UK Press Features
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A tale of brotherly love: when siblings fall out, and try to make up
With younger brother Ed at the wheel, can David remain at his side? Our writer looks at ways siblings have stuck together over the years
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A profile of Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel has never won a literary prize, though her darkly fascinating novels, both historical and contemporary, have won wide
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Do women need a book prize?
Every year there’s the same debate around the Orange Prize for women writers, which is due to be given out
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Chechyna’s Theatre of War
Akhmed Zakayev – actor, politician and former resistance fighter – talks to Vanora Bennett LONDON, Jan 2007 – IT might
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An inconvenient truth
Harper’s Bazaar – April Edition, 2007 Anna Politkovskaya, murdered by a hitman outside her Moscow flat last October, was someone
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The new Moscow molls
Evening Standard – March 14, 2007 As Roman Abramovich’s wife gets her marching orders and girlfriend Daria steps into her
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Is there truth in Litvinenko’s accusation that KGB poisoned him?
The Guardian, November 21 2006 Imagine you were a foreign power that wanted to get rid of a dissident who
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The probable poisoning of a Russian ex-spy
Evening Standard – November 20, 2006 The apparent poisoning of exiled Russian ex-secret service man Alexander Litvinenko inLondon has plunged this
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Tragedy of truth-telling Russian reporter’s death
Evening Standard – October 10, 2006 I didn’t want to believe she’d be murdered. Anna Politkovskaya’s tall thin vehemence, her
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Medical secrets of the Middle Ages
The Times – October 03, 2006 As someone brought up by parents interested in alternative medicine, I’ve spent much of
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EXTRACT from Portrait of an Unknown Woman
The Independent – September 30, 2006 Hans Holbein hadn’t thought of Magdalena for more than an instant in months. So
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Hans Holbein: Portrait of an Unknown Man
The Times – September 23, 2006 Beneath the penetrating realism of Hans Holbein’s work lay subtle political messages. Now, says
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From Russia with secrets
Until recently, Mr Litvinenko was a lieutenant-colonel in the Russian secret police. He claims to know some of the darkest
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The oligarch’s revenge
Guardian Weekend Magazine – February 19, 2005 (published under the nom de plume Veronica Martin) Vladimir Putin is master of
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What Saudi women want
The Times – May 19, 2004 Pretty, witty, glossy and groomed, Samia laughs as she remembers her first professional mistake.
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Questions from beyond the grave in Mexico’s city of dead women
Times Saturday Magazine – April, 2004 It’s the first memorial of the week in the city of murdered women: a
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The yachtsmen of millionaire Moscow
Times Saturday Magazine – Spring, 2004 Someone is playing the James Bond theme tune on this chilly Moscow afternoon. A
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The secret food of the very rich
Observer Food Monthly – February 15, 2004 Shhh. We are about to be let into the secrets of the very
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Aids – the latest spectre to haunt disaster-ridden Cambodia
Times Saturday Magazine – February 14, 2004 Chim Ouk is lying facing out towards the fields. The landscape is vibrantly
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Whispers in the woods of eastern Europe provoke nuclear panic
The Times – November 24, 2003 One of the oddest cases to cross David Blunkett’s desk began as a whispering
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A plague on all our houses
Prospect Magazine – 20 October, 2003 There is a rat for every person in the British Isles. Our way of
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Beauty shows its face in Afghanistan
Times Saturday Magazine – September 6, 2003 Afghanistan’s recent history is often simplified into the triumph of Beauty over the
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Why cast me as a criminal?
The Times – January 31, 2003 Chechen freedom fighter Akhmed Zakayev was once the only separatist Moscow would negotiate with.
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Power food – crime and luxury at the end of the earth
Prospect Magazine – February, 2001 On the shore of the Caspian Sea you can, if you know the right people,
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Chechens in Russia “moving between circles of Hell”
The Times – January 27, 2000 Zarema and her family had three choices. Live illegally on the streets in Moscow