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Former Soviet Secret Service agent Leo Demidov has built himself a new life as a civilian with his wife Raisa, and their two teenage daughters, Elena ... More

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Soviet Union, 1956: Stalin is dead. With his passing, a violent regime is beginning to fracture - leaving behind a society where the police are the ... More

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This novel is an amazingly assured and exciting debut, set in Soviet Russia in 1953, with a wonderfully realised sense of all-pervading fear and the ... More

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'The blue rectangle which enclosed me for a time and made me feel safe. The blue embrace...For six weeks, at the age of fifty-nine, one last dance ... More

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Stalin's most trusted secret agent, the legendary Inspector Pekkala, is on his deadliest mission--one that could save his country . . . or plunge it ... More

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A moving novel, telling of the longing and devastation that happen when both dreams and realities come crashing down.

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Avraham Bahar leaves Albania to seek a better life in, ironically, Stalinist Russia. A professional barber, he curries favor with the Communist ... More

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Continuing the saga begun in Children of the Arbat, here is a sweeping vision of the former Soviet Union in the Stalin era. From Siberia to the Arbat ... More

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In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist, but when police take his father away and leave ... More

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"The Betrayal" is the sequel to Helen Dunmore's hugely successful historical novel "The Siege", set in Stalin's Russia. Leningrad, 1952. Andrei, a ... More

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Moscow, 1939. In the recesses of the infamous Lubyanka prison, a young archivist is sent to verify the authorship of an unfinished story, confiscated ... More

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One cold Moscow night, Comrade Tulayev, a high government official, is shot dead on the street, and the search for the killer begins. In this ... More

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If the people killed or starved to death by the Soviets were laid out end to end they would stretch half way to the moon. This compelling novel of ... More

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It is 1937, and Captain Alexei Korolev finds himself on an airplane bound for Odessa after the suspicious suicide of a loyal young party member who ... More

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With American entry into WWII looming, Anglo-American John Russell searches for a way out of Germany.

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Thundering through four turbulent decades of Russian history, this ambitious novel propels the reader from Moscow to the Winter Palace. From the ... More

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On August 12, 1952, Russia's greatest Jewish writers were secretly executed by Stalin. In this remarkable blend of history and imagination, Paltiel ... More

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In this epic novel of the U.S.S.R. in the 1950s, a new generation of Gradovs--whom readers first met in Generations of Winter--takes center stage. ... More

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When a Turkish bandit holds engineers building the Baghdad Railway to ransom, Britain is secretly relieved as the Railway threatens the Persian Gulf ... More

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