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Discover the Dragons, Unicorns, Fairies, and Trolls from British Library Publishing’s latest Little Book Of collection.

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From protective fairy godmothers to the graceful white horse with a single long horn, and from primordial chaos-monsters breathing fire from above, spitting poison on the land to creatures who kidnap, overrun farms, and lurk in the dark corners of landscapes, Carolyne Larrington unravels a plethora of fascinating stories, from the medieval to the modern, in these shimmering guides to the all things fae, unicorn, dragons and trolls. Each volume features beautiful illustrations from the British Library collections.

An intense and dramatic reimagining of real events from one of Russia’s most accomplished and far-reaching contemporary writers, JUST THE PLAGUE is powerful in its literary construction and moral clarity, not to mention its present-day parallels

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📖 Rudolf Maier, a young microbiologist working on a plague vaccine, is summoned to Moscow to deliver a progress report to his superiors.

Inadvertently, he carries the virus with him from the lab. When his illness is discovered, the state machinery turns with terrifying efficiency, rounding up dozens of people. But for many, the distinction between this enforced, life-sparing isolation and the constant churn of political surveillance and arrests is barely detectable, and personal tragedy is not completely averted. Based on real events in the Stalinist Russia of the 1930s, this gripping novel, written in the late 1980s and rediscovered by the author during lockdown - and never before translated into English - surfaces uncomfortable truths about the current Russian regime and the pandemic crisis.
Translated by Polly Gannon and with a new afterword by the author.

📖 In THE BODY OF THE SOUL: STORIES, rendered into English by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, Ulitskaya maps the edges of our lives, tracing a delicate geography of the soul.

While we can feel, know, and study the body, the soul refuses definition. Where does it begin and end? What does the soul have to do with love? Does it exist at all, and if so, does it outlast the body? Or are the soul and body really one and the same?
These are questions posed by the characters who inhabit this book of stories by the award-winning Russian writer. A woman believes that the best way to control her life is to control her death. A landscape photographer wonders if the beauty he has witnessed can triumph over decay. A coroner dedicated to science is confronted by a startling physical anomaly, a lonely divorcée experiences an extraordinary transformation, a librarian whose life is devoted to language finds words slipping away from her.