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- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
“In the late summer of 2016,” writes award-winning travel writer Stephan Orth, “a journey to Russia feels like visiting enemy territory.” In this humorous and thought-provoking book, Orth ventures through that vast and mysterious territory to uncover the real,...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1950s
This is a thriller set in 1950s Stalinist Russia, a regime that balks at nothing and executes opponents without conscience. It wanted to be seen as the perfect society. A series of brutal murders shatter this image, but if...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Various
This series celebrates every aspect of Russia’s most legendary city – essential reading for travellers and lovers of wonderful writing about Russia. Malcolm Bradbury guides us to the Hermitage Anna Pavlova describes her school days Vladimir Nabokov re-lives a...
- Location(s): Rostov on Don, Russia
- Genre(s): Thriller, Coming of Age
- Era(s): 1996
Travelling through Central Asia in 1996, Frederick Lyre learns of his best friend’s disappearance and changes plans to go and find him. Picking up the trail in Moscow, he ventures south to the post Soviet depths of Rostov-on-Don and...
Galina Petrovna’s Three-Legged Dog Story
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Perhaps you’re not a member of the Azov House of Culture Elderly Club? Perhaps you missed the talk on the Cabbage Root Fly last week? Galina Petrovna hasn’t missed a single one, since she officially became ‘old’. But she’d...
- Location(s): Siberia, Warsaw
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Fantasy
- Era(s): Earlier 20th Century
A Trans-Siberian odyssey through political, criminal, scientific, philosophical and amorous intrigues, and into an endless winter to confront something utterly alien. 14th July 1924: In a Warsaw buried under feet of snow and Russian rule, Benedykt Gieroslawski, a dissolute...
- Location(s): Berlin, Volgograd (Stalingrad)
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): WW2
Berlin, 1942. For Werner Nehmann, a journalist at the Ministry of Propaganda, the dizzying victory of the last four years has felt like a party without end. But the Reich’s attention has turned East, and as winter sets in,...
- 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): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
Leningrad, September 1941. Hitler orders the German forces to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous, desperate winter in its history. For two pairs of lovers -Anna and Andrei, Anna’s novelist father and banned actress Marina...
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Espionage, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A highly topical thriller about a Russian plot to cut the undersea communication cables linking the US to the UK. Also, a passionate love story between two people determined to stop this cataclysmic act. Clive Franklin, a Russian language...
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