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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...
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...
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 Inugami Curse
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,...
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...
When We Cease to Understand the World
'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
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...
Tender is the Flesh
It all happened so quickly. First, animals became infected with the virus and their meat became poisonous. Then governments initiated the Transition. Now, 'special meat' - human meat - is...
Siddhartha
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...
Daughter of the Pirate King
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 Mill House Murders
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...
Death on Gokumon Island
'[ 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...
What Fury Brings
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...
The Royal Game: A Chess Story
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
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 Village of Eight Graves
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 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' -...
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...
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...
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...
The Decagon House Murders
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...
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...
Forbidden Notebook
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...
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...
The Little Sparrow Murders
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...
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...
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...
The MANIAC
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......
The Tattoo Murder
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 Wolf Hunt
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...
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...
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...
Daughter of the Siren Queen
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...
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Finding Our Way in a Chaotic World
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,...
The Samurai
'Serious, theologically-charged fiction of the highest quality: full, bleak, richly particular' Kirkus Reviews Winner of the 1980 Noma Literary Prize - a darkly absorbing portrayal of the first Japanese voyage...
The Devil's Flute Murders
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
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...
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...
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,...
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...
The Sound of Utopia: Musicians in the Time of Stalin
When Stalin came to power, making music became a dangerous endeavour. Russian composers now had to create work that served the socialist state, and all artistic production was scrutinized for...
The Last Miracle: Jewish Stories
This collection from one of the great writers of Europe's Jewish diaspora shows the heat of individual passions blazing out against the levelling forces of history. In stories that move...
Master of Iron: Book 2 of the Bladesmith Duology
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 Meiji Guillotine Murders
Tokyo, 1869. It is the dawn of the Meiji era in Japan, but the scars of the bloody recent civil war are yet to heal. The new regime struggles to...
The King in Yellow
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...
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...
The Secret Life of Farts
A toot or a blow, a honk or a squeak Each fart is special, each fart is unique From racetrack to concert hall, crowded lift to royal banquet, farts are...
Mystery of the Maya
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...