Spies

In Agatha Christie style, my subtitle is:  “The Curious Case of the Poisoned Umbrella”, the assassination of Georgi Markov.

I should first declare some slight personal involvement:  I am the widow of perhaps the most well regarded Bulgarian intellectual émigré:  Petar Ouvaliev, cultural commentator for the BBC Bulgarian service at Bush House and to whom Georgi Markov wrote in the late ‘60s asking for help in obtaining work in the United Kingdom.

A successful and published writer in Bulgaria, why should Markov have wanted to come and perhaps settle in the UK? Read more »