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- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): 1930s
‘Set in 1936, Ryan’s impressive debut introduces Capt. Alexei Korolev of the Moscow Militia’s Criminal Investigation Division, who looks into the murder of a young woman found butchered in a church… Ryan, who merits comparison to Tom Rob Smith,...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A well researched book about an extraordinary environment and how it affects the lives of ordinary people doing ordinary things with huge consequences. About ordinary people going about their daily lives against a thunderous state backdrop.
- Location(s): Paris, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Contemporary, World War 2
A deeply moving meditation on memory, history, love, and art by the author of “Dreams of My Russian Summers”. In “The Life of an Unknown Man”, Andreï Makine explores what truly matters in life through the prism of Russia’s...
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Second half 20th century
In Soviet Moscow, God is dead, but the devil – to say nothing of his retinue of demons, from a loudmouthed, gun-toting tomcat, to the fanged fallen angel Koroviev – is very much alive. As death and destruction spread...
- Location(s): Germany, Poland, Siberia
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1930s 1940s
This is an epic wartime romance which sees a headstrong young woman face hardship, danger and dilemmas as the forces of history sweep her across continents, while two men compete to claim her heart.It is suitable for fans of...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), Moscow, New Hampshire
- Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary and 6 years back
THE PAST CAN FIND YOU ANYWHERE Paul Brightman is a man on the run, living under an assumed name in a small New England town with a million-dollar bounty on his head. When his security is breached, Paul is...
- Location(s): Ukraine, Russia, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1918 - 1970s
Ukraine, 1941. War has ripped Katya’s country and heart in two. When her first love and the father of her child, a young Hungarian soldier, is killed in battle she thinks her heart couldn’t break any more. But when...
- Location(s): Europe, London, Moscow
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Perfect for fans of John le Carré – the most explosive secret of the Cold War could be exposed: but the bigger the lie, the more ruthlessly it will be protected… Hard-up Russia expert Dr Sam Gaddis finally has...
- Location(s): Berlin, Volgograd (Stalingrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2, mid 20th century
Desperate to escape the Eastern Front, Peter Faber, an ordinary German soldier, marries Katharina Spinell, a woman he has never met; it is a marriage of convenience that promises ‘honeymoon’ leave for him and a pension for her should...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 18th Century
When Vavara, a young Polish orphan, arrives at the glittering, dangerous court of the Empress Elizabeth in St Petersburg, she is schooled in skills ranging from lock-picking to love-making, learning above all else to stay silent – and listen....
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