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- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2011
Anastasia Pestova is a quiet teller at the Bank of Moscow, in a city that doesn’t notice if she breathes. But when millions of rubles vanish through her terminal, she is suddenly the centre of a money laundering conspiracy....
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1859
Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia’s dying aristocracy – a man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends and found himself in debt. Too apathetic...
- Location(s): Russia, China, Syria
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 21st Century
“On All Fronts takes the reader on a riveting journey of storytelling. . . From Russia to China to Syria, navigate the most intense of human experiences while finding the tools to stay emotional.”–Lynsey Addario, author of It’s...
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s/ 1950s
Bringing into harsh focus the daily struggle for existence in a Soviet gulag, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is translated by Ralph Parker in Penguin Modern Classics. This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): contemporary
Patriot is the exhilarating life story of one of the most fearless and inspiring figures of our time, who became a beacon to millions and the sole political threat to Vladimir Putin. This is Alexei Navalny’s life in his...
Peter the Great: His Life and World
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 17th / 18th centuries
Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, Robert K. Massie unfolds the extraordinary story of Peter the Great. A volatile feudal tsar with a taste for barbaric torture; a progressive and enlightened reformer of government...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 1930s
MURDER 1930s Leningrad. Stalin is tightening his grip on the Soviet Union, and a mood of fear cloaks the city. Detective Vasily Zaitsev is tasked with investigating a series of bizarre and seemingly motiveless homicides. MAYHEM As the curious...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Post Russian Revolution
Called “brilliant” by USA Today, Robert Alexander’s historical novel The Kitchen Boy swept readers back to the doomed world of the Romanovs. His latest masterpiece once again conjures those turbulent days in a fictional drama of extraordinary depth and...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary
From Cornwall to Russia. Laura, her faithful husky Skye and Tariq are whirled into a breathtaking mystery adventure when they join the film crew on the set of THE ARISTOCRATIC THIEF about an art heist that could never be...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Young Adult
- Era(s): Russian Revolution
Anastasia “Nastya” Romanov was given a single mission: to smuggle an ancient spell into her suitcase on her way to exile in Siberia. It might be her family’s only salvation. But the leader of the Bolshevik army is after...
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