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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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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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Belgravia Books – “The Distinguished Assassin” Book Launch

1st May 20133rd March 2020 Nick Taussig 1 min read

Book launch at Belgravia Books on 13th June

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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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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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Nikita Mikhalkov’s “Burnt by the Sun”

21st January 20113rd March 2020 epitone 7 mins read

Slovo, Vol. 9, No.1, 1996 Mikhalkov’s tale of life in the Russian countryside in the mid-1930s is an apparently idyllic one. A man and a […]

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“The Distinguished Assassin”, First Extract

15th January 20113rd March 2020 epitone 18 mins read

1st April ‘49 First, they frisk him down, then they start to go through his apartment, this shoddy home of Aleksei Nikolayevich Klebnikov, with its […]

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