Happy New Year! Happy New Year to Dark Shadows Readers! We would like to wish all readers of Dark Shadows a very happy 2020! Dark Shadows, published by Bloomsbury-owned I.B. Tauris, has had a great year. It began with author Joanna Lillis’s successful North American book tour in early 2019, following the launch of Dark Shadows in the UK in late 2018, and continued with some great reviews of Dark Shadows in the international press. Check out the Spectator review by Peter Frankopan, historian and best-selling author of The Silk Roads and The New Silk Roads, who describes Dark Shadows as “astute, refreshing and revelatory”, the rave review in the Times Literary Supplement (subscribers only), and the write-up in Literary Review, which found that author Joanna Lillis “refreshes our knowledge of important events in Kazakhstan’s history” and “provides a vivid, interview-led report of Kazakhstan’s stunted human rights record”. The first edition has sold out and we are now into our se
Dark Shadows is a compelling portrait of Kazakhstan, a country that is little known in the West, written by Joanna Lillis, a Kazakhstan-based journalist reporting on Central Asia. She has lived in Kazakhstan since 2005 and her work has featured in the Guardian, The Economist and the Eurasianet website.