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This is a page of links for all those lovely people who have written to me saying “Ah I missed your broadcast where can I find it!”  I would be thrilled if you listened to one of these interviews and then of course read the book to find out more. They are just tasters but […]

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Definitely part of history to have a four page interview about The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz in the last ever issue of @theladymagazine which is closing after 140 years. It’s headed ‘Remarkable Lives’ and it’s a fabulous tribute to the orchestra women with lots of photos. I’m delighted about this because one of my key […]

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Anne Sebba’s remarkable book draws on real-life interviews with survivors of a group that saved them – but not without a cost.  Anne Sebba’s impressive book on the women who formed an orchestra in Auschwitz is subtitled “A Story of Survival”: and that, paradoxically, was the problem for many who played in it. They were […]

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“Anne Sebba tells this harrowing story with tremendous rigour and care, capturing both the complex horror of the women’s situation and the dignity and bravery with which they faced it. An impressive, important, deeply moving book” By Sarah Waters —– “An important book, powerfully written, carefully researched. The frightening and discordant notes of Auschwitz can […]

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I may be an author of eleven books but actually I like talking about them almost more than writing them. Not just because it means I travel to interesting places to give my talks but mostly because I like meeting my readers, hearing what intrigues them about my books, telling the story in a different […]

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One of my favourite moments in the publishing cycle is when you’re asked to talk about your book as part of a fundraising event. Using your research to raise money for worthwhile charities like The Victoria Foundation is not only a (selfishly) feel good moment but it’s great to be surrounded by people again after […]

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In April 1951, in what FBI Director J Edgar Hoover called “the trial of the century”, Ethel Rosenberg and her husband Julius were found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage and sentenced to death by electrocution. Ethel was 35 years old and the mother of two little boys, aged eight and four. To this day, […]

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On June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed by electrocution for their part in a conspiracy to provide to the Soviet Union top secret information on the development of nuclear weapons. Their co-conspirators received long prison sentences, but the Rosenbergs became the first American civilians to be sentenced to death in peacetime. At their […]

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“IT WAS A QUEER, SULTRY SUMMER, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs … ” So goes the opening sentence of Sylvia Plath’s 1963 novel The Bell Jar, referring to the Jewish American couple, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage and sent to the electric chair exactly 68 years ago […]

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On June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed by electrocution for their part in a conspiracy to provide to the Soviet Union top secret information on the development of nuclear weapons. Their co-conspirators received long prison sentences, but the Rosenbergs became the first American civilians to be sentenced to death in peacetime. At their […]

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