Adam LeBor

Guangzhou

I write books - thrillers and non-fiction - and teach people how to write."The Last Days of Budapest" WW2 history Jan '25 @HoZbooks USA: April @public_affairs

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Groomed: the shaming of a nation

1 week ago | thecritic.co.uk | Adam LeBor

This article is taken from the June 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £25. This is a tale of two Lucys. Lucy Connolly, a childminder and mother, is currently serving a 31-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to distributing material with the intention of stirring up racial hatred.
Best summer books of 2025: Crime and Thrillers

1 week ago | ft.com | Barry Forshaw |Adam LeBor

Crime by Barry Forshaw The Woman Who Laughed by Simon Mason (Quercus/riverrun) If you’re thinking that the dreaming spires of Oxford have...
Around the world in five new thrillers — from New York to Nordic noir

1 month ago | ft.com | Adam LeBor

One evening in the winter of 1991, I was having dinner in Zagreb with fellow foreign correspondents.
'I got so much from this country: a career, a family, a new life' - Danube Institute

1 month ago | danubeinstitute.hu | Adam LeBor

Adam LeBor, our Deputy Director of Research gave an interview to the Hungarian Conservative about his new book, The Last Days of Budapest A Conversation with Adam LeBor The Hungarian Conservative sat down with the British author-journalist, a former war correspondent for The Times and The Independent and a fervent admirer of our capital, to talk about the first English-language, non-fiction account of Budapest throughout the Second World War.
A ravishing Sicilian treat

1 month ago | thecritic.co.uk | Adam LeBor

This article is taken from the May 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. Nations are born in blood. Italy’s Risorgimento, its uprising against its foreign rulers and their local allies, finally ended in 1871 after Rome was declared the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. It came at high cost — a series of savage intermittent civil wars over many years.
THE LAST DAYS OF BUDAPEST

2 months ago | kirkusreviews.com | Adam LeBor

Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil. During that time, enrolled members of the Osage Indian nation were among the wealthiest people per capita in the world. The rich oil fields beneath their reservation brought millions of dollars into the tribe annually, distributed to tribal members holding "headrights" that could not be bought or sold but only inherited.
10 New Books to Read in April at the Arlington Public Library

2 months ago | arlingtonmagazine.com | Jennifer Rothschild |Gabe Henry |Jessica Slice |Adam LeBor

Spring is here! The cherry blossoms have peaked, baseball is underway and whether you’re going to the beach or your couch, it’s time to stockpile a few books for spring break. T.S. Elliot opened The Wasteland by declaring April to be the cruelest month, but with this many great books coming out, we have to disagree! Fiction Murder by Cheesecake by Rachel Ekstrom Courage Picture it: Miami, 1980s. Four beloved sitcom characters have to solve a murder to free one of their own.
A twisting, timely cyber-thriller

Mar 27, 2025 | thecritic.co.uk | Adam LeBor

This article is taken from the April 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. Back in 2010 I was reporting from a former Tsarist barracks that had been turned into a highly classified NATO military base. Estonia, one of the world’s most wired countries, was a natural choice to host the West’s cyber-defence hub — especially as it had been hit by a serious cyber-attack a few years earlier.
This Netflix hit is a super-tense treat

Mar 20, 2025 | thecritic.co.uk | Adam LeBor

This article is taken from the March 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. It’s always a pleasure to see a promising series mature on its second or third outing. I enjoyed the first season of The Night Agent when it came out in spring 2023. Based on a thriller by Matthew Quirk, a former reporter at the Atlantic magazine, it neatly showcased his insider knowledge of Washington DC’s murky corridors of power.
Six suspenseful new thrillers — from wartime Whitehall to present-day Washington and Kyiv

Mar 3, 2025 | ft.com | Adam LeBor

One of the joys of the thriller genre is its eclectic reach.

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19 Jun 25

It does @Channel4

The Critic @TheCriticMag

“Groomed is heart-rending but utterly necessary viewing” — @adamlebor finds that a new documentary exposes the rotten heart of the British state https://t.co/RMUTj8GoE7

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18 Jun 25

RT @TheCriticMag: “Hall’s forensic but humane investigation exposes the rotten core of the British state and the catastrophic failure of in…

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13 Jun 25

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