Host foreign rights catalogue spring 2025 / Exportní katalog nakladatelství Host jaro 2025

Spring

foreign rights catalogue 2025

Host — vydava­telství, s. r. o.

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

At Host, one of the largest independent publishing houses in Czechia, 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 excellence 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 an­ nually, in genres including the following: general fiction, SF and fantasy, crime fiction, the thriller, children’s literature, popular science, specialist literature, poetry.

Host is proud to publish many lead­ ing 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 Tuč­ ková, whose best­selling works account for hundreds 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 sto­ ries we take from all over the world are char­ acterized by readability, literary excellence and — last but not least — careful translation.

Thanks to us, Czech readers are ac­quainted with works by authors including Annie Ernaux, Olga Tokar­czuk, ­Fredrik ­Backman, Chima­ manda Ngozi ­Adichie, 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 Millen­ nium 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 ­Adler‑​ Olsen and Peter May. In recent years we have strengthened our list by adding SF and fantasy, young adult fiction and children’s literature pro­ grammes. 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-transla­ tion list include R. F. Kuang, Ted Chiang, Anthony Ryan and Liu Cixin; our Czech SF authors, notably Pavel Bareš and Petra Stehlíková, have also per­ formed very well. As for children’s litera­ ture, 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 s­ tory 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 capture 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 antholo­ gy. The Host book-publishing house was es­ tablished 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 Czechia.

Contents

Alena Mornštajnová Wasp Time / Čas vos novel; 7 Petra Soukupová Marta Doesn’t Want Children / Marta děti nechce novel; 8 Jana Šrámková, Jan Němec The Apartment: A two-hander novel / Byt. Román ve dvou short stories; 9 Petra Dvořáková The Return / Návrat novel; 10 Jakuba Katalpa Úlice. Liebesroman / Úlice. Liebesroman novel; 11

Kateřina Tučková, Jakuba Katalpa, Jaroslav Rudiš and others The Sudetenland. Paradise Lost / Sudety. Ztracený ráj short stories anthology; 12 František Voldřich Heroes of Nothing / Hrdinové ničeho novel; 13 Michal Sýkora No Good News / Žádné dobré zprávy detective novel; 14 Jiří Klečka Blackbird / Černý kos detective novel; 15

Highly recommended Selected backlist

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Alena Mornštajnová

Maximintem qui dit in non nossed que del ma nati quissit emporrorepro ea elit int volo consecu lparum cum et pernatis Mornštajnová (b.Nemoluptat 1963) is one eatiAlena ut et omnihil ma dollabo. quaturi aturit plandip cone sunt.writers. of today’s most sanimi, popular Czech Is sit officim remporepero venis ab More than 850,000 copies of her ipictis mos rati arum sint et aut odis books sold in Czechiaauta alone. es simenditi am apediatent est Her books have been published in twenty-four omnissimus explabo rehenderchit que vel languages. inias es dolupta ectincid est, best-known es eius The author’s nihicimi, omni con con eum quiat ut works include Hana / Hana and facest liqui te quias sum nihit voluptas November Fall / Listopád. She has won magnis utem quia ilibuscime comniae or been for many literary dolupti conet,shortlisted omnimet exeribus aborrovidus. prizes at home and abroad (e. g. French

edition of Hana – Prix des lycéens de littérature des pays de l’Union européenne 2022–2023; Vietnamese edition of the same novel – National Book Award 2024).

Wasp Time / Čas vos

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Revenge or forgiveness?

A novel about the force of the past and the power of flowers

to be published in May

novel hardback app 320 pages isbn 978-80-275-2429-7

Bára and the Birdwatcher. Two people whose paths crossed long before they met. Bára is convinced that her life would have been much happier if someone hadn’t interfered with it and changed its course years ago. She can’t bring back the past, but she can try to rewrite it in people’s memories. She has thoughts of revenge. But for now, as she settles into her new home and plants her flowers, she waits.

Unlike Bára, the Birdwatcher has learned to live with his past. He doesn’t feel wronged. He doesn’t mind being considered an eccentric. He isn’t lonely. His freedom, the forest, and birdwatching are enough for him. But are they really?

