The first novel by Irish writer John Boyne (b. 1971), “The Thief of Eternity” is the story of Mathieu Zel, a man born in 1743 and unable to die. For two and ...

Fiction and humor are two genres that cannot live without each other. Fiction is an exaggeration, but humor is nothing more than the same exaggeration, ficti...

The fantastic story of a famous English writer tells about a meeting between guys and aliens and how ordinary people tried to take possession of space creatu...

July 1910. A gruesome discovery has been made at 39 Hilldrop Crescent, London: the dismembered remains of music hall singer Bella Elmore, wife of Dr Hawley H...

Noah Morsvod is eight years old, he lives on the edge of the forest with his mother and father. It would seem that everything is fine with him, right? But no...

The collection includes novels and stories by famous foreign writers of the past and present: T. Gautier, K. Capek, A. Strindberg, B. Shaw, S. Maugham, J. Ba...

The new novel by John Boyne, author of the famous “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,” is the story of an Irish priest who finds himself a witness and partly an...

When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy household at the top of the G...

Barnaby Bracket is an eight-year-old boy, ordinary in almost every way and quite obedient. But he cannot obey one simple rule - the law of universal gravitat...

If you look hard enough, you can find stories pretty much anywhere. They don’t even have to be your own. Or so would-be writer Maurice Swift decides very ...

“Angel Street” by John Boynton Priestley is a novel in which the author addresses the phenomenon of “success psychology” that became popular in Britain in th...

Ghosts, spirits, phantoms are eternal wanderers who find no rest: they plunge ordinary people into awe, push them to reckless actions, and make them believe ...