My book group recently read this classic by George Orwell. The reading of Animal Farm plunged me back to senior school. My English Lit ...

I have a number of historical eras that I seem to be drawn to when it comes to books. Among those are books set in the medieval era, World...

Today we are pleased to welcome Susan Sherman to Historical Tapestry. It’s a good thing I love history, because I write historical f...

When we had to come up with our most anticipated read for 2013, it was not a hardship for me. As far back as July last year I knew that my...

There is no logic to why my first two novels are both set in St. Petersburg. My husband says I was Russian in a former life, and that’s as...

Synopsis The critically acclaimed author of The Madonnas of Leningrad ("Elegant and poetic, the rare kind of book that you want t...

After the Russian revolution turns her world topsy-turvy, Anna, a young Russian Countess, has no choice but to flee to England. Penniless, A...

Guest Post by Daphne Kalotay When I began drafting my novel Russian Winter in 2003 or so, I knew I wanted my main protagonist, a Bolshoi ba...

Imperial Highness is set in eighteenth-century imperial Russia and centres around the life of Catherine the Great and her Romanov descendant...

A mysterious jewel holds the key to a life-changing secret, in this breathtaking tale of love and art, betrayal and redemption. When she de...

Though the events are almost a century old, the imprisonment and execution of Tsar Nicholas and his family still hold an aura of mystery tha...

A couple of years ago, I discovered a book called The Russian Concubine by Kate Furnivall, mainly because I really, really liked the cover....

Davinsky Labour Camp, Siberia, 1933: Sofia Morozova knows she has to escape. All that sustains her through the bitter cold, and hard labour ...

Britain, 1854: the Crimean War captures the imagination of young men eager to do battle with the new enemy, Russia, but as winter closes in,...

There are a number of books that I have been waiting for impatiently for the first three months of this year. Most of them have been release...

With the same riveting historical narrative that made The Kitchen Boy a national bestseller, Robert Alexander returns to Russia for the ha...

Whenever Sarah from Reading the Past posts one of her lists of upcoming releases my TBR list inevitably grows, and her recent post was no ...

A love that would not die . . . A city that would not surrender . . . A war that knew no bounds . . . The date is June 21st, 1941, and Adolf...