The Siberians

<p>1917 - Russia is at war against the Central Powers the Tsar has abdicated and Russia is being governed by a shaky coalition of political interests.</p><p>In the cities starving people are queuing for food. There are strikes and protests and soldiers are starting to mutiny and desert.</p><p>Pavel Sukhov is a prosperous merchant in Barnaul a town in southern Siberia. He and his wife Maria their three daughters and a young son try to distance themselves from the political unrest gripping the nation.</p><p>But now Barnaul is about to install its first Soviet committee. Soon after the town is engulfed in a catastrophic fire.</p><p>In Petrograd (St. Petersburg) the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace and inexorably Russia slides into a devastating civil war. The Sukhov's world will be overturned. They will be forced to fight for their very survival.</p><p>'The Siberians: Fire on the Ice' is Simon Carey's brilliant debut novel the first in a series of four books. An extraordinary true story based on factual events about a real family as re-imagined through their own eyes.</p>