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Stubborn, plain-spoken and from an unimpressive family, Lydia Polk never expected to be accepted into the Royal Academy of Witches. Now, with Hitler’s army rampaging across Europe, the witches of Britain have joined the war effort, and Lydia is key to the cause: she...

Krakow, 1945. Stefan Trzyniecki — the young doctor who survived the psychiatric ward at the Transfiguration Hospital and the extermination camp among the dead — returns to a city devastated by war, covered in rubble and ash, where mutilated facades and empty walls seem...

In the final years of the Tsarist empire, the figure of Grigori Rasputin emerges from the depths of the Siberian steppe to establish himself at the heart of power in St. Petersburg. In this work, Klabund constructs a raw portrait of the Russian monarchy’s...

In 1403, Ruy González de Clavijo sets out for Tamerlane’s court as an envoy of Henry III. The fate of Castile hangs in the balance during the embassy to the Great Khan. Thousands of leagues from home, beyond treacherous seas and scorching deserts, a...

This is one of Bohumil Hrabal's most widely read and acclaimed novels, with numerous editions worldwide and a film adaptation by Jiří Menzel that won the 1967 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. We present it now in a new translation by Monika...

Tyrants aren’t born. They’re made. A journey to the heart of a dynasty steeped in blood, intrigue, and danger. A young emperor will seize the throne of Rome. His name is Lucius Domitius Enobarbus. To everyone, Nero. His predecessor, Claudius, has died of poisoning....

Would you fall in love with someone if you knew you were going to forget them? During the summer of 1953, Sienna arrives in Arezzo seeking a second chance in the Tuscan city after fleeing Milan. There she meets Niccolo, who spends his days...

When he is expelled from boarding school for drunkenness in 1839, Harry Flashman enlists in the army, only to find himself, after getting into a duel, posted to Scotland, where he dishonors a young woman and is forced to marry her. To rebuild his...

What happened to the first Spaniards who set foot in the New World? How was the dream that promised glory lost and ended in tragedy? January 1493. Christopher Columbus returns to Spain to announce his discovery to the Catholic Monarchs. On the island of...

In late 1980s Santiago, the disappearance of a friend forces a reconstruction of memory, identity, and relationships in a Chile marked by repression.

In 1959, a Baptist pastor takes his wife and four daughters to the Belgian Congo, convinced he is bringing salvation to a land that hasn't asked for it. There, they will confront religious fervor, the unforgiving wilderness, and the awakening of a nation demanding...

Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. And for some, even a single February can be life-changing... Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being a Wilde isn’t one of them. As the impulsive, artistic daughter of a powerful Atlanta dynasty, she’s the opposite of...

Nicole and André are a retired French couple who travel to Moscow to visit Masha, his daughter from a previous marriage. Through a subtle interplay of thoughts and reflections, their awareness of the present moment gradually emerges, as if the distance from their usual...

An Irish priest, Hugh O'Flaherty, is busy helping those fleeing the Nazis. His home is Vatican City, the smallest state in the world: neutral, independent, and located in the heart of Rome, beyond the reach of the occupiers. From there, Hugh brings together a...

Clotilde Cerdá, whose stage name was Esmeralda Cervantes, was a child prodigy on the harp who left us a dozen compositions and traveled the world giving concerts. But Clotildina was much more than that. The illegitimate daughter of the famous urban planner Ildefonso Cerdá...

Amsterdam, 1892. Lydia mourns the death of her parents, who have passed away one after the other. She has inherited the family home in the city and the country house in Purmerend. Despite the sad loss, she is full of ideas for the future...

At the dawn of the 8th century, in Asturias, as in other regions of Hispania, the Christians were brutally mistreated and forced to pay an onerous tax if they wanted to continue to profess their religion and not adhere to Islam. The discontent grows...

New York, 1918. After receiving news that the Great War is tearing Europe apart, Jessie Carson decides to leave the tranquility of the New York Public Library shelves and cross the ocean to join the American Committee for the Devastated Regions of France, founded...

By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave laborer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when Flanagan as a young man finds...

There was a time when the fate of America was decided in the taverns of New Orleans. Spain, in the shadows, moved its pieces while a new nation was born. A young spy infiltrated conspirators, merchants, and patriots with a mission that could change...