Q&As

Caroline Eden is a travel writer, food writer and literary critic. She has just published her latest book, Green Mountains: Walking the Caucasus with Recipes, a unique blend of travelogue and cookbook which offers fascinating insights into the food, geography, cultures and histories of Armenia and Georgia. It is the final book in Caroline’s “colour trilogy”, following Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes Through Central Asia (2020) and Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes Through Darkness and Light (2018). We spoke to Caroline about her decade of journeys around the Black Sea, Central Asia and the Caucasus, the inspiration and knowledge you...

Howard Amos is a journalist with a decade’s experience reporting from Russia. He tells us about his new book, Russia Starts Here: a snapshot of today’s Russia through the people and places of the Pskov Region – an overlooked borderland where Russia borders NATO and the EU.

Alissa Timoshkina, a London-based food writer and historian, tells us about her new cookbook Kapusta, which explores the diverse culinary cultures of Eastern Europe. She will join Marina Sapritsky-Nahum and Nadia Ragozhina on 26 February to explore food, language, and Jewish heritage and identity.

Anna Arutunyan, a journalist and analyst, and Mark Galeotti, a specialist on the Russian military and security services, tell us about their recommended reads for business and pleasure and their new book Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin, and the New Fight for the Future of Russia which they will be discussing at Pushkin House on 22 October. What are your top five recommended books? Mark: Gosh, an impossible ask; apart from the fact that they change from day to day, there are books that enlighten, books that entertain, books that uplift. Arbitrarily picking from the best of the bunch… W. Bruce Lincoln’s Nicholas I for its combination of...

Dr Carol Adlam is Associate Professor in the Nottingham School of Art & Design. She formerly worked as a university lecturer specialising in Russian literature and art, before embarking on a second career as an award-winning artist and illustrator.  Carol will be presenting her latest book, The Russian Detective, a graphic novel adaptation of a bestselling 19th-century crime novel, at Pushkin House on 21 June. In the lead-up to her event Carol has told us about the story behind her book, as well as sharing her favourite books, literary inspirations and more. What are your top five recommended books? Currently, JG Farrell, The Siege...