Ian Mitchell

Ian Mitchell is the author of the best-selling Isles of the West: a Hebridean Voyage and Isles of the North: a Voyage to the Realms of the Norse. He also wrote the critically acclaimed study of the greatest libel trial in British legal history, The Cost of a Reputation: Aldington versus Tolstoy. Robert Harris said, "It reads like Bleak House rewritten by Alexander Solzhenitsyn," and the Independent on Sunday said, "As legal thrillers go, it beats John Grisham." Ian Mitchell lives in Moscow,...See more

Ian Mitchell is the author of the best-selling Isles of the West: a Hebridean Voyage and Isles of the North: a Voyage to the Realms of the Norse. He also wrote the critically acclaimed study of the greatest libel trial in British legal history, The Cost of a Reputation: Aldington versus Tolstoy. Robert Harris said, "It reads like Bleak House rewritten by Alexander Solzhenitsyn," and the Independent on Sunday said, "As legal thrillers go, it beats John Grisham." Ian Mitchell lives in Moscow, where he is researching a book about the history of the Russian legal system. See less