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A book so full of steel and compassion that it stands glitteringly apart' Rachel Cusk'A piercingly evocative East-West love story' The Times'Atmospheric and gloriously vivid' Guardian____________________Two worlds on the brink of change in a love story doomed to disasterMilena is a Red Princess living in a Soviet Satellite state in the 1980s. She enjoys limitless luxury and limited freedom, the end of the Cold War seems unimaginable.When she m...

A book so full of steel and compassion that it stands glitteringly apart' Rachel CuskMilena is a Red Princess living in a Soviet Satellite state in the 1980s.

The London winter of 1947 is as cold as St Petersburg during the Revolution. Albertine, the wife of a British army officer often abroad on covert government business, finds herself increasingly lonely. Eager to distract herself with work, she takes a job as companion to the mysterious 'Monsieur Ka', a Russian émigré. As she is drawn into Ka's dramatic past, her own life is shaken to its foundations. For in this family of former princes, there ...

First published in 1998, Inventing Ruritania: The Imperialism of the Imagination achieved a rare combination of critical success, broad readership and enduring academic influence. It is now recognised as a key contribution to the study of Balkan and European identity. In this first paperback edition, Inventing Ruritania is just as topical in the context of Europe's current turmoil as it was when it first appeared. Vesna Goldsworthy explores th...

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A new edition of the bestselling memoir which was first published in 2005. Goldsworthy tells the story of herself, her family and her early life in Yugoslavia, before she left in 1986. With a new introduction by the author.

London dances to the tune of Gorsky's billions. The most enigmatic of oligarchs, Gorsky has been led to the city by his love for Natalia, whom he first knew in Russia. That she is now married to an Englishman is an inconvenient detail. Gorsky desires and gets the best of everything.

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Exceptional. If there has been a more honest, calm, and profoundly moving memoir written in the last few years, then I've missed it."-Times Literary Supplement

Era uno di quegli affari che capitano una volta nella vita, se si è fortunati." Per Nicholas, giovane libraio di Chelsea, l'affare si chiama Roman Gorsky: il miliardario russo più ricco e sfuggente di tutta Londra. Gorsky è speciale, i suoi modi sono eleganti con noncuranza, ha fascino, i suoi soldi non gridano, sussurrano, la voce è gentile e non ha bisogno di sfoggiare i simboli del potere. Cosa ci fa Roman Gorsky sulla soglia di una piccola...

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