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Vanished Khans And Empty Steppes

by Robert Wight (2014)

The book opens with an outline of the history of Almaty, from its nineteenth-century origins as a remote outpost of the Russian empire, up to its present status as the thriving second city of modern-day Kazakhstan. The story then goes back to the Neolithic and early Bronze Ages, and the sensational discovery of the famous Golden Man of the Scythian empire. The transition has been difficult and tumultuous for millions of people, but Vanished Khans and Empty Steppes illustrates how Kazakhstan has emerged as one of the world’s most successful post-communist countries.

HARD BACK ISBN: 978-0-9930444-0-3 RRP: £24.95

PAPERBACK ISBSN: 978-1-910886-05-2 RRP: £14.50

Kanybek Imanaliev The Kaganate

Overall, The Kaganate is a remarkably skilful and fabulously imaginative prose poetry collection, which explores the overwhelming need for young men to be destructive, the overtly pagan sensibilities of the authors native Kyrgyzstan, along with those disciplines required by adolescent boys to channel instinctive animosities away from their parents into the rigours necessary to become worthy young warriors in such a way that his volume proves virtually obsessive. After all, each one of these observations evokes a subtle type of “second puberty” occurring between older men assaying values above mere materialism, sexuality, and having children - in order to focus on shared spiritual concerns.

ISBN: 978-1910886960

HB RRP:£19.95

Vladimir Tulinov The Guardsmen Of Hippocrates

No people suffered more during the Second World War than the people of the Soviet Union and the soldiers of the Red Army. Tens of millions perished and further millions were wounded – horrific numbers, which would have been even higher if it weren’t for the efforts of the army of doctors, nurses, and medics who treated the wounded and the suffering. V.M. Tulinov’s The Guardsmen of Hippocrates brings the reader up close to the men and women who fought to save the lives of those struggling to resist the Nazi invasion.

ISBN: 978-1910886946

HB, RRP: £19.95

WEST MIDLANDS HO!

by Aldona Grupas

West Midlands Ho! is a compelling work of local history, focused on a particular corner of England but set against a background of tumultuous international events.In the book, Lithuanian author Aldona Grupas reveals the personal tales of Lithuanian migrants who moved to Britain in the wake of World War II. Unable to return to their homeland due to the Soviet occupation, from 1947 onwards, several thousand refugees swapped the refugee camps of Allied-occupied Germany for basic accommodation in Britain, along with jobs in manufacturing and agriculture. In the following decades, they put down roots in Britain, all the while keeping their Lithuanian identity alive. In a series of interviews, Grupas teases out the personal experiences of five members of this migrant community in the West Midlands of England.

PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1913356231 RRP:£19.95

THE PLIGHT OF A POSTMODERN HUNTER

Chlngiz Aitmatov Mukhtar Shakhanov (2015)

ISBN: 978-1-910886-11-3

RRP: £24.95 ENG HARDBACK

“SHORT STORIES FROM AZERBAIJAN” 2018

ISBN: 978-1-910886-72-4

RRP: £19.95 ENG HARDBACK

GOETHE AND ABAI

by Herold Belger

ISBN: 9781910886168 Hardcover EN|2015

£19.95

TURMOIL

by Dulat Issabekov

ISBN: 978-1913356569 Paperback

RRP: £14.95