Offers readers a chance to understand more about Ukraine's remarkable past, examining the crucial moments of Ukrainian and global history of the past 1000 years. In this compelling history, learn how the emergence of medieval states, the discovery of America, the industrial and French revolutions, two world wars, the emergence and collapse of totalitarian regimes, recent middle-class revolutions and the 2022 Russian invasion - are all closely affiliated....

Strange things are happening in the cosmopolitan town of Lviv, western Ukraine. Seagulls are circling and the air smells salty, though Lviv is a long way from the sea. A group of ageing hippies meets at the cemetery in the middle of the night, gathered around a mysterious grave. Among them the ex-KGB officer who means to apologise to all those he spied on; the woman who is allergic to banknotes, and yet works at the money exchange; and Taras, who...

Anne Applebaum's books have explained the history of Russia and Eastern Europe as compellingly as any other historian. Based on a mass of previous untranslated documents and hundreds of testimonies, Anne Applebaum's 'Red Famine' tells the story of the Bolshevik war on Ukraine, from the brief moment of Ukrainian independence in 1917 to Stalin's deliberately engineered famine in 1932-33. That genocide killed nearly five million people, destroyed the...

On the 26th of April 1986, at 1:23am, a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded. While the authorities scrambled to understand what was occurring, workers, engineers, firefighters and those living in the area were abandoned to their fate. The blast put the world on the brink of nuclear annihilation, contaminating over half of Europe with radioactive fallout. In 'Chernobyl', award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy draws...

Western Ukraine, 1930. Luka's village has managed to remain hidden from the advancing Soviet brutality & labour camp deportations. But everything changes when a stranger arrives, pulling a sled bearing the bodies of 2 children. The stranger is lynched, despite Luka's protests. Then the mob leader discovers his daughter has vanished.

When Pasha Ivanov's body is found outside his luxury apartment in Moscow, inspector Arkady Renko refuses to believe that his death is the result of suicide. His investigations lead him to Chernobyl's notorious Zone of Exclusion, where Renko's finds another body - that of Ivanov's former research partner, Lev Timofeyev.

For months, the omens had pointed in one scarcely believable direction: Russia was about to invade Ukraine. And yet, the world was stunned by the epochal scale of the assault that began in February 2022. It was an attempt by one nation to devour another. The Kremlin wanted nothing less than a new world order. 'Invasion' is Luke Harding's gripping chronicle of the war that changed everything.

In 'Zelensky', Steven Derix describes the impressive life story of an actor who played a president on TV before being thrust into the role of real-life wartime leader.

Killed by shrapnel as he served in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Olesya Khromeychuk's brother Volodymyr died on the frontline in eastern Ukraine. As Olesya tries to come to terms with losing her brother, she also tries to process the Russian invasion of Ukraine: as an immigrant living far from the frontline, as a historian of war and how societies respond to them, and as a woman, a civilian, and a sister. In this timely blend of memoir and essay, Olesya...

When Kolya moves into a new flat in Kiev, he finds a book hidden within a volume of 'War and Peace'. Intrigued by the notes that appear on every page, Kolya sets out to find out more about the scribbler. His investigations take him to the coffin of a Ukrainian nationalist who died in mysterious circumstances.