The 2021 Man Booker Prize-winning novel. A story of indignation, renewal and hope. 1986. The head of the Swart family promises his dying wife that their maid...

In the year of the Poltava victory of Russia (1709), King Frederick IV of Denmark sent the naval commander of the Danish Service, Just Juhl, to Peter I as hi...

The novel by one of the greatest Finnish writers, V. Linna, is the most outstanding anti-war work of Finnish literature. Everything about this novel was unus...

The career of the brilliant satirist Christopher Buckley developed rapidly: at twenty-four he was already the managing editor of Esquire magazine, at twenty-...

The Anthology includes previously untranslated essays and documentary prose by famous English writers of the 16th–20th centuries. The book opens with essays ...

The waves of the ocean bring a mysterious young man to the shore... He does not remember who he is or where he comes from, but soon discovers unique abilitie...

Italy, 1516. Young pickpocket Mercurio and his gang operate in the narrow streets of the Eternal City. But one day their luck changes, and Mercurio and Bened...

Before the eyes of little Gabriel, his parents were shot. Authorities charged the boy with murder. All he could do was forget the past and start life from sc...

Middle Ages. In search of a better life, the Gunnora family went to Normandy. But as soon as the settlers set foot on the shore, they were attacked by a hord...