Alena Mornštajnová’s new novel has everything that makes her books so popular: a deep story and believ­ able heroes who, despite what fate has dealt them, are treading a path to a happier life.

‘If I had to sum it up in one sentence, I would say that this is a novel about a path to ordinary human happiness. Life gives away nothing for free. Not to anyone. Being happy or contented – to me, these words are synonyms – takes a lot of work,’ says the author about her book.

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Petra Soukupová

Marta Doesn’t Want Children / Marta děti nechce

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Petra Soukupová (b. 1982) is one of today’s most successful Czech writers. She has published eight books for adults and four for children. She has won or been shortlisted for many prizes; her books appear regularly on the bestseller lists and have been published in sixteen languages.

Petra Soukupová also works as a dramaturge and screenwriter.

A feature film adaptation of her short story Short Cut / Na krátko from the volume To Disappear / Zmizet was premiered in 2018.

Can the path to Santiago change a person’s life, or will it return them to where they came from?

published in December 2024

novel hardback 368 pages

There is nothing wrong with Marta’s life. She has a good job, is in a long-term relationship with Hynek, and is fond of the children from his previous marriage.

She doesn’t want kids of her own and Hynek is in full agreement with her on this. So what is she trying to get to the bottom of? Why does she choose to go off on her own for ten days of discomfort and loneliness, when she could be with Hynek and the kids at the seaside?

Are her loved ones right to think that this trip is nonsen­ sical? More to the point, is Marta living the right life?

Once again, Petra Soukupová presents a brilliant examination of a woman’s mind. Marta has reached a point where she must figure out what to do with her life while managing the expectations of those around her. The protagonist’s narrative is interlaced with the opinions and viewpoints of her loved ones, making us question how much our idea of happiness is formed under pressure from others. It also considers the point at which we lose the power to decide our own future, and wonders what in our decision-making is controlled by certainties of the past and social convention.

isbn 978-80-275-2355-9

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Jana Šrámková, Jan Němec

The Apartment. A two-hander novel / Byt. Román ve dvou

Jana Šrámková (b. 1982) is a prizewinning writer of fiction, children’s books, comics scripts, and animated films; she also writes for the stage.

Jan Němec (b. 1981) is also a prizewinning writer. His most successful novel A History of Light / Dějiny světla (2013) won an EU Prize for Literature. His books have been published in fourteen languages.

Currently, he is editor-in-chief of Host, a prestigious literary monthly.

An experimental novel set in the present. The authors have discovered an unusual way to write a book together, yet separately.

to be published in March

novel hardback

A novel is like a one-person household. When a second author moves in, a two-hander novel emerges, with the tense coexistence of two stories that touch and pass each other by on every double page. Here, one story belongs to Daniel, whose father is dying, while the facing story belongs to Zuzana, who has left her partner. All that connects the two is the apartment they share, along with palindromes written on the back of messages. Can life be read from either side in the same way? Maybe it can. In any case, it’s up to you, the reader, which side to start with. Just remember that a game for one person may mean a fateful choice for Daniel and Zuzana.

The authors say about their work: ‘We wanted to write a book together, because no one has done such a thing for a long time, and to discover what it’s like when the perspectives of different characters aren’t simulated by a single author. We also wanted to give readers the chance to read a novel from two sides, so deciding how it begins and ends.’

336 pages isbn 978-80-275-2201-9

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The Return / Návrat

Petra Dvořáková (b. 1977) is the author Od autorky of two books of non-fiction, three bestsellerů Chirurg, books for children and seven books of Vrány a Pláňata fiction for adults. She has won or been shortlisted for many prizes, having 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 six languages. She is also a best-selling author in Poland.

Jana je přesvědčená, že její víru vůbec nic nezlomí.

Zvlášť když k ní na prahu dospělosti přichází svoboda a ona konečně může žít v klášteře. Vstupuje mezi sestry plná nadějí, odhodlání, ale i iluzí. Ty se s každodenním řeholním životem začínají plíživě drolit. Jana musí znovu potěžkat svůj dřívější, nenaplněný a bolestně „nedořečený“ vztah k Viktorovi, ale především si odpovědět na otázky, které do jejího života vnáší záhadná a nespoutaná Karin, jež se jednoho dne objeví v klášteře. Janina představa o tom, jak vypadá skutečná láska, se dramaticky mění a rozostřuje. Stejně tak se společenství sester musí denně ptát, jak se může v proměněném světě navrátit ke svému původnímu poslání.

