Leigh Turner diplomacy and writing

Sick and tired of Amazon? The UK firm Heywood Hill offers a suspiciously brilliant book service I've enjoyed immensely this year. It may be worth a look if you're searching for Christmas gifts for book lovers.

You can read the post on which this podcast is based at my rleighturner.com blog.  Thanks for listening.

Mr Smith is a top manager who thinks he knows better than any woman. When he comes to the hotel of top hotelier Ms N and her beautiful but naive ally Tatiana, they must fight to overcome him. How can they succeed? Listen to an excerpt as Mr Smith confronts Ms Gentle, a visitor to the hotel.

You can read the whole of "Mr Smith Sees Red" on Amazon: https://geni.us/MrSmithSeesRed

Thoughts on stopping work to write full time, after 42 years working for Her Majesty's Government. Humiliation - or liberation? - at a reception. What I'm doing next.  And what you can do to help me.  You can read the post on which this podcast is based at my robertpimm.com blog.  Thanks for listening.

How censorship worked in Soviet Russia. The tragic story of the destruction of Boris Pasternak, author of "Doctor Zhivago".  You can read the post on which this podcast is based at my rleighturner.com writing, books and stories blog.  Thanks for listening!

I recently signed a contract with US full-service publishing house Immortal Works for my Istanbul thriller PALLADIUM.  How did that contract come about?  How did I write the book, and market it?  And what can you learn from this?  This is the first of several podcasts describing my author journey, which I shall produce over the coming months.  You can also read the blog post on which this podcast is based.

Following on from the Prologue and Chapter 1 of my Berlin thriller Blood Summit in the previous episode, this podcast presents Chapters 2 and 3.  Things are about to get worst for our heroine, Helen Gale.  

You can buy Blood Summit here⁠.

Counter-terrorism expert Helen Gale has one job: to protect world leaders at a summit at the Berlin Reichstag.  But terrorists take hostage presidents, prime ministers, one hundred innocent children – and Helen’s husband.

Then the executions start.

Listen to the Prologue and Chapter 1 of my Berlin thriller "Blood Summit" on this podcast. Chapters 2 and 3 are in the next podcast.  You can read "Blood Summit" here.

Anthony Trollope is one of the most brilliant and rewarding authors you have never read.  He invented the letter box and his novels boil with strong women. You can read the blog post on which this podcast is based at my rleighturner.com writing blog.  Thanks for listening!

Why read W Somerset Maugham?  Not only for the wisdom set out in my podcast "Books 3: Sex, Turnips and the Meaning of Life: W Somerset Maugham", but because his classic tales will electrify you.  You can read the blog post on which this podcast is based at my rleighturner.com writing blog.  Thanks for listening!

The writer W Somerset Maugham compares turnips and sex.  Is he wise, or daft?  Can we use his wisdom - if any - to make ourselves happier?  You can read the blog post on which this podcast is based at my rleighturner.com writing blog.  Thank you for listening!