Exportní katalog Frankfurt 2018

foreign rights catalogue 2018

Host — vydava­telství, s. r. o.

Radlas 5 602 00 Brno Czech Republic www.hostbrno.cz foreign rights Dana Blatná tel.: +420 608 748 157 e-mail: blatna@hostbrno.cz

Host has long been one of the most prestigious Czech publishers, especially in the area of contemporary Czech fiction, translated fiction, crime novels and thrillers, poetry, non-fiction and specialist literature. Now Host publishes children’s, SF, fantasy and YA literature, too.

The roots and interests of Brno based Host Publishers are linked with the magazine of the same name, which first appeared, in samizdat, in 1985. On the Czech book market Host now has the profile of a practically unique phenomenon. This is thanks to its well established editorial series, authors whose names are among the most prestigious and successful in Czech literature and the Host monthly magazine, which reflects on and enriches the Czech literary scene.

Host has introduced to Czech readers the crime novels of Stieg Larsson, ­David Lager­crantz, Lars Kepler, ­Jussi Adler­-Olsen, Peter May and Henning Mankell, which have been quick to occupy the top of the sales charts. Books by Czech authors Kateřina Tučková, Petra Soukupová, Jan Balabán, Jiří Hájíček, Bianca Bellová and Alena Mornštajnová have also become bestsellers. But Host can of course

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take pride in more than just its leading role in the sales charts. The content of its catalogue of publications is of remarkably high quality and includes many leading writers from abroad, including Jeffrey Eugenides, Olga Tokarczuk, Chimamanda Ngozi ­Adichie, Muriel Barbery, Fredrik Backman, Elena Chizhova and Czech writers including Antonín Bajaja, Radka Denemarková, Jakuba Katalpa, Jan Němec, Ivana Myšková and Petra Dvořáková. Host provides opportunities for début authors, too, be they poets, prose writers or scholars of literature (e.g. Matěj Hořava, Viktorie Hanišová, Dita Táborská, Vladimíra Valová).

Host has also provided a home for the prestigious Czech Library / Česká knižnice series of high-quality editions of classic Czech works. Since 2009 Host has published annually a volume entitled The Best Czech Poetry / Nejlepší české básně.

Contents

Petra Dvořáková The Village / Dědina novel; 7

Viktorie Hanišová The Mushroom Gatherer / Houbařka novel; 8

Daniel Petr Nurse Death / Sestra smrt detective novel; 9

Michal Sýkora Five Dead Dogs / Pět mrtvých psů detective novel; 10

Dita Táborská Běsa / Běsa novel; 11

Lidmila Kábrtová Places in the Dark / Místa ve tmě short stories; 12

František Čech Wild Deal / Divoký obchod legal thriller; 13

Jan Jícha The Headmaster and the Hydra / Ředitel a hydra humorous novel; 14

Jan Folný A Weekend in London / Víkend v Londýně novel; 15

Jiří Padevět Ostny a oprátky / Thorns and Nooses book of short prose; 16

Vilém Koubek The Blade of Entropy / Čepel entropie horror / humorous novel; 17

Petra Machová Dragontown / Dračí město fantasy YA novel; 18

Jan Hamouz The Half-King / Poloviční král fantasy novel; 19

Petra Dvořáková

The Village / Dědina

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Petra Dvořáková (born 1977) is a no­ velist and screenwriter and author of seven books. For a series of inter­ views entitled Transformed Dreams / Proměněné sny she won the Magnesia Litera prize for a work of journalism in 2007. For her first book for children Julie and Words / Julie mezi slovy she was awarded the Golden Ribbon prize (for a work of fiction for young readers) and the Teachers’ Prize (for her contribution to encouraging reading among children). Her books have been published in Slovenia and Albania.

Fields, envy, lust, home and heritage.

A place you’ll want to read about. This brisk narrative passes judgement on no one.

