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«Цезарь, или По воле судьбы» – пятый роман знаменитого цикла Колин Маккалоу «Владыки Рима» и продолжение истории блистательного восхождения к власти Юлия Цезаря. 54 г. до Рождества Христова. Гай Юлий Цезарь победоносным маршем шествует по Галлии. Хотя его свершения во имя Рима грандиозны, консервативным лидерам Республики они внушают не радость, а страх: кто знает, как далеко простираются амбиции этого одаренного полководца? Зреет заговор, и Цезарь готов обратить свой гений против своей неблагодарной страны, но ему противостоит Помпей Великий, не только бывший союзник, но и родственник. Рим на пороге новой Гражданской войны. Силы противников равны. Все должно решиться по воле судьбы. Но прежде Цезарь должен перейти Рубикон.

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Силке было всего шестнадцать лет, когда она попала в концентрационный лагерь Освенцим-Биркенау в 1942 году. Красота девушки привлекает внимание старших офицеров лагеря, и Силку насильно отделяют от других женщин-заключенных. Она быстро узнает, что власть, даже нежелательная, равняется выживанию. Война окончена. Лагерь освобожден. Однако Силку обвиняют в шпионаже и в том, что она спала с врагом, и отправляют в Воркутинский лагерь. И здесь Силка ежедневно сталкивается со смертью, террором и насилием. Но ей везет: добрый врач берет девушку под свое крыло и начинает учить ее на медсестру. В стремлении выжить девушка обнаруживает в себе силу воли, о которой и не подозревала. Она начинает неуверенно завязывать дружеские отношения в этой суровой, новой реальности и с удивлением понимает, что, несмотря на все, что с ней произошло, в ее сердце есть место для любви. Впервые на русском языке!

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В новой редакции – один из самых знаменитых британских романов нового века, «лучший Букеровский лауреат за много лет» (Scotsman). Более того – продолжение «Вулфхолла» также получило Букера – случай беспрецедентный за всю историю премии. А в марте 2020 года наконец выходит заключительный роман трилогии – «Зеркало и свет». Англия, XVI век. На престоле Генрих VIII Тюдор – но если он умрет, не оставив наследника, вспыхнет гражданская война. В королевский Тайный совет назначается Томас Кромвель – сын кузнеца-дебошира, успевший послужить наемником во французской армии, поработать во флорентийском банковском доме и проникнуться идеями макиавеллизма, бывший секретарь опального кардинала Вулси. Одни считают Кромвеля беспринципным негодяем, другие – политическим гением. Любыми средствами – лесть и угрозы, подкуп и аресты – исполняя волю короля, он принимается строить новую Англию… В 2015 году телеканал Би-би-си экранизировал оба романа, главные роли исполнили Марк Райлэнс («Еще одна из рода Болейн», «Шпионский мост», «Дюнкерк»), Дэмиэн Льюис («Ромео и Джульетта», «Однажды в… Голливуде»), Клер Фой («Опочтарение», «Корона», «Человек на Луне»). Сериал, известный по-русски как «Волчий зал», был номинирован на премию «Золотой глобус» в трех категориях (выиграл в одной), на BAFTA – в восьми (выиграл в трех) и на «Эмми» – тоже в восьми.

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В антологию вошли богословские, апокрифические и литературные произведения, посвященные евангельскому Иуде Искариоту, одному из двенадцати апостолов, в том числе – комментированный перевод знаменитого «Евангелия Иуды», недавняя публикация которого стала мировой сенсацией.

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Hallucinating between childhood and manhood, Eddie Burnett is both hero and anti-hero in this hard-hitting collection of linked stories. Coming of age in California's post-war suburbs and freefalling through the turbulence of the sixties and early seventies, Eddie's transformation from a boy's innocence to a man's hardened wariness is captured in lyrical, emotionally raw episodes. He navigates the minefields of American masculinity in a series of disturbing, yet strangely uplifting odysseys, from hope to despair and back again. "A walking badass of a book."— Rolling Stone "Don is a great writer. His work is worth reading."—Henry Rollins Author, screenwriter, actor and performer,  Don Bajema lives in New York City.

