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A selection of books relating to the culture and political history of Ukraine.

With an apt nod to Vasily Grossman in its subtitle, this offbeat memoir doubles as a treatise on the dangers of totalitarianism. From the annexation of Crimea in 2014, when Alyokhina was re... read more

Political Girl: Life and Fate in Russia

Maria Alyokhina

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Kurkov's third war diary - after the invasion and siege of the previous two - is a meditation on conflict as an habitual, everyday reality. Professional clowns take up arms, traditional sold... read more

Three Years On Fire: The Destruction of Ukraine

Andrey Kurkov

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A backwards look at her younger self in the early years of perestroika. Groskop's voice is wry and funny, her memoir of her student days in Russia and Ukraine fresh and zestful: hopes and... read more

One Ukrainian Summer

Viv Groskop

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A backwards look at her younger self in the early years of perestroika. Groskop's voice is wry and funny, her memoir of her student days in Russia and Ukraine fresh and zestful: hopes and... read more

One Ukrainian Summer

Viv Groskop

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A funny, raucous debut novel set in the Ukraine, involving a woman trying to breed snails and 'romance tours' of hopeful bachelors from the west looking for 'untainted' brides as the country... read more

Endling

Maria Reva

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It's 44 years since his Gorky Park, but MCS is still producing sharp, tense poltical thrillers with sinister Russians.

Hotel Ukraine

Martin Cruz Smith

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A poignant memoir by the well-known cook and writer, from her grandmother's deportation under Stalin to Siberia to her parents' flight from Ukraine in 2022.

Strong Roots: A Ukrainian Family Story through War, Exile and Hope ...

Olia Hercules

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A diary of the war in Ukraine by the late novelist, essayist and poet, killed by a missile in 2023.

Looking at Women, Looking at War

Victoria Amelina

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History, memory and identity in the Donbas region, told through many voices.

Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East ...

Victoria Donovan

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A memoir of the author's clandestine explorations through the haunting nuclear wasteland of 'the Zone' that is Chernobyl is both compelling and sinister.

Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of ...

Markiyan Kamysh

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Set in Kyiv in 1919, this is a first foray into historical fiction - and crime - by the well-known author of Death and the Penguin and others.

The Silver Bone

Andrey Kurkov

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This remarkable, devastating unpicking of the past is told through four generations of family upheaval.

The Rooster House: A Ukrainian Family Memoir

Victoria Belim

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A memoir of her multifarious travels, rich with culinary ideas - Russian railway pies, Sultanahmet in the snow, Polish cloudberries... Eden's latest book is imbued with her knowledge and lov... read more

Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Journeys

Caroline Eden

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Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine ...

Anna Reid

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The President’s Last Love

Andrey Kurkov

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Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know (R)

Serhy Yekelchyk

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Lucky Breaks

Yevgenia Belorusets

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Home Food: Recipes to Comfort and Connect

Olia Hercules

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Set in Kyiv in 1919, this is a first foray into historical fiction - and crime - by the well-known author of Death and the Penguin and others.

The Silver Bone: The Kyiv Mysteries

Andrey Kurkov

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350 years of Russo-Ukrainian relations: a disentangling of myths.

War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resi ...

Mikhail Zygar

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This remarkable, devastating unpicking of the past is told through four generations of family upheaval.

The Rooster House: A Ukrainian Family Memoir

Victoria Belim

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A Ukrainian girl escapes the Holocaust and makes her way playing the piano. For ages 10-13.

Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis

Susan Hood

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The author is Anatoly Kuznetsov, who grew up in Kiev. He documented as a boy the appalling massacre of Jews, Ukrainians and Russians by Nazi forces in 1941. First published in Russian (in a ... read more

Babi Yar: The Story of Ukraine’s Holocaust

A Anatoli

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The town is Krakowiec, forty miles from Lviv. In a powerful combination of memoir, family history and scholarship, Wasserstein creates a lens through which the particular becomes exemplar.

A Small Town in Ukraine: the Place We Came From, the Place We Came Bac ...

Bernard Wasserstein

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Black comedy from the fine Ukrainian novelist, author of Death and the Penguin, Grey Bees and others.

Jimi Hendrix Live In Lviv

Andrei Kurkov

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Already known to many as the author of the superb black comedy Death and the Penguin and others, Kurkov - a Russian-born Ukrainian - has recently been a tireless commentator on the Russian i... read more

Diary of an Invasion: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine ...

Andrey Kurkov

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In the period 1917-1921, between 100,000 and 250,000 Jews were murdered across Ukraine. Brahin, a genealogist, traces her grandmother's family history through multiple sources.

Tears Over Russia: A Search for Family and the Legacy of Ukraine’ ...

Lisa Brahin

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Reportage by the courageous foreign correspondent, a former Moscow bureau chief for the Guardian before his expulsion from Russia in 2011, and author of Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and Russ... read more

Invasion: Russia’s Bloody War and Ukraine’s Fight for Surv ...

Luke Harding

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Ukrainian writing has flourished since the end of Soviet rule. This is an illuminating anthology.

Writing from Ukraine: Fiction, Poetry and Essays since 1965 ...

Mark Andryczyk

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A new selection of Babel's stories that vividly portray the rough and tumble of life in Odessa and its surroundings.

Of Sunshine and Bedbugs: Essential Stories

Isaac Babel

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The Story of a Life: Volumes 1-3

Konstantin Paustovsky

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The brilliant Ukrainian novelist who gave us 'Death and the Penguin' and 'The Bickford Fuse' has turned now to a bee-keeper in no-man's land to reflect the conflicts in his country.

Grey Bees

Andrey Kurkov

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A 'summer kitchen' is a cooking space in the vegetable garden, typically Ukrainian. Fresh ingredients, lots of pickling, and beautifully told. Another gem from OH.

Summer Kitchens: Recipes and Reminiscences from Every Corner of Ukrain ...

Olia Hercules

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I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: My family, the Holocaust an ...

Esther Safran Foer

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Among the Russians: From the Baltic to the Caucasus ...

Colin Thubron

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Everything is Illuminated

Jonathan Safran Foer

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