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This is a communicative Russian course for English speaking adults at the very beginning of their learning (A1 or Elementary level).

This brand-new intensive communicative course is designed for adult students learning Russian as a foreign language with a teacher.

"I Love Russian" is a popular up-to-date communicative course for international students learning Russian with a teacher.

This is a new edition of the popular classroom course for beginners of Russian as a foreign language which now comes with QR codes.

Our bestselling course of Russian which has been produced for classes with mixed level beginner students now comes with QR codes.

"Russian Season" is a popular course for foreign students learning Russian with little to no previous knowledge of the language.

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Our team selected some exceptional translations of Russian authors from the independent publisher, Angel Classics.

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The nominees for the 2022 National Bestseller literary award in Russia, including contemporary fiction, historical works and thrilling crime dramas.

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Are you studying on a language course in the UK? If your course provider is one of our partners, you can get a special discount from us on most of your books!

New books for learning Russian

This short-term ab-initio course of Russian as a foreign language for English-speaking students can be used for independent study.

£20.00

The perfect balance of grammar, vocabulary and conversational skills is the key feature of this Russian course. Third level - B1.

£58.00

An innovative textbook at A1-A2 level to help students better understand Russian cases and when/how to use them correctly.

£34.95

The book is focused on Theme 3, focussing on reading, listening, vocabulary and translation skills.

£33.75

£46.50

History of Russian Literature of the 10th-21st Centuries: for Foreign Students (CEFR A1-B2)

£38.95

This brand-new intensive communicative course is designed for adult students learning Russian as a foreign language with a teacher.

£46.50

A practical course on nominal and verbal word formation for upper intermediate level (B2) students of Russian.

£22.75

"Life without a cell phone" - a collection of funny stories and adventures for children learning Russian.

£14.50

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A delightful grammar book with fun actrvities and English translations for young learners of Russian aged 12+.

By A M Kutsereva-Zhame, M Kitadze, E I Kotova, E Yu Shapovalova

£32.75 £22.93

Abridged and adapted texts to develop students' vocabulary and speaking skills at beginner's level, A1-A2, as well as reading and writing.

By N.A. Kostyuk

£17.95 £12.57

Develop speaking and listening skills in Russian at an intermediate level with this useful textbook and audio pack.

By I V Odintsova

£24.50 £17.15

The Maze Runner. The Death Cure (Book 3) in Russian translation. Prikljuchenija otvazhnykh glejderov - beguschikh radi zhizni - prodolzhajutsja!

By James Dashner

£11.95 £8.37

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

By F Scott Fitzgerald

£9.00 £6.30

A beautifully illustrated poster of the letters of the Russian alphabet with the names of the famous Russian cities.

£7.35 £5.15

Authentic texts and articles on a range of contemporary topics, for advanced learners wanting to expand their vocabulary further.

By E Yu Guseva, Yu D Poliakova, E A Dvorkina

£20.75 £14.53

A textbook on Russian Literature in the context of world culture. Designed for students in Russian schools.

By V Korovin

£37.95 £26.57

Try to guess the word with this set of cards from Zlatoust! The set includes 552 cards on 14 different themes.

By T.V. Kuz'mina

£28.50 £19.95

This game of colouring letters on 33 cards is aimed at bilingual children living abroad.

By I V Maiboroda

£19.50 £13.65

12 educational grammar songs specifically written for students of Russian. Elementary - intermediate levels.

By Nadezda Bragina

£17.95 £12.57

Learn Russian from scratch with this pack, from the bestselling series of self-study courses from the BBC.

By Svetlana Furlong

£15.99 £12.79

This unique Russian-language textbook draws on printed and internet mass media sources to introduce intermediate and advanced students to varied aspects of modern Russian life.

By Andrei Bogomolov, Marita Nummikoski

£24.00 £16.80

Designed for students at CEFR B2-C1, this book helps systematise and develop students' writing and speaking skills in business communication.

By E V Kosareva

£25.95 £18.17

By Slava Zaitsev, David Anderson

£8.00 £5.60

This book dispels the misbeliefs about Russia and explains the traditional conceptions about the country and its people which have been developed by foreigners and Russians themselves.

By I V Kurlova, A Y Petanova, O E Chubarova

£20.75 £14.53

Theory and exercises to strengthen students' knowledge and understanding of the most frequent Russian idioms and idiomatic expressions.

By Ju. Kumbasheva

£19.50 £13.65

A collection of exercises to help students learn the Russian system of cases and prepositions.

