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Land of Smoke
'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...
Shoo!
Mrs Golightly doesn't like animals - and now a whole zoo has moved next door! No matter how hard she tries to shoo them away, she finds animals everywhere: a...
The Formidable Miss Cassidy
Miss Cassidy is no ordinary governess. She can tutor the most wayward child, tell stories in multiple languages and fix any household crisis. But she also deals with problems of...
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
New York City girl Claudia, a month shy of her twelfth birthday, has resolved to run away from home with her younger brother, Jamie. She plans everything to perfection, including...
Vertigo
He isn't a cop anymore, but when an old friend asks Flavieres to keep an eye on his dazzlingly beautiful wife, how can he refuse? And so he begins to...
French Windows
Nathalia Guitry is an enigma that psychotherapist Doctor Faber can't solve. A photographer who can't take photographs since witnessing a murder, she is self-assured, self-aware, and seemingly impervious to his...
Days in the Caucasus
A rediscovered classic memoir - the scintillatingly witty account of one extraordinary woman's life during a turbulent century 'A voice so vivid it seems impossible that it should ever have...
The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig
'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' -...
Karma Doll
After narrowly escaping with his life at the hands of a murderous Hollywood pimp, detective Happy Doll, bullet-ridden but healing, has landed on a remote Mexican beach. In a humble...
Salt Water
It's 1963, and fifteen-year-old Michael is spending the summer in the usual place: his family's New England beach house. This isn't a summer like the others, though. This is the...
After the Lights Go Out
The latest novel from the CWA-shortlisted author of Three-Fifths - a Sunday Times , Guardian and Financial Times Book of the Year. 'Thrums with authenticity' - The Times 'Powerful, bruising...
The Man Who Died Seven Times: The Classic Time-Loop Murder Mystery
Hisataro, a young member of the wealthy Fuchigami family, has a mysterious ability. Every now and then, against his will, he falls into a time-loop in which he is obliged...
Murder in the House of Omari
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...
Scorched Grace: A Sister Holiday Mystery
'A compelling tale of faith, atonement and desire' - Guardian 'Douaihy brings the sights, sounds and smells of New Orleans alive, with twists and turns aplenty' - Marie Claire When...
The Bishop Murder Case: The Classic Manhattan Puzzle Mystery
When Cock Robin is found dead with an arrow through his chest, New York's DA calls in amateur detective and professional flaneur Philo Vance to solve the case. Vance quickly...
The Trials of Lila Dalton
SHE'S ON A REMOTE ISLAND. DEFENDING A MURDERER. BUT SHE REMEMBERS NOTHING. 'Unputdownable' Sophia Hannah 'Mind-blowing, audaciously inventive' Chris Whitaker 'Totally recommend. Stuart Turton meets Agatha Christie' Sarah Moorhead 'A...
What's the Matter with Mary Jane?
When childhood friend Pris breezes back into her life begging for help with a dangerous stalker, our heroine is thrust suddenly into the world of the Canadian uber-rich. And when...
Deep Dark Blue
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A warm and interesting woman as the investigator and an unfamiliar but lovely city brought to vivid life' IRISH INDEPENDENT 'Combines a surprising plot with sensuous descriptions'...
Praying Mantis
ISOLATIONHarith Athreya is taking a well-earned break at a boutique hotel in the Himalayan foothills. But his holiday is swiftly cut short when mysterious bloody handprints start appearing on the...
Nothing Can Hurt You Now
Lucinda has lived her whole life in the shadow of her glamorous and outgoing high-end model sister Viviana. But when Viviana suddenly disappears on a trip to Sao Paulo, Lucinda...
Blessed Water: A Sister Holiday Mystery
Tattooed from her neck to her toes and sporting a gold tooth as sharp as her wisecracks, Sister Holiday struggles to stay on the righteous path. She's committed both to...
The Wildings: The Hundred Names of Darkness
As the Nizamuddin cat clan recover slowly from their terrible battle with the ferals, they find their beloved home changing around them. Winter brings an army of predators - humans,...
