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Kafka on the Shore
Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life sud
€ 13,⁵⁰
Sputnik Sweetheart
Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel.
€ 13,⁵⁰
The Remains of the Day
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me GoWinner of the Booker PrizeA contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House.
€ 13,⁵⁰
The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea
A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with
€ 13,⁵⁰
The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion
Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone untill he becomes an acoly
€ 13,⁵⁰
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. 'Rashoemon' and 'In a Bamboo Grove' inspired Kur
€ 13,⁵⁰
South of the Border, West of the Sun
Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Together they spent long afternoons listening to her father's r
€ 13,⁵⁰
In Praise Of Shadows : Vintage Design Edition
This is an enchanting essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists. Tanizaki's eye ranges over architecture, jade, food, toilets, and combines an acute sense of the use of space in buildings, as well as perfect de
€ 10,⁸⁰
Never Let Me Go
The top ten bestseller from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize In one of the most acclaimed novels of recent years.
€ 13,⁵⁰
Ducks, Newburyport
A Guardian Fiction Pick 2019 published to coincide with American Independence Day, in which an Ohio housewife worries about American politics and the environmental situation as well as living and dead relatives. An indictment of A
€ 23,⁹⁵
The Testaments
In this electrifying sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood answers the question that has tantalised readers for decades: What happened to Offred?

** SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 BOOKER PRIZE **
€ 27,⁹⁵
Otherhood
A new edition of the novel originally published as Whatever Makes You Happy, to tie in with new Netflix movie adaptation Otherhood starring Felicity Huffman, Angela Bassett and Patricia Arquette. A moving tale about mothers and th
€ 10,⁸⁰
Rory Branagan Leap of Death
Meet RORY BRANAGAN - he eats bad guys for breakfast. Well, not ACTUALLY. But he IS the best detective in town. Fifth in a hilarious comedy-crime series for readers of 8+.
€ 10,⁹⁰
Rory Branagan Detective 4 Dinner Lady
Meet RORY BRANAGAN - he eats bad guys for breakfast. Well, not ACTUALLY. But he IS the best detective in town. Fourth in the hilarious illustrated comedy-crime book series for kids, RORY BRANAGAN (DETECTIVE).
€ 9,⁴⁵
Rory Branagan Detective 3
Meet RORY BRANAGAN - he eats bad guys for breakfast. Well, not ACTUALLY. But he IS the best detective in town. Third in a hilarious illustrated comedy-crime book series for kids.
€ 10,⁸⁰