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The Wizard of the Kremlin

The Wizard of the Kremlin
  • Author(s): Giuliano da Empoli, Willard Wood (Translator)
  • Location(s): Moscow
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

They call him the Wizard of the Kremlin. Working at the heart of Russian power, spin doctor Vadim Baranov has used his background in reality TV to turn the entire country into an avant-garde political stage. Here truth and...

The Secretary

The Secretary
  • Author(s): Deborah Lawrenson
  • Location(s): Moscow
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1958

Moscow, 1958. At the height of the Cold War, MI6 secretary Lois Vale is on a deep cover mission to identify a diplomatic traitor. She can trust only one man: Johann, a German journalist also working covertly for the...

The Bridge Over The Neroch And Other Works

The Bridge Over The Neroch And Other Works
  • Author(s): Leonid Tsypkin, Jon McGregor
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

A small town in the Ural mountains is the backdrop to the heartbreak and joys of a Russian-Jewish family, witnessing romance and illness, funerals and friendships, and the catastrophe of wartime invasion. Amidst the snowy peaks of the Ararat...

Mothersland

Mothersland
  • Author(s): Shahzoda Samarqandi
  • Location(s): Samarqand, Moscow, Russia, Uzbekistan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

This haunting novel by the world’s leading Tajik-language novelist is a time-twisting reverie on the bond between mothers and daughters. Growing up in late Soviet-era Uzbekistan, Mahtab feels more at home in the cotton field-and in the past, as...

Patriot

Patriot
  • Author(s): Alexei Navalny
  • 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...

Maxym

Maxym
  • Author(s): Patrick C Notchtree
  • Location(s): Russia, Afghanistan, Africa
  • Genre(s): LGBTQIA+, Adventure
  • Era(s): 21st century

He looks like an angel but kills like a devil. In war-ravaged Chechnya in 2000, six-year-old Maxym’s life is shattered when his parents are brutally murdered by Islamic militants and his sister is subjected to a horrific assault. Orphaned,...

Defectors

Defectors
  • Author(s): Joseph Kanon
  • Location(s): East Coast USA, Moscow
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s

Moscow, 1961: With the launch of Sputnik, the Soviet Union’s international prestige is at an all-time high. And the most notorious of the defectors to the Soviet Union, former CIA agent Frank Weeks, is about to publish his memoir....

Wicked by Design

Wicked by Design
  • Author(s): Katy Moran
  • Location(s): Cornwall, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Regency

Thrilling Regency romance, set against an Outlander-like background of passion and war, this will delight lovers of Poldarkand Bridgerton. 1819: Cornwall and St Petersburg High society England is awash with gossip and scandal. For Lady Hester, it’s just typical...

The Russian Interpreter

The Russian Interpreter
  • Author(s): Michael Frayn
  • Location(s): Moscow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

‘A love affair through an interpreter,’ said Raya. ‘That’s a very cultured prospect.’ Raya is a mercurial Moscow blonde who speaks no English, and the affair she is embarking upon is with Gordon Proctor-Gould, a visiting British businessman who...

Mayday

Mayday
  • Author(s): Grethe Bøe
  • Location(s): Norway, Russia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Norway’s frozen north, tension is escalating across the border with Russia. One false move could trigger a major political crisis, or even a war … When an F-16 N.A.T.O. plane goes down on Russian territory, the danger of...

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