Can love of God be stronger than human love?

published in February

novel hardback 304 pages isbn 978-80-275-2374-0

Petra Dvořáková

NÁVRAT

Petra Dvořáková

Petra Dvořáková

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Román, spletený z mnoha jemných vypravěčských vláken, čtenáři umožňuje nahlédnout do tajemného světa, který je mu běžně nepřístupný a jehož všednost naprosto neodpovídá obecně sdíleným představám. Jakkoli se takto zachycený obraz života v klášteře může místy jevit jako dost nelichotivý, nikoho nesoudí.

Je to především portrét člověka se vším světlým i temným, co jeho bytí přináší.

V neposlední řadě je tato kniha fascinujícím milostným příběhem. Protože lidská láska je jako nezkrotné, mnohočetné zvíře, které k sobě vytrvale hledá druha…

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NÁVRAT Jana is convinced that her faith is unbreakable. This conviction becomes stronger still in 1989, when, on the threshold of adulthood, she is granted her freedom with the change of regime in the former Czechoslovakia, and she can finally live in a convent. She joins the sisters full of hope and determination, but also under certain illusions. Everyday religious life will chip away at these illusions until they disintegrate, and Jana will find herself reassessing her unfulfilled, painful relationship with Viktor, in which much remained unsaid. First and foremost, however, she must answer questions put to her by the mysterious, unbridled young girl Karin, who one day appears at the convent among the old women. As for the society of sisters, it must ask itself daily how in a transformed world it can return to its original mission.

‘Although I lived in a convent for several years, this is not my story, nor that of any particular sister,’ says the author. ‘What is authentic is the experience and depiction of everyday life in a convent, where women of all ages, personalities and ways of thinking come together. The reality of such a life is never revealed in fleeting encounters with nuns. It can be glimpsed only when one lives among them for some time.’

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Jakuba Katalpa

Úlice. Liebesroman / Úlice. Liebesroman

ú Jakuba Katalpa (b.1979) is author of six books. Her novella Is Soil to Be Eaten? / Je hlína k snědku? was shortlisted for a Magnesia Litera award in the Newcomer of the Year category (2007) and the novel The Bitter Sea / Hořké moře for the Jiří Orten Prize (2009).

Katalpa’s novel The Germans / Němci received the Czech Book Award (2013) and the Josef Škvorecký Award (2013), and was shortlisted for a Magnesia Litera in the Prose category (2013).

Jakuba Katalpa’s books have been published in eight languages.

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What are we willing to sacrifice in order to survive? And after that sacrifice, will we still be human?

to be published in April

novel hardback app 320 pages

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Úlice (Neston) is a town out of place, in terms of both space and time. Some maps of the Czech-German borderlands fail to show it. Its inhabitants have been keeping bees since time immemorial, and their lives are filled with sweetness. But then a concentration camp is built in the city…

Anežka, Běla and Helena grew up in Úlice and have known each other since they were children. Each has had her own unexciting plans, which are changed dramatically by the presence of the camp and German soldiers. Their characters change along with their plans. Jakuba Katalpa has written a no-holds-barred, multi-layered novel that is more than just another work of historical fiction set in the Second World War. It explores issues of freedom, moral responsibility and personal boundaries in an uncompromising way.

‘Every situation has its own charm and deserves to be described, as Goncharov and Proust knew well,’ says the author. ‘I like how a single situation can be seen from several viewpoints. Think of putting a glass prism to your eye and seeing the light break down into the colours of the spectrum.’

isbn 978-80-275-2294-1

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Sudety: Ztracený ráj

Petra Dvořáková, Marie Hajdová, Jakuba Katalpa, Petra Klabouchová, Michaela Klevisová, Leoš Kyša, Jaroslav Rudiš, Kateřina Tučková, Michal Vrba, David Jan Žák Jaromír 99 (b. 1963), real name Jaromír Švejdík, is a well-known musician and artist. With writer Jaroslav Rudiš he is co-author of the comics trilogy Alois Nebel, and he worked on the film of the same name. In 2022, he published Off-season / Mi­ mosezóna, a collection of song lyrics and illustrations. His work includes pictures for a limited edition of the novel Bílá Voda by Kateřina Tučková.

