The latest book by Kate Furnivall

The Concubine's Secret (UK title)

The Girl From Junchow (US title)

published by Little,Brown/Sphere in UK 2009.

published by Berkley Publishing Group in USA.

The Concubine's Secret/ The Girl From Junchow

is a story of love and danger set in Russia 1929.

Lydia Ivanova believed her father was killed by the Bolsheviks. But when she learns he is a captive in Stalin’s Russia, the fiery girl leaves everything behind – even her Chinese lover, Chang An Lo – to find him. With her half brother Alexei, she begins a dangerous search. She becomes entangled with a Soviet officer while Alexei is caught in the underworld of Russian criminals. But Chang An Lo has not forgotten Lydia. He arrives in Moscow but their bonds of love are threatened as Lydia risks everything to contact her father.

Other Books:

Published by Berkley Publishing Group (USA) as:

The Red Scarf

Published by Little,Brown/Sphere (UK) as:

Under a Blood Red Sky

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published in UK in November 2008

The Red Scarf/Under a Blood Red Sky

is a powerful story of love, revenge and redemption.

At its heart is an intense love story. But it is also driven by the powerful bonds of friendship between two young women, Sofia and Anna.

They are imprisoned in Davinsky Labour Camp, Siberia 1933. When Anna falls gravely ill, Sofia makes a promise to escape the camp and find Vasily, Anna’s childhood love. Her perilous search takes her to a remote Urals village where she discovers a web of secrecy and lies, but also bonds of courage and loyalty – and an overwhelming love that threatens her promise to Anna.

As Stalin’s fist squeezes ever tighter, Sofia is tantalisingly close to freedom, family – even a future. All that stands in her way is the secret that could endanger everything ….


The Russian Concubine

Published by Berkley Publishing Group in USA.

"I read it in one sitting! Not only a gripping love story, but a novel which captures the sights, smells, hopes, and desires of Russia at the dawn of the 20th century, and of pre-Revolutionary China, so skillfully that readers will feel they are there." - Kate Mosse, author of Labyrinth

Published by Little,Brown/Sphere in UK.

'THE RUSSIAN CONCUBINE is a great story of love, loss and conflicting loyalties in a fascinatingly precarious moment of history. The wonderfully drawn and all-too-human characters struggle to survive in a world of danger and bewildering change, constantly choosing whether to embrace the past or to escape it, caught between cultures, ideologies - and the growing realization that only the frail reed of love is strong enough to withstand the destroying winds of time.' - Diana Gabaldon, author of the Outlander series.

The Russian Concubine

is a sweeping epic love-story.
Exiled from Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution, the beautiful and fiery Lydia and her aristocratic mother have taken refuge in Junchow, China, in 1928. On the edge of destitution, Lydia uses her wits to survive and resorts to stealing.

She is saved from certain death by a young Chinese Communist, Chang An Lo, and together they are thrust into clashes with savage triads. Lydia and Chang fall in love and are swept up in a fight against prejudice and shame. Forced to face opium-running, betrayal and kidnap, their compelling attraction to each other is tested to the limits in this story of love and loss, secrets and lies.

Published by Page & Turner in Germany.

Published by Unieboek in the Netherlands.

Published by Mladinska Knjiga Zalozba in Slovenia.