Host foreign rights catalogue autumn 2022 / Exportní katalog nakladatelství Host podzim 2022

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Dana Blatná Literary Agency tel.: +420 608 748 157 e-mail: blatna@dbagency.cz www.dbagency.cz

At Host, one of the largest in dependent publishing houses in the Czech Republic, we have focused on contemporary Czech and world writing for almost thirty years. The Host brand has become a guarantee of high-quality literature in many genres. We are renowned for the care we take with our editing and the excel lence of our graphic design. Our primary aim is to find the right readers for the outstanding books we offer. We take pains to provide ongoing care for our books and their authors after publication.

We currently publish about 150 titles annually, in genres including the following: general fic tion, SF and fantasy, crime fiction, the thriller, children’s literature, popular science, specialist literature, poetry.

Host is proud to publish many leading Czech authors. Their popularity with readers and the wealth of literary awards to come their way confirm us in our belief that painstaking care for a book — from manuscript stage through to the last detail — makes perfect sense. Our authors include Alena Mornštajnová and Kateřina Tučková, whose bestselling works account for hund reds of thousands of copies and have been translated into many languages. Our Czech literature programme comprises all the genres mentioned above.

Our literature in translation programme, too, has a great deal to offer. The various stories we take from all over the world are characterized by readability, literary excellence and — last but not least — careful translation. Thanks to us, Czech readers are acquainted with works by authors including Olga Tokarczuk, Fredrik Backman, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Bernardine Evaristo, Nino Haratischwili and Muriel Barbery.

Our crime fiction programme is an in tegral part of what we do. In their chosen setting of criminal investigation, our authors

respond to topical issues — a matter of great importance to us. We regard the publication of the first part of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series as a significant moment in our history, for it was this that launched the Nor dic noir phenomenon on the Czech market. Our best-performing authors in this genre currently include Lars Kepler, Jussi AdlerOlsen and Peter May

In recent years we have strengthened our list by adding SF and fantasy, young adult fiction and children’s literature programmes. As we have no fear of the un explored, we delight in introducing new trends to the Czech market. The most interesting names on our SF-in-translation list include N. K. Jemisin, Ted Chiang, Anthony Ryan and Liu Cixin; our Czech SF authors, notably Pavel Bareš and Petra Stehlíková, have also performed very well. As for children’s literature, our titles include works by successful authors Aleksandra Mizielińska and Daniel Mizieliński, Marianne Dubuc, Emilia Dziubak, Oksana Bula, and Roberto Santiago. Another focus of ours is the high-quality Czech book for children, by which we bring together an original story with great artwork.

In terms of society, politics and art, the world is changing in all kinds of ways. Fortunately, we will always have books to cap ture this change. Some of these you will find on our non-fiction list. In the Klimax series, Host publishes original works on issues of climate change.

The history of Host is associated with the literary review of the same name, which first appeared in 1985 as a samizdat antho logy. The Host book-publishing house was established in the 1990s for poetry and literary theory, genres to which it remains true. Since the Nineties, the publishing house has been owned by Miroslav Balaštík, Tomáš Reichel and Martin Stöhr.

You can view our books and meet our authors and team at regular events, including author’s readings, panel discussions and book fairs. We take part every year in the interna tional book fairs in Frankfurt, London, Bologna and, of course, Prague, as well as fairs in other parts of the Czech Republic.

Contents Fiction

Petra Dvořáková

The Garden / Zahrada novel; 7

Jan Němec

Lilliputin: Stories from a War / Liliputin: Povídky z války short stories; 8

Viktorie Hanišová

Sunday Afternoon / Neděle odpoledne novel; 9

Iva Hadj Moussa

The Havíř House / Havířovina novel; 10

Anna Beata Háblová

The Shift / Směna novel; 11

Patrik Banga

The Real Way Out / Skutečná cesta ven memoir; 12

Markéta Hejkalová

The House before the Square / Dům pod náměstím novel; 13

Přemysl Krejčík

Chickenshit / Srab novel; 14

Jolanta Trojak Svatava / Svatava novel; 15

Jaroslav Kuboš Shovels and Exploiters / Lopaty a Vykořisťovatelé series of short, humorous essays; 16

Miloš Doležal 1945: Summer of Demons / 1945: Léto běsů documentary short stories; 17

Fantasy, Young Adult

Dana Beranová

The Magpie’s Song / Zpěv straky fantasy novel; 18

Zuzana Hartmanová

The Storm’s Dawn / Bouřný úsvit fantasy novel; 19

Petra Slováková

Memories of Tomorrow / Vzpomínky na zítřek fantasy YA novel; 20

Jan-Marek Šík, Lenka Šíková

The Three / Trojice fantasy YA novel; 21

Jak žít, když člověk dostane do vínku dar, o který nestojí? Kde je hranice mezi pochopením a odsudkem?

