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The Nuremberg Trials
Paperback || Alexander Zvyagintsev || Glagoslav Publications Ltd
Postwar Nuremberg is set to host a historically unprecedented trial of the leaders of the defeated Third Reich. The whole world is awaiting a just verdict, but it is here where Soviet counterintelligence must wage a secret war against forces that seek to prevent that from happening at any cost. Nuremberg, having been nearly wiped from the face of the earth during the harsh fighting, becomes an arena for ruthless struggles in both hidden and overt operations. Nazis are still operating undergro...
A Flame Out at Sea
Paperback || Dmitry Novikov || Glagoslav Publications Ltd
The characters in Novikov’s work are predominantly people of the Russian North: Pomors, Karelians and Komi. In 2013 Novikov, along with other Karelian writers, proclaimed the Manifesto on a New Northern Prose, the mission of which Novikov described as: “Though these are trying times for Russian literature, there is light, there is hope that it will retain its key underlying principles of honesty, faith, beauty. How great it is that these principles fully fit with and correspond to the old...
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Robinson
Paperback || Aram Pachyan || Glagoslav Publications Ltd
Robinson is the first book by Aram Pachyan, which earned him the highest governmental award in Armenia, The Presidential Prize for Literature. The volume is made up of 16 short stories; each story is like a small but sharp painting of various characters. The faces in these paintings look very familiar, like someone you know, or someone hiding deep inside you. An inescapable loneliness of people in the modern world is the main topic of the stories by Pachyan.
This book was published with the s...
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A One Hundred Year Old Baby
Paperback || Joop Wassenaar || To&From;
The first, non-commercial version of A One Hundred Year Old Baby was written on the occasion of Finland’s centennial, in 2017. Today, with three more years having gone by, there is every reason to launch it in a serious way. Because optimism pours itself our way as if it were the Rio fucking Grande!
For the first time since World War II, this planeth’s by far dullest birthday party – the so-called Independence Day Reception in the Helsinki presidential palace – has been cancelled. Glo...
The Hemingway Game
Paperback || Evgeny Grishkovets || Glagoslav Publications Ltd
The Hemingway Game is the first novel from Russian playwright and performer of his own plays, Evgeny Grishkovets. The Hemingway Game is an urban romance which depicts the life of a shirt over the course of one day (worn in the morning and taken off late at night); revealing a lot about the main character, who subsequently moved to Moscow some time ago. He, just like all of us, wakes up in the morning, goes to work, meets his friends and has his daily routine; that is until love changes everyt...
The Door was Open
Paperback || Karine Khodikyan || Glagoslav Publications Ltd
The short fiction of Karine Khodikyan can be described as intellectual fiction for women. These short stories with a “mystical touch” tell stories about women – young and old, happy and sad; even when the protagonist is not a woman, the story will immerse you into the life of a woman, revealing her role in anything and everything.
This book was published with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia under the “Armenian Literature in Translation” Program.
Worldwide Destinations / 8th edition
The Geography of Travel and Tourism
2020 || Paperback || Brian Boniface e.a. || Taylor & Francis
Worldwide Destinations: The Geography of Travel and Tourism is a unique text that explores tourism demand, supply, organisation and resources for every country worldwide. The eighth edition is brought up to date with features such as: An exploration of current issues such as climate change, overtourism, expedition cruises, film tourism, economic and cultural impacts of tourism. New and updated case studies throughout.
More emphasis on South-east Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Online resour...
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The Memory Police
2022 || Paperback || Yoko Ogawa || Vintage US
*** 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ***
*** LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE AND THE 2020 TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD ***
*** NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR ***
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.
On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses—until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabi...
A Writer's Reference with Writing About Literature
2020 || Spiral bound || Diana Hacker e.a. || Macmillan
Writing about Literature is a practical guide to interpreting works of literature and to planning, composing, and documenting papers about literature. Students will find help with forming and supporting an interpretation, avoiding plot summary, integrating quotations from a literary work, observing the conventions of literature papers, and using secondary sources. Writing about Literature also includes two sample student essays — one that uses only a primary source and one that uses primary...
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Why Aren't You Writing?: Research, Real Talk, Strategies, & Shenanigans
Paperback || Sharon K. Zumbrunn || SAGE