Short stories by leading Czech writers about life in the borderlands before the Second World War

to be published in April

short stories anthology hardback app 312 pages isbn 978-80-275-2386-3

The Sudetenland. Paradise Lost / Sudety. Ztracený ráj

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Sudety: Ztracený ráj

příběhy z česko-německého pohraničí

Kateřina Tučková, Jakuba Katalpa, Jaroslav Rudiš, Petra Dvořáková, Marie Hajdová, David Jan Žák, Petra Klabouchová, Michal Vrba, Michaela Klevisová, Leoš Kyša Host

The Sudetenland is still considered a problem region strongly marked by the expulsion of its German population. What happened before the train of events in the borderlands was irretrievably derailed? Set against a backdrop of great historical events, these stories tell of boys’ adventures, grotesque and fateful first loves, an unbreakable bond with the native landscape, but also of a burning hatred fuelled by madness. They capture the intricate fates of the people of the Sudetenland and paint a vivid picture of life in the multinational borderlands.

The authors of these ten stories, which are both thematically and stylistically diverse, include renowned names. The narratives are enriched by impressive illustrations by Jaromír 99 inspired by period photo­ graphs and a foreword by Michal Stehlík and Martin Groman, authors of the well-known podcast Přepište dějiny [Rewriting History].

Not only is this anthology of short stories a literary testimony to the borderlands where Germans, Czechs, Jews and other nationalities lived side by side for generations, but it is also a challenge to reflect on the fragility of interpersonal coexistence in turbulent times.

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František Voldřich

Heroes of Nothing / Hrdinové ničeho

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(b. 1998) lives in Prague. A graduate of the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering at the Czech Technical University, he now makes his living as a software engineer. He likes adventure, which he seeks mainly on his travels. The plot of his book unfolded on a hitchhiking trip to India.

In addition to writing, he is interested in music, growing cacti, and sport, especially parkour.

To truly live, they tempt death… This book is a powerful generational statement from today’s twentysomethings that raises a number of questions.

published in February

novel paperback 296 pages isbn 978-80-275-2272-9

There are five of them. They were born into security and prosperity, but still something is missing. On the outside, each of them is an upstanding member of society. They all go to work, help turn the wheels of capitalism, weave threads of partnership. But on the inside, they are renegades for whom life is too easy and the stakes are negligible. They can do whatever they choose – and that is their curse.

In a time empty of real worry, they wish to experience something real and powerful. So they drink with abandon and take risks, because even bad emotion is better than no emotion. Facing up to their fears and looking death in the eye — that is their recipe for life. What ensues are fights, climbing cranes, jumping on trains, and dramatic chases with the police through the streets of Prague.

In another time, perhaps heroes. At a time of peace and prosperity, reprobates. They live fast, and it can only end in one way. Or can it?

‘Surely everyone knows the feeling that life is about more than the drudgery of building a career, with a hobby here and there to make it bearable,’ says the author. ‘Isn’t life supposed to be an epic journey full of adventure and danger? And what if it’s not just a feeling, but an inner identity?’

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Michal Sýkora

No Good News / Žádné dobré zprávy

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Oblíbená komisařka Marie Výrová ze série Detektivové od Nejsvětější Trojice se vrací.

Michal Sýkora (b.1971) is the author of six detective books featuring the Superintendent Marie Výrová. The TV mini-series sequence Detectives of the Holy Trinity / Detektivové od Nejsvětější Trojice is based on Sýkora’s Výrová novels; popular with viewers and critics alike, it has also been shown abroad.

Michal Sýkora’s detective novels have been published in five languages and the author’s work also appears in the anthology Prague Noir (Akashic 2017, USA). He has written monographs on Vladimir Nabokov and Philip Roth.

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Superintendent Výrová is on the trail of a heartless serial killer.

