The Host publishing house focuses primarily on high-quality original Czech prose and prose in translation, poetry, literary theory and educational works on literary subjects. The principal foci of its specialist publications include history, sociology, linguistics and auteurs of cinema. In the last few years it has greatly expanded its range of fiction in translation and crime fiction and thrillers from Scandinavia. Host recently provided a home for the prestigious Česká knižnice/Czech Library series of high-quality editions of classic Czech works.
