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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

The Diamond Secret

The Diamond Secret
  • Author(s): Suzanne Weyn
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): post Russian Revolution

After the Russian Revolution, Empress Marie, the czar’s mother, who escaped to Paris, offers a reward for the return of her missing granddaughter, the princess Anastasia. Eager to collect the large sum, two friends hatch a plan to fool...

The Eighth Life

The Eighth Life
  • Author(s): Nino Haratischwili, Charlotte Collins (Translator), Ruth Martin (translator)
  • 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...

The Englishman

The Englishman
  • Author(s): David Gilman
  • Location(s): London, France, The Urals
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Raglan Book 1) Penal Colony No. 74, AKA White Eagle, lies some 600 kilometres north of Yekaterinburg in Russia’s Sverdlovskaya Oblast. Imprisoning the country’s most brutal criminals, it is a winter-ravaged hellhole of death and retribution. And that’s exactly...

The Fall

The Fall
  • Author(s): Robert Muchamore
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): early 2000s

The sixth title in the number one bestselling CHERUB series! James uncovers corruption where he least suspects it … When an MI5 operation goes disastrously wrong, James Adams needs all of his skills to get out of Russia alive....

The Free World

The Free World
  • Author(s): David Bezmozgis
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1978

Summer, 1978. Brezhnev sits like a stone in the Kremlin, Israel and Egypt are inching towards peace, and in the bustling, polyglot streets of Rome, strange new creatures have appeared: Soviet Jews who have escaped to freedom through a...

The Girl from the Hermitage

The Girl from the Hermitage
  • Author(s): Molly Gartland
  • Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s/1980s

It is December 1941, and eight-year-old Galina and her friend Vera are caught in the siege of Leningrad, eating soup made of wallpaper, with the occasional luxury of a dead rat. Galina’s artist father Mikhail has been kept away...

The Half Life of Valery K

The Half Life of Valery K
  • Author(s): Natasha Pulley
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s

The truth must come out. In 1963, in a Siberian gulag, former nuclear specialist Valery Kolkhanov has mastered what it takes to survive: the right connections to the guards for access to food and cigarettes, the right pair of...

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