Twelve-year-old orphan Lyra Belacqua lives in Oxford with her daemon Pantalaimon. Her uncle, the powerful Lord Asriel, comes to the college to organize an ex...

Christopher Priest is a popular British writer, science fiction writer, one of the representatives of the “new wave”. This publication includes selected nove...

This book, for the first time, impartially and objectively presents extensive factual material about the betrayal of Soviet (Russian) intelligence officers, ...

The textbook is intended for university students with pedagogical specialties. The lecture notes have a clear and concise presentation structure, and will he...

The collection includes the latest works of twenty-six writers from Guangdong, the most developed province of China, a magnet for talent in the Middle Kingdo...

Emile Zola (1840–1902) was a French writer, publicist and political activist. One of the most significant representatives of realism of the second half of th...

This book is about the criminal activities of the US Central Intelligence Agency. Based on materials from an investigation conducted by a commission of the A...

For the first time in Russian. Previously unpublished stories from the author of The Great Gatsby. Already Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise, w...

A story about the mysterious and unknowable that can happen in the life of any writer... or maybe not.

Harry Harrison (1925–2012) was an American science fiction writer and editor. From his pen came many works, mostly humorous, which contain quite serious them...

The French writer Régine Desforges now enjoys worldwide fame. The cycle of novels “The Blue Bicycle” brought her great success, far beyond the borders of Fra...

Our contemporary finds himself in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. The First World War is coming. A man and a patriot, Andrei Sosnovtsev, dreams ...