Nick Holdstock

A Dark Fusion of Waters

The Amur River: Between Russia and China

By Colin Thubron

Donald Rayfield

Disinterring Anton Chekhov

Old rumours & new finds

Donald Rayfield

Eau de Hammer & Sickle

The Scent of Empires: Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow

By Karl Schlögel (Translated from German by Jessica Spengler)

Anna Reid

Bloody Waters

The Volga: A History of Russia’s Greatest River

By Janet M Hartley

Donald Rayfield

The Lesser Evil?

Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag

By Julius Margolin (Translated from Russian by Stefani Hoffman)

Anthony Paletta

Don’t Mention the Woolworth Building

Building a New World: Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture

By Jean-Louis Cohen

Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin’s Capital

By Katherine Zubovich

Donald Rayfield

The Eternal Husband

Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life

By Alex Christofi

Geoffrey Roberts

A Subversive, Not a Psychopath

Stalin: Passage to Revolution

By Ronald Grigor Suny

Donald Rayfield

All the President’s Murderers

Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West

By Catherine Belton

Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem, and Russia’s Remaking of the West

By Luke Harding

Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia

By Joshua Yaffa

Donald Rayfield

The Monks who Came in from the Cold

Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia’s Quest for World Power

By Gregory Afinogenov

Sam Phipps

The Government Inspector

Perestroika – New Thinking for Our Country and the World

By Mikhail Gorbachev

Christopher Coker

The Great Thaw

The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the end of the Cold War

By Archie Brown

Robert Mayhew

Play It Again, Vlad

The Lost Pianos of Siberia

By Sophy Roberts

Michael Burleigh

Murder on the Mind

From Russia with Blood: Putin’s Ruthless Killing Campaign and Secret War on the West

By Heidi Blake