Dark Shadows

Joanna Lillis, the author of the best-selling Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan , will be embarking of a tour of the USA following the book's North American publication on 30 January. Dark Shadows spotted at Niagara Falls, Canadian side. The tour begins in Tucson, Arizona on February 4, when Joanna Lillis will address students from the University of Arizona on Building a Career in Journalism Abroad at 12.00pm in the UA book store. The tour arrives in Washington DC on February 6. On that day, the author will be addressing the RAND Corporation  (this is a private event) . On February 7, Joanna Lillis will be  speaking at an event hosted by George Washington University's Central Asia Program, where she will present  Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan . It will be held in the  Voesar Conference Room, Suite 412 and it starts at 4.00pm (this event is open to all).  On February 8, she will be speaking at a round table on...

Kazakhstan's troubled 20th century history was in the spotlight when Joanna Lillis, author of Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan, was interviewed for Nick Shepley's excellent Explaining History  podcast. Click here to tune into the podcast.

Tune in to Talk Radio Europe on Monday, 10 December to hear Joanna Lillis, author of Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan, interviewed on Let's Talk with Giles Brown. Joanna will be live on air at 10.30 GMT (16.30 Almaty Time) to talk about her book and life in Kazakhstan.

This December's copy of History Today features an article, Kazakhstan's Bloody December , by Joanna Lillis, author of Dark Shadows:Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan, that looks back at 1986's Zheltoksan (December in Kazakh) demonstrations in what was then Alma-Ata (present-day Almaty) in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (now Kazakhstan). The article takes an in-depth look at the events that shook the Soviet Union three decades ago. The anniversary of the demonstrations is on 16 December, which symbolically became Kazakhstan's independence day from the Soviet Union, which it left in 1991. To read more about this topic, dig into your copy of Dark Shadows.

The Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan roadshow moves on to the University of Oxford tomorrow, 28 November, with the author Joanna Lillis giving a talk about her book at New College in lecture room 4 from 17.00 to 18.30. The talk has been organised by  The Oxford Seminar for the Caucasus and Central Asia (TOSCCA) and Oxford Brookes University and  will bring together  Edmund Herzig (Soudavar Professor of Persian Studies, University of Oxford),  Dr.  Saïpira Fürstenberg  (Lecturer in Politics, Oxford Brookes University), Dr.  Alexander Morrison  (Fellow & Tutor in History, University of Oxford) and   Sofya Omarova  (Marie Curie fellow, Oxford Brookes University) to  discuss  Dark Shadows. If you're in Oxford, we hope to see you there!

Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan by Joanna Lillis was launched with great fanfare in London on Thursday, 22 November. We'd like to say a big thank you to John Sandoe  for hosting the event in their wonderful book shop. The shop was packed with family, old friends and new friends from near and far - thank you all so much for taking the time to come and celebrate the launch. I hope you all had a good a time, as we did! Here are some images of the event taken by Aigerim Toleukhan,  a photographer and journalist from Kazakhstan.

Ahead of tonight's London launch of Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan, author Joanna Lillis rode into town on her camel in order to sign some copies at the flagship Charing Cross road branch of Foyles. Joanna Lillis signing copies of Dark Shadows in Foyles, London. Don't forget, the launch is tonight, 22 November, at John Sandoe Books from 18.30-20.30. Come along and get your very own signed copy - hope to see you there!