To be published: Q1 2026
She Who Was No More. Fernand Ravinel can no longer bear the suffocating life his wife Mireille imposes on him in their modest house in Enghien, north of Paris. He allows himself to be persuaded by his mistress, the doctor Lucienne, to kill his unbearable wife.
To be published: Q2 2026
One ocean, two seas, three continents. His name was Nsaku Ne Vunda and he was born around 1583 on the banks of the Congo River. An orphan raised in respect for his ancestors and traditions, educated by missionaries, baptised on the day of his ordination at Dom Antonio Manuel, he was commissioned by the Bakong King here at the very beginning of the 17th century to become his envoy to the Pope. As he bids farewell to his native Congo, the young priest is unaware that the long journey that is to take him to Rome will eventually lead to the New World and that the ship he is about to embark on is loaded with slaves…
To be published: Q2 2026
Notes from Georgia. From September 2024 to September 2025, Georgia underwent a transformation—from a young democracy with a pro-European orientation to a state ruled by a single party, where fear, censorship, and the systematic elimination of the opposition reign supreme. In the space of a single year, a gradual but relentless transformation took place. The book follows how the change took place – month by month. The author is a young Czech woman who spent a year in Georgia as a researcher, but instead of doing her usual fieldwork, she witnessed a dramatic social upheaval.
To be published: Q3 2026
The White Ash. A noir crimi story with a sophisticated psychological dimension by contemporary Ukrainian writer Illarion Pavlyuk takes us back to a time when only candles and kerosene lamps provided light, to a village named White Ash. And it is not by an accident. The mysterious white ash covers the entire estate overnight and, according to locals, is connected to a nearby entrance to hell.
To be published: Q3 2026
Pets. The novel is a fantastic allegory, which the author herself describes as a “prison fairy tale.” With extraordinary exaggeration, linguistic inventiveness, and satire, the author depicts life behind bars—but from the perspective of animals. The text could be described as a kind of allegorical fable that explores the world of a women’s prison colony through the stories of its animal inhabitants – mainly cats, but also crows, dogs, and rats. The main character is the free-spirited Cat (Kotan), who leads a gang in the prison yard.
To be published: Q3 2026
The Silence Comes First. Silence can often hurt more than words or a slap in the face. A novel about four generations of women whose relationships are stifled by the unspoken. Dora balances between her manipulative mother, her teenage daughter, her own insecurity, and loneliness. In an emotionally cold environment, she has learned to dream, but not to act. When she finds an online acquaintance and the man decides to visit, Dora stands on the threshold of a decision—to face her fear, break the silence, and finally find her own voice.
To be published: Q3 2026.
Rose. Oksana Vasyakina concludes her autofictional trilogy, which also includes Rána and Step, with a novel in which she attempts to uncover the secrets of her aunt Svetlana’s short, almost insignificant life. From small fragments of memories, a complex picture emerges in which difficult relationships with her mother, domestic instability, and indifference to her own fate coexist with an almost childlike vulnerability and purity.
To be published: Q4 2026
Céline. The novel, set in multiple time periods, tells the story of Tolya Khitrov, the son of a Dutch mother and a Russian-Ukrainian nuclear physicist who emigrated to the Netherlands through the Israel. The book begins when the protagonist, a graduate translator of French and Russian, returns under a false name from fighting on the Ukrainian front to the Netherlands to be with the love of his life, the soprano Zita.
Anatomie jedné jeruzalémské tragédie
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama. Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy. In 2012, a bus carrying children from an Arab kindergarten crashed in the occupied part of Jerusalem. Six of them burned to death, one teacher also died, and many were injured. The author mapped in detail the immediate circumstances of the accident, the specific lives of the actors and relatives of the children, as well as the broader historical and socio-political context, especially the very difficult living conditions of Palestinians under Israeli occupation, conditions of segregation and all kinds of bureaucratic restrictions, the situation of permanent conflict and mutual hatred. The book won the PULITZER PRIZE for nonfiction in 2024.
The Death of a Perfect Sentence. The novel depicts Estonia’s final months under Soviet rule and offers a multifaceted and vivid picture of the days leading up to Estonian independence. It explores a time of fear and uncertainty, but also of hope and courage, when the forces of independence clashed with the USSR’s last-ditch efforts to preserve the old order. The novel features a group of young dissidents who devise a plan to smuggle copies of secret KGB files out of the country, but they are also helped by a Russian teacher and a young art student who gets involved in dissident activities almost by accident. The characters include KGB agents from both Russia and Estonia, as well as older Estonians who are content with the status quo.
book in Belarusian language
The novel’s characters are part of multiple generations that go through upheavals and catastrophes throughout history: Revolution, collectivisation, war, collaboration, the Holocaust, moving out of the villages into the cities, the fall of communism, and so on. Not only one’s own life is determined by which side one finds oneself on at the next break in history, but also that of the following generations. Again and again, the fronts run right through families and communities, as in fact was and is the case in Belarus.
Montana. This suspenseful novel with elements of a thriller by a young Moldovan writer is set in his native Transnistria. It captures the grim reality of post-Soviet Moldova, mainly through the eyes of a child: poverty and life “behind the wall” in a railway cars converted into dwellings. Part of this reality is the civil war of the early 1990s and the emergence of the pro-Russian “Transnistrian Republic.”
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