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- Location(s): Lithuania, Russia
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
- Era(s): 1941
The haunting and powerful Second World War novel by Ruta Sepetys that inspired the feature film, ASHES IN THE SNOW, OUT NOW. One night fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother and young brother are hauled from their home by Soviet guards,...
- Location(s): Portsmouth, Canada, Mexico, Moscow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
As the red rose drifted away in the sea with the ashes, it was not the end of the story. It was the start of a new spy thriller – “Beyond the Funeral” – a fast-moving story in which...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1970s- 2000s
In Bird’s Milk, Jana Bakunina tells the story of her childhood in the Soviet Union from the early days of perestroika to the collapse of the USSR, offering a unique insight into the lives of ordinary Russians. Bird s...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1961
1961. Hidden deep within central Soviet Russia is a place that doesn’t appear on any map: a city called Arzamas-16. Here a community of dedicated scientists and technicians is building the most powerful nuclear device the world will ever...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2019
Black Tea is a book about Russia that starts in London at the height of the Cold War and ends on a beach in Crimea forty years later. It takes those elements of the writer’s life that were forged...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): The Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution. Fairy tale, spy thriller, love story. One man’s life during the last days of the Romanovs, beautifully imagined by award-winning author Marcus Sedgwick. Shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award. Set in the rich and atmospheric...
- Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau, Siberia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
In 1942 Cilka Klein is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
- Era(s): early 19th century
Dostoyevsky’s great novel of damnation and redemption evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur. It tells the story of Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, who wanders through the slums of...
Dancing for Stalin: A Dancer’s Story of Courage and Survival in Soviet Russia
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Biography, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Nina Anisimova was one of Russia’s most renowned ballerinas and one of the first Soviet female choreographers. Yet few knew that her exemplary career concealed a dark secret. In 1938, at the height of Stalin’s Great Terror, Nina was...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1840s
Nikolai Gogol’s ‘epic poem in prose’, Dead Souls is a damning indictment of a corrupt society, translated from the Russian with an introduction and notes by Robert A. Maguire in Penguin Classics. Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the...
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