Editions:
UK: Doubleday
Ireland: Doubleday
Australia/NZ: Random House
Catalan: Editorial Empuries
Holland: Arena
Spain: Salamandra
E-Book: Available On-Line
UK Audio: Isis
UK Large Print: BBC Books
Forthcoming Editions:
Brazil: Companhia das Letras
Canada: Doubleday Canada
China: Tianjin Huawentianxia
Germany: Arche-Atrium
Italy: Rizzoli
Poland: Swiat Ksiazki
Serbia: Alnari
Switzerland: Arche-Atrium
Taiwan: Crown
Turkey: Dogem
Seventh Novel: First Published May 2009
Eighty year old Georgy Jachmenev is haunted by his
past - a past of death, suffering and scandal that will stay with
him until the end of his days. Living in England with his beloved
wife Zoya, Georgy prepares to make one final journey back to the
Russia he once knew and loved, the Russia that both destroyed and
defined him.
As Georgy remembers days gone by, we are
transported to St Petersburg in the early 20th century, to the
Winter Palace of the Tsar. A time of change, threat and bloody
revolution.
And as Georgy overturns the most painful stone of
all, we uncover the story of the house of special purpose.