And above all, it’s an exhilarating read.

published in April 2018

novel hardback 248 pages isbn 978-80-7577-476-7 rights sold to: Poland (Stara Szkoła)

Boundaries ploughed between fields and people.

A pub, a small shop, pig­‑slaughtering. Infidelity and a funeral that goes wrong. Old married couples grown together like two trees. A life given over to the soil, the animals and the farm. All this is The Village, the story of a small community today through the eyes of one who lives there.

Josef agonizes over his son’s refusal to take over the farm, when so much needs to be done in the fields to remedy the damage caused by the cooperative. But Zbyňa won’t be moved. The Vavirek family wonder where the next crown is coming from, kindly shopkeeper Maruna tries to get along with everyone, while Láďa the butcher is keen to play away from home.

As for little Petruna, she won’t be still for a moment.

The natural physical proximity of the protagonists, the work they share, their dreams of making their lives better and their self­‑interest are sources of never­ ‑ending disagreement but also ties that bind, as are futile efforts to heal old wounds.

Viktorie Hanišová

The Mushroom Gatherer / Houbařka

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Viktorie Hanišová (born 1980) is a prose writer, she is the author of two books. She is a graduate in English and German from Charles University, Prague, and she works as a translator and language teacher.

In 2015 she debuted with the novel Anežka / Anežka, which was very well received. Rights for this novel have been sold to a publisher in Bulgaria.

Mycelium covers all manner of things…

The story in this novel is backgrounded by a family secret, which the protagonist has carried around since childhood and is trying to forget.

published in February 2018

novel hardback 309 pages isbn 978-80-7577-456-9

Viktorie Hanišová made her debut in 2015 with Anežka, a very well­‑received novel about a complicated relationship between a mother and her adopted daughter, hidden racism and stereotyping.

Sára, the protagonist of Hanišová’s latest novel The Mushroom Gatherer, lives in an old cottage in the Bohemian Forest, where she makes her living by gathering mushrooms. Every morning, she pulls on aged walking boots, grabs a basket and a dishcloth, caresses the sharp knife in her pocket and sets out. She has been following the same trail for seven years; for seven years, from spring to autumn, she has been picking mushrooms in the same places and selling them for a few hundred crowns. A hermit by choice, she has no friends and leaves the foothills only occasionally, to visit a psychiatrist in Plzeň, whom she strives to convince that her mental health is stable. So news of her mother’s death does little to change Sára’s life.

But what seems of little consequence on the surface is raging down below.

Daniel Petr

Nurse Death / Sestra smrt

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Daniel Petr (born 1975) is a novelist, short­‑story writer and playwright, he is the author of four books. He first became widely known to readers with his third prose work, the novel The Magpie on the Gallows / Straka na šibenici (2015), which was shortlisted both for a Magnesia Litera prize and the Josef Škvorecký Award. His work has also appeared in many literary journals.

An investigator forever in trouble, his colleague whose air of slight bafflement adds to her appeal, a mystery­-filled plot, rough ways of settling accounts, plus a truly inhospitable setting. published in March 2018

detective novel hardback 342 pages isbn 978-80-7577-455-2 rights sold to: Poland (Afera), Macedonia (Drushtvo za uslugi NORSHA DOOEL Skopje)

Václav Rákos, a criminal investigator from Ústí, heads to the hospital in Rumburk suspecting that a recently deceased patient was a victim of murder, not methanol poisoning. Rákos is convinced of a connection between the woman’s death and the case of a nurse charged with poisoning six patients with potassium.

Not long afterwards, an employee of the national park at nearby Doubice is murdered. The evidence points at Miloš Bjelej, a convicted criminal from the Yugoslav Wars, who was once a military advisor in Pardubice. The thing is, Bjelej has been officially dead for ten years.

In this uncommonly long, heavy winter, Václav Rákos discovers that the murders in Rumburk and thereabouts have come from a place much darker than the one he was suspecting.

