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  • Location: Moscow, Russia

Snowdrops

1990s -2000s: While the book does not paint Russia in the most appealing light, it is a great atmospheric novel of the dangers and duplicitous…

  • Location: St Petersburg (Leningrad), Stockholm

To the Hermitage

1770s, 1990s: The setting is Russia and Stockholm – the story is the the Diderot project or the creation of the world’s first Encyclopedia

  • Location: Dubai, Kiev, Russia, Moscow

Cold Black

2000s – Any book which combines Dubai, Kiev and Russia in one ignites our interest…

  • Location: Moscow

Gorky Park

Late 1990s: A visit to Soviet Russia and the famous Gorky Park in a thriller that never lets up.

  • Location: Moscow

The Holy Thief

1930s: Russia’s criminal underworld and the organisations during the time of the Great Terror may not be on a normal list for a visit but…

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Beautiful Ugly

2024: A very remote island deep in the Hebrides….

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