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...

It's the first winter after the Monster Apocalypse. For Jack and his buddies, that means sled catapults, epic snowball battles, and one monstrous Christmas celebration. But their winter wonderland turns dark when a villainess begins hunting them. And this villainess is different-she's a human. When the villainess steals Jack's prized monster-slaying tool, the Louisville Slicer, he vows to get...

This book is about the bitter and funny world of people who live without noticing time. People who are not afraid to fly and know how to find something funny even in the tragic. A world of old people and children, adults and those who have lost their faith, but have not despaired. The world of people who are forever stuck in that dimension where dreams will come true someday.

A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the continent, rising floodwaters have obliterated America's great coastal cities and then its heartland, leaving nothing but an archipelago of

You've lost your daughter. She's addicted to drugs and to an abusive boyfriend. And she's made it clear that she doesn't want to be found. Then, by chance, you see her playing guitar in Central Park. But she's not the girl you remember. This woman is livi

Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love-all forgotten overnight. And the one person you trust may be telling you only half the story. Welcome to Christine's

They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of in Sierra Leone, town squares in Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms in Indiana. They're everywhere. They're here. They're us. They're not pets, or ghosts, or robots. They're rea

Laurent Gounel is one of the five most popular fiction writers in France. His new book is called The Day I Learned to Live. Imagine that one fine day a gypsy, looking at your palm, becomes frightenedly silent. And only after persistent requests do you get

No man is impervious to the poisons of the crown. Having murdered his wife and exiled his mistress, King Louis X of France becomes besotted with Princess Clemence of Hungary and makes her his new Queen. However, though the matter of the succession should

Voyager 1 was a message in a bottle. Our way of letting the galaxy know we existed. That we were out here if anyone wanted to find us. Over the next forty years, the probe flew past Jupiter and Saturn before it drifted into the void, swallowed up by a sil

The history of Italy in the last thirty years through the prism of friendship between two Neapolitan boys. Historical, educational, social novel. Massimiliano Virgilio The action of the novel by the Italian writer and journalist Massimiliano Virgilio 'Ame

A magical adventure to delight the imagination. A curl-up-on-the-sofa snuggle of a debut from a uniquely talented author.Eleven year-old Tilly has lived above her grandparents bookshop ever since her mother disappeared shortly after she was born. Like the rest of her family, Tilly loves nothing more than to escape into the pages of her favourite stories.One day Tilly realises that classic...