Nick Taussig“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
‘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 […]
Marcel Berlins reviews “The Distinguished Assassin” in The Times
“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 […]
Listen to a short exclusive extract from “The Distinguished Assassin”
A short exclusive extract from “The Distinguished Assassin”, read by the author
Watch “The Distinguished Assassin” Trailer
“The Distinguished Assassin” trailer
Belgravia Books – “The Distinguished Assassin” Book Launch
Book launch at Belgravia Books on 13th June
Putin, a modern day Stalin
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 […]
Why I wrote “The Distinguished Assassin”
epitoneAs a postgraduate student of Russian literature at the University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies in 1995, I will never forget […]
Nikita Mikhalkov’s “Burnt by the Sun”
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 […]
“The Distinguished Assassin”, First Extract
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 […]