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A Woman Loved by Andrei Makine
Category: Fiction
Filming the life of Catherine the Great in the last dying days of the Soviet empire means keeping an eye on the censors, but there are opportunities nonetheless for hints of dissidence. When Oleg Erdman is dropped from the film he initially scripted - his name summarily excised from the credits - he is ...Show more
Doctor Who: The Essential Guide by Makine Andrei
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Doctor Who
"A new edition of the ultimate and most essential guide to Doctor Who, now updated to include all twelve incarnations of the Doctor and covering all his newest adventures from Series 8 and 9. With fascinating facts from all of space and time, as well as information on the Doctor's helpful companions and ...Show more
Le Testament Francais by Andrei Makine
Category: Fiction
On the edge of the Siberian steppes, a young boy grows up listening to his French grandmother's stories of France just before the Great War - a nostalgic portrait of a vanished world, but a bewitching one during the Soviet regime. Gradually the story emerges of his grandmother's subsequent life in Russi ...Show more
The Life of an Unknown Man by Andrei Makine
Category: Fiction
One night in St Petersburg, two men meet, both adrift in the brash new Russia: Shutov, a writer visiting after years of exile in Paris, and Volsky, an elderly survivor of the Siege of Leningrad and Stalin's purges. His life story - one of extreme suffering, courage and an extraordinary love - he conside ...Show more
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