Marina Benjamin

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About The Author

Marina Benjamin has worked as a journalist for fifteen years. She was arts editor of the New Statesman and deputy arts editor at the London Evening Standard, and she has written columns for the Daily Express and for Scotland on Sunday. Her last book, Rocket Dreams, was shortlisted for the Eugene Emme Literature Award. Marina lives in London with her husband and daughter.

Books by Marina Benjamin

Last Days in Babylon

The Exile of Iraq's Jews, the Story of My Family

Marina Benjamin grew up in London feeling estranged from her family's exotic Middle Eastern ways.
Rocket Dreams

How the Space Age Shaped Our Vision of a World Beyond

Remember when the race to the moon held the rapt attention of millions? Remember the Apollo missions that were supposed to herald the beginning of the Space Age? Thirty years after the last moonwalk, those missions now appear to have ushered in an era's conclusion. What happened?
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