At the dawn of the 30s, a young businessman buys a new house and occupies one of the apartments. Others are inhabited by an officer, a beautiful artist, two ...

The English novelist who published his works under the pseudonym Henry Sutton Merriman was actually named Hugh Stowell Scott (1862–1903). He worked as an age...

There is hardly another source in the world that reveals so many secret pages of existence as can be found in this book. The world-famous bestseller by H. P....

This 1988 diary of a middle-class Russian woman, ending with a trip to New York City from which, apparently, she did not return home, is an unmitigated bo...

The book by the French researcher Françoise Decroisette, based on broad historical material, recreates the social and cultural life of the Venetian Republic ...

In 2014, the New York Times published a story about the unusual friendship between the boy Gus and Siri, Apple’s voice assistant. The support and interest of...

This book tells about the Jewish ghetto created by the Nazis in the Polish city of Lodz, about Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, who headed the Judenrat, the body o...

Imagine a small European town. Some even consider it tiny. But still, whatever it is, the European capital. Life in the town is in full swing. The city owes ...

An action-packed novel set in the 1970s and continuing into the present day. Brother and sister are very similar and at the same time so different... What ca...

Elena Usacheva is a famous writer, author of more than forty books for children and teenagers, laureate of the S. Mikhalkov Literary Prize. This mystical boo...

The new book by English art historian and art critic Martin Gayford (b. 1952), author of collections of interviews with David Hockney and Lucian Freud, studi...

We are accustomed to the fact that home is the safest place in the world. We are sure that its walls will save you from all adversity and give you a feeling ...