A classic, heartwarming tale set to the backdrop of the Chinese cultural revolution, with the timeless feels of Eva Ibbotson's Journey to the River Sea.
The light greenery of the early summer is trembling around Erik and Julia as they shove their children into the car and start the drive towards the house by the sea on the west coast of Finland where they will spend the summer.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE'Portrays the breakdown of a murderer in ways that recall Camus' The Stranger' The New York TimesJoseph Bloch, a once-famous goalkeeper turned construction worker, commits a random murder without thought or regret.
Stanley dreams of making it big as a DJ, playing the all-nighters with his sidekick Clive; Pow-Wow's as tough as the next kid, patrolling the streets with his gang; Sylvia just wants to escape from the grind of looking after her ageing mother.
'A book so astonishing that I immediately reread it, fearful it might disappear' Patti SmithThe war is over but Alexander Jessiersky, a wealthy Austrian aristocrat and industrialist, is haunted by guilt over the neighbour he inadvertently sent to a concentration camp, Count Luna.
A Financial Times Book of the Year From the author of The Three-Body Problem, a collection of award-winning short stories a breath-taking selection of diamond-hard science fiction.
Ten Thousand Miles of Clouds and Moons gathers sixteen phenomenalwriters of the Chinese language in their English debut: eight fictionwriters, six poets, and two essayists.
'The most innovative and challenging writer of fiction in his generation in Russia' Guardian Based on a real-life crime which horrified Russia in 1869, Dostoevsky intended his novel to castigate the fanaticism of his country's new political reformers, particularly those known as Nihilists.
Read the classic, chilling dystopian novel that inspired one of the world's most iconic film franchises'A scintillating mix of sci-fi adventure and allegory' Los Angeles Times In a spaceship that can travel at the speed of light, Ulysse, a journalist, sets off from Earth for the nearest solar system.
LOS MEJORES MISTERIOS SOBRE EL MUNDO DE LOS LIBROS UNA OBRA DEL CREADOR DEL INSPECTOR REBUS Un turbulento relato sobre un hombre obsesionado con la semilla que inspiró la historia de Jekyll y Hyde.
'Allon is the 21st century Bond' - Daily MailGabriel Allon, secret agent, assassin and master art restorer, returns in a spellbinding new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling authorEurope is exploding.
'Cixin Liu is the author of your next favourite sci-fi novel' WIRED On his fourteenth birthday, right before his eyes, Chen's parents are incinerated by a blast of ball lightning.
One of the masters of modern Chinese literature Jung ChangThis gripping dystopia contrasts the reality of life in China today with the sunny optimism of the Chinese dream .
*PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW*Tales of upheaval and confusion, longing and love in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake.
A classic, heartwarming tale set to the backdrop of the Chinese cultural revolution, with the timeless feels of Eva Ibbotson's Journey to the River Sea.
LOS MEJORES MISTERIOS SOBRE EL MUNDO DE LOS LIBROS UNA OBRA DE LA ETERNA CANDIDATA AL NOBEL DE LITERATURA El ansia de un amante de los libros lo lleva al asesinato en este oscuro relato.
LOS MEJORES MISTERIOS SOBRE EL MUNDO DE LOS LIBROS UNA OBRA GANADORA DEL PREMIO EDGAR Un relato cautivador sobre un amante de los libros que descubre un mundo secreto en el que la literatura cobra vida propia.
With her jaunty dissection of the sex life and the private grooming habits of the novel's 18-year-old narrator, Helen Memel, Charlotte Roche has turned the previously unspeakable into the national conversation in Germany.
Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed, reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu.
This enhanced ebook of Tolkien's timeless classic brings together all the original handwritten letters, some never before published, with Tolkien's original colour illustrations and audio recordings of every letter read by Sir Derek Jacobi and a full cast.