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Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals
'If affection is the first ground of memory, the archive is its late flowering and Hotel Lux its conservatory, Casey's history a tender nurture of pasts we overlook, but which...
St Petersburg City Pick
An exciting and unique popular city break travel series featuring the best-ever writing on favourite World cities. All the sights, sounds and flavours of city life with perfect gems of...
The King of Vodka: A Family's Story of Triumph and Tragedy
Plumbing recently unearthed archives and mountains of primary sources, Himelstein has uncovered a rich historical record. In prose that's vivid and assured, she takes the reader beyond the formation of...
Through the Eyes of Children: Quotes from Childhood Interrupted by War
A heartrending and beautiful trilingual book that gives voice to the children of war-torn Ukraine, interspersed with moving works of art. What is it like to be a child living...
Same River, Twice: Putin's War on Women
Blending the journalistic rigor of Masha Gessen with the call to action of We Should All Be Feminists, a searing denunciation of Putin's Russia, revealing how modern Russia's history of...
Through the Eyes of Children: Quotes from Childhood Interrupted by War
A heartrending and beautiful trilingual book that gives voice to the children of war-torn Ukraine, interspersed with moving works of art. What is it like to be a child living...
A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine - As heard
It's March 2022 and Russian tanks are roaring across the vast, snow-dusted fields of Ukraine. Their destination: Voznesensk, a town with a small bridge that could change the course of...
Frommer's Moscow & St. Petersburg
Frommer's Complete Guides America's #1 bestselling travel series More full-color guides than ever before Foldout maps in annual guides Outspoken opinions, exact prices, and insider tips
Night Owls
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'I decided that my trip had evidently been in vain, since nothing of interest could possibly occur on this visit. I...
A Dog's Heart
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books What would happen if a doctor implanted the pituitary gland and testicles of a man into the body of a stray...
Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89
As a former ambassador to Moscow, Rodric Braithwaite brings unique insights to the Soviet War in Afghanistan. The story has been distorted not only by Cold War propaganda but also...
The Fourth Man: The Hunt for the KGB's CIA Mole and Why the US
For the first time ever, New York Times bestselling author and former CIA operative Robert Baer tells the explosive story of how insiders believe a KGB mole rose to the...
The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
In The Future is History Masha Gessen follows the lives of four Russians, born as the Soviet Union crumbled, at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each came...
Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking: SHORTLISTED FOR
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2024 'Tender and merciless . . . a hallucinatory window into what it means to excavate the past in a world committed to its erasure'...
The Diamond Horse
A frozen palace and a sparkling secret - an epic Russian adventure awaits! A priceless diamond necklace holds a secret - the stories of two very different Russian girls... Anna...
Cool Restaurants - Moscow
Cool Restaurants Moscow zoom Cool Restaurants Moscow zoom Cool Restaurants Moscow zoom In the thriving Russian capital, there's a cornucopia of culinary destinations where the settings are as stunning as...
Russia and the Russians: A History
From the Carpathians in the west to the Greater Khingan range in the east, a huge, flat expanse dominates the Eurasian continent. Here, over more than a thousand years, the...
Only the Dead: James Reece 6
**THE EXPLOSIVE NEW THRILLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE TERMINAL LIST , NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES STARRING CHRIS PRATT** Navy SEAL James Reece faces a devastating global conspiracy in...
Collusion: How Russia Helped Trump Win the White House
#1 New York Times Bestseller 'It's a superb piece of work, wonderfully done and essential reading for anyone who cares for his country. Amazing research and brilliantly collated.' - John...
A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution
'Chillingly original' Max Hastings 'Brilliantly depicts a disastrous failure' Antony Beevor 'Witty and elegant . . . Excellent background to today's events' Anne Applebaum 'Britain's most forgotten war, brilliantly remembered'...
Same River, Twice: Putin's War on Women
Blending the journalistic rigor of Masha Gessen with the call to action of We Should All Be Feminists, a searing denunciation of Putin's Russia, revealing how modern Russia's history of...
The Silver Bone: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024
**A Summer 2024 pick in the Times Literary Supplement and the Financial Times ** "Andrey Kurkov is often called Ukraine's greatest living writer, and it is a gift for crime...
