The Compendium of the Dead Zoran ŽIVKOVIĆ translated by Alice Copple-Tošić When certain mysterious events involving books occur, it seems that Inspector Dejan Lukić is always the man for the job. This time, however, things are a little different. Inspector Lukić himself is at the heart of the mystery, lured by the appearance of a […]
The Grand Manuscript Zoran ŽIVKOVIĆ translated by Alice Copple-Tošić An empty apartment, locked from the inside: this is the mystery that literature-loving police inspector Dejan Lukić, hero of Zoran Živković’s The Last Book, is called in to solve. What has become of the woman who lives there, bestselling detective fiction writer Jelena Jakovljević? And, perhaps […]
The Last Book Zoran ŽIVKOVIĆ translated by Alice Copple-Tošić A series of mysterious deaths in the Papyrus Bookstore brings literature-loving police inspector Dejan Lukić to investigate. Here he meets the attractive owner, Vera Gavrilović, and learns that the only thing the victims have in common is that in the moments before their deaths they were […]
class=”aligncenter size-full wp-image-1605″ /> Ciuleandra Liviu REBREANU translated by Gabi Reigh Written in the interwar period and published in 1927, this psychological thriller has captured the imagination of Romanian readers ever since. The book begins with a murder, as Puiu, a young aristocrat, strangles his wife on the night of the royal ball. To avoid […]
The Sorrow of Miles Franklin beneath Mount Kajmakčalan Ivan ČAPOVSKI translated by Paul Filev In the latter years of World War I, renowned Australian writer Miles Franklin travels to the Macedonian Front, joining as a nurse at the Scottish Women’s Hospital near Mt. Kajmakčalan. Soldiers from many nations surge across a Macedonia that has been […]
Arkham Nights Glynn Owen Barrass & Ron Shiflet Trevor and Barnes… two tough survivors of The Great War. They meet in the darkness of Arkham, friends at first sight: I was pleased to see Towers grab the fallen gun and then stunned as he aimed it at me! “You ungrateful asshole!” I yelled. “What’s the […]
Beyond the Mountains of Madness Edited by Robert M. Price Antarctica… a frozen wasteland of penguins, blinding ice and snow, and blizzards to kill the unprepared in minutes. But it is an ancient land, with ancient secrets, mysteries that humanity is only beginning to glimpse. HP Lovecraft introduced the world to the terrifying reality of […]
In the Court of the Yellow King Edited by Glynn Owen Barrass There was once a play with the power to drive the reader mad… or to transport him into a bizarre world of Carcosa, and the King in Yellow. Banned, burned, yet never totally destroyed, the play lives on, eating away the fabric of […]
Compartments Zoran ŽIVKOVIĆ translated by Alice Copple-Tošić On a strange train journey, in a series of six compartments, a traveller experiences unpredictable encounters, culminating in a meeting of epiphanic power. Through a narrative of dreamlike sharpness Compartments taps into the fears and absurdities, the beauties and mysteries of the unconscious mind, to achieve a consummation […]
The Narcissism of Death Svetozar SAVIĆ translated by Vuk Tošić Once again Zivkovic demonstrates the sheer power of storytelling in this complex cycle of interlocking narratives. Like one of Escher’s drawings, the narrative threads lead one through a dizzying labyrinth of recurring themes, images and characters, all of whom are linked with elegant mathematical precision: […]