"The Emperor of Ice-Cream" tells the moving tale of an Italian family living in Scotland during the rise of Mussolini and his rule in Italy. The story is told from the point of view of Lucia, the family's daughter, who, at 83, reflects on her childho...

T. , an acclaimed but ageing actor, and Efina, a passionate theatergoer, are engaged in an obsessive love affair that careens from attraction to repulsion. They compulsively write letters – often to express their intense dislike of one another – whic...

Exploring begins by looking at what we find at home and then moves into exploring your garden and the the towns and shops around us. The book also covers travel and how we can explore the world around us and what we might find in different places aro...

Elves make magic for a poor shoemaker and his wife in this much-loved tale originally told by the Brothers Grimm.

Not for sale in Estonia! Serge Gainsbourg's sole foray into fiction, "Evguenie Sokolov" describes an artist who uses his intestinal gases as the medium for his scandalous artwork. What once was a smelly and noisy problem in his social and sex life...

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Prague-born Karel Michal (1932-1984) lived a significant part of his adult life under Czechoslovakia's oppressive communist regime. Prevented from studying at the university as a young man...

Everything passes. The good and the bad. The joy and the sorrow. Everything passes. Or does it? A man stands at a window, looking out. Behind him, a room, bare of people and of furniture. Fragments of conversations drop into his head, conversation...

Not for sale in Estonia! "I transferred to Teive my speculations on certainty, which lunatics have in greater abundance than anyone". Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) was a multitude of writers: his works were composed by "heteronyms",...

Not for sale in Estonia! In 1937, Gertrude Stein wrote a sequel to "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas", but this darker and more complex work was long misunderstood and neglected. An account of her experiences in the wake of having authored a be...

Solemn, grand, vulnerable – and a little absurd: England in the 1880s. The gentry endures tedious country-bound winter weeks (fashion forbids them from showing their faces in London). Lord Beaconsfield is mourned, and a national legend buried. "The T...