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A fast-moving thriller set inside the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany
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Leigh Turner
Author of Novels, Short Stories & More
About Me

About me

I’m Leigh Turner, writer, inspirational speaker and former ambassador. Thanks for visiting.

My book Lessons in Diplomacy: Politics, Power and Parties” is available from Bristol University Press, from Amazon, or from all good bookshops.

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Latest Articles

A trump sell-out of Ukraine?
Russia/Ukraine

A Trump sell-out of Ukraine – and US interests?

A Trump sell-out of Ukraine to give President Putin everything he wants looks the likeliest outcome of the 15 August Alaska summit. The costs of any such sell-out for the rest of the world – and the US itself – would be high.

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Cocaine Nights
Reviews

Cocaine Nights – JG Ballard

“Cocaine Nights” is one of the last novels by English writer JG Ballard. It is a rich, ravishing, blackly comic indictment of modern life.

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A church in Kyiv
Russia/Ukraine

Trump-Ukraine: a new policy?

Trump-Ukraine: on 14 July 2025 the President threatened major new sanctions against Russia and promised to “massively supply” arms to Ukraine. Is this significant?

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Journalism

Salonica, City of Ghosts

“Salonica – City of Ghosts” is an eery, elegiac portrait of a city that – in many respects – had a completely different identity to

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