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Tense, subtly disturbing literary horror from a prize-winning Japanese writer
A young girl loses her mother, and her father...

Winner of the Akutagawa Prize

In 1950s Japan, Doctor Suguro practises medicine in a backwater still recovering from the war....

Winner of the 1980 Noma Literary Prize - a darkly absorbing portrayal of the first Japanese voyage across the Pacific, by the...

Jesuit priest Sebastian Rodrigues sets sail for Japan in 1640, full of idealistic fire. But the cold land he arrives in has no...

Alfa and Mademba are two of the many Senegalese soldiers fighting in the Great War. Together they climb dutifully out of their...

A captivating feminist classic about a woman’s struggle for independence in fascist Italy, from the author of 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...

There is a space between life and death: it’s called waxworks.
Born in Alsace in 1761, the diminutive Marie Grosholtz is quickly...

If everyone was eating human meat, would you?
Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans – only no one calls them that. He...

Renee is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building. To the snobbish residents she is all they expect from a caretaker...

Early one morning, a body is found lying next to the railway tracks just outside of Kuki Station in Saitama Prefecture, shot...

The twisty and ingenious third installement in the Bizarre House Mysteries
The famed mystery writer Miyagaki Yotaro lives a life...

A twisty and ingenious classic Japanese murder mystery from the author of The Decagon House Murders
The remote Clock House is...

A twisty and ingenious classic Japanese murder mystery from the author of The Decagon House Murders
Every year, a small group of...

The lonely, rockbound island of Tsunojima is notorious as the site of a series of bloody unsolved murders. Some even say it’s...

A Guardian Top 5 Best Translated Fiction Book of the Year
Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature

The...

These are short stories from an unparalleled icon of modern Japanese literature. Sublimely crafted and shot through with a...

A lone mountain hiker falls through a hole in the ground into Kappaland, inhabited by creatures that are half tiger, half turtle....

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The Antarctic: An Anthology features an international mix of classic first-person accounts of exploration, literary travelogues...

From clay tablets to the printing press.
From the pencil to the internet.
From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter.
This is...

When Asa’s husband is offered a new job away from the city, the couple end up relocating. And since his new office is very close...

Beyond the town, there is the factory. Beyond the factory, there is nothing.
Within the sprawling industrial complex, three...

It’s 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of...

Amane is ten years old when she discovers she’s not like everyone else. Her school friends were all conceived the normal way, by...

Rachel and Jaime: their story isn’t simple. It might not even be their story.
Augustus Fate, a once-lauded novelist and now...

The Arctic: An Anthology features an international mix of classic first-person accounts of exploration, literary travelogues and...

Having married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship that has been soured by infidelity. One...

When Kapka Kassabova was a child, the borderzone between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece was rumoured to be an easier crossing point...

From Axolotl to Zebrafish, discover a host of barely imagined beings: real creatures that are often more astonishing than...

Bombarded by pink ribbons and platitudes following a breast cancer diagnosis, Ehrenreich was shocked to find that her anger was...