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- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
Davinsky Labour Camp, Siberia, 1933: Sofia Morozova knows she has to escape. Only two things have sustained her through the bitter cold, aching hunger and hard labour: the prospect of one day walking free: and the stories told by...
- Location(s): Russia, Mongolia, Ulan Bator / Ulaanbaatar
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Present
Carrie’s best friend has an accident and can no longer make the round-the-world trip they’d planned together, so Carrie decides to go it alone. Violet is also travelling alone, after splitting up with her boyfriend in Thailand. She is...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2001 looking back
The story opens in 2001, when sisters Nina, both in their 40s, are facing major life changes. Fact and fiction are interwoven into the story as they look back over their Father’s life in Russia
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Late 1900s
They lay peacefully, even artfully, under their thawing crust of ice, the centre one on its back, hands folded as if for a religious funeral, the other two turned, arms out under the ice like flanking emblems on embossed...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 19th Century
A great setting of 19th Century St Petersburg for this crime novel
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction
In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of resistance. Now...
- Location(s): Siberia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2010
In Consolations of the Forest, Sylvain Tesson explains how he found a radical solution to his need for freedom, one as ancient as the experiences of the hermits of old Russia: he decided to lock himself alone in a...
- Location(s): Kaliningrad (Königsberg)
- Genre(s): Crime
Hanno Stiffeniis, a rural magistrate, is asked come to Königsberg to solve a series of murders that have caused terror in the city: set against the Napoleonic Wars 1803/4.
- Location(s): Siberia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 20th Century
Kolymsky Heights. A frozen Siberian hell lost in endless night. The perfect location for an underground Russian research station. It’s a place so secret it doesn’t officially exist; once there, the scientists are forbidden to leave. But one scientist...
- Location(s): Hamburg, Moscow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1970s -2000s
Zuerst die gute Nachricht: Ja, es gibt sie wirklich, die eine große wahre Liebe und den einen Menschen, den das Schicksal für uns vorherbestimmt hat. Dummerweise ist das Schicksal manchmal aber etwas schlampig bei der Durchführung seiner Pläne. So...
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