Marina Litvinenko publishes memoir of husband's 2006 poisoning

Marina Litvinenko's memoir, A Life in Fragments: Our Love, His Murder, My Resistance, is published by Bloomsbury. Co-written with Emily Fairbairn, a professional writer who helped shape the text, it recounts the 2006 polonium poisoning of her husband, Alexander Litvinenko, in London. The Guardian reviewed it on 4 November 2026 and listed it as its Book of the day.