By L Bulgakova, V Krasnykh, I Zakharenko

£19.50 £13.65

Orthodox cuisine for feast days and holidays.

By Vladimir Khlebnikov

£6.25 £4.38

Blinis. Fritters. Pancakes. 101 amazing recipes.

By Vladimir Khlebnikov

£6.25 £4.38

The Encore Recipes. The best of the last 15 years.

By G P Shcherbo

£9.35 £6.55

Set in contemporary Moscow, where shape shifters, vampires, and street-sorcerers linger in the shadows, "Night Watch" is the first in a series of fantasy novels from best-selling Russian author Sergei Lukjanenko.

By Sergei Lukyanenko

£15.50 £10.85

A good love story never goes out of style. It is difficult to guess how things will end and what will happen to the characters next...

By Galina Shcherbakova

£5.30 £3.71

The powerful and brutal short story Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, plus The Enchanted Warrior and The Typeyny Artist.

By Nikolai Leskov

£8.30 £5.81

Described by her translator as 'a poet of all seasons, not only of the natural world, but of the soul', Miller writes with an intensity and a lyricism that is compelling, mesmerising and unforgettable.

By Larissa Miller, Richard McKane

£10.65 £7.46

The main aim of this book is to develop listening and comprehension skills of Russian from a beginners level.

By E. Korchagina

£28.50 £19.95

The second part of the course, this textbook covers Russian Basic level (CEFR A2).

By E. L. Korchagina

£30.95 £21.67

By E. L. Korchagina

£28.50 £19.95

Written by professors of the Intercultural Communication Dept. at the Herzen State Pedagogical University, who founded one of the leading St. Petersburg scientific schools on "Intercultural Education".

By I P Lysakova

£20.75 £14.53

Music and songs to help teach foreign learners of Russian the correct pronunciation of words.

By N L Fedotova

£22.95 £16.07

This is a collection of short stories about animals. They are smart creatures, who read humans and each other well. They understand friendship and kindness and can show real gratitude.

By Tatiana Bokova

£18.95 £13.27

Fun short stories about the daily lives of a group of preschool friends. This book is aimed at bilingual children and their parents for reading at home.

By Anna Verbovskaya

£21.50 £15.05

V seme Podolskikh suschestvuet tajna, otzvuk pervoj ljubvi... There is a secret in the Podolsky family, an echo of first love ...

By Alina Znamenskaia

£12.95 £9.07

By E A Kuz'minova, I V Ruzhitskij

£25.95 £18.17

By N A Lyubimova, E V Buzal'skaia

£16.50 £11.55

By N A Lyubimova, E V Buzal'skaia

£19.75 £13.83

By N. V. Basko

£25.95 £18.17

By I V Rebrova

£29.75 £20.83

A preparation book for the TORFL Professional Module. Scientific and Technical Profiles. First Certificate Level.

By I. I. Baranova, I. A. Gladkikh, V. V. Starodub

£16.50 £11.55

By K A Demeneva, L E Adiasova

£27.75 £19.43

By V I Maksimov

£15.50 £10.85

By Svetlana Alexievich

£18.75 £13.13

By I.A. Efron, F.A. Brokgauz

£28.75 £20.13

Find out everything about the biggest, the most powerful, the fastest, and the longest cars in the world!

£14.95 £10.47

By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

£5.75

By John Grisham

£12.95 £9.07

'Un roman franÃ§ais' - an autobiographical novel written by Frederic Beigbeder.

By Frédéric Beigbeder

£6.60 £4.62

Morphine. Notes of a Young Doctor.(Also known as A Country Doctor's Notebook).

By Mikhail Bulgakov

£7.95 £5.57

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome.

By Jerome K Jerome

£6.85 £4.80

By Haruki Murakami

£7.00 £4.90

By Ivan Bunin

£14.95 £10.47

By Andrei Usachev, Galina Diadina

£23.95 £16.77

By Larissa Miller

£11.95 £8.37

By Ekaterina Chudnovskaya

£9.35 £6.55

"By the Pike's Wish" is a well-known Russian folk-tale about Emelya, the laziest person in the world.

By E V Golovina, A Kabanova

£6.25 £4.38

By Rudyard Kipling, Walt Disney, K I Mol'kov

£12.50 £8.75

By Darcey Bell

£14.50 £10.15

By Edgar Rice Burroughs

£14.50 £10.15

By Elena Ferrante

£16.50 £11.55

By Alice Munro

£14.50 £10.15

£17.75 £15.98

Big Book Prize 2022 - Finalists

Described by many as "a journey" and "a Soviet Easter", an Echelon to Samarkand takes you back to 1923...

