Catalog

Book One

Elias Voss

You are not separate from what you’re seeking. Book One is written in the voice of the One — the source, the whole, what some traditions call God — speaking directly to you, in the first person, about the questions that sit underneath a life: time, the body, suffering, death, love, work, grief, joy, and the ordinary Tuesday that is, in the end, the whole point. Thirty-three short chapters, each a single sustained address — no doctrine, no hedging, no distance. The invitation is not to believe. It’s to read as if it were true, and see what happens.

We, God (forthcoming)

Russel Bradley

Hand him a letter, and he’ll tell you who wrote it — not the name. The person. A reclusive reader of handwriting is handed a key by a dying woman, and the small gift turns enormous: there is a book that should not exist — and it does, surfacing across seven hundred years in the same unmistakable voice. Some want it found so it can be owned. Some want it buried. He only wants to read it. How do you go looking for a book, when the book has been looking for you?

The Last Empire

Paris, 2011. Roland Ogier, a famous sports journalist, defected from the Soviet Union shortly before perestroika and has lived in France ever since. For thirty years he has not seen his son Sergey, whom he left behind. All of Roland’s attempts to mend the relationship have failed. So when a letter from Sergey suddenly arrives asking for help, Ogier takes a flight to Moscow without delay. But having got his son back, Roland also finds him in the middle of the Russian power struggle — its intensity pushed to the limit by the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections. Ogier decides to help Sergey, no matter what it takes. Yet he is still oblivious to how insignificant a human life can be when the stakes involve a vast country’s assets, running into the billions. A story of human love and inhuman greed. A story of money vested with absolute power. A story of the Last Empire.

Galaxy Man

Nikolay Bredikhin

One of Bredikhin’s most famous novels. The main character, out of work and already desperate to find a new job, receives an offer to organise the notes of an unknown prophet for a very decent reward. Curiously, the four employers who make the proposal each represent a different religion. What could have united them all at once?

The Book of Eternal Life

Nikolay Bredikhin

The ideological foundation for Galaxy Man. Here you will find more than three hundred of the finest aphorisms drawn from the vast creative heritage of the Russian writer and philosopher.

Paper Tears

Nikolay Bredikhin

The heroine is a young woman in a wheelchair, rehabilitating after a car accident and desperately bored. To entertain her, a ghost writer is hired. Neither of them takes the exercise seriously — but the fictitious love story they set out to write slowly turns into a real one. And, to their surprise, real life delivers a plot far more sophisticated than any fiction.

Midnight Sun

Nikolay Bredikhin

A sequel to the already celebrated Paper Tears. The crazy 1990s are over, but the dawn of the new millennium brings the characters no peace. Under a pale, cold sun they wander once more. Everything they once fought against has quietly become the new normal under the new authorities.

Lady Embodiment

Nikolay Bredikhin

Russia, the Middle Ages. When the young monk Fyodor carries his monastery’s consecrated relics to another, evil forces travel with him and turn his own abode upside down. Now Fyodor must leave the monastery to find a way to defeat them.

Muddy Waters, Doubt River

Nikolay Bredikhin

An attempt to understand the circumstances behind the death of the great Soviet superpower — its turning, at some point, into a second- and even third-rate country that let itself be shamelessly defamed and plundered.

Small Loch Ness

Nikolay Bredikhin

Two novellas, two short stories, and a modern fairy tale. The collection is dedicated to ‘the mad ’90s’ — the first decade after the collapse of the USSR, and one of the hardest stretches in Russia’s history.

Love in Verona

Nikolay Bredikhin

He and She are travelling through Italy as part of a tour group. They quickly become lovers and seem to have everything they need to enjoy the trip together — until, after Milan, in Verona, he abruptly decides to break off his journey without a word of explanation.

Nights with a Panther

Nikolay Bredikhin

A story of one betrayal and one love.

Eva

Nikolay Bredikhin

A novel in stories and letters, exploring the subject of human love.

Feathers

Nikolay Bredikhin

A humorous family drama about two unlucky authors — a father and a son.

Bagheera

When his sister dies suddenly in a car accident, a man becomes so distraught that he resolves to let her life continue — in another body. His own.

The Colonel of the Universe(In Russian)

Russia, the late 1980s, the beginning of Perestroika. The historian Aleksandr Krupeynikov is asked to write an internal review of a novel by a young author, Constantin Rodimtsev, set in the political psychiatric wards of the Brezhnev era. The subject is no longer forbidden, yet the publisher still won’t take the risk — so the review must be negative. But when Krupeynikov goes looking for Rodimtsev, it turns out he is already dead.

Secret Chronicles

Sergey Kalabukhin

A committed champion of science fiction, Kalabukhin gathers work from across the years, spanning many forms of the genre: first contact, horror, cyberpunk, detective, and — of course — time travel.