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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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Average rating: 4.33 · 239 ratings · 84 reviews · 37 distinct works • Similar authors

	Lessons in Diplomacy: Politics, Power and Parties 4.31 avg rating — 77 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) 4.60 avg rating — 43 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 4.80 avg rating — 15 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
	Blood Summit 3.86 avg rating — 7 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
	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
	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
	The Two Rooms: "Hotel Stories" No. 2 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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Paladyum: Turkish launch (Türkiye lansmanı)

"Paladyum", a beautiful Turkish edition of my Istanbul thriller "Palladium", will be published in October. Harika!

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Leigh Turner rated a book it was amazing The Mothers of SW19: Two women battle to be the Queen of their social circle amidst the drama of the school gate in this modern Vanity Fair tale of class, motherhood and friendship. by Catherine Yardley	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
Mothers of SW19 – reminiscent of Sophie Kinsella They say that conflict makes great stories. “Mothers of SW19” gives us epic, intense, nail-biting conflict from start to finish, laced with irony and wit, building to a series of climaxes in the last th ...more
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Leigh Turner liked Catherine's review of The Two Rooms: "Hotel Stories" No. 2 (The Hotel Stories): "Entertaining story with a twist in the tale. I love these Hotel Stories. Titania and her boss Ms N are faced with apparently insurmountable demands from rich, privileged and entitled people. Ms N, with her inquisitive look is able to resolve them all" Read more of this review »
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"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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