Michal Sýkora

Five Dead Dogs / Pět mrtvých psů

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Michal Sýkora (born 1971) is the author of a two­‑volume monograph on Vladimir Nabokov and two other works of literary scholarship, and the author of the detec­ tive novel series comprising A Case for an Exorcist / Případ pro exorcistu (2012), Blue Shadows / Modré stíny (2013), It’s Not Over Yet / Ještě není konec (2016) and Five Dead Dogs / Pět mrtvých psů (2018). These books star the idiosyncratic Commissioner Marie Výrová, whose cases have been turned into a successful television series. The author’s work also appears in the anthology Prague Noir (Akashic 2017, USA).

The film version of this book (directed by leading Czech filmmaker Jan Hřebejk) was named Best TV Film and Miniseries of 2016 in the popular iDNES.cz readers’ survey.

published in June 2018

detective novel hardback 383 pages isbn 978-80-7577-473-6

One night, a group of masked men breaks into a zoo, murders the gatekeeper and steals three American bears.

A team of detectives led by Commissioner Marie Výrová are on the case. At first, their investigation is fruitless: the basic question — why would someone need live bears? — remains unanswered. Then a suspect is killed by one of his accomplices, and the detectives can be in no doubt that they are up against a very dangerous adversary.

Young police officer Kristýna Horová, a former colleague of the team, has been disciplined with a transfer to the district station in Šternberk, where she is looking into the discovery of five dead dogs carelessly buried in the woods. After her investigations lead her to dog fights organized by an ‘influential entrepreneur’ who lives locally, she reaches the conclusion that the two cases are linked. Suspense, the light and dark sides of human nature made manifest in a small town in Moravia, plus, of course, the singular police commissioner Marie Výrová…

This next instalment of the successful crime series is also known from TV. The conclusion of the novel differs from the storyline of the TV film.

Dita Táborská

Běsa / Běsa

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Dita Táborská (born 1981) is a prose writer, she is the author of two books.

She graduated from the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague.

Having worked with Czech Television and Czech Radio and in the political and press department of the Israeli embassy, she joined the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2009. Currently she works in Taiwan.

The novel Běsa is a many­‑layered existential drama that is a loose continuation of the author’s highly successful novel Malinka (2017).

published in June 2018

novel hardback 360 pages isbn 978-80-7577-583-2

Běla and Sabina are identical twins. Their extra­ordi­ nari­ly powerful childhood bond unravels because of a battle with drugs from which only one of the sisters will emerge victorious. Once that battle is over, their mother will be overwhelmed by self­‑pity as she expends most of her thoughts and love on the lost child. The other child loses her mother as well as her twin.

Vitalij was born in a Czech village in Ukraine, in the year of the girls’ birth. Now an adult, he decides to visit the home of his forebears, a land he longs to see. Once in Prague, however, he becomes involved with Luboš, a pimp and dealer in foreign workers who deprives him of all his illusions.

Then a child is born who connects the fates of all the protagonists, forcing them to reappraise their understanding of all it means to be a sister, a mother… and a father, too.

Lidmila Kábrtová

Places in the Dark / Místa ve tmě

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Lidmila Kábrtová (born 1971) is the ­author of several radio plays in the One­‑minute Plays series by Czech Radio 3 (Vltava). Her first work of fiction was the experimental Whom Foxes Drink Up / Koho vypijou lišky (2013), which comprises chapters of exactly fifty words.

Loosely connected stories describing what goes on beneath the surface of the every­day.

The female pro­tagonists are off kilter and chaotic, but from a literary point of view everything is exactly where it should be. published in October 2018

short stories hardback 215 pages isbn 978-80-7577-605-1

Tereza is divorced and spices up her life with lovers.

Klára is a bird in a golden cage. Eva has sacrificed herself to her children and family. Karla wants to enjoy life to the full. Alice is doing what she can not to be a cry­‑baby like her mother. Petra has had about as much as she can take and is planning something drastic.

