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- 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): Horror, Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
VOLUME 1 IN THE “HOTEL HORROR” SERIES OF SHORT STORIES Meet Ms N – hotelier extraordinary. Ms N can keep her head when confronted with any number of crises and keep all her customers happy – but guests who...
- 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...
- 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): Eastern Europe, Europe, Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Disability, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century - WW2
Europe, 1938. Even as the daughter of the extraordinary headlining illusionist, Lena Papadopoulos has never quite found her place within the World of Wonders – a travelling circus that traverses the continent in a luxury steam engine. Brilliant and...
- Location(s): Siberia
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 2nd half 20th century
One Dead Commissar At an icebound naval weather station in far Siberia, the young daughter of an exiled dies under suspicious circumstances. The high-ranking Commissar sent to investigate the mystery suffers a similar fate: he is murdered by an...
- Location(s): Arctic, Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The Cold War is dead but Russia’s ambitions continue to rage… The West is under threat. Russia has been granted sole access to the undersea Lomonosov Ridge in the Arctic Ocean – home to oil reserves even greater than...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Early 21st Century
Ten years ago journalist Jens Muhling met Juri, a Russian television producer whose job it was to sell stories to TV stations in Germany but who always maintained that ‘The true stories are more unbelievable than anything I could...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): ariousV
Ordinary realities and yearnings to transcend them lead to miraculous other worlds in this dazzling collection of stories. A woman’s deceased father appears in her dreams with clues about the afterlife; a Russian professor in a small American town...
- Location(s): Italy, Russia, Sandefjord
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Unsettling, gripping and glamorous. A timely psychological thriller about the danger of beauty, the lure of power, and the fierce love of a mother for her son. Liv keeps a low profile in Sandefjord, Norway: she’s just another tired...
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