The events in the new novel by Andriy Kurkov and Yuriy Vynnychuk unfold in three plot sections: the Crusade of 1111, described in the Chronicle of the Knight Olgerd of Halych, the beginning of the Second World War in Lviv and Krakow, and the modern period. Who is the Virgin, and why has she been hunted for several centuries in a row, who is really the black archaeologist Oleg, and most...

Some mysterious documents fall into the hands of the protagonist of Andrei Kurkov's action novel The Good Angel of Death, Mykola Sotnikov. Hiding from people who want to take possession of them, he embarks on a journey to the Caspian Sea. The trip is very risky and dramatically changes the life of the hero.

Moscow, January 2013. Bunin, the Ukrainian President, has joined other heads of state in an open air swimming pool, to celebrate the Fourth Centenary of the Romanov Dynasty. Treading water, and drinking vodka with Putin, he's on top of his game and in fin

The protagonist of the novel 'Picnic on Ice' - journalist Viktor Zolotarev - receives an unusual task from a leading newspaper: to write obituaries about famous influential people who ... are still alive. Gradually, he realizes that he has become a partic

When poor James Henry Trotter loses his parents in a horrible rhinoceros accident, he is forced to live with his two wicked aunts, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker. After three years he becomes the saddest and loneliest boy you could find. Then one day, a wizened old man in a dark-green suit gives James a bag of magic crystals that promise to reverse his misery forever. When James accidentally...

Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrendering to the bourgeois values he despises. His life changes dramatically when he meets a woman who is his opposite, the carefree and elusive Hermine. The tale of the Steppenwolf culminates in the surreal...

Rabbit loves carrots a little too much. In fact, his carrots are crowding him out of his cozy burrow. When his friends offer to help, they're just asking for trouble, a lot of trouble! This charming and lovingly illustrated children's book, by acclaimed author Katy Hudson (A Loud Winter's Nap and Bear and Duck), shows how friendships get us over the rough spots in life, even if the going gets a...

The third book in the Moomin Lands series is a unique new encounter with the cute Moomin family and their many friends. The book includes the stories 'Invisible Child', 'Dad and the Sea', 'At the End of November'.

One morning in December, the long winter sleep of the Moomin family was interrupted. The world outside the walls of the house changed beyond recognition: something white and mysterious covered the entire Moomin Valley, there and there were dreamers and gemuls, hung with gifts and packages with festive snacks and drinks. Everyone was in excited anticipation of something headed for Moomin Valley....