Magdalena begins to yearn for something. Their stories may be different, but at a certain moment these women meet and enter each other’s lives without their even realizing it.

Lidmila Kábrtová follows her experimental debut Whom Foxes Drink Up with stories of astonishing clarity.

As in the short stories of Canada’s Alice Munro, words are handled like transparent foil, with nothing standing in the way of what is essential. Moments move about on tectonic plates somewhere beneath the surface of the everyday, and nothing will be as it used to be. But anyway, did it really use to be that way?

František Čech

Wild Deal / Divoký obchod

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František Čech (born 1984) graduated from the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague. He has studied and worked in the United States, Britain and Australia. Wild Deal / Divoký obchod is his first work of fiction.

A legal thriller from the time of wild photovoltaics, set in remote villages in the borderlands of the Eastern Sudetes.

published in September 2018

legal thriller hardback 416 pages isbn 978-80-7577-607-5

Successful Prague lawyer Petr Cihlář is taken from gleaming meeting rooms to the region of Jesenicko in teh Eastern Sudetes, where an unusual task awaits him. In the company of a demanding client and an attractive female paralegal, he must complete a deal on which two things depend — a high fee for his employer and Cihlář’s own career. He has barely recovered from a weekend tour of Prague night clubs when he finds himself investigating a warehouse fire with no obvious explanation, the death of a rustic vagrant and a disconnected solar power plant, among other things.

Meanwhile, in the blooming meadows and wooded hills of the borderlands, the locals struggle with a life that lacks scruples and restraint as well as being short of money. The police try to keep their working lives as tranquil as ever, young entrepreneurs do their best to make a quick buck, and men of dubious reputation keep a low profile.

The well­‑turned­‑out lawyers from the big city face a level of acceptance they weren’t expecting. But this is not a major cause of bother for Petr Cihlář…

Jan Jícha

The Headmaster and the Hydra / Ředitel a hydra

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Jan Jícha (born 1980) is a writer and songsmith. His first book, published in 2002, was the satirical self­‑help book A Twit at University: How to study and keep your mind / Prevít na vysoké aneb Jak vystudovat a nezblbnout, themes of which were continued in A Twit in the Secret Service / Prevít v tajných službách (2003), which is about studying abroad. He has also published several novels, travelogues, two volumes of short prose and Literary Monads / Literární monády/, “a text­ book on literature for a new age”.

The school of magic in this humorous novel is tormented by admin in much the same way as any other primary school today… Here comes the Hydra with the rubber stamp.

published in October 2018

humorous novel hardback 424 pages isbn 978-80-7577-606-8

Alfred the magician, the hero of this humorous novel, doesn’t like children. He likes cigarettes. Alfred can do magic, and he does it for the kids — so that he can buy cigarettes, take a hot bath, then move on to the next port of call. But then, after one of his never­‑changing shows, the grim contentment of his life is disturbed by a stranger with a peculiar offer. Would Alfred like to become headmaster of the school of magic in Pimplesville? Because of his degree in primary‑school teaching, not because of his magical abilities. The school is about to receive a government inspection, something no magic can help with. And there’s a heck of a lot of paperwork to get through first.

The humorous novel The Headmaster and the Hydra looks at the shape today’s education is in, together with its problems and challenges. Although it contains magic, it is mainly about children, love of learning and undying curiosity. Oh, and roasted sparrows too.

Jan Folný

A Weekend in London / Víkend v Londýně

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Jan Folný (born 1977) is a novelist and short­‑story writer, he is the author of three books. He lives in London. His debut work as a writer was Push/Pull / Od sebe / k sobě (2010), which draws on his experiences during a three­‑year stay in Ireland. His collection of short stories Little Queers / Buzíčci (2013) was very well received by readers.

Petr’s bare backside rests in camomile tea as he dreams of wild sex.

