A foul-mouthed Prague prostitute muses on her profession, aging and the nature of materialism as imagined in her own reality TV series. In an unvarnished mixture of vulgar and poetic language, the episodes combine the mundane with fetishism, violence and dark humour.
Alice returns from her death to act as witness and participant in Prague's tumultuous history from its foundation to 1989.
Barcode, Krisztina Toth's first substantial work in prose after four volumes of remarkable verse, consists of fifteen beautifully written and highly sensual short stories. Each story, apart from... Læs mere
Birds of Verhovina is a description of an unnamed totalitarian society in all its irrationality, absurdity, and implacability; provoking both laughter and shuddering in the reader.
CARBIDE explores the underbelly of the Ukrainian smuggling industry.
Written and published in 1856, before Jules Verne published any of his novels. A young explorer sets off to map the stars in a balloon. The first ever SF novel written in Slovak.
A young man creates his own time machine and travels back in time to witness battles between Prussia and Austria. The first ever SF novel written in Czech by the celebrated Modernist author Jakub Arbes.
Poetry from the front lines of the Ukrainian-Russian war
Yaryna Chornohuz is an award-winning 'soldier-poet' from Ukraine. Dasein, which has two meanings in German: 'Existence' and 'Exisiting' reflects on the poet's life on the Front Line of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
A grandmother passes on her wisdom to her neighbours, friends and grandchildren in rural Bohemia. A fine example of 19C proto-feminist fiction.