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Baba Dunja’s Last Love

Baba Dunja’s Last Love
  • Author(s): Alina Bronsky
  • Location(s): Pripyat/Chernobyl
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Baba Dunja is a Chernobyl returnee. Together with a motley bunch of former neighbours, they set off to create a new life for themselves in the radioactive no-man’s land. Geiger counter and irradiated forest fruits be damned, there in...

Exclusion Zone

Exclusion Zone
  • Author(s): J M Hewitt
  • Location(s): Pripyat/Chernobyl
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1986 / present day

On 26th April 1986, reactor four exploded at the factory in Pripyat, Chernobyl. At the same time teenager Afia Bello vanished from her home without a trace. The damage from the nuclear fallout is examined over the following weeks,...

Chernobyl Prayer

Chernobyl Prayer
  • Author(s): Svetlana Alexievich, Anna Gunin (Translator), Arch Tait (Translator)
  • Location(s): Pripyat/Chernobyl
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

In April 1986 a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years to come. While officials tried to hush up the...

Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy

Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
  • Author(s): Serhil Plokhy
  • Location(s): Pripyat/Chernobyl
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1986 onwards

The gripping story of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, from an acclaimed historian and writer On the morning of 26 April 1986 Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power...

Dogs of the Deadlands

Dogs of the Deadlands
  • Author(s): Anthony McGowan
  • Location(s): Pripyat/Chernobyl
  • Genre(s): Children, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1986

Chernobyl 1986. Those left behind must fight to survive. The world is coming to an end. Dragged from her bed in the middle of the night and forced to leave her beloved puppy behind, Natasha has no idea if...

Midnight in Chernobyl

Midnight in Chernobyl
  • Author(s): Adam Higginbotham
  • Location(s): Pripyat/Chernobyl
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

The story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam Higginbotham has written a harrowing and compelling narrative which brings the 1986 disaster to life through the eyes of the men and...

The Lost Child of Chernobyl

The Lost Child of Chernobyl
  • Author(s): Helen Bate
  • Location(s): Pripyat/Chernobyl
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1986

One April night, people living near Chernobyl see a bright light in the sky…Everyone is told to move out of the forbidden zone around the destroyed nuclear reactor, but two stubborn old ladies, Anna and Klara, refuse to leave....

Wolves Eat Dogs

Wolves Eat Dogs
  • Author(s): Martin Cruz Smith
  • Location(s): Russia, Pripyat/Chernobyl
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Chernobyl: the Zone of Exclusion. A ghostly place, deserted and forgotten for almost two decades; now inhabited by militia, shady scavengers, a few reckless scientists, and some elderly Ukrainian peasants . . . This is the eerie and dangerous...

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