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Jim Williams first hit the news when his early novels had the uncanny knack of coming true. The Hitler Diaries was published nine months before the celebrated forgery came out in 1983. Farewell to Russia dealt with a nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union months before the Chernobyl disaster. Lara's Child, his sequel to Doctor Zhivago, provoked an international literary scandal and led to his being a guest speaker at the Cheltenham Festival. Scherzo, a witty and elegant mystery set in eighteenth century Venice, was nominated for the Booker Prize. All of his fiction has been published internationally. Tango in Madeira is his eleventh novel.

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I was born in Oldham, England, the son of a coal miner and a cotton mill worker and grew
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Average rating: 3.33 · 706 ratings · 130 reviews · 11 distinct worksSimilar authors
Scherzo: Murder and Mystery...

3.14 avg rating — 260 ratings — published 1998 — 7 editions
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Farewell to Russia

3.75 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions
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Recherche

3.19 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1999 — 8 editions
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Anti-Soviet Activities

3.42 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions
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Tango in Madeira

3.25 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions
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The Strange Death Of A Roma...

3.02 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions
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The Argentinian Virgin

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The Hitler Diaries

3.63 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1982 — 6 editions
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“I, with a precision that excludes all possibility of misunderstanding, insist on the necessity for a state in this period, but a state without a police opposed to the people.”
Jim Williams, Anti-Soviet Activities

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