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One of the most sensational incidents in the history of France, the Dreyfus Affair was a landmark federal case involving treason and antisemitism. A controversial documentary about the trial by pioneering filmmaker Georges Méliès caused riots when it was shown in 1899, and was banned from any screening in France for the next three quarters of a century. Who engineered Dreyfus's conviction? Was the man who played him in the film actually murdered by a mob of enraged moviegoers? And why is Jack Kews, a shadowy 20th-century Zola in New York City, so determined to find out? A web of intrigue, menace and betrayal reaches through space and time, as the search for keys to a historic trap hones in on a cache of zealously guarded forgeries and tins of crumbling film stock. "This erudite page-turner takes us from late 19th-century France to the film studios of the great Georges Méliès to the tribulations of a film restorer who finds herself caught up in political intrigue, a century after the famous Affaire Dreyfus . As in her celebrated L. C. , Daitch constructs a compelling dialogue with an earlier century that shifts our perspective on our own time."—Susan Bernofsky, Foreign Words "It's Susan Daitch at her finest! A smart, absorbing study of those at the margins of history who, under her deft pen, turn out to be vital. Fascinating story, captivating writing."—Deb Olin unferth, Revolution: The Year I Fell In Love and Went to Join the War " . . . Daitch manages to reveal her characters in a light that makes us wonder if we are seeing them as they are or as another shadowy transparency. While the book is extensive in scope, the writing is sharp and lean."— The Black Sheep Dances "Daitch has lost none of the bristling intelligence that makes her work so uniquely literary. . . . Daitch's narrative can certainly be enjoyed as cerebral noir; the cryptic calls and notes delivered to Frances are reminiscent of Paul Auster."— The Review of Contemporary Fiction "The world Susan Daitch spins is like uncovering a lost history first-hand through the eyes and ears of those who were there. An engrossing novel for the age of censorship and redaction."— Tottenville Review "Enthusiastically recommended to fans of highbrow, erudite historical fiction. Readers who enjoy the novels of Umberto Eco, for example, will probably also enjoy those of Ms. Daitch."— New York Journal of Books "Questions of integrity, authenticity and the slipperiness of 'truth' in a politicized society animate Susan Daitch's ambitious and highly satisfying novel about France's infamous Dreyfus Affair and its legacy."— Shelf Awareness Susan Daitch is the author of four novels— The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir (City Lights),  Paper Conspiracies (City Lights), L. C. (Lannan Foundation Selection and NEA Heritage Award), The Colorist— and a collection of short stories, Storytown . Her work has appeared in a variety of publications such as The Pushcart Prize Anthology , The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Fiction  and The Brooklyn Rail . Her work was featured in The Review of Contemporary Fiction along with William Vollman and David Foster Wallace. She taught at Barnard College, Columbia University, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She currently teaches at Hunter College.

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Set in Paris shortly after World War II, L’Amérique recounts the fortitude of one Parisian family in a nation humiliated by defeat and torn by recriminations. It is above all the story of Jeanot, a boy raised by disparate people in a middle-class apartment building, and the journey that will take him to L’Amérique, where dreams come true, but rarely as expected.
Jeanot’s world is peopled by his great aunt Tatie, who sleeps with her hat on, her detestable maid Guénolé, and Kharkov, the building’s White Russian concierge. And then there are his extraordinary friends, Dédé and Babette in Paris, and KC and Robert in America.
L’Amérique is a story of growing up in a country with little to offer its people, and of coming of age in a strange mythical land of too many promises.

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Acclaimed writer and literary critic Ellen Prentiss Campbell’s debut novel is a moving, intimate story inspired by an unusual chapter in the history of the Bedford Springs Hotel in southern Pennsylvania. During the summer of 1945, the resort served as the detainment center for the Japanese ambassador to Berlin, his staff, and their families.
The novel tells Hazel Shaw’s story as a young Quaker woman working at the hotel among the Japanese, and the further story of the reverberating lifelong consequences of that experience. The final events of the war challenge Hazel’s beliefs about enemies and friends, victory and defeat, love and loyalty. In the ensuing years she remains haunted by memories. Long after the end of the war, an unexpected encounter brings Hazel back to the hotel and she must confront her past, come to terms with her present life, and determine her future. Like the precious bowl she is given, broken centuries before and mended with golden glue, Hazel comes to understand that “even that which is broken is beautiful.”

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In the summer of 1944, Edwina, known as Eddie, a young high school teacher of English and German travels to Washington to work for the war effort unaware a killer is there, targeting government girls. And he's closer than she could ever imagine. Eddie finds Washington crowded and exciting, a city at war, where folks act as if each day is their last. She rushes at life, longing to live her own version of Casablanca, believing the only enemies are Over There, the Nazis, Hitler, Hirohito. And that every man in uniform is a hero.
The Last Government Girl, filled with heart-pounding tension, is peopled with extraordinarily alive characters, a mulatto crime photographer battling Jim Crow laws, a bootlegger's niece enjoying stolen moonshine money, and a beautiful Jewish department store heiress hiding a terrible secret.
"If you love the World War II era and mysteries, Ellen Herbert's The Last Government Girl is going to be one you will want to read. The story takes place in DC during World War II when the city is flooded with young women going to work for the first time to help the war effort. And someone is killing those «government girls» once a month. This story took me back to a time I never lived and made me feel as if I was there. I literally could not stop reading." – Rebecca McFarland Kyle, Author of Fanny and Dice, Editor of Tails from the Front Line, and Amazon Vine reviewer

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Cherished only child of Charley and Emma Beck, she is the unlikely issue of an improbable union. Beloved wife of Ferd Voith, she is the happy mother of a tribe of nine, and newly expecting her tenth. It is the family of her earliest dreams.
Seven forty-one, the house that Charley built on his little plot of farmland just outside of Washington City in the District of Columbia, is the only home she’s ever known. So vast before, the house seems to shrink with each new child, until Charley wonders that they’re not all tumbling out of windows.
In a ritual established over so many babies, Lillie celebrates by having Ferd bring down her memory box, a carefully collected treasure of the lives of those she loves. She knows by heart every word of the letters, every entry of the diaries, every detail of the photographs, and she traces them again with the start of each new life, to instill a sense of place, of family, of history.
Emma’s miracle, Ferd’s universe, the beating heart of the household: When Lillie is stricken in a fall, her memories tug at threads woven through a century as the fabric of the family frays around her.
Charming, lyrical, and evocative, by turns funny and heartbreaking, Up the Hill to Home sketches an enduring portrait of four generations of the Miller/Beck/Voith clan against the backdrop of Washington, D.C., as the city itself grows from a dusty pre-Civil War cowtown to a national capital in the throes of the Great Depression.

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