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The Chosen Maiden

The Chosen Maiden
  • Author(s): Eva Stachniak
  • Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad), Monte Carlo, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Based on the famous dance siblings: Vaslav Nijinsky and his brilliant sister Bronislava (Bronia) this is a story of a remarkable dancer who charts her own course through the tumultuous years of early twentieth-century Europe. Beautifully blending fiction with...

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 Concubine’s Secret

The Concubine’s Secret
  • Author(s): Kate Furnivall
  • 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...

The Corruption of Chastity

The Corruption of Chastity
  • Author(s): Frank Westworth
  • 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...

The Cossacks

The Cossacks
  • Author(s): Leo Tolstoy
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): pre-revolutionary Russia

“The Cossacks” is one of Tolstoy’s greatest works. In this semi-autobiographical work we meet the central character of Olenin, a young man of twenty-four who has yet to make anything of himself in life. Olenin joins the Russian army...

The Crown’s Game

The Crown’s Game
  • Author(s): Evelyn Skye
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th century

Vika Andreyev can summon the snow and turn ash into gold.Nikolai Karimov can see through walls and conjure bridges out of thin air.They are enchanters the only two in Russia and with the Ottoman Empire and the Kazakhs threatening,...

The Cypriot Agent

The Cypriot Agent
  • Author(s): J R Rogers
  • Location(s): Famagusta, Beirut, Istanbul (Constantinople), Novorossiysk
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1974

A Cold War novel of foreign intrigue. An intricate thriller of espionage and foreign intrigue, the novel turns on a Cypriot hit man hired by the CIA.

The Day Watch

The Day Watch
  • Author(s): Sergei Lukyanenko
  • Location(s): Moscow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Paranormal
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are The Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each owes allegiance either...

The Death of Ivan Ilych

The Death of Ivan Ilych
  • Author(s): Leo Tolstoy
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s

Hailed as one of the world’s supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his...

The Diamond Chariot: The Further Adventures of Erast Fandorin

The Diamond Chariot: The Further Adventures of Erast Fandorin
  • Author(s): Boris Akunin
  • Location(s): Japan, Russia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): 1905 onwards

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