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Strange Pictures: The Chilling Japanese Mystery Sensation

Strange Pictures: The Chilling Japanese Mystery Sensation

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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...
Strange Houses: The Chilling Japanese Mystery Sensation

Strange Houses: The Chilling Japanese Mystery Sensation

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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...
The Labyrinth House Murders

The Labyrinth House Murders

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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 Inugami Curse

The Inugami Curse

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In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami Clan dies, setting off a chain of bizarre, gruesome murders. Detective Kindaichi must unravel the clan's terrible secrets of forbidden liaisons,...
When We Cease to Understand the World

When We Cease to Understand the World

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'A monstrous and brilliant book' - Philip Pullman When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner...
The Black Swan Mystery

The Black Swan Mystery

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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...
Siddhartha

Siddhartha

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An inspirational classic from Nobel Prize-winner Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha is a beautiful tale of self-discovery. 'A subtle distillation of wisdom, stylistic grace and symmetry of form' -Sunday Times 'It's hard...
The Royal Game: A Chess Story

The Royal Game: A Chess Story

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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...
The Scorpion's Head

The Scorpion's Head

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Author: Hilde Vandermeeren Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 When Gaelle wakes up, the nightmare begins. She is lying injured in a psychiatric hospital in Berlin, with no memory of...
The Mill House Murders

The Mill House Murders

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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...
A Woman in the Polar Night

A Woman in the Polar Night

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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...
Coin Locker Babies

Coin Locker Babies

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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...
Daughter of the Pirate King

Daughter of the Pirate King

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Sent on a mission to retrieve an ancient hidden map-the key to a legendary treasure trove-seventeen-year-old pirate captain Alosa deliberately allows herself to be captured by her enemies, giving her...
The Village of Eight Graves

The Village of Eight Graves

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Nestled deep in the mist-shrouded mountains, The Village of Eight Graves takes its name from a bloody legend: in the sixteenth century eight samurai, who had taken refuge there along...
The Decagon House Murders

The Decagon House Murders

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The members of a university mystery club decide to visit an island which was the site of a grisly, unsolved multiple murder the year before. They're looking forward to investigating...
Murder in the House of Omari

Murder in the House of Omari

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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...
The Little Sparrow Murders

The Little Sparrow Murders

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An old friend of Kosuke Kindaichi's invites the scruffy detective to visit the remote mountain village of Onikobe in order to look into a twenty-year-old murder case. But no sooner...
What Fury Brings

What Fury Brings

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There's a shortage of men in the kingdom of Amarra. After a failed rebellion against the matriarchy, most noblemen in the country are dead. Now the women of Amarra must...
Land of Smoke

Land of Smoke

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'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...
The Formidable Miss Cassidy

The Formidable Miss Cassidy

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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...
Kokoro

Kokoro

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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...
Vengeance of the Pirate Queen

Vengeance of the Pirate Queen

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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...
The Devil's Flute Murders

The Devil's Flute Murders

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Amid the rubble of post-war Tokyo, inside the grand Tsubaki house, a once-noble family is in mourning. The old viscount Tsubaki, a brooding, troubled composer, has been found dead. When...
Secret of the Ninja

Secret of the Ninja

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You are staying at your friend Nada's dojo in Japan, which is being plagued with weird and spooky goings-on. Nada thinks a cursed samurai sword could be to blame, so...
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

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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...
The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig

The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig

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'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' -...
Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth

Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth

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Emil Sinclair is tormented by a constant battle between light and dark, purity and corruption, ignorance and knowledge. As a restless young man, he struggles to locate a path towards...
The MANIAC

The MANIAC

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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......
Forbidden Notebook

Forbidden Notebook

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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...
The Wolf Hunt

The Wolf Hunt

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Author: Ayelet Gundar-Goshen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Lilach has it all: a beautiful home in the heart of Silicon Valley, a successful husband and stable marriage, and a...
Days in the Caucasus

Days in the Caucasus

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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 President's Hat

The President's Hat

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Dining alone in an elegant Parisian brasserie, accountant Daniel Mercier can hardly believe his eyes when President Francois Mitterrand sits down to eat at the table next to him. Once...
Mystery of the Maya

Mystery of the Maya

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Your best friend Tom has mysteriously disappeared while investigating the ancient Mayan civilization in Mexico. The only clue is a patch of fresh blood on an altar that Tom had...
Conversations with Rilke

Conversations with Rilke

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Walking in the Luxembourg Garden, exchanging letters about enigmatic diva Eleonora Duse or an irascible Tolstoy: Rainer Maria Rilke's French translator Maurice Betz enjoyed a rare intimacy with the great...
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Finding Our Way in a Chaotic World

Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Finding Our Way in a Chaotic World

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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,...
Wolf Moon

Wolf Moon

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1937. Having lost the Civil War in Spain, four republican soldiers lead a fugitive existence deep in the Cantabrian mountains. They are on the run, skirmishing with Franco's soldiers, knowing...
Sixty-Nine

Sixty-Nine

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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...
The Bear and the Paving Stone

The Bear and the Paving Stone

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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...
The Journey to the East

The Journey to the East

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'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

The Pendragon Legend

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"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,...
Beware of Pity

Beware of Pity

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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...
The Shadows Between Us

The Shadows Between Us

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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...
Daughter of the Siren Queen

Daughter of the Siren Queen

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Alosa's mission is finally complete. Not only has she recovered all three pieces of the map to a legendary hidden treasure, but the pirates who originally took her captive are...
Master of Iron: Book 2 of the Bladesmith Duology

Master of Iron: Book 2 of the Bladesmith Duology

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Eighteen-year-old Ziva may have defeated a deadly warlord, but the price was almost too much. Ziva is forced into a breakneck race to a nearby city with the handsome mercenary,...
The Tattoo Murder

The Tattoo Murder

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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...
The Master Key

The Master Key

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A building full of secrets. A key that will unleash them all... The K Apartments for Ladies in Tokyo conceals a sinister past behind each door; a woman who has...
The Society of the Crossed Keys: Selections from the Writings of Stefan Zweig, Inspirations for The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Society of the Crossed Keys: Selections from the Writings of Stefan Zweig, Inspirations for The Grand Budapest Hotel

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'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...
Binocular Vision

Binocular Vision

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Author: Edith Pearlman (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 The collected stories of an award-winning, modern classic American writer who has been compared to Alice Munro, John Updike -...