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- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1910
Russia, 1910. Young Valentina Ivanova charms St Petersburg’s aristocracy with her classic Russian beauty and her talent as a pianist. But she scandalises society when she begins a romance with Jens Friis, a Danish engineer. He brings to her...
- Location(s): China, Moscow
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
China, 1929. For years Lydia Ivanova believed her father was killed by the Bolsheviks. But when she learns he is captive in Stalin-controlled Russia, the fiery-haired girl is willing to leave everything behind – even her Chinese lover, Chang...
- Location(s): Russia, Georgia (Asia)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): early 20th century
That night Stasia took an oath, swearing to learn the recipe by heart and destroy the paper. And when she was lying in her bed again, recalling the taste with all her senses, she was sure that this secret...
- Location(s): Russia, Mongolia, Ulan Bator / Ulaanbaatar
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Present
Carrie’s best friend has an accident and can no longer make the round-the-world trip they’d planned together, so Carrie decides to go it alone. Violet is also travelling alone, after splitting up with her boyfriend in Thailand. She is...
- Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau, Siberia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
In 1942 Cilka Klein is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly...
- Location(s): Siberia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Set across two continents, Tiger is a sweeping story of survival and redeeming love that plunges the reader into one of the world’s last wildernesses with blistering authenticity. Frieda is a primatologist, sensitive and solitary, until a violent attack...
- Location(s): Germany, Russia
- Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Russia, July 17, 1918 Under direct orders from Vladimir Lenin, Bolshevik secret police force Anastasia Romanov, along with the entire imperial family, into a damp basement in Siberia where they face a merciless firing squad. None survive. At least...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Russia, 1915: Sixteen year old farmer’s son Georgy Jachmenev steps in front of an assassin’s bullet intended for a senior member of the Russian Imperial Family and is instantly proclaimed a hero. Rewarded with the position of bodyguard to...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia. Like the fingers on a hand–first headstrong Olga, then Tatiana the tallest, Maria most hopeful for a ring, and Anastasia the smallest. These are the daughters of Tsar Nicholas II, grand duchesses living a...
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