Michelle's Book Club
TWC has welcomed celebrities, experts and authors. If you want to read more, here's an easy way to track down their publications.
Now, in partnership with Brooklands Radio, every month Michelle picks a new book to share with listeners and followers. Read along with the community and then submit your questions to ask the author in a live recording (either on radio or insta live) at the end of the month. Newsletter subscribers will get first dibs and a name check! Email in your questions to twowomenchatting@gmail.com
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Book Club Titles
February Book Choice
The Hidden Hand
by Stella Rimington
From the ex-head of MI5 (and the inspiration for Judi Dench's M in James Bond novels), Stella Rimington's latest novel, The Hidden Hand, features Manon Tyler and is published on 30 January 2025.
Stella will be a guest on season 9 of Two Women Chatting.
Book summary:
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The student
Li Min, a Chinese student, is forced by her government to transfer from Harvard to Oxford University, where she is recruited to an elite Chinese study centre based out of St Felix's College.
The scapegoat
Meanwhile, the centre's newly recruited head stumbles on its more sinister purpose: recruiting Chinese and sympathetic British students to steal high-value research and intellectual property. Unsure who at the university he can trust, he turns to CIA agent Manon Tyler for help.
The spy who might be their only hope...
But as Li and another Chinese-American student are drawn deeper into a deadly game, will Manon be able to penetrate the heart of St Felix's secrets in time to save them?
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Send your questions to twowomenchatting@gmail.com by 25 February to be included in the 'author live' (date to be announced).