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- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s/1980s
It is December 1941, and eight-year-old Galina and her friend Vera are caught in the siege of Leningrad, eating soup made of wallpaper, with the occasional luxury of a dead rat. Galina’s artist father Mikhail has been kept away...
- Location(s): Russia, Moscow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1980s
‘Peppered with memorable characters, carved with precision, … highly recommended’ Shots Magazine ‘Given that the definitive thriller in 1980’s Moscow already exists (Gorky Park), Moskva looks like a crazy gamble. But it’s one that comes off’ Sunday Times ‘A...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Late 1930s
Russia in 1938 is a place of great terror. Joseph Stalin is in charge. His Secret Police are everywhere, searching for anyone who might be his enemy. People have no idea who they can trust. Seven-year-old Shura doesn’t know...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): end of Soviet era
The Matiushin Case is one of the darkest and most powerful works of fiction to appear in Russian in the last twenty years. Deriving, like Captain of the Steppe (And Other Stories, 2013), from the author’s own traumatic experience...
- Location(s): Russia, Pripyat/Chernobyl
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): early 2000s
Chernobyl: the Zone of Exclusion. A ghostly place, deserted and forgotten for almost two decades; now inhabited by militia, shady scavengers, a few reckless scientists, and some elderly Ukrainian peasants . . . This is the eerie and dangerous...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): Soviet era / future
A seminal work of dystopian fiction that foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from...
- 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): 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...
Let’s Put the Future behind Us
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Satire
- Era(s): post Soviet
In the unfettered freedom of Russia’s new-found venture-capital frenzy, Max Borodin can organise anything – so long as the readies are ready. That’s why he’s Moscow’s most successful businessman. But Max’s life has its downside: his wife, Tanya, nags...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): early 2000s
The sixth title in the number one bestselling CHERUB series! James uncovers corruption where he least suspects it … When an MI5 operation goes disastrously wrong, James Adams needs all of his skills to get out of Russia alive....
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