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Books by Patrick Worrall
Patrick Worrall is a British novelist. He has also worked as a teacher in eastern Europe and Asia, a newspaper journalist, a court reporter at the Old Bailey, and the head of the Channel 4 News FactCheck blog.
“My heroine, in every sense of the phrase, is a woman called Greta, who’s a Lithuanian partisan…She’s come from the austere world of the Eastern bloc and is surrounded by these constant temptations—champagne, cocaine, parties, young suitors. Can she survive? Can she retain the moral purity that’s there in her character or will she be tempted away from the path of righteousness by all the temptations of Paris?” Read more...
Five Classic European Spy Novels
Patrick Worrall, Thriller and Crime Writer
“It came about almost like a secondary school creative writing exercise set by the teacher, where someone gives you a photograph…and you have to write the back story. About ten years ago I was in Lithuania in a place called Fort Nine, outside the city of Kaunas. I saw a photograph of three teenage girls, partisans, posing with German guns. I presume they’d taken them from an unfortunate German patrol. It was one of the most astonishing things I’ve ever seen in my life—how young they were, the obvious risk that the whole thing carried, how much fun they were having. They were smiling. One of them had a cigarette dangling from her lips. She’s posing like a film star.” Read more...
Five Classic European Spy Novels
Patrick Worrall, Thriller and Crime Writer
Interviews with Patrick Worrall
Five Classic European Spy Novels, recommended by Patrick Worrall
From a noir novel by Eric Ambler set in 1930s Europe to some of the great spy thrillers of the post-World War II era, British novelist Patrick Worrall, author of The Exile, talks us through five of his favourite espionage novels.
Interviews where books by Patrick Worrall were recommended
Five Classic European Spy Novels, recommended by Patrick Worrall
From a noir novel by Eric Ambler set in 1930s Europe to some of the great spy thrillers of the post-World War II era, British novelist Patrick Worrall, author of The Exile, talks us through five of his favourite espionage novels.
