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Simon Ings
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Simon Ings is the author of nine novels. He spent some years editing Â鶹´«Ã½'s culture pages and now contributes to Â鶹´«Ã½, The Telegraph, The Times, Financial Times and The Spectator. His latest non-fiction book is Engineers of Human Souls, about four 20th-century writers and the dictators who were their patrons. His book Stalin and the Scientists was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction. He maintains a minimal presence @simonings on X. His website is .
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