Even though she has left the police, still she has all her abilities and indomitability.

to be published in May

detective novel hardback app 312 pages

The mugging of a student gone awry. The unpre­ meditated murder of a Ukrainian professor of history, who fled to Czechia to escape the war. A frenzied attack on the regional manager of a security agency.

Did a conspiracy theorist really die of natural causes?

Are these events connected, or is this just a series of coincidences? Are there more such crimes? After the tragic outcome of her last case, former police superin­ tendent Marie Výrová has undertaken to devote herself to her family and her teaching at the law faculty, and to get involved in no more investigations. But then an old friend calls with a request…

The novel No Good News is an engaging, intimate social drama infused with love, jealousy, sex, manipula­ tion and hatred. It retains the unmistakable atmosphere of Olomouc’s historic squares, narrow streets and old university buildings. It also features uninviting, deserted roads between frozen fields, and mysterious buildings inhabited by “men who hate women”. Ferocious dogs, too. And evil that breeds evil. But also justice, which, together with the strong arm of the law, just about wins out in the end.

isbn 978-80-275-2423-5

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Jiří Klečka

Blackbird / Černý kos

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Jiří Klečka

Jiří Klečka (b. 1983) comes from Ostrava. A graduate of the Technical University of Ostrava (VŠB), he now works as a quality control manager for a multinational company. Since 2018, he has performed as a speaker for Atmosféra Ostrava [Atmosphere Ostrava], an organization that brings together well-known and interesting people and embraces inspirational music and powerful spiritual words.

He is the author of several novels with social and historical themes.

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ČERNÝ KOS Když začnou mizet děti, začíná hra o čas.

Missing children, old crimes, and paths that cross again after many years

to be published in June

detective novel paperback app 400 pages

2023. Leaves are flying outside, the Beatles are play­ ing in the summerhouse, and Roman receives a message that brings back unhappy memories. His friend Tomáš, to whom he is connected by a dark event in their child­ hood, has had an accident. Shortly afterwards, a boy pupil of Roman’s disappears. Coincidence? Or repetition of the horror Roman and Tomáš survived as children?

Roman must discover the truth at all costs. And he is not the only one with a special interest in the case. Alex­ ander Patera, a former criminal investigator whose life was also marked by the disappearance of both children, cannot stand idly by. Old clues reemerge, leading to a perpetrator who should have ceased to exist long ago.

Patera and Roman find themselves on the same path, as they seek to uncover the truth about an evil that is still around years after its last appearance.

By a series of unexpected twists, this suspense-filled thriller unravels the dramatic stories of its characters from horrific events of a dark past.

‘For me, Blackbird is principally a story about hero­ ism that depends not on the darkness we have experi­ enced but the light still left in us,’ explains the author.

isbn 978-80-275-2531-7

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Highly recommended

Alena Mornštajnová 850,000 copies sold books published in twenty-four languages (Arabic, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Macedonian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Turkish and Vietnamese), rights sold to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Denmark and Lithuania

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Kateřina Tučková 17 450,000 copies sold books published in twenty-one languages (Arabic, Bela­rusian, Bulgarian, Croatian, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithua­nian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Ukrainian), rights sold to Finland and Taiwan (traditional Chinese)

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Jan Němec 30,000 copies sold books published in fourteen lan­ guages (Arabian, Bulgarian, Croatian, German, English, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian and Spanish), rights sold to Armenia

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Petra Soukupová 250,000 copies sold books published in sixteen languages (Albanian, Arabian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, German, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian and Vietnamese), rights sold to Lithuania and Switzerland (French world rights)

Viktorie Hanišová 60,000 copies sold books published in eleven languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, German, Italian, Latvian, Macedonian, Polish, Serbian and Spanish, rights sold to Greece and India / England (English world rights)

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Jiří Hájíček 19 140,000 copies sold books published in fourteen languages (Albanian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Macedonian, Polish, Slovenian, Ukrainian), rights sold to Egypt and Korea

