[HIGHLIGHTS] The Irish version of “1984” and fashion in TV series: the books “Cunning”, “Song of the Prophet” and “Sweet History of the World” were published in January

In January, such new titles appeared on book shelves in Russia, such as Maxime Shattam's detective story "Union of Predators" Samuel Björk's Scandinavian noir "The Cunning" and the 2023 Booker Prize winner "The Song of the Prophet" by Paul Lynch. In addition, the autobiographical novel “Book House in Tuscany” by the Italian writer Alba Donati about how she fulfilled her dream.

The anthology “The World without the Strugatskys”, where 12 modern writers demonstrated what Soviet science fiction would have been like without theStrugatsky brothers, went on sale. In it, they included the non-fiction “Sweet History of the World” about the appearance of sugar and its impact on life.