Alexander McCall Smith is the author of a series of novels about Mma Ramotswe and her detective agency, about a shrewd and charming woman who dreams of “help...

Emperor Paul I in his youth experienced a palace coup and the mysterious death of his own father, the overthrown Peter III. For many years, the Tsarevich tri...

Thousands of years ago, in the greatest city of the world, Babylon, crowded markets were noisy, the Tower of Babel stretched to the sky, the Hanging Gardens ...

This book is a manifesto of urbanization, which has subjugated both the funky business and karaoke capitalism. Very soon, two-thirds of the Earth's populatio...

In a small town, young girls and pretty women began to disappear. The city authorities are not taking any measures to find them. A young journalist begins an...

A new biography of one of the most authoritative people in the history of the last 500 years. Martin Luther left a bright mark on history and forever changed...

An easy, entertaining novel to read, telling the story of the love story of the wayward beauty Elizabeth and the cold-blooded, courageous Richard, forced int...

London at the beginning of the 20th century. Lawyer Jim Steil is outraged! A huge fortune could fall into the hands of the scoundrel Digby Grout, leaving the...

Uruguayan prose writer Juan Carlos Onetti (1908–1994) is one of the greatest writers of the 20th century; he is often called the “singer of loneliness.” H.-K...

A talented 17th-century craftsman from the German city of Nuremberg made an amazing mechanical toy for a wealthy Eastern merchant - a golden carousel with a ...

Leonid Markov, widely known in narrow circles under the aristocratic nickname Marquis, takes on a new adventure - returning a stolen will to the customer. Ho...

Many legends and myths are the embodiment of ancient fear of darkness, the unknown, and the elemental forces of nature, and in our time few people believe in...