Martin Sixsmith: 8 books

On December 7 2006, in a Highgate Cemetery drenched with London rain, a Russian was buried within a stone's throw of the grave of Karl Marx. He was Alexander Litvinenko, Sasha to his friends, a boy from the deep Russian provinces who rose through the ranks of the world's most feared security service....

When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to the convent at Roscrea in Co. Tipperary to be looked after as a fallen woman. She cared for her baby for three years until the Church took him from her and sold him, like countless others, to America for adoption. Coerced...

On 7 December 2006, in a Highgate Cemetery drenched with London rain, a Russian was buried within a stone’s throw of the grave of Karl Marx. He was Alexander Litvinenko, Sasha to his friends, a boy from the deep Russian provinces who rose through the ranks of the world’s most feared security service....

New York Times Bestseller The heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 years When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a “fallen woman.” Then the nuns took her baby from her...

Als de achttienjarige ongetrouwde Philomena Lee in de jaren zestig bevalt van een zoon, wordt ze bijgestaan door de nonnen. Als het jongetje drie jaar oud is moet ze hem afstaan en wordt hij verkocht aan adoptieouders. Haar leven gaat door: ze trouwt en krijgt nog twee kinderen, maar nooit vergeet...

Putin's Oil relates Vladimir Putin's war for control of Russia's vast oil reserves, in particular Mikhail Khodorkovsky's oil firm, Yukos.

Philomena retrace le destin bouleversant d'une mère et de son fils qui, séparés leur vie entière, ont tout fait pour se retrouver. Lorsqu'elle tombe enceinte, en 1951, Philomena Lee n'est qu'une adolescente. Dans l'Irlande d'alors, avoir un enfant hors mariage est un péché. Rejetée par...

Philomena Lee ist selbst noch fast ein Kind, als sie hochschwanger im Kloster Zuflucht sucht. Doch statt Barmherzigkeit erwartet sie dort ein unerbittliches System: Im Irland der 50er-Jahre verkaufen die Nonnen jedes uneheliche Kind, das in ihrem Konvent geboren wird, mit neuer Identität in die USA....