£8.99
A Red Lion Books and Appetite Book Club, book choice for 2022
Revolutionary, poet, lover. Robber, murderer, spy. May 1907 and a young Stalin is in London for a conference of Russian communists.
With Lenin, Trotsky, and Rosa Luxemburg among others he battles to keep the party radical while dodging the attentions of the Czar’s secret police. He also finds himself drawn to a fiery Finnish activist, Elli Vuokko, beginning a relationship that is as dangerous as it is complicated.
‘The spry, sardonic voice of the new Historical Fiction’. Hilary Mantel
‘A fascinating and immersive imagining of real events’ Benjamin Myers