Modern prose

The Red Book of Tales of the Cat Murlyka (Translation: T. Vorsanova, I. Istratova, N. Mavlevich, I. Kuznetsova) The Blue Book of Tales of the Cat Murlyka (Tr...

The novel by the world famous English master of satire and “black utopia”, dating back to the Cold War, has a clear political overtones and is an elegant sty...

Contents:1. The Mystery of the Murom Thicket2. Holidays Umorushki3. Almost a trip around the world4. Hunters of miserables

At thirteen, Felice Muir ranaway from home to punish herself for some horrible thing she had done leaving ahole in the hearts of her pastry-chef mother, h...

Contents:1. Princely youth2. Under specific authority3. Tsar's confessor

The stories in Black Vodka, by acclaimed author Deborah Levy, are perfectly formed worlds unto themselves, written in elegant yet economical prose. She is...

Sixteen-year-old Martha chooses between a successful mother and a freedom-loving, disinterested father with an eccentric grandmother. Martha is not going to ...

Lithium for Medea is a tale of addiction: to drugs, physical love, and dysfunctional family chains. It is also a tale of mothers and daughters, their mutu...

She is a shimmering, tattooed, and acerbic angel, flown from Paradise to save him from the suburbs of hell. He, an accountant worn down by the day-to-day ...

A darkly comic debut novel about advertising, truth, single malt, Scottish hospitality — or lack thereof — and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.Ray We...

The events described in this book occurred at different times, in different places, with people unlike each other. But a special “theme” unites these differe...