Leigh Turner
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Leigh Turner

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Leigh Turner is a former British ambassador to Ukraine and Austria. He grew up in Nigeria, Lesotho, Swaziland and England and attended Cambridge University. He retired in 2021 after a 42-year diplomatic career. Leigh's career took him to Vienna, Moscow, Kyiv, Berlin, Hong Kong, Washington D.C., St Helena, Buenos Aires, Beijing, Tokyo, Samarkand, Istanbul and Las Vegas. In Berlin, he took four years off diplomacy to look after his two children and become a travel writer for “The Financial Times”. Leigh's next book, the diplomatic and life handbook, LESSONS IN DIPLOMACY, will be published by Bristol University Press on 24 September 2024. It is now available for pre-order. His other books include Berlin thriller BLOOD SUMMIT, Istanbul thriller PALLADIUM, speculative comedy thriller ETERNAL LIFE and the black comedy collection, SEVEN HOTEL STORIES. LESSONS IN DIPLOMACY was first published by Czernin Verlag in 2023 in German as THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO DIPLOMACY - WIE DIPLOMATIE DIE WELT ERKLÄRT. Leigh writes a new “Hotel Story” each year as a birthday gift to his partner, who is a hotel general manager.
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