Stará vila se zahradou a v ní jedna velká životní prohra. Pětatřicetiletý Jarek se vrací do domu svého dětství ve chvíli životního zlomu. Začíná nový život, poprvé úplně sám za sebe, s pocitem odcizení všemu a všem. Jediným útočištěm se mu stává stará zanedbaná zahrada a práce na ní. Mezi rostlinami, v samotě se snaží znovu najít sám sebe a dát životu ještě nějaký smysl. Postupně se seznamuje se sousedy a stále víc začíná svému odcizení přicházet na kloub. Poznání sebe sama je však děsivější, než by se mohlo zdát.

Kniha, která otestuje čtenářovu toleranci, empatii i ochotě důvěřovat.

ISBN 978-80-xxxx-x

ZAHRADA Host

PetraDvořáková

How to live with an unasked-for white elephant. A brilliantly written, intimate drama about an inner struggle.

Petra Dvořáková

7 Petra Dvořáková (born 1977) is the author of two books of non-fiction, three books for children and four books of fiction for adults. She has won or been shortlisted for many prizes and she established herself as a best-selling author with the novel The Surgeon / Chirurg (2019) and the novella Crows / Vrány (2020), winning the Book of Year award in the Literary Prose category for the latter. Her books have been published in five languages.

Jak žít, když člověk dostane do vínku dar, o který nestojí?

published in October

novel hardback

187 pages isbn 978-80-275-1348-2

A long-uninhabited villa with a neglected garden. A crushing loss to overcome. Thirty-fiveyear-old Jaroslav Havlát returns to his childhood home with his life at a crossroads. After botching his ‘career in the church’, he intends to follow a new path, on his own terms at last. He may be struggling with burnout, loneliness and feelings of alienation in respect of everyone and everything, but not all hope has been extinguished. He finds his only refuge in the neglected garden, his work in it his only joy. In splendid isolation among trees, shrubs and flowers, he attempts to find the self he has lost and some meaning in life. Little by little, he gets to know his neighbours and tracks down sources of his alienation. The latter process is sometimes a fraught one: acquisition of self-knowledge is more terrifying than he could have imagined. Will he find even one person to understand him and lend a helping hand? Is there any way out of this darkness?

This book will test the reader’s tolerance, empathy, and willingness to consider and ‘trust’ the seemingly unacceptable. Perhaps for the first time, a Czech novelist has addressed a certain highly taboo, deeply intimate subject in a sensitive, non-sensationalist manner.

Jan Němec

Jan Němec (born 1981) is editorin chief of Host monthly. His two previous novels are A History of Light / Dějiny světla (2013) and Ways of Writing about Love / Možnosti milostného románu (2019); the former won an EU Prize for Literature, while the latter was shortlisted for a Magnesia Litera award. With Petr Vizina he is co -author of Signs of the Unknown / Znamení neznámého (2021), a book of conver sations about modern- day spirituality. His books have been published in fifteen languages.

Lilliputin: Stories from a War / Liliputin: Povídky z války

LILIPUTIN

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LILIPUT PUTIN LILIPUTIN

JAN NĚMEC LILIPUTIN

Somewhere in the human heart lies Red Square.

POVÍDKY Z VÁLKY

A Czech in Ukraine in search of his alter ego. A gang of homeless kids driven from a cellar by tenants using it as a shelter from the war. A German couple who ‘rented a womb’ in Ukraine, whose child is now stuck in Kyiv. A teen ager partnered with a Valkyrie for the distribution of lavash in besieged Mariupol, who delays his flight until it is too late. A Russian woman academic mounting a protest in the centre of Moscow, in a costume from Swan Lake. They may not be soldiers at the front, but for the characters in these stories, life will never again be as it was before the war.

Jan Němec has produced a work that could hardly be more different from Ways of Writing about Love / Možnosti milostného románu, his previous fiction. One thing hasn’t changed, though: he is writing not about ‘themes’ but about what really matters in life.

‘The war fuelled me with an anger I needed to write about. I wanted to know what fiction can do right now — without the benefit of hindsight, without separation by several hundred kilometres. I wrote five stories — two of the west, two Ukrainian, one Russian — as someone might light one cigarette after another. They all talk about war, but it’s not always clear who the enemy is,’ says the author.

Viktorie Hanišová (born 1980)

debuted in 2015 with Anežka / Anežka about the dysfunctional relation ship of a mother and her adoptive daughter. The Mushroom Gatherer / Houbařka (2018) looks at trauma in childhood and domestic violence, while Reconstruction / Rekonstrukce (2019) deals with a parent’s suicide. A Long Track / Dlouhá trať, on the theme of suicide, appeared in 2020. Concrete and Clay / Beton a hlína (2021) addresses issues of sus tainable city living in the form of interviews. Her books have been published in eight languages.

Sunday Afternoon / Neděle odpoledne

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Little Teo’s life moves to a slow, tedious rhythm. He is home-schooled by a reclusive mother who takes him to a religious community centre rather than for walks. Every Sunday afternoon, his father disappears. As Teo enters adolescence, goes off to school and makes a first friend, his weary routine starts to fracture. Before long, the cracks extend to family life as a whole, bringing silence, secrecy and sorrow to the fore. The older Teo gets, the more he pulls away from his family. And his life as an individual is anything but happy; it has an empty space that needs filling.

