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This harrowing tale, which spans sixteen hours and is told through the eyes of a mysterious narrator, delves into the bad blood between two timeless villages in south-eastern Turkey.

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The extraordinary storyteller and playwright Ludovic Bruckstein presents us with a lost world of Jewish history and lore in the central European Carpathian region, now parts of Hungary, Romania and Ukraine, invoking now lost storytelling tradition of great 'maggids' of Jewish history.

My Rivers' is poetic event in four cycles from Bosnia's star author. Divided into 4 sections: The Loire, The Spree, The Drina and the Beyond the River, Sehic once again takes on themes of war and peace, love and loneliness in his distinctive, penetrating voice.

An Elegiac, intimate novel about a son clutching on his dying father's last moments as the world locks down.

Contemporary Women's Writing from Serbia and Montenegro

Dov Hoenig was born in 1932 in Romania. He is best known as an American film editor, and was nominated at the 66th Academy Awards in the category of Best Film Editing for The Fugitive. In addition, Hoenig was recognized for his editing on films such as Thief, The Last of the Mohicans, Manhunter, Heat, The Crow, Overboard, A Perfect Murder, Under Siege and Collateral Damage. He is a member of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie...

For the Good of All is a book for our time - a time where we need a greater understanding of our bodily and emotional needs, as well as of our place in a globalised world where health has become a major issue. Since the beginnings of civilization, humans have relied on and respected the earth and its bounty, understanding that the energy of nature sustains and protects us when we live in balance. The aim of this succinct handbook is to encoura...

From one of Europe's most respected voices for democracy, comes a collection of stories from imprisonment during Albania's communist dictatorship

A woman searches for identity amidst the deviation of war and the dislocation of immigration. Drndic's characteristic irony and sense of the weight of history set the prose alight. A book for all times.

A political thriller set in 1980s Yugoslavia, where masks start to slip and truth and lies become interchangeable.

Special Needs is a novel which affirms that which is authentically human within all of us, following the life of a young boy with physical difficulties who elects to speak only to those who truly see him.

Part fable, part political thriller, a story of a break-away peninsula set adrift between Turkey and Greece. While the authorities try hard to maintain control, the inhabitants grown more rebellious and resourceful by the day

We all have our battles to fight, and for the author and main character, it is his near blindness since birth. This is the story of one man's journey to success within a small society, and his experiences with the 'blind men' of politics.

When Vladan Borojevic googles the name of his father Nedelko, a former officer in the Yugoslav People's Army, supposedly killed in the civil war after the decay of Yugoslavia, he unexpectedly discovers a dark family secret. The story which which then unfolds takes him back to the catastrophic events of 1991, when he first heard the military term deployment and his idyllic childhood came to a sudden end. Seventeen years later Vladan's discovery...

Slavoj Zizek and Srecko Horvat combine their critical clout to emphasize the dangers of ignoring Europe's growing wealth gap and the parallel rise in right-wing nationalism, which is directly tied to the fallout from the ongoing financial crisis and its prescription of imposed austerity.

This is a pseudo-autobiographical novel that returns post-postmodernism to modernism and offers an intimate portrayal of the limits of women's desire and freedom against the backdrop of ethnic, class and gender tensions of a declining Austro-Hungarian empire.

The Fig Tree is a multi-generational family saga, a tour de force spanning three generations from the mid-20th century through the Balkans wars of the 90s until present day, at its heart this is an intimate story of family, of relationships, of love and freedom and the choices we make.

A meditation of the cultural and religious significance of bread throughout history