By Guzel Yakhina

£20.75

A fascinating historical saga set in the city of Vyborg - from the time of its founding in the 13th century to the present day.

By Sofia Sinitskaya

£27.95

In a dystopian world an innocent man is sentenced to death, but the punishment is not all that it seems...

By Dmitry Danilov

£17.75

A personal, modern story of two women and their diaries. Two women, connected yet living a hundred years apart.

By Anna Matveeva

£24.75

A fusion of family chronicles and historical detective story with political overtones, in which it is difficult to distinguish fiction from truth, historical fact from the author's fantasy.

By Afanasy Mamedov

£21.75

A novel about mercy and life in its highest manifestation. A book about love and tenderness breaking through darkness and hopelessness.

By Ruslan Kozlov

£30.95

A novel, a journey, an education... an Odyssey set in Ancient Russia.

By Oleg Ermakov

£24.75

A detailed biography and personal reflection on the life and works of Russian writer Vasily Vasilyevich Rozanov.

By A N Varlamov

£26.95

A documentary novel about the heyday of the Stalin era, from the perspective of teenagers born abroad but raised in the USSR in the 1930s.

By Sergey Belyakov

£36.95

A guide to Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina". From individual words, plot twists and other "evidence", the dark places of this mysterious book are explained.

By Pavel Basinsky

£20.75

Classics and Modern Classics

Checkhov's The Cherry Orchard.

By Anton Chekhov

£9.35

Apart from the famous novel "Poor Liza", this edition presents other works by Nikolay Karamzin, including "Natalya The Boyar's Daughter", "Marfa The Mayor's Wife" and poems.

By Nikolay Karamzin

£8.30

Demons. Inspired bt thr true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869.

By Fyodor M Dostoevsky

£10.50

The Captain's Daughter. Pushkin's version of the historical novel in the style of Walter Scott.

By A S Pushkin

£12.50

A short story collection entitled "House of Fears" by Vadim Leventa.

By Vadim Levental

£12.50

The powerful and brutal short story Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, plus The Enchanted Warrior and The Typeyny Artist.

By Nikolai Leskov

£8.30 £5.81

Dead Souls novel which is assumed to demonstrate the flaws and faults of the Russian mentality and character.

By Nikolai Gogol

£9.35

A novel focusing on the mid-life crisis of the main character, Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, an upper middle class son of a member of Russia's nineteenth century landed gentry.

By I. Goncharov

£8.10

A collection of Chekov's short stories.

By Anton Chekhov

£9.35

A collection of short stories depicting love in its many forms, in a rich range of narratives in the elusive, elegiac, elegant prose for which Bunin is rightly renowned.

By Ivan Bunin

£12.50

Tikhij Don (knigi 3-4) - Quiet Don (Books 3 & 4).

By M. Sholokhov

£11.95

An adventurous romance which begins with love letter falling into the wrong letter box.

By V. Iskhakov

£14.95

The Lower Depths. A compilation of works by Maxim Gorky, including his plays "Meschane", "Na dne", "Dachniki", "Vassa Zheleznova" and his stories "Makar Chudra", "Starukha Izergil", "Chelkash", "Pesnja o Sokole" i "Pesnja o Burevestnike".

By Maxim Gorki

£7.95

A family of Russian immigrants, three generations, different personalities and destinies are all looking for love...

By Irina Muraveva

£6.40

Famous Russian historian and playboy K.P. Golgofsky is dedicated to chimeras and gargoyles - not just decorations of Gothic cathedrals, but phenomena of a very special kind...

By Viktor Pelevin

£19.95

Morphine. Notes of a Young Doctor.(Also known as A Country Doctor's Notebook).

By Mikhail Bulgakov

£7.95 £5.57

Three characters, one of which has many biographical features of the author, try to settle down and make a career for themselves in the wild world of business but each one is unsuccessful in their own way.

By Roman Senchin

£7.35

V etom sbornike Vy najdete istorii, holodyashchie krov: privideniya, mistika, zakoldovannye mesta i predmety i, konechno, Vij, prishedshij pryamo iz preispodnej.

By Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Aleksandr Bestushev-Marlinskij

£20.75

Russian/English bilingual readers

This is an unadapted text of the novel "Blackberry Winter" by Sarah Jio as well as the Russian translation of the text.

By Sarah Jio

£20.95

A romantic and suspenseful tale about two women whose destiny is bound across the years.

By Sarah Jio

£15.50

A gripping novel that deals with the fortunes and fates of a French family during the German Occupation through to the present.

