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The Silver Bone

The Silver Bone
  • Author(s): Andrey Kurkov, Boris Dralyuk (translator)
  • Location(s): Kyiv
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Mystery

Kyiv, 1919. The Soviets control the city, but White armies menace them from the West. No man trusts his neighbour and any spark of resistance may ignite into open rebellion. When Samson Kolechko’s father is murdered, his last act...

Brisbane

Brisbane
  • Author(s): Eugene Vodolazkin, Marian Schwartz (Translator)
  • Location(s): Kyiv, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): 20th Century

For fans of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Umberto Eco Vodolazkin’s new novel Brisbane is “a sophisticated and frequently moving study in dissonance, dedicated to pointing out contrasts between art and life, beauty and decay, intention and outcome. And, yes, between Ukraine and...

The Soldier’s Child

The Soldier’s Child
  • Author(s): Tetyana Denford
  • 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...

The Lost Daughters of Ukraine

The Lost Daughters of Ukraine
  • Author(s): Erin Litteken
  • Location(s): Ukraine
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Summer 1941. War rages in Europe. The Germans march towards Ukraine. Halya, Liliya and Vika are no strangers to sorrow. They lost family during the Holodomor, loved ones in Stalin’s purges, and war looms once more on the horizon....

Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv

Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv
  • Author(s): Andrey Kurkov, Reuben Woolley (Translator)
  • Location(s): Lviv
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A hugely entertaining romp through the beautiful city of Lviv, by the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees, now reporting widely on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, his home country. Strange things are afoot in the...

The Orphanage

The Orphanage
  • Author(s): Serhiy Zhadan, Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler (Translator), Reilly Costigan-Humes (Translator)
  • Location(s): Kyiv
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A devastating story of the struggle of civilians caught up in the conflict in eastern Ukraine If every war needs its master chronicler, Ukraine has Serhiy Zhadan, one of Europe’s most promising novelists. Recalling the brutal landscape of The...

The Child Of Ukraine (formerly published as “Motherland”)

The Child Of Ukraine (formerly published as “Motherland”)
  • Author(s): Tetyana Denford
  • Location(s): Ukraine, Austria, Germany, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1941 - Present Day

Ukraine, 1940. She cups her daughter’s face with her trembling hands, imprinting it on her mind. ‘I love you. Be brave,’ she whispers through her tears, her heart breaking into a thousand pieces. Sending her child away is the...

Dog Park

Dog Park
  • Author(s): Sofi Oksanen, Owen F Witesman (Translator)
  • Location(s): Helsinki, Ukraine
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2016

‘An intricate, textured slow-burner that paints a vivid picture of a post-Soviet state where gangsters rule and the exploitation of the female body is big business’ Guardian Helsinki, 2016. Olenka sits on a bench, watching a family play in...

The Diamond Eye

The Diamond Eye
  • Author(s): Kate Quinn
  • Location(s): Ukraine, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

In the snowbound city of Kiev, aspiring historian Mila Pavlichenko’s life revolves around her young son – until Hitler’s invasion of Russia changes everything. Suddenly, she and her friends must take up arms to save their country from the...

The Milkman in the Night

The Milkman in the Night
  • Author(s): Andrey Kurkov, Amanda Love Darragh (translator)
  • Location(s): Kyiv
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Read this eccentric epic from the author of cult classic Death and the Penguin Semyon is disturbed. He has woken up in the living room with blood on his shirt, an angry wife and no idea where he was...

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