Distinguished Assassin” trailer

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Putin, a modern day Stalin

14th March 20133rd March 2020 Nick Taussig 3 mins read

Masha Gessen, the Russian journalist, wrote a very important book last year, published by Granta in the UK. The Man Without a Face is a devastating portrait […]

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Screen heroes under totalitarian rule

14th March 2013 epitone 3 mins read

Totalitarianism is a political system in which the state holds total authority over society and seeks to control all aspects of public and private life […]

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The marks of a thief-in-law

14th March 20133rd March 2020 epitone 2 mins read

Brought to popular western culture in the contemporary film Eastern Promises directed by David Cronenberg, and now on display at the Saatchi Gallery in the […]

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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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