Sunday Afternoon is a story about the troubles and tragedies of one family, told from three points of view. What seems like madness to the son may make perfect sense to the mother or the father. This is a work about passing others by, but also about getting closer to them.

‘If we assume that each of us is a product of past actions, we are all to some extent victims of our parents. We tend to see things from our own traumatized per spective, and we often lack understanding for the view points of others. Multiperspectivity can lead to greater tolerance, so promoting mutual understanding,’ claims the author.

Every family has its traditions. Some have secrets besides.

Viktorie Hanišová

Iva Hadj Moussa

Iva Hadj Moussa (born 1979) is a graduate in Psychology from Masaryk University in Brno. After her studies, she worked briefly as a psycho logist. Later, she moved to Prague and changed her line of work; she now makes her living as a copywriter. She is the screenwriter of The World’s Smallest Elephant / Nejmenší slon na světě, a TV series for very young children. Her humorous novel A Šalina Named Desire / Šalina do stanice touha was published in 2020; it was followed a year later by A Demon from a Housing Estate / Démon ze sídliště.

A novelist looks into the past of a mysterious house in her home village. How will her mission end?

novel paperback 224 pages isbn 978-80-275-1364-2

Havířo vina

The Havíř House is a neglected, unsightly place in a small village. Rumour has it that it attracts bad things — the people in it either die or bring misfor tune on others. And who knows, maybe it is home to ghosts too! A seemingly insignificant remark by her mother — that there is smoke coming from the chimney of the Havíř House — inspires the protagonist to take a closer look. Entering the past through interviews with people of the village, she does all she can to discover if there truly is something supernatural about the place, or if it is all just coincidence and bad luck. By writing a novel about the house, she hopes to achieve the literary success that has so far eluded her, and thus to put her difficult life in order. Her journey of adventure into the past brings her face to face with old fears and introduces her to new ones. But what will her return to the village of her birth and her keenness to write a novel do to her?

‘The Havíř House is quite different from my previous books. Although I’m no great fan of change, in my writing I like to experiment with various genres, characters and settings. In this book, I’ve kept cynicism to a minimum, although it may escape me from time to time,’ says the author.

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Iva Hadj Moussa

Anna Beata Háblová (born 1983) is a writer, poet, poetry slammer, archi tect and urban planner. Her popular science work Cities of Walls / Města zdí, about the history of the shopping mall and how to make sense of its relationship to the city, appeared in 2017. Her subsequent work Nonplaces in Cities / Nemísta měst (2019) is part-academic study, part-fiction; it explores neglected, forgotten and transitory spaces. Her reviews of architecture have been broadcast on Czech Radio for several years. She also works on the Czech Television programme ArtZóna.

A keen- eyed debut novel by an author hitherto known for her remarkable, often surprising take on a wide range of topical themes and genres.

novel

paperback 216 pages isbn 978-80-275-1358-1

The protagonist is a young artist called Petra, who is struggling to reconcile her wish to make it as an artist with rejection of everything connected with her initial life choice. Her memories of her studies in painting, which did much to shape the way she is now, remain as keen as ever. Her present includes an arduous, tedious, joyless job as a supermarket cashier, to which pragmatic considerations have driven her. Evocative description of these two contrasting worlds provides an unusual perspective on Petra’s inner struggle and much else besides. Running through the work is a revelatory plotline detailing the passion with which one can immerse oneself in art. The author poses essential questions about the purity of creation on one hand and human relations on the other. This is no story of escape; it is a successful exploration of the gap between relationships and self- expression. It describes the human as a fragile being bound to collide with obstacles of globalization, solitude and fate. Recogni tion, understanding and acceptance are one thing, but effecting change is quite another.

Anna Beata Háblová

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Román

The Real Way Out / Skutečná cesta ven

Patrik Banga

Patrik Banga (born 1982) is a jour nalist, musician and IT entrepreneur. Since 2007, he has worked in the news room of iDNES.cz, a news portal. He has also worked as a reporter for Czech Television’s flagship evening news programme. He is one of the makers of the documentary film The Ghetto as a System / Ghetto jako systém (2012). His blog attracts over one million visitors.

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The dramatic experience of a Roma community in the Prague quarter of Žižkov in the 1990s, and difficulties in leaving stereotypes and prejudice behind.

The Real Way Out tells the true story of journalist Patrik Banga, who describes his rise from a life of dep rivation in a Roma community to his leading status in the Czech media. The narrative begins in the 1990s in Žižkov, Prague (far from the ambitious quarter of to day), showing a place riddled with despondency, drugs, alcohol, prostitution and street-fighting, where growing up within the local Roma community is a guarantee of one thing only — a life of more of the same.

In raw, remorseless fashion, Banga describes the teenage years of a Roma boy who from an early age knows only rejection, criminalization, racism and police brutality. His search for a real way out is strewn with obstacles and losses, but his belief that everyone is an individual remains unshakeable. This autobiographical work describes successes and failures, clashes with Roma culture, and a persistent refusal to be pigeonholed.

memoir paperback 216 pages isbn 978-80-275-1342-0

‘What I describe in the first half of the book was, I believe, experienced by the vast majority of young Roma — not only in Žižkov, but all over Prague. I prefer not to think about what it must have been like in northern Bohemia. If I can inspire people to think about all this, my purpose will have been served,’ says the author.

