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The Siberian Dilemma

The Siberian Dilemma
  • Author(s): Martin Cruz Smith
  • Location(s): Russia, Irkutsk
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Investigator Arkady Renko, described as ‘one of the most compelling figures in modern fiction’ by USA Today, finds himself travelling deep into Siberia when journalist Tatiana Petrovna disappears on a case. Journalist Tatiana Petrovna has disappeared. Arkady Renko, iconic...

The Silvered Serpents

The Silvered Serpents
  • Author(s): Roshani Chokshi
  • Location(s): Paris, Russia
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 19th century

Séverin and his team members might have successfully thwarted the Fallen House, but victory came at a terrible cost – one that still haunts all of them. Desperate to make amends, Séverin pursues a dangerous lead to find a...

The Snow Hare

The Snow Hare
  • Author(s): Paula Lichtarowicz
  • Location(s): Siberia, Poland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

An unforgettable love story set in Siberia during the Second World War and of living with impossible choices. Lena knows she hasn’t got long left. While a nurse administers morphine to ease her pain, she relives her life. Growing...

The Starlings of Bucharest

The Starlings of Bucharest
  • Author(s): Sarah Armstrong
  • Location(s): Moscow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Spy
  • Era(s): 1970s

(The Moscow Wolves Series Book 2) The threats people hold over us are most often imagined. We even create them for ourselves. Ted moves to London to become a journalist but quickly slides into debt. Things look up when...

The Story Orchestra: The Nutcracker

The Story Orchestra: The Nutcracker
  • Author(s): Jessica Courtney-Tickle
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Music

Follow Clara on a magical Christmas adventure in this musical retelling of The Nutcracker ballet – push the button on each beautiful scene to hear the vivid sound of an orchestra playing from Tchaikovsky’s original score. It is Christmas...

The Tsarina’s Daughter

The Tsarina’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Carolly Erickson
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): post Russian Revolution

Hiding her identity as the grand duchess daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, Daria Gradov looks back on her luxurious childhood in pre-revolutionary Russia, the machinations of an illiterate monk, and the circumstances that forced her to assume another life....

The Tzar’s Curious Runaways

The Tzar’s Curious Runaways
  • Author(s): Robin Scott-Elliot
  • Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1725

A magical, captivating tale of adventure set in imperial Russia. St Petersburg, Russia 1725. Katinka Dashkova is running for her life because everything she knows is changing. Katinka, a dazzling ballerina with a hunched back, and her friends Alexei...

The Unravelling Of Maria

The Unravelling Of Maria
  • Author(s): F J Curlew
  • Location(s): Estonia, Scotland, Siberia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1944 - 1992

Lovers separated by the Iron Curtain. Two women whose paths should never have crossed. A remarkable journey that changes all of their lives. Maria’s history is a lie. Washed up on the shores of Sweden in 1944, with no...

The Unwomanly Face of War

The Unwomanly Face of War
  • Author(s): Svetlana Alexievich, Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator), Richard Pevear (Translator)
  • Location(s): Russia, Belarus
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Looking back to WW2

Extraordinary stories from Soviet women who fought in the Second World War – from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature “Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have...

The Way a River Went: Following the Volga Through the Heart of Russia

The Way a River Went: Following the Volga Through the Heart of Russia
  • Author(s): Thom Wheeler
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Thom Wheeler is not a man to be put off by the prospect of an uncharted, impractical or downright dangerous journey. Having accidentally introduced his old school friend Vicky to Dmitry, the Russian love of her life, at the...

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