Antonia Senior for Stalin's Apostles

'Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how language and ideological zeal can alter the fate of nations' - David McCloskey

Join us this April for an unflinching look at the Cambridge Five; at treachery, arrogance, British exceptionalism, and murder.

Antonia Senior's magnificent reexamination of Stalin's Apostles has made for a brilliant book, and should make for an equally brilliant evening.

We hope to see you there!

The Cambridge Five were the infamous spy ring that betrayed their country and supplied Stalin with top secret information from the 1930s to 1951.

their crimes are often underplayed: they are presented as suave, cunning malcontents in a stuffy establishment. The narrative is very 'British, exploring just a fragment of the truth.

In reality, their actions caused enourmous suffering across Poland, Albania, and The Baltic states.

Stalin's Apostles reckons with this untold damage using newly declassified documents from the UK and abroad.

Antonia Senior studied the history of the intelligence services under Professor Christopher Andrew at Cambridge University. She was also taught the history of the Russian Revolution by Professor Orlando Figes. This led to a lifelong fascination with the impact of Marxism, the relationship between the West and Russia, the Cold War, and espionage. She spent thirteen years at The Times covering business and finance before she become one of the paper's leading writers. The author of three novels, Stalin's Apostles is her first work of non-fiction.