12 Fiction Patrik Banga

Hejkalová

The House before the Square / Dům pod náměstím

Markéta Hejkalová (born 1960) is a writer and translator from the Finnish. She has worked as a con sulate officer at the Czech Embassy in Helsinki and is a former member of PEN International. She lives in Hav líčkův Brod, where she holds the annual Autumn Book Fair. Her books have been published in six languages.

novel hardback 256 pages isbn 978-80-275-1252-2

An old house on the main street by the square of a small town in the Vysočina region has memories of its own. As the lives of its occupants have been written into its walls since 1695, it has plenty to tell. And tell it does — of days in the late 19th century, when it first housed a knitting workshop (which later became a factory that is still in operation today); of a brave young man called Josef Vlkovský, who opened a grocer’s shop here in 1925; of a rapid rise in trade and the opening of a wholesaler’s; of restrictions imposed by war, family tragedies, nationalization, confiscation of property. The story of the house is intertwined with the tragic tale of the general manager of the textile factory. It moves on to new beginnings through the changes of the 1990s all the way to the present day. Time passes, but Vlkovský’s grocer’s shop remains. By the efforts of a student called Anežka, the present holds out a hand of reconciliation to the past.

‘The course of time brings many changes, but these are only in backdrops and external matters. People’s lives today are basically the same as they were one hundred and more years ago,’ explains the author.

Novel about the fleeting nature of time and the unchangeability of human lives.

Všechno to byla jen hra a přiznaná póza: zhudebňování hororové tematiky, stylizování se do rolí násilníků a vrahů, nošení děsivých masek na pódiu. Dokud Ripper nevzal do ruky skutečnou zbraň a nezměnil falešné pozérství v realitu. Pod povrchem to totiž už dávno vřelo.

Kdo je Ripper? Mladý kluk, který má holku, budoucnost a dobře fungující kapelu. Jenže má taky despotického bratrance, sebevědomí, které je tak nízké, že se ani nedá podlézt, psychické problémy a obrovský vztek na někoho, kdo kdysi ublížil jeho přítelkyni.

Chickenshit /

published in August

ISBN 978-80-275-1084-9

novel paperback 320 pages isbn 978-80-275-1084-9

Vzali jsme si masky — já si přes ksicht přetáhnul svoji bílou s černou kápí, Gram sundal kšiltovku a oblíknul gumovou hlavu prasete a Jidáš si nasadil trnovou korunu a ještě si pod oči po paměti nakapal z lahvičky rychle usychající červenou barvu.

Nějaký herecký líčidlo. Jako že slzí krev. Jednoduchý, ale vypadalo to skvěle. Zvlášť na takový oživlý mrtvole, jakou byl Jidáš vizuálně i bez toho.

Došli jsme na pódium.

Setting themes from horror stories to music, as suming the roles of rapists and murderers, wearing scary masks on stage — everyone knew it was all just a game and a pose — until the Ripper picked up a real weapon and turned the posturing into reality. Actually, though, things had been simmering under the surface for some time.

The Ripper is a kid with a girlfriend, a future and a well-functioning band. But he also has a des potic cousin, self- esteem at an all-time low, problems with his mental health, and huge rage directed at some one who once hurt his girlfriend.

Chickenshit is a novel about psychological bullying, inability to put up resistance, and self- disgust. At first sight, it is a story about a rough-and-ready band and its strange members. Apart from the un balanced Ripper, these include irritating stoner Gram, a hothead known as Manson, and easy-going Judas. But the main theme of the novel is different forms of violence — from the grotesquely exaggerated to the tiresomely mundane.

A novel about bullying and inability to stand up to bullies.

Jolanta Trojak (born 1977) is an art historian, curator and gallerist. She studied at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague and Università degli Studi in Florence. She has subsequently worked as a journalist, gallerist and curator of exhibitions of contemporary art. She has studied and practised yoga for twenty years. Jolanta Trojak is a regular visitor to India.

Saints and conjurers in pre-war Prague.

The 20th century is in its infancy. Wearied by the pace of industrial revolution, Europeans are learning to under stand that technical progress is no panacea. In reaction to the loss of old certainties, people are turning to dec adence, expressed by their flight to esoteric teachings, secret societies and narcotics. Having discovered yoga, a trio of Prague occultists develop the hope that this exotic, metaphysical form of exercise will help them push out the boundaries of perception, restore the lost bond with the transcendental, and lead them to an artistic representation of the absolute.

Although Svatava, a spiritualist from the town of Nová Paka, has no truck with the awakening of supernatural powers, she has become a medium of great potency. But her rapid rise to the heights of show business have deprived her of what matters most — her sense of self. She sees no way out of this predicament until an en counter with an Indian messiah opens a path to a new spiritual world.

