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THE TIMES 'THRILLER OF THE YEAR' AND CWA GOLD DAGGER SHORTLISTED AUTHOR RETURNS!'Conjures up Stalinist Russia with evocative detail and the dread and menace that permeate everyday life' Financial Times'Utterly compelling, both in its propulsive plotting...

'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine' Martin Amis, ObserverPoet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of...

Vladimir Nabakov's shocking masterpiece, now in a beautifully designed clothbound edition'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine' Martin AmisPoet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first...

'Platonov is an extraordinary writer, perhaps the most brilliant Russian writer of the twentieth century' New York Review of BooksThe Soviet Don Quixote, Chevengur is now seen by many Russian writers as Russia's greatest novel of the last century. This...

'One of the great novels of the 20th century' ObserverIn April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front that will culminate in the greatest battle in human history.Hundreds of miles away, Pyotr Vavilov receives his call-up...

'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine' Martin Amis, ObserverPoet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of...

Odessa was a uniquely Jewish city, and the stories of Isaac Babel - a Jewish man, writing in Russian, born in Odessa - uncover its tough underbelly. Gangsters, prostitutes, beggars, smugglers: no one escapes the pungent, sinewy force of Babel's pen. ...

A CIA agent hunts an old foe in this gripping new international thriller from Matthew Quirk. Deadly enemies, dangerous games... CIA agent Sam Hudson has been hunting Konstantin, a Russian deep cover operative responsible for numerous murders on US and...

At the height of Stalin's postwar terror, Innokenty, a young diplomat and scion of a corrupt ruling class, discovers an earlier and more spiritual tradition than that adopted by the October Revolution, the beginning of a process which is Solzhenitsyn's...

Based around the pivotal WWII battle of Stalingrad (1942-3), where the German advance into Russia was eventually halted by the Red Army, and around an extended family, the Shaposhnikovs, and their many friends and acquaintances, Life and Fate...

Moscow, 1985. Four teenagers - Anya, Milka, Petya and Aleksey, whose lives, like those of their Western counterparts, are fuelled by sex, alcohol and cigarettes - yearn for a world of Levi's, Queen, foreign travel and the freedom to choose their fates...

Mikhail Bulgakov's devilish salute to artistic freedom, now in a beautiful clothbound edition'Bulgakov is one of the greatest Russian writers, perhaps the greatest' IndependentWritten in secret during the darkest days of Stalin's reign, The Master and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372143Author Donald RayfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 776Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

The five, irreverant, satirical and imaginative stories contained in Diaboliad caused an uproar upon the book's first publication in 1925. Full of invention, they display Bulgakov's breathtaking stylistic range, moving at dizzying speed from grotesque...

TRANSLATED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT AND ELIZABETH CHANDLER'For the mind, everthing is in the future' Platonov once wrote; 'for the heart, everything is in the past'. The protagonist of Soul is a young man torn between these opposing desires,...

Appearing for the first time in English, Deceit is the debut novel by Yuri Felsen, a leading modernist writer of the interwar Russian diaspora. Known by his contemporaries as 'the Russian Proust', Felsen died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz, his life...

Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is one of the best-known novels of the 20th century: the controversial story of Humbert Humbert who falls in love with twelve year old Lolita, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'Lolita, light of my...

After enlisting in a revolutionary terrorist organization, the university student Nikolai Apollonovich Ableukhov is entrusted with a highly dangerous mission: to plant a bomb and assassinate a major government figure. But the real central character of...

In many respects, Their Four Hearts is a book of endings and final things. Vladimir Sorokin wrote it in the year the Soviet Union collapsed and then didn't write fiction for ten years after completing it--his next book being the infamous Blue Lard, which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915568502Author Goderdzi ChokheliFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Dedalus LtdPublisher Dedalus Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593321263Author Vasily GrossmanFormat HardbackPage Count 952Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 833gDimensions(mm)...

1958. In a dorm room in Moscow, a young writer is woken by the sound of angry voices on the radio. Through the fog of a hangover he hears the news that a novel called Doctor Zhivago has earned its author the Nobel Prize. There is uproar. The author,...

Amid the violent last days of the glittering Russian monarchy, a princess on the run finds her heart where she least expects it.1917, Petrograd. Fleeing the murderous flames of the Russian Revolution, Princess Svetlana Dalsky hopes to find safety in...

It is December 1941, and eight-year-old Galina and her friend Vera are caught in the siege of Leningrad, eating wallpaper soup and dead rats. Galina's artist father Mikhail has been kept away from the front to help save the treasures of the Hermitage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953730350Author Alexander ProkhanovFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Antelope Hill PublishingPublisher Antelope Hill PublishingWeight(grams)...

"A welcome volume of stories from Russia's finest contemporary fiction writer, Mikhail Shishkin, full of his typical fusing of mysticism and modernist experimentation." --Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal The first English-language collection of short...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590200421Author Daniil KharmsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Overlook PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732594302Author Sepehr HaddadFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Appleyard & Sons PublishingPublisher Appleyard & Sons PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377681Author Andrey PlatonovFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Horsemen of the Sands gathers two novellas by Leonid Yuzefovich: 'Horsemen of the Sands' and 'The Storm.' The former tells the true story of R.F. Ungern-Shternberg, also known as the 'Mad Baltic Baron,' a military adventurer whose intense fascination...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681378886Author Konstantin VaginovFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 369g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608883103Author Central Intelligence AgencyFormat HardbackPage Count 274Imprint Nimble BooksPublisher Nimble BooksWeight(grams) 921g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798330512799Author H L AndersonFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint Apeiron BooksPublisher Apeiron BooksWeight(grams) 767g