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Antonia Senior
Antonia Senior is a writer, critic and journalist. She has been the historical fiction reviewer at The Times for the past 14 years. She is a former deputy Business Editor and Leader Writer at the same paper. On becoming freelance, Antonia published three novels, two of which are set during the English Civil Wars. She podcasts as co-host of The History Book Buffs. Antonia’s first work of non-fiction is Stalin’s Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire, which considers the role of the most famous spy ring in history in advancing Stalin’s strategic aims. The book was described in The Times as: ‘A history of the Cambridge spies that is as good as anything I have read…magnificent.’ Stalin’s Apostles is a finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing.
