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Sunflowers Beneath the Snow

Sunflowers Beneath the Snow
  • Author(s): Teri M Brown
  • Location(s): Kyiv
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1973 - 2016

A Ukrainian rebel. Three generations of women bearing the consequences. A journey that changes everything. When Ivanna opens the door to uniformed officers, her tranquil life is torn to pieces – leaving behind a broken woman who must learn...

The Silver Bone

The Silver Bone
  • Author(s): Andrey Kurkov, Boris Dralyuk (translator)
  • Location(s): Kyiv
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Mystery

Kyiv, 1919. The Soviets control the city, but White armies menace them from the West. No man trusts his neighbour and any spark of resistance may ignite into open rebellion. When Samson Kolechko’s father is murdered, his last act...

Snegurochka

Snegurochka
  • Author(s): Judith Heneghan
  • Location(s): Kyiv
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 1990s

An exhilarating, darkly atmospheric debut novel set in Kiev. ‘An unforgettable story. The claustrophobia is palpable, and the characters are utterly convincing in this beautifully observed novel. Outstanding.’ —Claire Fuller ‘Something terrible is happening here. Something terrible has already...

The Wine of Solitude

The Wine of Solitude
  • Author(s): Irene Nemirovsky
  • Location(s): Finland, Kyiv, Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

First published in 1936 this book is thought to be quite autobiographical. It is the story of young girl’s difficult relationship with her beautiful, but vain and shallow mother. The novel is set during the period of the First...

Cold Black

Cold Black
  • Author(s): Alex Shaw
  • Location(s): Dubai, Kyiv, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Former SAS trooper Aidan Snow returns in the thrilling follow up to the Kindle bestseller ‘Hetman’. Now an MI6 operative, Snow must locate & rescue an old SAS colleague before an Al-Qaeda cell can carry out acts of unprecedented...

Hetman

Hetman
  • Author(s): Alex Shaw
  • Location(s): Kyiv, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

An Explosive Special Forces Thriller Now teaching at an International school in Ukraine, former SAS trooper Aidan Snow has laid the nightmares of his past to rest. But when after ten years Snow meets again the man who put...

Hetman: Donetsk Calling

Hetman: Donetsk Calling
  • Author(s): Alex Shaw
  • Location(s): Kyiv, Worthing
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

Former SAS Trooper turned MI6 Operative Aidan Snow returns in a short story preceding the release of the third Aidan Snow thriller. As an ex-pat Brian Webb has a great life, a sexy wife and a perfect daughter. But...

Brisbane

Brisbane
  • Author(s): Eugene Vodolazkin, Marian Schwartz (Translator)
  • Location(s): Kyiv, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): 20th Century

For fans of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Umberto Eco Vodolazkin’s new novel Brisbane is “a sophisticated and frequently moving study in dissonance, dedicated to pointing out contrasts between art and life, beauty and decay, intention and outcome. And, yes, between Ukraine and...

Dan Knew

Dan Knew
  • Author(s): F J Curlew
  • Location(s): Tallinn, East Lothian, Kyiv, London, Parnu, Portugal, Scotland, Vilnius
  • Genre(s): Biography, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2002 - 2016

A puppy born to the dangers of street life. A woman in trouble. An unbreakable bond. A Ukrainian street dog is rescued from certain death by an expat family. As he travels to new countries with them a darkness...

Kyiv

Kyiv
  • Author(s): Graham Hurley
  • Location(s): Kyiv
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

On Sunday 22nd June 1941 at 03.05, three-and-a-half million Axis troops burst into the Soviet Union along a 1,800-mile front to launch Operation Barbarossa. The southern thrust of the attack was aimed at the Caucuses and the oil fields...

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