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Jolanta Trojak’s work can hardly be described as occult fiction, but it has much in common with it. Its ornate style alternates with timeless, rhythmic writing exploring ques tions of the human condition and fulfilment of potential.

Svatava / SvatavaJolanta Trojak

Jaroslav Kuboš (born 1982) comes from a mining family. Having grad uated in IT from the Brno University of Technology, he worked as a pro grammer. He now owns the company Navigo3, which develops software for company management. Having experienced life as both labourer and management, he is in favour of open companies. He lives with his family in Brno.

Lopaty a Vykořisťovatelé

Shovels and Exploiters / Lopaty a Vykořisťovatelé

Lopaty a Vykořisťovatelé

The hyperbole and humour by which the author breathes life into stereotypes of the world of work will entertain the reader while testing their capacity for self-reflection.

The most money for the least amount of work. Zero responsibility. Everything nice and relaxed. But beware the greedy Exploiter! If he could, he would skin the poor Shovels alive. And if they could, they would steal all his property and bankrupt all his companies. It’s a pity that labour was abolished long ago, and that it is forbidden to hire company slave drivers.

Jaroslav Kuboš examines the world of work through themes including employee responsibility, work ethic and sexual harassment in the workplace. He exposes stereotypes in their raw form while discussing their origins in history and society.

series of short, humorous essays paperback 216 pages isbn 978-80-275-1346-8

‘This book intends to amuse and anger absolutely everyone. Whether to be outraged or to take the criti cism in your stride and learn something by it is a matter for the individual reader,’ says the author. ‘I believe that a single humorous situation can teach us more about problems in the company workplace than a great many dry words on a page. I have collected many stories from my immediate surroundings; some I experienced firsthand (sometimes a Shovel, sometimes an Exploiter), even as the main actor,’ explains the author.

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Buď firmu řídíte, nebo v ní pracujete. O nervy jde vždycky!

JAROSLAV KUBOŠ

Jaroslav Kuboš

Třetí díl autorem zamýšlené tetralogie. Běsi nemizí, ale spíše se v lidech zabydlují, často v rafinovaných pře vlecích. Čechoslováci vítají volnost a mír, ale vědomě i nevědomě navlékají hlavu do oprátky nových nesvo bod. Měsíce plné šťastných návratů, nových začátků, ale i surových odplat, kamuflování pofiderních válečných kariér, sebevražd a zklamání. Dramatický příběh rodiny Šámalových a jejich nalezených dětí se protíná s příbě hem lékaře a kozáka Nikolaje Kelina, který kdysi utekl z Ruska, aby se zde dočkal poválečného zatčení NKVD a jen zázrakem unikl deportaci na Sibiř. Loupežné vraždy německých farářů na Broumovsku se „potkávají“ s pří během zachráněné velbloudice, kterou odvádějí skauti do pražské zoo. Čestná jednotka „partyzánů“ při odha lování pamětní desky přestřelí dráty vysokého napětí, které pak zabíjejí v davu. Václav Černý putuje rodným Náchodskem. Ostatně je to on, kdo na jednom místě svých vzpomínek píše: „Historiku, věz, že dějiny naší soudobé národní krize budeš musit zahájit už tou roz ptýlenou a bezděkou kocovinou českých myslí v druhé půli roku pětačtyřicátého.“ ISBN 978-80-275-1083-2

Miloš Doležal (born 1970) is a poet, prose writer, documentarist and editor. He has written and co -written many radio programmes and documentaries about wartime and the communist terror of the 1950s, and conducted many book-based interviews. His best-known book is As If We Should Die Today / Jako bychom dnes zemřít měli, a mono graph about Fr. Josef Toufar, a martyr of the communist regime. Host has published the author’s books Čurda from Hlína / Čurda z Hlíny (2019) and To the Last / Do posledních sil (2020).

The capitulation has been signed; the scent of lilac is in the air. The war is over, but the world will never be the same again.

1945: Summer of Demons /

1945: Léto běsů

documentary short stories

paperback 400 pages isbn 978-80-275-1083-2

This is the third part of an intended tetralogy. The demons have not gone away. Instead, they have made a home in people, often in elaborate disguise. Although Czechoslovaks welcome freedom and peace, the noose of new unfreedoms is closing around their necks — sometimes with their knowledge. These months are filled with happy returns and new beginnings, but also with brutal reprisals, camou flaging of perfidious war-time careers, suicides and disappointments. The dramatic story of the Šámal family and their found children intersects with that of physician and Cossack Nikolai Kelin. Reports of the robbery-homicides involving German priests in and around Broumov gives way to the tale of a res cued camel taken by scouts to Prague Zoo.

‘When I was writing Čurda from Hlína, I imagined it as part of a trilogy: a protectorate of informers, a protectorate of the brave, stories from the Fifties and Sixties. But I soon realized that 1945, notably its second half, is a period in its own right, and that it delivered much of the material that would fuel the communist putsch and the red terror. So I de cided to devote a whole book to it,’ says the author.

Miloš Doležal / Host

Doležal

jara,

1945

Václav Černý

Nikolaj Kelin P. Albanus P. Cölestin

Kobylí důl

Velbloudice Pepita

P. Ansgar Schmitt

Kapitulace je podepsána, šeříky voní. Je po válce, ale svět už nikdy nebude jako dřív.

