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Leigh Turner

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The United Kingdom

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https://rleighturner.com

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Genre

Thriller, Science Fiction, Memoir

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Lee Child, Anthony Trollope, Bernard Cornwell, PG Wodehouse, Mo Hayder ...more

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Leigh Turner is a former British ambassador to Ukraine and Austria. His career took him to Vienna, Moscow, Kyiv, Berlin, Hong Kong, Washington D.C., St Helena, Buenos Aires, Beijing, Tokyo, Samarkand, Istanbul and Las Vegas. In Berlin, he took four years off diplomacy to look after his two children and become a travel writer for “The Financial Times”.

Leigh's latest book is LESSONS IN DIPLOMACY: POLITICS, POWER AND PARTIES, published by Bristol University Press in September 2024. His other books include Berlin thriller BLOOD SUMMIT, Istanbul thriller PALLADIUM, speculative comedy thriller ETERNAL LIFE and the black comedy collection, SEVEN HOTEL STORIES. ...more

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	Lessons in Diplomacy: Politics, Power and Parties 4.41 avg rating — 56 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Palladium by Leigh Turner (Goodreads Author), Robert Pimm (Goodreads Author) 4.64 avg rating — 42 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seven More Hotel Stories it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hitchhiker's Guide to Diplomacy - Wie Diplomatie die Welt erklärt 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2023	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood Summit really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eternal Life by Leigh Turner (Goodreads Author), Robert Pimm (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seven Hotel Stories 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mr Smith Sees Red: "Hotel Stories" No. 11 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Luxury Spa: "Hotel Stories" No. 13 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sausages: "Hotel Stories" No. 8 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Leigh Turner wrote a new blog post Never by Ken Follett "Never", by master thriller-writer Ken Follett, starts slow but the last 20% is excellent as humanity careers towards self-annihilation. Plus: great F Read more of this blog post »
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Leigh Turner liked Ann Sei Lin's review of Seven More Hotel Stories: "An engaging collection of stories that follows narrator Tatiana relating the acts of Ms N, the hotel manager, as she battles ignorant superiors and corrupt officials to keep the hotel afloat. Some solutions are quite surprising! I enjoyed the tongue-" Read more of this review »
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Leigh Turner liked Patrick's review of Palladium: "I really liked the book's pacing and the Overall story. The premise is a bit meh but it generates a good thrill. The switch between eras (in the beginning) as well as between the different perspectives are a great way to tell the story and tells us m" Read more of this review »
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Leigh Turner liked Gozde Eren's review of Palladium: "Great Book ! A Turkish woman with a hard head, ancient relics, terrorists… "
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Leigh Turner rated a book it was amazing Claude, Gord, Alice, and Maud by Jinny Alexander (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
"Claude, Gord, Alice and Maud” is a delightful cosy crime caper set almost entirely in Claude’s hairdressing salon in the English hamlet of Little Wittering. In fact, it’s the perfect “closed-room” mystery. The first-person amateur sleuth narrator, n ...more
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Leigh Turner rated a book it was amazing Her Good Girl by Elaine Stock (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A moving, sometimes harrowing, tale of Sadie, an 18-year-old with awful family problems whose mom (or is she?) Tara-Lynn keeps making Sadie ill to garner attention and - in a strange way - to show her love. Callie, a local cafe owner, tries to help S ...more
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If you rate a book by its ideas, this is a masterpiece. A world of unknown unknowns, heroic scientists battling to save humanity, and lost memories, "TINAMD" delivers. There's a lot of zany humour, too, at least in the first half: the author describe ...more
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