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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

£15.50

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

By Anna Matveeva

£23.95

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

£29.95

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

By Oleg Ermakov

£23.95

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

£35.95

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

£19.95

Special Offers

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

£17.95 £12.57

By Svetlana Furlong

£15.99 £12.79

By Nadezda Bragina

£17.95 £12.57

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

£7.10 £4.97

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

By V Korovin

£36.95 £25.87

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

£20.75 £14.53

By Andrei Bogomolov, Marita Nummikoski

£24.00 £16.80

By N.A. Kostyuk

£17.95 £12.57

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

£24.50 £17.15

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

£32.75 £22.93

By Slava Zaitsev, David Anderson

£8.00 £5.60

By Vladimir Kovalenko, Véronique Jouan-Lafont

£20.50 £14.35

By E. Korchagina

£20.75 £14.53

By E. Korchagina

£20.75 £14.53

By E. Korchagina

£10.75 £7.53

By E. Korchagina

£10.75 £7.53

By I V Odintsova

£24.50 £17.15

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

By Ju. Kumbasheva

£19.50 £13.65

By L Bulgakova, V Krasnykh, I Zakharenko

£19.50 £13.65

Orthodox cuisine for feast days and holidays.

By Vladimir Khlebnikov

£5.90 £4.13

By Vladimir Khlebnikov

£5.90 £4.13

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

By G P Shcherbo

£8.85 £6.20

By James Dashner

£11.50 £8.05

By Sergei Lukyanenko

£14.95 £10.47

By Galina Shcherbakova

£5.30 £3.71

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

By F Scott Fitzgerald

£9.00 £6.30

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

By Nikolai Leskov

£7.90 £5.53

By Larissa Miller, Richard McKane

£10.65 £7.46

By E. Korchagina

£28.50 £19.95

By E. L. Korchagina

£30.95 £21.67

By E. L. Korchagina

£28.50 £19.95

By I P Lysakova

£20.75 £14.53

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

£17.50 £12.25

By Alina Znamenskaia

£12.95 £9.07

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

£19.75 £13.83

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

£14.95 £10.47

By Svetlana Alexievich

£17.95 £12.57

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

£24.95 £17.47

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

£14.50 £10.15

By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

£5.75

By John Grisham

£12.50 £8.75

'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

£7.65 £5.36

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

£21.95 £15.37

By Larissa Miller

£11.95 £8.37

By Ekaterina Chudnovskaya

£8.70 £6.09

"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

£5.95 £4.17

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

£11.95 £8.37

By Darcey Bell

£13.95 £9.77

By Edgar Rice Burroughs

£13.95 £9.77

By Elena Ferrante

£16.50 £11.55

By Alice Munro

£13.95 £9.77

£16.75 £15.08

Classics and Modern Classics

Checkhov's The Cherry Orchard.

By Anton Chekhov

£8.10

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

£7.90

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

By Fyodor M Dostoevsky

£9.95

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

By A S Pushkin

£11.75

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

By Vadim Levental

£11.95

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

By Nikolai Leskov

£7.90 £5.53

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

By Nikolai Gogol

£8.35

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

£8.85

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

£11.95

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

£7.70

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

£17.95

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

By Mikhail Bulgakov

£7.65 £5.36

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

£18.75

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

£18.95

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

In this next Chronicle, Shasta is on the run from his homeland with Bree, the talking horse.

By C S Lewis

£15.95

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

£15.95

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

£10.95

The perfect introduction to the grimly hysterical world of writer Charles Bukowski.

By Charles Bukowski

£12.95

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?

£15.95

The Paper Dolls.

£13.50

Jack and the Flumflum Tree.

£13.50

The Gruffalo!

£13.95

The Snail and the Whale.

£14.95

The Flying Bath

£15.50

Postman Bear.

£18.95

The Giant Jumperee.

£15.50

Cave Baby.

£14.50

The Scarecrow's Wedding.

£15.50

The Magic Paintbrush.

£12.95

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

£12.95

Zog and the Flying Doctors.

£12.95

£16.75 £15.08

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.

£24.95

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

£18.50

The Twits

£18.95

The Witches

£24.50

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.

£16.95

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.

£9.65

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

£7.90

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

£19.50

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

£10.95

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

£20.50

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

£5.95 £4.17

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

£11.95

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

£6.50

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

£11.95

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

£5.95

Bestselling Translated Literature for Children

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

£15.95

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.

£15.50

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

£14.50

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

£11.75

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

£15.95

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

£16.50

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

£12.95

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

£22.95

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!

£10.95

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