Joyful, tender, and strangely relatable . . . With sharp, playful prose, Veldman tells a story in equal parts searing intelligence and madcap sweetness. Simply brilliant.' Jenny Mustard

This is a story of girl meets printer.

A customer service assistant spends her long workdays printing letters. Her one friend is the printer and, in the dark confines of her office, she begins to open up to him, talking about her fears, her past, her hopes and dreams.

To her, it seems like a beautiful friendsh...

There's a book written for every one of us...

Carl may be 72 years old, but he's young at heart. Every night he goes door-to-door delivering books by hand to his loyal customers. He knows their every desire and preference, carefully selecting the perfect story for each person.

One evening as he makes his rounds, nine-year-old Schascha appears. Loud and precocious, she insists on accompanying him - and even tries to teach him a thing or two about books.

When Carl's job at the bookstore is thre...

If you could speak to someone you've lost, one last time, what would you tell them?

Steam rises from the bowls of simmered fat greenling, rice and miso soup on the table in

front of Kotoko.

She has taken the train from Tokyo to reach the Chibineko Kitchen, a restaurant perched

by the sea in Chiba Prefecture. Still reeling from the sudden death of her brother, she has

heard that the food served there can reunite you with a lost loved one for one last time.

Hardly daring to believe it can be tr...

The new title from the author of Six Four, in which a down-at-heel architect must solve a beguiling mystery

'An ambitious story of love and betrayal' - Irish Times

'The ending is like a bomb thrown into your room -- you'll be reeling for days and weeks to come.' - Neel Mukherjee

Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened by the secrecy they must maintain. But when she strays for a single night he cannot forgive her and a dangerous crack ...