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...

Based on Cartarescu’s own experience as a teacher, Solenoid submerges us in the mundane details of a diarist’s life and spirals...

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....