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- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
On 21 June 1922 Count Alexander Rostov – recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt – is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving...
Backpacks and Bra Straps (Sihpromatum #2)
- Location(s): Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tibet, Western China
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
Savannah Grace’s best selling, award winning saga of her family’s four-year-long backpacking adventure continues. “Backpacks and Bra Straps” picks up where “I Grew My Boobs in China” leaves off, offering insights into how family dynamics are affected by such...
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Formula One driver Remy Sabatino is leading the Drivers’ Championship, in a car that is the quickest of the season by far. But that also means Sabatino’s Russian teammate is the fastest too…Their rivalry couldn’t be more toxic ahead...
- Location(s): Central Asia, China, North Africa, Russia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1930s/40s
Fitztroy Maclean was one of the real-life inspirations for super-spy James Bond. After adventures in Soviet Russia before the war, Maclean fought with the SAS in North Africa in 1942. There he specialised in hair-raising commando raids behind enemy...
Love in the strangest of places
- Location(s): Bangkok, London, Moscow
Dan changes his mind on holiday to Bangkok. He sees the girls and the drinks and forgets about work with the rest but something is not right. He returns to London and takes the chance of redundancy when it...
- Location(s): Paris, Edinburgh, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 19th & early 20th centuries
This is William Boyd’s sweeping, heart-stopping new novel. Set at the end of the 19th century, it follows the fortunes of Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician, about to embark on the story of his life. When Brodie is...
The Archipelago of Another Life
- Location(s): Siberia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
On the far eastern borders of the Soviet Union, in the sunset of Stalin’s reign, soldiers are training for a war that could end all wars, for in the atomic age man has sown the seeds of his own...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): WW2
Leningrad 1941: the white nights of summer illuminate a city of fallen grandeur whose palaces and avenues speak of a different age, when Leningrad was known as St Petersburg. Two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha, share the same bed, living...
- Location(s): Paris, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Contemporary, World War 2
A deeply moving meditation on memory, history, love, and art by the author of “Dreams of My Russian Summers”. In “The Life of an Unknown Man”, Andreï Makine explores what truly matters in life through the prism of Russia’s...
- Location(s): New York State, Russia, San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century and 2011
A Russian grand duchess and an English journalist. Linked by one of the world’s greatest mysteries . . . Love. Guilt. Heartbreak. 1914 Russia is on the brink of collapse, and the Romanov family faces a terrifyingly uncertain future....
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