Miloš

Dana Beranová (born 1976) works as a radiologist’s assistant. Her first fantasy novel was Eve and the Book of Knowledge / Eva a Kniha poznání (2014). Her short story Never Say Never / Nikdy neříkej nikdy appeared in the anthology Woman with Lion / Žena se lvem (2016). Apart from fiction, she writes poems and song lyrics.

The Magpie’s Song / Zpěv straky

Impressive fantasy novel featuring a heroine whose aim is to heal and repair human lives, not change the world by force.

In a world without hope, not even the voice of truth sounds sweet… Since a mad, power-hungry ruler decided to slaughter everyone he couldn’t turn into a soldier, the world has become a place without science, art and hope. A place where comfort is hard to find. A young witch called Henika has been spurned by her bully of a mother. But her life now has purpose. In the company of her trusted friends Monster the mare and a magpie with secrets, she gives help wherever her skills as a healer are needed. Whether in the city whose gates are closed to all, with a troop of child soldiers on a very strange mission, or at the castle, where an extremely suspicious newborn has appeared, she must always weigh up what she has to gain against what she has to lose.

fantasy novel hardback 232 pages isbn 978-80-275-1359-8

Pain and suffering take many miscellaneous forms, but the torment of souls varies surprisingly little. And this kind of wound is the hardest to heal. It is up to Henika to find a way to heal a land and its people.

18 Fantasy, Young Adult Dana Beranová

HOST

Ve světě bez naděje ani hlas pravdy nezní líbezně.

Dana Beranová

Zuzana Hartmanová (born 1990) is a writer of fantasy fiction. She also writes reviews for the popular online website Children of the Night / Děti noci. Her literary debut was the short novel Night Swan / Noční labuť (2017), which she followed up with the novel Night Wings / Perutě noci (2019). Her trilogy Rats of the Apocalypse / Krysy apokalypsy began in 2020 with the novel Before the Storm / Před bouří The second part, Eye of the Storm / Oko bouře, appeared a year later.

Concluding part of the post-apocalyptic trilogy Rats of the Apocalypse.

Too many mistakes — and a heavy dose of madness — have brought about the downfall of the self-proclaimed Redeemer. His power hangs by a thread, and his options are running out fast. Meanwhile, Hiramoto has come to settle old scores, and ruins in the east promise new beginnings and relative safety for Arumiel’s adversaries. But magic has yet to have the last word.

published in September fantasy novel paperback 400 pages isbn 978-80-275-1370-3

If a new god can be created and used to bring back Vulpe, the inhabitants of Ler might gain just a little more time. But efforts to secure the return of the original head of Ler’s pantheon may come at a higher price than the demons are prepared to pay. All anyone can do is pick up the pieces of a shattered world and the lives within it and hope for the best.

19 Fantasy, Young Adult The Storm’s Dawn / Bouřný úsvit Zuzana Hartmanová

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Krysy apokalypsy KNIHA TRETI

ZUZANA HARTMANOVA

Petra Slováková (born 1987) published the collection of short stories The Iron Night and Other Oddities / Železonoc a jiné podivnosti (2012), the book of two cyberpunk novellas The Cricket in a Box / Cvrček v krabičce (2012) and the steampunk novel The Demon of the East End / Démon z East Endu (2015), which was shortlisted for the Aeronautilus prize. Abroad, her work has appeared in the antho logies Dreams from Beyond (2016) and Steampunk Writers around the World (2017).

Memories of Tomorrow / Vzpomínky na zítřek

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Culmination of the story begun in Fragments of Time / Střípky času and continued in Lord of the Wizards / Pán čarodějů.

Jana has been left alone and crushed by circum stances. Peter has gone, and other leaders are trying to kill the wizards of his gang. Not only must our time traveller pull herself together, but she must also discover the full capabilities of her powers.

No one can help her but the Nameless Wizard, a mighty warlock said to have lost his memory and humanity to a curse. Reis is trying to keep the police department running, although the cases are piling up so fast that the whole operation is threatening to fall apart. Jana refuses to give up hope of finding Peter, no matter the cost. And now more truths are surfacing: about their parents’ pasts and secrets in which the police are embroiled.

fantasy YA novel

paperback 583 pages isbn 978-80-275-1366-6

The stakes seem impossibly high, for some things are clearly beyond recovery. And our heroes aren’t the only ones in danger; the whole city is, too. The situation could be saved by a new society capable of restoring old agreements and so establishing peace. But the rules of old are long gone now, and few would want them back. The war of the wizards has broken out!

Petra Slováková

Jan-Marek Šík, Lenka Šíková

The Three / Trojice

Jan-Marek Šík (born 1988), a graduate in Swedish and Finnish, is currently at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University, where he is lecturing on Finnish literature. He is also an occasional translator and reviewer. In 2019 he published his debut novel The Ritual / Rituál, co -authored with his wife.