Strange Houses: The Chilling Japanese Mystery Sensation
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...
Land of Smoke
'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...
Strange Pictures: The Chilling Japanese Mystery Sensation
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...
Sixty-Nine
In a small, inconsequential city in Japan, all that matters to 17-year-old Kensuke Yazaki and his friends is girls, rock music and, to a much lesser extent, school. Told at...
Popular Hits of the Showa Era
It's a set-up like a video game: two rival gangs fight to death for the control of a Tokyo district. In one gang, six young losers committed only to drinking,...
The Labyrinth House Murders
PRAISE FOR YUKITO AYATSUJI'S MYSTERIES 'Very clever indeed' Anthony Horowitz 'From the first page you know you're in the hands of a master... Flawless' Ian Moore, author of Death and...
The Black Swan Mystery
WINNER OF THE JAPANESE DETECTIVE WRITERS CLUB PRIZE _____ This prize-winning railway murder mystery from Japan is a crime classic perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Seicho Matsumoto. _____Early...
The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
'The solution is one of the most original that I've ever read' Anthony Horowitz 'This book is an unmissable triumph' Tom Mead, Publishers Weekly 'It's a budding Sherlock's dream' Crime...
Spring Garden
Taro is divorced, unhappy in his job, and living in a half-empty building that is about to be torn down. One summer morning, he sees a fellow resident climbing over...
The End of the Moment We Had
Two brilliant,multi-layered stories from the winner of the Kenzaburo Oe Prize: the best contemporary Japanese writing 'Nothing short of superb... This book gives me hope for the future of Japanese...
The Bear and the Paving Stone
Winner of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, three dream-like tales of memory and war Visiting a friend in the French countryside, a man finds himself cast into the quandaries of historical...
Slow Boat
A startling novella from the heir to Haruki Murakami and Gabriel Garcia Marquez'I've never made it out of Tokyo. I can't tell you how many times I've asked myself if...
Out of Chaos Comes Bliss: Essential Poems
Dylan Thomas is one of most beloved British poets of all time. Richly melodious and vividly expressive, Thomas's poems strike to the heart of eternal themes of living and dying,...
In Love
An exquisite depiction of a doomed love affair, set in noirish 1950s New YorkIn a Manhattan bar, a middle-aged man tells a young woman of his love affair with a...
Glimpses of the Moon
A charming story of romantic misadventures where a young couple's love is threatened by the power of money, by one of the greatest authors of her age. Nick Lansing and...
A Woman in the Polar Night
In 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable life in Austria and travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, to spend a year there with her husband. She...
The Journey to the East
'The classic literal-metaphorical journey' Guardian A classic meditation on artistic creation and the quest for spiritual transcendence from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Siddhartha In the aftermath of the Great...
The Pendragon Legend
"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,...
Kokoro
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...
Mysterious Setting
Shiori knows at heart that she's a troubadour. She may be completely tone-deaf, but she won't let that stop her living a life dedicated to music. Even when her dominant...
Murder in the Age of Enlightenment: Essential Stories
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...
Coin Locker Babies
A cult cyberpunk masterpiece, and Ryu Murakami's most famous novel. Two babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds, but their lives are forever...
Beware of Pity
The only novel written by one of the most popular writers of the twentieth century. 'Zweig's fictional masterpiece' - The Guardian 'An intoxicating, morally shaking read... A real reminder of...
Vengeance of the Pirate Queen
You can't be afraid of the dark when you're the monster lurking in the shadows. Eighteen-year-old Sorinda is a deadly assassin with a reputation to match. But her latest assignment...
Warrior of the Wild
How do you kill a god? As her father's chosen heir, eighteen-year-old Rasmira has trained her whole life to become a warrior and lead her village. But when her coming-of-age...
The Shadows Between Us
No one knows the extent of the freshly crowned Shadow King's power. Some say he can command the shadows that swirl around him to do his bidding. Others say they...