The Silver Bone: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024
**A Summer 2024 pick in the Times Literary Supplement and the Financial Times ** "Andrey Kurkov is often called Ukraine's greatest living writer, and it is a gift for crime...
Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War
A former CIA officer and the creator of the hit TV series The Americans makes the case that America's policy towards Russia is failing--and we'll never fix it until we...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
"Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account of how two terrible dictators led their countries in the most destructive and inhumane...
The Compatriots: The Russian Exiles Who Fought Against the Kremlin
From the time of the tsars to the waning days of Communist regime, Russian leaders tried to control the flow of ideas by controlling its citizens' movements. They believed strict...
Independence Square: Arkady Renko in Ukraine
'Martin Cruz Smith does more on a page than most writers manage in a chapter. He is unique and irreplaceable' MICK HERRON, author of Slow Horses ARKADY RENKO IS BACK...
Independence Square: Arkady Renko in Ukraine
Martin Cruz Smith does more on a page than most writers manage in a chapter. He is unique and irreplaceable' MICK HERRON, author of Slow Horses ARKADY RENKO IS BACK...
Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of
An explosive account of Putin's presidency and his long-term ambitions, including first-hand reporting from the invasion of Ukraine. THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERS...
The Bear and The Nightingale: (Winternight Trilogy)
A beautiful fairytale full of magic for fans of Naomi Novik, Erin Morgenstern and Philip Pullman _____________________________ Beware the evil in the woods... In a village at the edge of...
A Short History of Russia
An essential short history of Russia by acclaimed writer and expert Mark Galeotti, taking us from Ivan the Terrible and Catherine the Great, to the Russian Revolution, the fall of...
Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War
The gripping bestselling account of the largest military campaign ever, by the much-acclaimed WW2 historian Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941, aimed at nothing less than a...
The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment
From the acclaimed author of The Most Dangerous Book, the true story behind the creation of another masterpiece of world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment In the summer of...
History of the Russian Revolution
'The greatest history of an event I know' - C.L.R. James Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, The History of the Russian Revolution...
The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first
The definitive history, now revised and updated with a new final chapter covering Russia's role in the world in 2020 Russia's recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror...
Russian Emigre Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky
A landmark anthology of extraordinary Russian writers, revealing the full story of the emigre experience in their own words Fleeing Russia amid the chaos of the Russian Revolution and subsequent...
In Siberia
'If there were a Nobel Prize for travel writing, Thubron should win it' - Daily Mail 'One of the finest books about contemporary Russia' Observer This is the account of...
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
A PEOPLE'S TRAGEDY won pretty much every prize for which it was eligible This tremendously attractive, ambitious, dizzying book is in every way a worthy successor to Figes' bestselling A...
Private Moscow: (Private 15)
Jack Morgan is battling to uncover a conspiracy that leads him all the way to Russia in the heart-stopping new thriller in the bestselling Private series An invitation from an...
White Fox
Set during the darkest days of the Cold War, a tautly-told, nail-bitingly atmospheric historical thriller about two competing KGB operatives caught in a race to secure the devastating truth behind...
Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became
The Sunday Times and NYT bestseller. A shocking true-life thriller about corruption, dirty politics and murder in Russia by one of Putin's Most Wanted. 'An unburdening, a witness statement and...
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement...
The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It
We can all treat history with more respect. If we do, we might find that the cure for the Russia Anxiety is within reach ... Russia is an exceptional country,...
Lenin on the Train
A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in a 'sealed train' across Europe and changed the history of the...
The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World
The juicy, funny story of the three dysfunctional rulers of Germany, Russia and Great Britain at the turn of the last century, combined with a study of the larger forces...
The Doll
From 'a novelist of dazzling mastery' (Independent) and the winner of the first ever Man Booker International Prize- a novel about creative origin and aspiration, inspired by the author's own...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants This compelling book on Hitler and Stalin - the culmination of thirty years' work...
The Way of a Pilgrim: Candid Tales of a Wanderer to His Spiritual
A simple peasant seeks spiritual fulfilment in this apparently artless tale of popular piety 'Here, see my belongings- a bag of dry crusts on my back and the Holy Bible...