Like her husband, Lenka Šíková (born 1988) has been a writer since childhood. Since completing her studies in French, Linguistics and Phonetics at the Faculty of Arts of Charles Uni versity, she has worked in these areas.

Three friends, three kingdoms, three lives. The second part of the story that began with The Ritual / Rituál.

Edra has passed through the Ritual and become an adult. As she adjusts to her new life — a life she never wanted — she is searching for a way back to herself and to people she knew before. The mystery of the enchanted amulet remains unsolved, the Judge is silent, and Edra and her friends are again confronted by many questions with no apparent answers. Only one thing is certain: still not safe from evil, they must learn to rely on themselves. What is more, war has broken out beyond their country’s borders, and this war will soon affect Edra more than she could have imagined.

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fantasy YA novel

paperback 488 pages isbn 978-80-275-1087-0

The second part of the story of Edra, Ingerda and Malena takes us further into the search for the causes of evil threatening their world. How will the girls cope with the adulthood the Judge has in store for them? Who is trying to destroy their world? And what can they do about this?

Highly recommended

Alena Mornštajnová

620,000 copies sold books published in 16 languages (English, German, Russian, French, Arabic, Polish, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovenian, Croatian, Latvian, Slovak, Greek, Hungarian, Dutch and Turkish), rights sold to Italy, Serbia and Armenia

Kateřina Tučková

360,000 copies sold books published in 19 languages (English, German, Spanish, Russian, Italian, Arabic, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Polish, Romanian, Macedonian, Slovenian, Slovakian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian, Belarusian, Greek and Latvian), rights sold to France, The Netherlands and Lithuania

Jan Němec

25,000 copies sold

books published in 13 languages (German, Spanish, Russian, Italian, Arabic, Polish, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Croatian, Hungarian, Slo venian and Latvian), rights sold to Albania

180,000 copies sold

books published in 14 languages (German, Italian, Russian, Danish, Slovenian, Polish, Bulga rian, Croatian, Hungarian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Serbian, Albanian and Vietnamese)

Petra Soukupová

40,000 copies sold

books published in 8 languages (German, Spanish, Catalan, Arabic, Italian, Macedonian, Bulgarian and Croatian), rights sold to Poland

Jiří Hájíček

115,000 copies sold

books published in 11 languages (English, German, Italian, Hungarian, Croatian, Macedo nian, Belarussian, Polish, Albanian, Bulgarian and Ukrainian), rights sold to Slovenia and Latvia

Viktorie Hanišová

Selected backlist

Antonín Bajaja

Burying the Season / Na krásné modré Dřevnici novel; 2009

Pavel Bareš

The Cronos Legacy / Kronův odkaz sci-fi novel; 2021

Meta / Meta fantasy thriller; 2020

Children of Cronos / Kronovy děti sci-fi novel; 2019

The Cronos Project / Projekt Kronos sci-fi novel; 2017, 2019

Simona Bohatá

Lucky Beny / Klikař Beny novel; 2021

Everybody Sucks / Všichni sou trapný novella; 2019

Miloš Doležal

To the Last / Do posledních sil documentary short stories; 2020

Čurda from Hlína / Čurda z Hlíny documentary short stories; 2019

Petra Dvořáková

Crows / Vrány novella; 2020

The Surgeon / Chirurg novel; 2019, 2020

The Village / Dědina novel; 2018, 2020

Everyone Has a Line to Hold / Každý má svou lajnu children’s book; 2017

The Net / Sítě three short stories; 2016

Flouk and Lila / Flouk a Líla children’s book; 2015

Julie and Words / Julie mezi slovy children’s book; 2013, 2020

I am Hunger / Já jsem hlad non-fiction; 2009, 2013

Transformed Dreams / Proměněné sny non-fiction; 2006, 2013

Jan Folný

A Weekend in London / Víkend v Londýně novel; 2018

Little Queers / Buzíčci short stories; 2013

Jiří Hájíček

Sailing Ships on Labels / Plachetnice na vinětách novel; 2020, 2021

The Rainstick / Dešťová hůl novel; 2016, 2017

Memories of a Village Dance / Vzpomínky na jednu vesnickou tancovačku short stories; 2014, 2015

Fish Blood / Rybí krev novel; 2012, 2014

Football Diaries / Fotbalové deníky novella; 2007

Rustic Baroque / Selský baroko novel; 2005, 2009, 2013

The Green Horse Rustlers / Zloději zelených koní novel; 2001, 2016

Viktorie Hanišová Concrete and Clay / Beton a hlína book of interviews; 2021

A Long Track / Dlouhá trať short stories; 2020 Reconstruction / Rekonstrukce novel; 2019, 2020

