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THE TIMES BESTSELLER 'So captivating I read it in a day. So disturbing I thought about it all night' - Janice Hallett, author of The Appeal 'The twists of a...

A sinister hidden room. A dead space between two walls. A sealed cellar. A child's face glimpsed at a window. Every house hides secrets. But some secrets are far darker...

In this melancholy and delicately written Japanese classic, a student befriends a reclusive elder at a beach resort, who he calls Sensei. As the two grow closer, Sensei remains unwilling...

'[ Death on Gokumon Island ] is perfect summer fun' - Anthony Horowitz Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news - the son of one of...

Every year, a small group of acquaintances pay a visit to the remote, castle-like Mill House, home to the reclusive Fujinuma Kiichi, son of a famous artist, who has lived...

Author: Stefan Zweig (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 Chess world champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean liner to Buenos Aires. Dull-witted in all but chess, he...

'One hardly knows where to begin in praising Zweig's work' - Ali Smith 'The Updike of his day... Zweig is a lucid writer, and Bell renders his prose flawlessly' -...

From the author of When We Cease to Understand the World : a thrilling, kaleidoscopic book about the destructive chaos lurking in the history of computing and AI 'Monstrously good......

Osaka, 1943: as the Second World War rages and American bombers rain death down upon the city, the once prosperous Omari family is already in decline, financially ruined by the...

Kinue Nomura survived World War II only to be murdered in Tokyo, her severed limbs discovered in a room locked from the inside. Gone is the part of her that...

Out running an errand, Valeria Cossati gives in to a sudden impulse - she buys a shiny black notebook. She starts keeping a diary in secret, recording her concerns about...

'One of my favourite books by one of my favourite Argentinian authors' Samanta Schweblin, author of Little Eyes Dazzling and hallucinatory, the stories collected here recall the masters of magical...

"An absolute treat... Szerb is a master novelist, a comedian whose powers transcend time and language" Nicholas Lezard, GuardianAt an end-of-season London soiree a young Hungarian scholar, Dr Janos Batky,...

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025: the profound and life-affirming memoir about finding our way in a chaotic world 'A sumptuous, surprising, dark delight' Carmen Maria Machado 'Fast-moving,...

I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon... I pray God will curse the writer, as the...

'I had never heard of Zweig until six or seven years ago, as all the books began to come back into print, and I more or less by chance bought...

Strange things are happening in the Chizurui mansion... At night, a figure clad in a Hannya mask is spotted wandering around the house. The amateur crime fiction writer, Akimitsu Takagi,...

The Akutagawa Prize-winning stories from one of the most highly regarded and provocative contemporary Japanese writers 'The nightingale sang again. The plates on the table gleamed, and the food, in...

These are short stories from an unparalleled icon of modern Japanese literature. Sublimely crafted and shot through with a fantastical sensibility, they offer dazzling glimpses into moments of madness, murder...

In the House of the Sacred Sisterhood, the unworthy live in fear of the Superior Sister's whip. Seething with resentment, they plot against each other and await who will ascend...

In Letters from a Seducer , Hilst describes the everyday life of Karl, a wealthy, erudite, and amoral man who seeks an answer to his incomprehension of life through sex....