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- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 1917
St Petersburg 1917. The capital of the glittering Empire of the Tsars and a city on the brink of revolution where the jackals of the Secret Police intrigue for their own survival as their aristocratic masters indulge in one...
- Location(s): Ryazan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1867
It is 1867 and winter in Ryazan, a city on the banks of the Oka River in Central Russia. Konstantin is ten years old. His days are full of dreams of flight – to Moscow, even to the silent...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
President Jack Ryan faces a world crisis unlike any he has ever known, in Tom Clancy’s extraordinary new novel. Being President has gotten no easier. Domestic pitfalls await him at every turn and in Moscow someone may have tried...
- Location(s): Plymouth, Russia
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1943, WW2
Multi-award-winning author Tom Palmer returns with a thrilling naval adventure inspired by the incredible history of the Second World War Arctic convoys. Winter 1943. Teenagers Frank, Joseph and Stephen are Royal Navy recruits on their first mission at sea...
- Location(s): Afghanistan, Russia, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century
Agent 6, the third and final outing for the conflicted former MGB officer, brings the trilogy of novels to a resounding climax. Leo’s new civilian life with his wife Raisa and his family has acquired equilibrium, but the USSR...
- 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): Russia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Tom Rob Smith’s first book, Child 44, enjoyed unprecedented attention and acclaim (as did its youthful author), so it was inevitable that the appetite for that novel’s successor would be keen. Now it’s here, and The Secret Speech, largely...
- Location(s): Russia
- Era(s): 1950s
The Soviet Union 1956: after Stalin’s death, a violent regime is beginning to fracture. Stalin’s successor Khrushchev pledges reform. But there are forces at work that are unable to forgive or forget the past. Leo Demidov, former MGB officer,...
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1939
Moscow, 1939. In the recesses of the infamous Lubyanka prison, a young archivist is sent to authenticate an unsigned story confiscated from one of the many political prisoners there. The writer is Isaac Babel. The great author of Red...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th century
St Petersburg,1911: Inna Feldman has fled the pogroms of the south to take refuge with distant relatives in Russia’s capital city. Welcomed into the flamboyant Leman family, she is apprenticed into their violin-making workshop. With her looks and talents,...
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