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- Location(s): Austria, Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW1
Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War One explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives, at a commandeered...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
The Russian Empire is on the verge of collapse. Revolution is in the air. The starving stalk the streets of St Petersburg and yet the Imperial Court still commute between their estates and organise their lavish balls. Two sisters...
- 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...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): early 21st century
Alone in the world, Sophie dreams of being someone special, but she could never have imagined this … On a school trip to Russia, Sophie and her two friends find themselves on the wrong train. They are rescued by...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 20th century
Go on an adventure with Katherine Rundell… From the winner of the Costa Children’s Book Prize ‘A writer with an utterly distinctive voice and a wild imagination’ – Philip Pullman ‘Read everything she writes’ – Daily Mail Feodora and...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): early 21st century
Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards 2019. Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2019. Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2019. Shortlisted for Children’s Fiction Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2019. Marinka dreams...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour, Satire
- Era(s): Soviet era
First published in Russia in 1992, “The Time: Night” is a darkly humorous depiction of the Soviet utopia’s underbelly by one of the most brilliant stylists in contemporary Russian literature. Anna Andrianova is a trite poet and disastrous parent....
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation, Psychological Thriller
A deadly flu epidemic sweeps through Moscow, killing hundreds of thousands. Anya and her husband Sergey decide they have no choice but to flee to a lake in the far north of Russia. Joining them on their journey...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Russia is on the brink of civil war, the Tolstoy household is in turmoil and despite a promise to relocate to Moscow from the country, the move has not brought harmony. Sixteen-year-old Tatiana observes the warzone of her parents’...
- Location(s): Siberia
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Travles through this bleak area of the map. Not so bleak, actually! Track the authors travels on a map, enjoy the wry humour,as he travels around this little known part of the world.
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