Marek plans to commit suicide. Adam wants to get married and perhaps have a child…

A novel about how there may no longer be time to do everything in life. published in February 2018

novel hardback 248 pages isbn 978-80-7577-412-5

The average Czech man lives for seventy­‑six years, which means that if you’re a man and you’re forty, you’re into the second half of your life. The worse half.

Angst has set in about the amount of time remaining to you, the person you have become and the person you will never be. As you learn to accept that your life is finite, you begin to realize that there’s little chance that anything will change. What’s more, if you feel that in the first half of your life there were things you neglected, missed out on or underappreciated, now is your last opportunity to put this right.

Three friends and former schoolmates prepare a weekend bender in London to celebrate their fortieth birthdays. Booze, sex, food, football and a good natter about everything and nothing. All this to calm their feelings about the need to take stock of their lives. But in the course of this weekend, more will change than just their age.

Jiří Padevět

Ostny a oprátky / Thorns and Nooses

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Jiří Padevět (born 1966) is the author of several historical guides, including A Guide to Prague in the Protectorate / Průvodce protektorátní Prahou, Three Kings / Tři králové, The Bloody Finale / Krvavé finale and 1945: The Summer of Blood / Krvavé léto 1945, plus two books of short prose, Notes on History / Poznámky k dějinám and Fragments of Time, Landscape, Conspiracy: A Diary Discovered / Střepy času, krajin, konspirací: Nalezený deník. For A Guide to Prague in the Protectorate he won the Magnesia Litera Book of the Year Award.

Everyday lives at moments which will have historic consequences.

The two­‑time winner of a Magnesia Litera prize has created a ­mosaic of situations played out at key moments of the twentieth century. published in May 2018

book of short prose hardback 136 pages isbn 978-80-7577-475-0

Who was the boy given a shoe­‑polish moustache by a young Ludwig Wittgenstein? Why did the assistant of a Prague executioner take a spare shirt to work? What did President Edvard Beneš do when Klement Gottwald noticed he was wearing odd socks?

Histories great and small. Do they intersect or pass each other by? Do they know of each other, or does each move to its own rhythm? In concisely drawn situations and microstories, writer and publisher Jiří Padevět shows that even at moments when history is made, its actors, architects and victims never stop being ordinary people contending with their own weaknesses, routines and thoughts of the future. They walk through the tragic monumentality of history in holey socks. Shoe polish can determine the fate of a nation.

More convincing than any fact, the situations in Jiří Padevět’s book of short prose go to show that history isn’t what we read about in textbooks. Indeed, it may be what we’re living through right now, even though we don’t realize it.

Vilém Koubek

The Blade of Entropy / Čepel entropie

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Vilém Koubek (born 1988) is co­‑author of the graphic novel The Corrector / Korektor (2014). The Blade of Entropy is his first work of prose fiction.

Although The Blade of Entropy declares proud allegiance to Splatterpunk, in places it reminds us of the work of H. P. Lovecraft.

It makes bold use of elements of Bizarro horror fiction, too. published in August 2018

horror / humorous novel paperback 238 pages isbn 978-80-7577-608-2

Tonda Vořezálek opens his eyes to the world he died in. Again he meets his loving wife and his friends from the cosy rest home for the elderly — then he kills them one by one. He has returned in the company of a demon from the underworld, and this demon is hungry and looking for entertainment. But the demon soon discovers that the human world is not the idyllic place of legend or as described by Hell’s travel agencies.

He finds himself pursued by hunters, bad luck and, so it seems, ancient powers. Unable to escape them all, his carefree murder spree becomes a battle for survival. He pits himself against Satan, discovers how powerful an Earl Grey decoction can be and — as he tips over into madness — rides the length of the part of the D1 motorway that is open to traffic. The apocalypse that eventually unfolds around him will affect the whole planet.

A massacre replete with black humour and cynicism.

Petra Machová

Dragontown / Dračí město

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Petra Machová’s (born 1988) stories have appeared in several anthologies.

