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Arctic Sun

Arctic Sun
  • Author(s): Jack Grimwood
  • Location(s): Kola Peninsula, Russia
  • Genre(s): Political, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

Kola Peninsula, 1987. High in the Soviet Arctic, a tiny village houses an apocalyptic secret . . . When research zoologist Dr Amelia Blackburn ventures north to investigate the ravages of the Chernobyl reactor meltdown, she stumbles on the...

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...

I Love Russia

I Love Russia
  • Author(s): Elena Kostyuchenko, Bela Shayevich (Translator), Ilona Chavasse (Translator)
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

To be a journalist is to tell the truth. To be patriotic is to be critical, honest, and fearless. I Love Russia takes us to places that non-Russians have never seen and brings us voices we have never heard....

Mayday

Mayday
  • Author(s): Grethe Bøe
  • Location(s): Norway, Russia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Norway’s frozen north, tension is escalating across the border with Russia. One false move could trigger a major political crisis, or even a war … When an F-16 N.A.T.O. plane goes down on Russian territory, the danger of...

No Lemons in Moscow

No Lemons in Moscow
  • Author(s): Helen Whitten
  • Location(s): Moscow, Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1990

Will Kate risk everything for love and a good cause? It’s Moscow, 1990. Gorbachev is initiating dramatic change in Russia. On a literary tour, London-based Kate Chisholm meets the young and passionate investigative journalist Valentin Kotov. Over the next...

Small Acts of Kindness, a tale of the first Russian Revolution

Small Acts of Kindness, a tale of the first Russian Revolution
  • Author(s): Jennifer Antill
  • Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1825 to 1828

St Petersburg, 1825. Imperial Russia still basks in the light of glorious victory over Napoleon, but rising resentment against autocracy, enslavement and injustice threatens the state. Vasily, a privileged, naïve young man returns from a tour of Europe destined...

The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to The Wastelands

The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to The Wastelands
  • Author(s): Sarah Brooks
  • Location(s): China, Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Later 19th Century

Welcome aboard The Great Trans-Siberian Express. It is the end of the 19th Century and the world is awash with marvels. But there is nothing so marvellous as the Wastelands: a terrain of terrible miracles that lies between Beijing...

The City of Stardust

The City of Stardust
  • Author(s): Georgia Summers
  • Location(s): Europe, Moscow
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Filled with magic, stardust, and a shockingly dark heart, this is a stunning standalone fantasy perfect for fans of The Ten Thousand Doors of January, The Starless Sea and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. For centuries, Everlys have...

The Half Life of Valery K

The Half Life of Valery K
  • Author(s): Natasha Pulley
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s

The truth must come out. In 1963, in a Siberian gulag, former nuclear specialist Valery Kolkhanov has mastered what it takes to survive: the right connections to the guards for access to food and cigarettes, the right pair of...

The Postcard

The Postcard
  • Author(s): Anne Berest, Tina Kover (Translator)
  • Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau, Europe, Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2003 looking back

In January 2003, the Berest family receive a mysterious, unsigned postcard. On one side was an image of the Opéra Garnier; on the other, the names of their relatives who were killed in Auschwitz: Ephraïm, Emma, Noémie and Jacques....

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