Catherine Merridale, the award-winning writer and historian. Catherine is known for her acclaimed and pioneering books on Russian history. She is currently writing a series of historical crime novels. Moscow Underground, which introduces Investigator Anton Belkin, is published by Fontana in August 2025.
Catherine's non-fiction writing draws on twenty years of conversations and interviews in Russia and Ukraine, as well as on rare and original archival work. Her most recent books, both published by Allen Lane, include Lenin on the Train and Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History, which won the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize and the Wolfson History Prize in 2014. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages and previous books have been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and have also won the Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Prize. She is a Fellow of the British Academy.
