A naked beauty steps out the window of an elite high-rise in central Moscow, wearing all her priceless diamonds... But she's a promising figure skater, a contender for world championship medals, the heiress to millions, a woman without any problems! The investigation suspects it's not suicide, but is having trouble classifying the case, as it seems utterly improbable. They have to start with...

‘You are not respectful enough to your king,’ he said hoarsely, looming over me, ‘and you deserve punishment.’ I ran away from my home to be with my lover. And he lost me at dice. This was the price I paid for my recklessness, a cruel lesson. In a world where lust and passion are the source of power, I became a bargaining chip. There is no justice here, only law, which tries to protect...

After a brutal attack, Polina can't leave her home—fear and trauma have turned her life into a prison. Her only support in life is her husband, Vlad, who saved her that day and now surrounds her with care and love. But one day, Polina's friend is found murdered: the perpetrator's signature matches her own attack down to the last detail. Vlad urges Polina to remain silent, so as not to...

Ostap Bender, the ‘grand strategist,’ is a con man on the make in the Soviet Union during the New Economic Policy (NEP) period. He's obsessed with getting one last big score?a few hundred thousand will do, and heading for Rio de Janeiro, where there are ‘a million and a half people, all of them wearing white pants, without exception.’ When Bender hears the story of Alexandr Koreiko, an...

Reading these poems and looking at these photographs, it feels like you've seen it all somewhere else. A small town no one dreams of visiting, with a train station and a bus stop. A fellow traveler with a bag of London bags packed by his wife. An apartment rental ad: a TV always by the window, a sofa, two armchairs against the wall. Little things that never seem important, but only they can...

The main character, Adam Tsisowski, is seventeen. He was nicknamed the Devil not for his bad behavior, but for the fact that he knows how to solve very complex, seemingly unsolvable problems. And he is not a devil at all, but a sincere, honest, responsible and brave guy. The events – mysterious, adventurous, detective – begin in Warsaw, and then move to a noble estate near Vilnius. Adas and...

What would happen if an ordinary girl were to be made the daughter of a pirate captain, and then thrown into a storm off the coast of a distant southern country, landed on a deserted island and sent to search for her father? And given two aliens as assistants, one of whom is a cat, and the other is a whale (although not quite)?

In seven days, Jet Mason will be dead. Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old and back home, she’s still waiting for her life to begin. I’ll do it later, she always says. She has time. Until Halloween night, when she is violently attacked by an unseen intruder, suffering a catastrophic head injury. Doctors are certain that within a...

Imagine is a new collection of poems, featuring texts written between 2017 and 2024.

Олена Пчілка насправді Ольга Драгоманова-Косач. Вона мати не лише Лесі Українки, а ще п’ятьох дітей. Ба більше, вона ще й етнографка, редакторка, громадська діячка, вихователька, партнерка, а також дружина, свекруха, теща, бабуся... З цього й починається її маскарад. Збірка «Маскарад» — це ціла галерея персонажок, які шукають себе, навчаються, подорожують, працюють, кохають, виховують дітей....