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An old man recounts the story of his childhood, as he remembers it, living in a brothel in the time of the Roman Empire in Spain.

Charles, a valet robot, is let go from his job and then goes on a journey of self-discovery. Hijinks ensue.

Around 400 BCE, in Syracuse, Dumb and Dumber want to put on a play by Euripides.

They’ve got no actors, no costumes, no sets, no money and little to no intelligence. But, as they say, where there is a quarry filled with starving Athenian refugees, there’s a way.

A woman working for the Ministry of Time is tasked with helping assimilate a sailor pulled through time, who more than a hundred years prior was on a doomed Arctic expedition and would have died otherwise. Hijinks ensue.

A tale spanning between World War I and our modern day told through short evocative moments displaced through time from the POVs of people related to one another.

Poetic stream of consciousness-y novel following six astronauts on a space station orbiting the Earth over one day of low earth orbits while they contemplate their lives, the world and the many people they’ve left behind.

An unmarried woman comes back home after a night out, only to find a strange man in her home.

He claims to be her husband and she confirms this…

And there’s more husbands where he came from (the attic). Hijinks ensue.

Eight translators travel to Poland to translate Irena Rey’s next novel. Hijinks ensue.