The Bulgarian/Scottish writer explores the mountainous fringe of North Macedonia, Albania and Greece along the via Egnatia (which, astonishingly, joined the via Appia to link Rome with Byzan... read more
Born in 1914 in Czernovitz in what is now Ukraine, the author was successively a citizen of Austro-Hungary, Romania and the Soviet Union as the bloody tides of the C20th swept to and fro bef... read more
The Firebird, Baba Yaga and their cohorts of human, divine and supernatural beings: an enjoyable mix of stories from the Carpathians with analysis of their traditional context. Illustrated ... read more
Travelling five thousand miles from the Arctic Circle to the eastern border of Turkey, the author examines the C20th faultline laid down in the Cold War and its legacy.
A remarkable odyssey around the edges of that vast country - through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finl... read more
Born in Austrian Galicia in what is now Ukraine, Schulz is one of the great Eastern European writers of the C20th. Sadly - and oddly - he has been out of print for several years; we are ther... read more
A lavish book on this Georgian artist who lived c.1866-1918 and influenced Georgian and Russian avant-gardists and Modernists. Large format, many illustrations.
Rejmer has collected personal accounts of survival in one of the most isolated countries on earth, under the brutally oppressive regime of Enver Hoxha. Touching, engrossing, harrowing...
Three decades of the Slovak artist's work, from the 1960s to the 1980s: abstract sculptures in cast plaster, aluminium, wood and stone that use organic forms to explore contrasts - fragile a... read more
Jergovic is a prominent Croatian novelist, poet and journalist. Here he explores his family's history through the C20th, using odd bits and pieces of family paraphernalia as spy-glasses to p... read more
A story handed down through generations of women becomes a tale within tales, accumulating myths and family histories. Translated from the Romanian. The author has won the EU Prize for Liter... read more