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- 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...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
Frank Thoms went to the Soviet Union not to judge but to learn. As a result, he gained the trust and confidence of the people he befriended—and discovered much about himself. Behind the Red Veil recounts Frank’s quest to...
- Location(s): The Mediterranean, Russia
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
The solitary female sniper squints against the scorching desert sun. Takes the shot. Men die. The solitary female assassin slashes her target’s artery. Fades into the Alpine forest. Men die. The betrayed covert operative silences his sadness with the...
- Location(s): Russia, The Lake District
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Early / mid 20th Century
Set against the backdrop of revolutionary Russia, The Amber Keeper is a sweeping tale of jealousy and revenge, reconciliation and forgiveness. English Lake District, 1960s: A young Abbie Myers returns home after learning of her mother’s death. Estranged from...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
- Era(s): early 19th century
Dostoyevsky’s great novel of damnation and redemption evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur. It tells the story of Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, who wanders through the slums of...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th century
The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons–the impulsive and sensual Dmitri;...
- Location(s): Hamburg, Moscow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1970s -2000s
Zuerst die gute Nachricht: Ja, es gibt sie wirklich, die eine große wahre Liebe und den einen Menschen, den das Schicksal für uns vorherbestimmt hat. Dummerweise ist das Schicksal manchmal aber etwas schlampig bei der Durchführung seiner Pläne. So...
- Location(s): Australia, Russia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1919 - 1973
A Russian princess. An extraordinary sacrifice. A captivating secret… From the author of The Secret Wife, a gripping journey through decades and across continents, of love, devastating loss and courage against all odds. 1918 With the country they once...
- 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....
The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Magical Realism, Fiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
In her very dusty provincial museum of fake exhibits lovingly crafted from cardboard, wire and glue, Tanya dreams of Russian art’s long colours and wonders when Yuri will stop fishing long enough to notice how she adores him, while...
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