Her story ‘Star Rangers’ / ‘Strážci hvězd’, which appeared in the collection The Whimsical Fantastic / Rozmarná fantastika, was shortlisted for the Prize of the Academy of SF, Fantasy and Horror. The novel Dragontown is her first book and the first part of a trilogy.

As humans explore deep space, little do they know who they are sharing planet Earth with.

published in August 2018

fantasy YA novel hardback 416 pages isbn 978-80-7577-600-6

The lizard descendants of the Eternal Fire know how to blend in with the crowd. But at the dawn of a new millennium, their society is dying. Old disputes smoulder among the individual breeds — some have adapted to humanity at the cost of their own identity; others have hidden deep in the earth, indifferent to problems on the surface. Hemmed in by humans on one side and aggressive beasts on the other, they are hanging by a thread. A single spark would be enough to bring about the collapse of their world… So it’s no wonder that some of them are taking matters into their own hands.

A human girl called Jana, who was turned into a lizard against her will, has no inkling of the great danger she is in. Terrified by the powers she has acquired, she flees to the forest, where she happens upon a mysterious temple. How Jana deals with what happens next could affect the entire lizard civilization.

Dragontown opens a door to a world in which cheerless reality shades into a suspenseful, fantastical, original YA scenario.

Jan Hamouz

The Half-King / Poloviční král

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Jan Hamouz (born 1986) lives in Prague and makes his living designing bridges. In 2016, his short story ‘Štětec z velbloudí srsti’ was a prize-winning entry in the Mercenaries of Fantasy / Žoldnéři fantasie competition; his short story ‘Cvrdlikáček’ achieved the same distinction in 2017. The Half-King is his first novel.

One kingdom and three strangers whose destinies collide.

published in October 2018

fantasy novel paperback 519 pages isbn 978-80-7577-609-9

Following an attack from the east, the borderlands of Erenesia have been occupied by the enemy. King Trat’Hys has never given up without a fight, and he doesn’t intend to start now. He leads out his army to take back what has always been his, so ending once and for all this protracted war between neighbours.

Little does he know, however, that he will be waging his greatest battle with his own son.

To the north, the King’s new representative governs with an iron hand. A single slip on a wretched evening and Lheiwen gets to feel the full force of its cruelty.

In the process, her first love brings her not insane joy and a lifetime of happiness but a pain she has never known.

Garro, a ship’s captain with a rather warped sense of honour, combs the waters of the Tora Sea for new victims for his gallant crew. Ready to do battle with practically anyone, there is one thing for which he is not prepared: an encounter with his dead love rattles him far more than sabre on sabre.

What’s more, all three are ignorant of the vast Horn army gathering far beyond the sea. And Horn warriors are larger and stronger than humans…

Highly recommended

Kateřina Tučková

220,000 copies sold

books published in 14 languages (German, Italian, Arabic, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Polish, Romanian, Macedonian, Slovenian, Slovakian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Belarusian, Serbian), rights sold to USA, Turkey and Latvia

Jan Němec

8,000 copies sold

novel A History of Light / Dějiny světla published in 9 languages (Italian, Polish, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Croatian, Hungarian, Slovenian, Latvian), rights sold to United Kingdom, Germany, Spain and Albania

Petra Soukupová

110,000 copies sold

books published in 8 languages (Polish, Italian, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Hungarian, Bosnian, Macedonian), rights sold to Russia, Serbia and Albania

Jiří Hájíček

80,000 copies sold

books published in 9 languages (English, Italian, Polish, Hungarian, Croatian, Macedonian, Belarusian, Bulgarian and Ukrainian), rights sold to Germany and Estonia

Alena Mornštajnová

80,000 copies sold

rights sold to Poland, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia and Slovakia

Selected backlist Antonín Bajaja Burying the Season / Na krásné modré Dřevnici novel; 2009

