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Black Tea

Shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Christopher Bland Prize 2020

A triumph of art as well as of observation.

Paul Binding, cultural critic and author 


This fascinating autobiographical travelogue is an unblinking self-analysis.

Zinovy Zinik, celebrated Russian author and BBC critic 


Elegiac, evocative and disarmingly candid, Black Tea rattles along like a Russian train. It can be soothingly poetic and then bring you to a standstill with its sharp, searing honesty.

Lucy Ash, BBC Russia Correspondent

Black Tea

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9781910461389

9781910461396

222

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Highly informed with a unique perspective, Steve Morris' Black Tea chronicles the changing face of Russia over his thirty years there. A reflection and a travelogue, Steve hauntingly explores love and identity, commitment and family. 


Black Tea is a book about Russia that starts in London at the height of the Cold War and ends on a beach in Crimea forty years later. It takes elements of the writer's life that were forged into something new during the disruption and breakup of the Soviet Union and its aftermath, to create a different kind of memoir based on reflections, memory, and a narration that starts in England and leads the reader on a journey through Russia from the White Sea to the Caucasus.

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