By Joanne Harris

£15.95

One of the most compelling, original detective novels by Agatha Christie.

By Agatha Christie

£13.95

The Silver Chair - Drawn back to Narnia, Eustace Scrubb and his new friend Jill Pole are sent to rescue a captive prince.

By C S Lewis

£16.95

By Louisa May Alcott

£16.95

By Arthur Conan Doyle

£12.95

Mysterious millionaire Gatsby's life is dominated by his obsession to reunitte with a former lover.

By F Scott Fitzgerald

£10.50

V poezde ubivaut nepriyatnogo amerikantsa. Puaro nemedlenno beretsia za rassledovanie i vyiasniaet, chto kupe polno vsevozmozhnykh ulik, ukazyvayushchikh prakticheski na vsekh passazhirov etogo poezda klassa "liuks"...

By Agatha Christie

£13.95

This is an unadapted text of the short adventure novel by Jack London about a dog named Buck who was stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska.

By Jack London

£11.95

Julia Donaldson in Russian Translation

A little old lady lives all by herself in her house but she's not happy - it's just too small, even for one. Whatever can she do?

£16.50

The Paper Dolls.

£14.50

Jack and the Flumflum Tree.

£14.50

The Gruffalo!

£14.50

The Snail and the Whale.

£16.50

The Flying Bath

£16.50

Postman Bear.

£19.75

The Giant Jumperee.

£16.50

Cave Baby.

£15.50

The Scarecrow's Wedding.

£16.50

The Magic Paintbrush.

£13.50

Zog is the keenest dragon in school. He's also the most accident-prone!

£14.50

Zog and the Flying Doctors.

£19.75

£17.75 £15.98

Roald Dahl in Russian

One of the classic and most favourite Roald Dahl's stories about the Big Friendly Giant who is far too nice.

£27.95

Charlie amd the Great Glass Elevator

£17.75

Danny, the Champion of the World

£17.95

James and the Giant Peach

£27.95

Fantastic Mr Fox

£20.95

Going Solo

£18.95

The Twits

£19.95

The Witches

£26.95

The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

£11.75

Russian Children's Classics and Fairytales

An interesting edition of the popular story about Gena the Crocodile and his friends - with big tabs - to help to improve babies' and toddlers' attention and memory as well as develop their fine motor skills.

£17.75

Pushkin's classic tale "About the fisherman and the fish" is a story about human greed which has become a masterpiece of a high literary language.

£10.50

A brilliant Russian tale where the tsar is cleverly made fun of, and the common people are supported by goodness and justice.

£8.30

A compilation of the most favourite - funny, joyful and sometimes sad - stories by Dragunsky, which both children and their parents will find entertaining.

£21.75

Milkail Zoshchenko is the only Russian writer whose stories for children are humourous and edifying at the same time in such a subtle manner.

£12.50

A book of stories about Baba Yaga, the supernatural being who dwells deep in the forest in a hut on chicken legs.

£22.75

"By the Pike's Wish" is a well-known Russian folk-tale about Emelya, the laziest person in the world.

£6.25 £4.38

A famous Russian folk tale "Sister Alyonushka and Brother Ivanushka" will be even more interesting in this pop-up book with the colourful illustrations.

£13.50

A compilation of Russian folk tales for the little ones who just begin to read independently.

£7.30

A compilation of Russian folk songs in this toy-book with big tabs will turn reading into an entertaining game!

£12.50

The colourful book about three little pigs will be interesting for children aged 0-3 years old to read independently.

£6.25

Bestselling Translated Literature for Children

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

£16.50

The Meltdown is the 13th book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney which tells about Greg Heffley's wintry battlefield.

£15.95

Greg plans to make his life easier by making a movie. Will his idea work or just get him into more trouble?

£18.95

The Valentines Day dance is approaching causing more angst for Greg. Will he be lucky in love?

£17.95

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

£16.50

Enjoy this story about a grouchy ladybug who is looking for a fight and challenges everyone it meets regardless of their size or strength!

£17.95

Join Elmer the Patchwork Elephant on his adventures! This edition includes 5 amusing Elmer's stories.

£14.50

This book introduces the basic body parts and simple body movements - the ABC's of dancing, gymnastics, and other sports activities.

£23.75

A wonderfully funny story about Zog the Dragon and his adventures will be a treat to read for children as well as their parents.

£14.50

Enjoy the classic tale by Beatrix Potter about Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle who does all the washing and ironing for the neighbouring animals!

£12.50

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