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

Pavel Bareš The Cronos Project / Projekt Kronos fantasy novel; 2017

The Net / Sítě triptych of short stories; 2016

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

Stanislav Beran The Vyšehrad Riders / Vyšehradští jezdci novel; 2016

The Iron­‑breaking Woman and the Fire Eater / Žena lamželezo a polykač ohně short stories; 2013

Days of Clay / Hliněné dny novel; 2009

When You Die, No One’ll Want to Touch Your Breast / Až umřeš, nikdo ti nebude chtít sahat na prsa short stories; 2007

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

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

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

Jan Folný Little Queers / Buzíčci short stories; 2013

Pavel Gotthard Meds for the Sad / Léky smutných novel; 2013

Vendula Borůvková Annie and the Berleps / Annie a berlepsové children’s book; 2014

Martina Boučková The Mystery of Grandpa’s Diary / Tajemství dědečkova deníku children’s book; 2014

Lenka Brodecká Looking for a Star / Hledá se hvězda children’s book; 2015

Petr Čichoň A Silesian Novel / Slezský román novel; 2011

Jakub Dotlačil The Other Lives of Hynek Harr / Jiné životy Hynka Harra novel; 2014

Jiří Hájíček 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

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

Viktorie Hanišová Anežka / Anežka novel; 2015

Matěj Hořava Distilled Spirit (Stories from the Banat) / Pálenka (Prózy z Banátu) short stories; 2014

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

Jakuba Katalpa The Den / Doupě novel; 2017

Germans / Němci novel; 2012, 2014

Daniel Klabal Isidorias / Isidorias historical novel; 2017

Hana Kolaříková Real Leopard­‑skin Coat / Pravý leopardí kožich novel; 2017

Stanislav Komárek Mandarins / Mandaríni novel; 2007

Daniel Krhut Dreams Smuggler / Pašerák snů novel; 2012

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

novel; 2005, 2009, 2013

The Wooden Knife / Dřevěný nůž short stories; 2004

Mainstream Adventurers / Dobrodruzi hlavního proudu novel; 2002

Eugen Liška The Creation / Stvoření novel; 2017

Roman Ludva Forgery / Falzum detective short stories; 2012

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Vratislav Maňák Rubik’s Cube / Rubikova kostka novel; 2016

Polythene Clothes / Šaty z igelitu short stories; 2011

Alena Mornštajnová Hana / Hana novel; 2017, 2018

The Little Hotel / Hotýlek novel; 2015, 2018

Blind Map / Slepá mapa novel; 2013, 2018

Nela Rywiková Children of Anger / Děti hněvu

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

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

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

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

Under the Snow / Pod sněhem 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 triptych of short stories; 2009, 2011

To the Seaside / K moři novella; 2007

Petra Stehlíková Faja / Faja fantasy novel; 2017

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

Martin Pecina Books and Typography / Knihy a typografie non­‑fiction; 2011, 2012, 2017

The Listener / Naslouchač fantasy; 2016

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

Blue Shadows / Modré stíny detective novel; 2013

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

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

novel; 2012

detective novel; 2016

novel; 2015, 2015

Ivana Myšková White Animals Are Very Often Deaf / Bílá zvířata jsou velmi často hluchá

Character / Charakter

Tereza Ščerbová Kooki / Krtník children’s book; 2016

Jiří Šimáček A Small Night­‑Time Fest / Malá noční žranice novel; 2014

Martin Šmaus A Chair for Štefan / Židle pro Štefana novel; 2008

Dita Táborská Malinka / Malinka novel; 2017

Kateřina Tučková The Žítková Goddesses / Žítkovské bohyně novel; 2012, 2013

The Expulsion of Gerta Schnirch / Vyhnání Gerty Schnirch novel; 2009, 2010

Vladimíra Valová To the Interior / Do vnitrozemí short stories; 2017

Sára Vybíralová Trigger / Spoušť short stories; 2015