Selected backlist Antonín Bajaja Burying the Season / Na krásné modré Dřevnici novel; 2009 Patrik Banga The Real Way Out / Skutečná cesta ven memoir; 2022 Pavel Bareš Jimmy the Sloth and His Backup Band / Lenochod Jimmy & jeho backup band fantasy novel; 2023 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 Petra Dvořáková Wild Cherry Trees / Pláňata novel; 2023 The Garden / Zahrada novel; 2022 Crows / Vrány novella; 2020 The Surgeon / Chirurg novel; 2019, 2020 The Village / Dědina novel; 2018, 2020 The Net / Sítě three short stories; 2016 I am Hunger / Já jsem hlad non-fiction; 2009, 2013 Transformed Dreams / Proměněné sny non-fiction; 2006, 2013 Klára Elšíková Pacanka / Pacanka novel; 2024

Jan Folný A Weekend in London / Víkend v Londýně novel; 2018

Markéta Hejkalová A Century on the Waves / Století na vlnách novel; 2023

Little Queers / Buzíčci short stories; 2013

The House before the Square / Dům pod náměstím novel; 2022

Anna Beata Háblová The Shift / Směna novel; 2022 Jiří Hájíček Dragon on a Dirt Road / Drak na polní cestě novel; 2024

Matěj Hořava Stopover / Mezipřistání novella; 2020 Distilled Spirit / Pálenka novella; 2014

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

Lidmila Kábrtová Waiting for the Trigger / Čekání na spoušť novel; 2021

The Rainstick / Dešťová hůl novel; 2016, 2017

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

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

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

Fish Blood / Rybí krev novel; 2012, 2014

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

Football Diaries / Fotbalové deníky novella; 2007

The Den / Doupě novel; 2017, 2021

Rustic Baroque / Selský baroko novel; 2005, 2009, 2013 The Green Horse Rustlers / Zloději zelených koní novel; 2001, 2016 Viktorie Hanišová Sunday Afternoon / Neděle odpoledne novel; 2022 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

Germans / Němci novel; 2012, 2014 Is Soil to Be Eaten? / Je hlína k snědku? novella; 2006, 2021 Emma Kausc Plot Disruption / Narušení děje novel; 2024 Petra Klabouchová Ignis fatuus / Ignis fatuus horror novel; 2024 By the North Wall / U severní zdi novel; 2023 Sources of the Moldau / Prameny Vltavy detective novel; 2021 Vilém Koubek Hammering Nails / Zatloukání hřebů horror novel; 2024 Eugen Liška The Creation / Stvoření novel; 2017

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 The Woods in the Home / Les v domě novel; 2023 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 Iva Hadj Moussa Heavy Souls / Těžké duše novel; 2024 The Havíř House / Havířovina novel; 2022 Ivana Myšková White Animals Are Very Often Deaf / Bílá zvířata jsou velmi často hluchá short stories; 2017 Jan Němec Lilliputin: Stories from a War / Liliputin: Povídky z války short stories; 2022 Ways of Writing about Love / Možnosti milostného románu novel; 2019, 2020 A History of Light / Dějiny světla novel; 2013, 2014 Jan Němec, Jana Šrámková The Apartment. A two-hander novel / Byt. Román ve dvou novel; 2024 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 Memories of Tomorrow / Vzpomínky na zítřek fantasy YA novel; 2022 Lord of the Wizards / Pán čarodějů fantasy YA novel; 2020 Fragments of Time / Střípky času fantasy YA novel; 2019 Petra Soukupová No One Is Alone / Nikdo není sám novel; 2023 Things Whose Time Has Come / Věci, na které nastal čas novel; 2020, 2021 Best for Everybody / Nejlepší pro všechny novel; 2017, 2018 Under the Snow / Pod sněhem novel; 2015, 2015 Marta in the Year of the Alien / Marta v roce vetřelce novel / diary; 2011

Jakub Stanjura Augusts / Srpny novel; 2023 Petra Stehlíková Urla/ Urla fantasy novel; 2024 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 Petr Šesták Burnout / Vyhoření novelistic pamphlet; 2023 Continuity in the Park / Kontinuita parku novel; 2021 Viktor Špaček An Impeccable Life in Humility / Čistý, skromný život short stories; 2022 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, 2023

To Disappear / Zmizet three short stories; 2009, 2011

The Last Goddess / Žítkovské bohyně novel; 2012, 2013

To the Seaside / K moři novella; 2007

Gerta / Vyhnání Gerty Schnirch novel; 2009, 2010