The Mushroom Gatherer / Houbařka novel; 2018, 2020

Anežka / Anežka novel; 2015

Matěj Hořava Stopover / Mezipřistání novella; 2020

Distilled Spirit / Pálenka novella; 2014

Lidmila Kábrtová

Waiting for the Trigger / Čekání na spoušť novel; 2021

Places in the Dark / Místa ve tmě short stories; 2018

Whom Foxes Drink Up / Koho vypijou lišky short stories; 2013

Jakuba Katalpa

Zuzana’s Breath / Zuzanin dech novel; 2020, 2021

The Den / Doupě novel; 2017, 2021

Germans / Němci novel; 2012, 2014

Is Soil to Be Eaten? / Je hlína k snědku? novella; 2006, 2021

Petra Klabouchová

Sources of the Moldau / Prameny Vltavy detective novel; 2021

Hana Kolaříková

Real Leopard-skin Coat / Pravý leopardí kožich novel; 2017

Přemysl Krejčík

Chocolate for the Wehrmacht / Čokoláda pro Wehrmacht diesel punk novel / alternative history; 2021

Little NY / Malej NY novel / thriller; 2019

Martina Leierová

This Town, This River / Toto město, tato řeka novel; 2021

House With a Borrowed View / Dům s vypůjčeným výhledem novel; 2017

Eugen Liška

The Creation / Stvoření novel; 2017

Petra Machová

Vendetta / Krevní msta fantasy YA novel; 2022

The Bond of Shadow / Pouto stínu fantasy YA novel; 2019

Dragontown / Dračí město fantasy YA novel; 2018

Vratislav Maňák

The Death of the Old Masha / Smrt staré Maši short stories; 2022

Rubik’s Cube / Rubikova kostka novel; 2016

Polythene Clothes / Šaty z igelitu short stories; 2011

Alena Mornštajnová

November Fall / Listopád novel; 2021, 2022

The Years of Silence / Tiché roky novel; 2019, 2021

Hana / Hana novel; 2017, 2018

The Little Hotel / Hotýlek novel; 2015, 2018

Blind Map / Slepá mapa novel; 2013, 2018

Ivana Myšková

White Animals Are Very Often Deaf / Bílá zvířata jsou velmi často hluchá short stories; 2017

Luděk Navara New Iron Curtain Stories / Nové příběhy železné opony non-fiction; 2007

Iron Curtain Stories 2 / Příběhy železné opony 2 non-fiction; 2006

Iron Curtain Stories / Příběhy železné opony non-fiction; 2004, 2020

Jan Němec

Ways of Writing about Love / Možnosti milostného románu novel; 2019, 2020

A History of Light / Dějiny světla novel; 2013, 2014

Jiří Padevět 1945 / 1945 short stories; 2022 Republic / Republika short stories; 2020

Dreams and Axes / Sny a sekyry short stories; 2019

Barbed Wire and Nooses / Ostny a oprátky short stories; 2018

Daniel Petr Reading the Movement of Coordinates / Odečítání pohybu souřadnic novel; 2022

Nurse Death / Sestra smrt detective novel; 2018

The Magpie on the Gallows / Straka na šibenici novel; 2015

Michal Přibáň

Only Twice for Everything / Všechno je jenom dvakrát novel; 2016

Nela Rywiková

Children of Anger / Děti hněvu detective novel; 2016

House No. 6 / Dům číslo 6 detective novel; 2013

Petra Slováková

Lord of the Wizards / Pán čarodějů fantasy YA novel; 2020

Fragments of Time / Střípky času fantasy YA novel; 2019

Petra Soukupová

Things Whose Time Has Come / Věci, na které nastal čas novel; 2020, 2021

Weird Kids’ Club / Klub divných dětí children’s book; 2019

Who Killed Snowy? / Kdo zabil Snížka? children’s book; 2017

Best for Everybody / Nejlepší pro všechny novel; 2017, 2018

Under the Snow / Pod sněhem novel; 2015, 2015

Bertie and the Snuffler / Bertík a čmuchadlo children’s book; 2014

Marta in the Year of the Alien / Marta v roce vetřelce novel / diary; 2011

To Disappear / Zmizet three short stories; 2009, 2011

To the Seaside / K moři novella; 2007

Petra Stehlíková

Nasterea / Nasterea fantasy novel; 2021, 2022

Faja / Faja fantasy novel; 2017, 2019

The Listener / Naslouchač fantasy novel; 2016, 2018

Michal Sýkora

A Case for the Exorcist / Případ pro exorcistu detective novel; 2021

Worst Fears / Nejhorší obavy three detective stories; 2020

Five Dead Dogs / Pět mrvých psů detective novel; 2018

It’s Not Over Yet / Ještě není konec detective novel; 2016

Blue Shadows / Modré stíny detective novel; 2013

Dita Táborská

Black Tongues / Černé jazyky novel; 2021

Běsa / Běsa novel; 2018, 2021

Malinka / Malinka novel; 2017, 2021

Kateřina Tučková

Bílá Voda / Bílá Voda novel; 2022

The Last Goddess / Žítkovské bohyně novel; 2012, 2013

Gerta / Vyhnání Gerty Schnirch novel; 2009, 2010

Vladimíra Valová

To the Interior / Do vnitrozemí short stories; 2017

Lukáš Vavrečka

Tesla Noir / Tesla Noir sci-fi thriller; 2020

Michal Vrba

Ask the Devil / Zeptej se ďábla novel; 2021

Sára Vybíralová Trigger / Spoušť short stories; 2015

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