The family saga in the short stories ‘Almost never the other way around’ by the prominent Ukrainian writer Maria Mathios is not inferior to her famous ‘Sweet Darusa’ in terms of skill of writing and depth of presentation. ‘It is not time that counts, but a person in the circumstances of time’ - the writer reveals this thesis through the dramatic history of several Hutsul families during the...

The book by Natalka Bilotserkivets, one of the most important contemporary Ukrainian poets, includes poems from all her collections: ‘Ballad of the Unconquered’ (1976), ‘In the Country of My Heart’ (1979), ‘Underground Fire’ (1984), ‘November’ ( 1989), ‘Allergy’ (1999), ‘Central Hotel’ (2004). This is the author's most complete selection to date.

It is difficult to find something as funny, talented and witty in our literature as this outstanding book by Vsevolod Nestaik, who is often called the Gogol of modern Ukrainian children's literature. It is not for nothing that 'Toreadors from Vasyukivka' has been translated into twenty languages and is included in Andersen's Especially Honorable List as one of the greatest works of world...

The 1930s, the times of Stalinist repressions. A young man sentenced to 25 years for love of his homeland escapes from the stage echelon of the NKVD, which transports exhausted and desperate people to a slow death in the Gulag camps. A townsman, an aircraft design engineer, finds himself in a forest thicket teeming with predators, without a map, weapons, tools, warm clothes or even food.

Ivan Drach (1936-2018) is a recognized leader of the sixties, who, with the inspiration of a juggler, twisted into one poetic orbit the golden bulb, and the theory of relativity, and synchrofazotrons wailing like lions, and washed pants, and the Communist Party, and a touching old lady, and Lenin's fanfare, and the lost cinematogram, and Chernobyl, and Rukh, and spirit, and Stanley Kunitz, who...

Гадаєте, маленьких читачів можна зацікавити лише пізнавальними книжками про комах і птахів, про життя в минулі геологічні епохи або про космічні дива? Леся Мовчун розповідає про мову так захопливо, що діти неодмінно захочуть дочитати книжку до кінця!

Дракони, яких виростила супергеройська команда Томаса та його друзів, подорослішали і відтепер мешкають на холодній Півночі, тож дітлахам не часто випадає нагода з ними побавитися і політати. Утім, клопотів у Томаса все одно предостатньо!

Це книга віршів, які захопили чисельних читачів по всьому світу. Ці вірші не лише проникають у душу, а й продирають нутро. Вони залишають наскрізні отвори у свідомості, крізь які прозирає та реальність, від якої хочеться затулитися долонями.

Василь Симоненко (1935–1963) — поетична легенда «шістдесятництва» як суспільно-мистецького руху. Його вірші не пропускала до друку радянська цензура, тому їх поширювали у самвидавних списках і переписували від руки — вчителі, професори і хлібороби

Celaena Sardothien won a brutal contest to become the King's Champion. But she is far from loyal to the crown. Though she goes to great lengths to hide her secret, her deadly charade becomes more difficult when she realizes she is not the only one seeking justice. Her search for answers ensnares those closest to her, and no one is safe from suspicion-not the Crown Prince Dorian; not Chaol, the...

In a land without magic, an assassin is summoned to the castle. She has no love for the vicious king who rules from his throne of glass, but she has not come to kill him. She has come to win her freedom. If she defeats twenty-three murderers, thieves, and warriors in a competition, she will be released from prison to serve as the King's Champion.