I read many, many books in researching The Kirilov Star. Here are some of them:
Beevor, Antony, Stalingrad (Viking, 1998)
— The Mystery of Olga Chekhova (Penguin Books, 2005)
Braithwaite, Rodric, Moscow: 1941, A City and Its People at War (Alfred A. Knopf, 2006)
— Across the Moscow River: The World Turned Upside Down (Yale University Press, 2002)
Buber-Neumann, Margarete, Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler (Pimlico, 2008)
Dimbleby, Jonathan,Russia: A Journey to the Heart of a Land and Its People (BBC Books, 2008)
Erickson, Ljubica and Erickson, Mark (eds.), Russia: War, Peace and Diplomacy – Essays in Honour of John Erickson (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005)
Figes, Orlando, Peasant Russia, Civil War: The Volga Countryside in Revolution 1917–1921 (Phoenix Press, 2001)
— The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia (Allen Lane, 2007)
Hughes, Michael, Inside the Enigma – British Officials in Russia 1900–1939 (Hambledon Press, 1997)
Klier, John and Mingay, Helen, The Quest for Anastasia: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Romanovs (Smith Gryphon, 1995)
Matthews, Owen, Stalin’s Children: Three Generations of Love and War (Bloomsbury, 2008)
Pares, Bernard, The Fall of the Russian Monarchy (Phoenix Press, 2001)
Thomas, D.M.Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life (St Martin’s Press, 1998)
Steinberg, Mark D., Voices of Revolution, 1917 (Yale University Press, 2002)
Zinovieff, Sofka, Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life (Granta Books, 2007)
Helen Dunmore, The Siege (Penguin, 2002)
— The Betrayal (Penguin, 2010)
Alexander Mollin, Lara’s Child (Doubleday, 1994)
Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago, trans. Max Hayward and Manya Harari (Collins & Harvill, 1958)