The monograph is dedicated to one of the most tragic events of Byzantine history - the uprising that broke out in the capital of the empire - Constantinople ...

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17-year-old Alina is detained on suspicion of murder, which she did not commit. The circumstances are strange: a locked apartment, no traces and seven stabs....

This edition includes three action-packed novels.

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Ridley Scott returns to the Alien universe he created. Alien: Covenant is the next chapter in this stunning adventure saga. The crew of the colony ship Coven...

This book consists of 52 sketches - stories and instructions collected by the author during six years of work as a prison chaplain. Cuong Lu shares his insig...

An extensive collection of “terrible” French prose provides a fairly broad panorama of Gothic literature. It opens with the repeatedly translated and publish...

“The Greeks are the most insecure nation in the world...” Greece has a population of 10 million (compare with the 3 million Albanians, the 2 million populati...

XIV century, Crimea. At the bedside of her dying stepfather, Marina vowed to correct the mistake when, through her fault, he kicked out her brother and siste...

For several centuries now, bloodthirsty demons - forest, air, fire, stone, sand - go out hunting every night. Once upon a time, people fought with them on eq...

“The biography of Joseph Conrad is very easy to remember. At seventeen he became a sailor. At twenty-seven - captain. At thirty-seven - first novel. If not f...

Ross King is the bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and the Last Supper and Enchanting Madness. Claude Monet and the Water Lilies. His next book is a fa...