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Killing Moon
2023 || Paperback || Jo Nesbo || Harvill
This killer will get inside your head.
THE HUNT IS ON AND THE POLICE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME.
Two young women are missing, their only connection being they attended the same party, hosted by a notorious real-estate magnate. When one of the women is found murdered, the police discover an unusual signature left by the killer, giving them reason to suspect he will strike again.
THEY'RE FACING A KILLER UNLIKE ANY OTHER.
And catching him calls for a detective like no other. But the legendary Harry...
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Novelist as a Vocation
2022 || Hardcover || Haruki Murakami || Harvill
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author's own novels.
Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with readers what he thinks about being a novelist; his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on the sparks of creativity that inspire other writers...
The Last Dream
2024 || Hardcover || Pedro Almodovar || Harvill
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Bestiary
Hardcover || K-Ming Chang || Harvill
Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this spellbinding, visceral debut about one family's queer desires, violent impulses and buried secrets.
One evening, Mother tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman's body. Her name was Hu Gu Po and she paid the price for her body in hunger. It's one of many stories Daughter absorbs from the women in her family, about gourd daughters, buried gold and rabbit moons. Soon afterwar...
Mina's Matchbox
2024 || Paperback || Yoko Ogawa || Harvill
After the death of her father, twelve-year-old Tomoko is sent by her mother to live for a year with her aunt and uncle. It is a year which will change her life.
The 1970s are bringing changes to Japan and her uncle's big colonial mansion hides many secrets. It also has an unusual occupant in Pochiko, a Pygmy hippopotamus who is the last survivor from a time when the extensive gardens housed a zoo. But it is Tomoko's growing friendship with her cousin Mina which has the most profound effect on...
Blood Ties
2024 || Paperback || Jo Nesbo || Harvill
The Shadow Key
2024 || Paperback || Susan Stokes-Chapman || Harvill
There's something mysterious about the village of Penhelyg. Will unlocking its truth bring light or darkness?
Meirionydd, 1783. Henry Talbot has been dismissed from his post at a prestigious London hospital. The only job he can find is as a physician in the backwaters of Wales where he can't speak the language, belief in myth and magic is rife, and the villagers treat him with bewildering suspicion. When Henry discovers his predecessor died under mysterious circumstances, he is determined to ...
Cecilia
2024 || Hardcover || K-Ming Chang || Harvill
Mr Geography
2024 || Paperback || Tim Parks || Harvill
Michael Burrow is on a walking holiday in Switzerland with his lover, Susan. They have had a long and secret love affair, but now that Susan’s two children have left school, they plan to start their life together. Michael has bought a house for them to live in and, when they return, Susan will break the news to her family. However, their plans are upended when Susan receives a phone call with news of a tragic death. She gets on the next plane back to London, and she and Michael never see ea...
The Spoiled Heart
2024 || Paperback || Sunjeev Sahota || Harvill
The blazing novel of love, community and politics, set at the edge of the Peak District, and with a deeply moving family mystery at its heart
From the twice Booker-nominated author of The Year of the Runaways and China Room
Nayan Olak keeps seeing Helen Fletcher around town and on his daily run out to the Peaks. She’s come back to the old house at the end of the lane, with her teenaged son, Brandon, though nobody seems to remember much about her. Some trouble at school, back in the day. A c...