The Russia House Rachel Rhys 'Blazes with searing scholarship' -

'Blazes with searing scholarship' - THE TIMES

But who is this woman

running away from Oxford University aged eighteen

Septimus is trying to fight the strange pull he's feeling to the island and its mysterious secrets

The Russia House Rachel Rhys 'Blazes with searing scholarship' -Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small time publisher, a self destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high ranking Soviet scientist who could be the greatest asset to the West since perestroika began, and made a promise. Nearly a year later, his drunken promise returns to haunt him. A reluctant Barley is quickly