This is an unusual self-study guide written by Boris Akunin. You'll find engaging theory, challenging but very interesting assignments, and, of course, examples of how to complete them. This is a ten-lesson master class in creative writing, and simultaneously a collection of captivating short stories and historical and literary essays. If you've long wanted to try your hand at fiction, you're unlikely to find a more engaging and useful learning aid. Study, follow the author's advice, and you won't be long in seeing the results.

'This book is truly unusual. In form, it's a textbook—or rather, a self-study guide—for beginning writers. But anyone who doesn't want to study can simply read 'A Russian in England' as a collection of essays and short stories.'

This book will captivate you and keep you engaged until the last page, even if you're far from aspiring to be a writer, because it offers encounters with both familiar and completely unknown historical figures from different countries and eras. Before your eyes, like intricate patterns in a kaleidoscope, colorful pictures of real events that change the fate of the world will emerge from small details.

You will be completely immersed in the internal and external affairs of England and Russia over the past few centuries, learning a wide variety of facts—dramatic, funny, tragic, and simply incredible, but always important. Thanks to this book, you will be able to navigate Russian and world history even better, and, perhaps for the first time in your life, history as a field of knowledge will seriously captivate you.

Author: Boris Akunin
Publishing House: Alpina
Year: 2022
Number of pages: 376
Cover type: hardback