conspiracy
Distant shadows: Frame 37, by Nicholas Shakespeare, reviewed
The former journalist John Dyer is persuaded to investigate the death of old friend in an apparent hit-and-run. But is there a connection with Argentina’s Dirty War decades ago?
When piracy meets protest
Sometimes there are advantages to being ill-informed. Knowing embarrassingly little about why 30 Greenpeace activists were jailed in Russia in…
Mad men plotting
Fifteen years ago, A.M. Homes published The Mistress’s Daughter, an explosive, painful account of how she met her birth mother,…
Did the notorious Zinoviev letter ever exist?
This is a well-written, scrupulously researched and argued account of an enduring mystery that neatly illustrates the haphazard interactions of…
