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In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones
Author: Jeffrey Tayler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev's great grand-daughter, and an ex-pat living and reporting on Russia and the Soviet Union...
Margaret Thatcher: At Her Zenith: In London, Washington and Moscow
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Author: Charles Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 880 In June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government's parliamentary majority in British electoral history. Over the next...
The Skripal Files: The Life and Near Death of a Russian Spy
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Author: Mark Urban Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The explosive story of the poisoning of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and what it reveals about the growing clandestine...
With God In Russia: The Inspiring Classic Account of a Catholic Priest'sTwenty-three Years in Soviet Prisons and Labor Camps
Author: Walter J. Ciszek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Republished for a new century and featuring an afterword by Father James Martin, SJ, the classic memoir of...
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Author: Louis Menand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War...
The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov
Author: Alex Beam Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The Feud is the deliciously ironic (and sad) tale of how two literary giants destroyed their friendship in a fit of...
The Romanov Brides: A Novel Of The Last Tsarina And Her Sisters
From the author of A Most English Princess comes a rich novel about young Princess Alix of Hesse-the future Alexandra, last Empress of Imperial Russia-and her sister, Princess Ella. Their...
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
Author: Stephen Walker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Thrilling ... High-definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched' SUNDAY TIMES 'This book is a triumph' DAN SNOW 9.07 a.m., April...
Russia of the Tsars
Author: Peter WaldronFormat: Paperback, 170mm x 210mm, 480g, 144 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2011Between the 17th century and the 1917 revolution, the Russian Tsars became absolute rulers...
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Author: Louis Menand Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 880 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was...
Spies: The epic intelligence war between East and West
The riveting story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China'A masterpiece' CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, author of The Defence of...
The Little Man from Archangel
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The poignant story of an outsider falsely accused of murder from the celebrated author of the Maigret series She...
Wound
A breathtaking novel of grief, love, creativity and a young woman's queer and artistic awakening.In the days after her mother's death from breast cancer, Oksana, a young queer poet, decides...
This is Kandinsky
Author: Annabel Howard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 Intellectual, emotional, restless, dogged, loyal, selfish; Kandinsky was an artist - and a man - of contradictions. This genre-defying painter didn't...
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
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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...
Independence Square: Arkady Renko in Ukraine
PRE-ORDER HOTEL UKRAINE , THE BRAND NEW ARKADY RENKO NOVEL FROM MARTIN CRUZ SMITH, COMING SUMMER 2025! 'Martin Cruz Smith does more on a page than most writers manage in...
The Romanov Brides: A Novel Of The Last Tsarina And Her Sisters
From the author of A Most English Princess comes a rich novel about young Princess Alix of Hesse-the future Alexandra, last Empress of Imperial Russia-and her sister, Princess Ella. Their...
The Red Web: The Kremlin's Wars on the Internet
The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by which totalitarianism will be overthrown. Perhaps both.On the eighth floor of an ordinary-looking building in...
My Russia: War or Peace?
In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what...
A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine
'Extraordinary.' Philippe Sands'We are touched by the courage and dignity of Andrew Harding's characters - qualities that the author must surely possess in equal measure.' - Andrey Kurkov'A story of...
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...
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...
Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation
A "pioneering and fundamental" (Timothy Snyder) new history of Ukraine from one of its leading public intellectuals When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the world witnessed the "creative, freewheeling, darkly...
Independence Square: Arkady Renko in Ukraine
PRE-ORDER HOTEL UKRAINE , THE BRAND NEW ARKADY RENKO NOVEL FROM MARTIN CRUZ SMITH, COMING SUMMER 2025! 'Martin Cruz Smith does more on a page than most writers manage in...
The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border
Author: Timothy PhillipsFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 695g, 480 pagesPublished: Granta Books, United Kingdom, 2022The Iron Curtain divided the continent of Europe, north to south, with the Berlin Wall as...
Architecture at the End of the Earth: Photographing the Russian North
Carpeted in boreal forests, dotted with lakes, cut by rivers, and straddling the Arctic Circle, the region surrounding the White Sea, which is known as the Russian North, is sparsely...
Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia
'A brilliant book' Alastair Campbell, The Rest is Politics'The essential, must-read insider account of the West's cat and mouse economic warfare against Russia and how it is changing the face...
Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science
Author: Paul R. Josephson (Associate Professor of History, Colby College) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The life and work of a leading Soviet physicist and an exploration of the...
Putin: The explosive and extraordinary new biography of Russia's leader
The monumental biography of the most influential leader on the world stage in the last twenty years. Vladimir Putin is a pariah to the West. He has the power to...
Russian Thinkers
This revised edition has been completely re-set with an updated index and a new preface Isaiah Berlin witnessed the excesses of the Russian Revolution as a child, and in becoming...
Crime and Punishment
Young law student Rodion Raskolnikov lives in poverty in St. Petersburg. Indesperation, he sells the last of his valuables, a watch, to an elderly pawnbroker. Butwhat the pawnbroker doesn't know...
Last Stop on the Murder Express
'Quirky and colourful' Times Crime Club'The village life, the (mostly awful) food, the appalling hooch and, above all, the loveable eccentricity of Olga, make this a novel to treasure' A....
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...
Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia
'A brilliant book' Alastair Campbell, The Rest is Politics'The essential, must-read insider account of the West's cat and mouse economic warfare against Russia and how it is changing the face...
The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition)
Solzhenitsyn's masterwork about those who dared to oppose Stalin and the lives shaped, devastated and wasted by the Soviet regime. Solzhenitsyn spent eleven years in labour camps and in exile....
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...
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 (SIGNED)
Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of...
The Story of Russia
"This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern Russia and its wars with Ukraine, with its neighbors, with America, and with...
My Russia: War or Peace?
In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what...
Young Philby
Author: Robert Littell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Englishman Harold Adrian Russell Philby, nicknamed Kim, slips onto the Russian freighter Domatova as it quietly sails out of...
The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner
THE DISSIDENT is the story of how one fearless man, offended by the dishonesty and criminality of the Russian political system, mounted a relentless opposition movement and became President Vladimir...
Murder in the Gulag: The Life and Death of Alexei Navalny
'Murder in the Gulag is brilliant journalistic writing: punchy, eloquent, page-turning and factual. It's a powerful reminder of what an extraordinary man Navalny was' - Roland Oliphant, TelegraphThe gripping sequel...
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
'A luminous study' Luke Harding, Guardian'Courageous and shocking' Katy Guest, Books of the Year, Independent on SundayHow did a small-minded, low-level KGB operative come to control the world's largest country...
War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian
'History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the fascism of 2022. It is time to expose them.'...
The Witch and the Tsar
Author: Olesya Salnikova GilmoreFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 280g, 432 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023'A delicate weaving of myth and history, The Witch and the Tsar breathes new life...
A Short History of Russia's First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty
Upon publication in 2001, Russia's First Civil War by Chester Dunning was greeted by scholars as a "historical tour de force," the first major post-Marxist reassessment of the Time of...
My Russia: War or Peace?
In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what...