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The Best Japanese Short Stories
Works by 14 Modern Masters: Kawabata, Akutagawa and More
2023 || Paperback || Lane Dunlop || Veltman Distributie Import Books
An anthology of the greatest stories by modern Japanese masters (including previously overlooked women writers)!
Fourteen distinct voices are assembled in this one-of-a-kind anthology tracing a nation's changing social landscapes. Internationally renowned writers like Yasunari Kawabata, Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Junichi Watanabe are joined by three notable women writers whose works have not yet received sufficient attention--Kanoko Okamoto, Fumiko Hayashi and Yumiko Kurahashi.
Highlights of thi...
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Our Missing Hearts
2023 || Paperback || Celeste Ng || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The gripping and extraordinarily moving new novel from the internationally bestselling Celeste Ng.
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The Girl with the Red Hair
2023 || Paperback || Buzzy Jackson || Michael Joseph
The blazing debut novel based on the unsung true story of Hannie Schaft, a young-woman-turned-Dutch-Resistance-fighter in Nazi-occupied Netherlands
'Inspiring, empowering, and timely, compellingly detailed and impressively researched, but better still, it's an immersive story of a terrifying warren of history through which our guide is the sort of hero we all need right now: relatable and resolute and absolutely right' Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author of THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS
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Open Throat
2023 || Hardcover || Henry Hoke || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A mountain lion is on the brink of starvation in the urban landscape of Los Angeles. As it observes the city's perilous beauty and confronts climate change, inequality and love, the animal asks itself: Does it want to eat a human, or become one?
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Cold People
From the multi-million copy bestselling author of Child 44
2023 || Paperback || Tom Rob Smith || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Stunning' Publishers Weekly
'Absolutely captivating' Booklist
What if the only hope for survival becomes the greatest threat?
From the brilliant, bestselling author of Child 44 comes a suspenseful and fast-paced novel about a colony of global apocalypse survivors seeking to reinvent civilisation under the most extreme conditions imaginable.
The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own. There are no negotiations, no demands, no ...
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A Song of Comfortable Chairs
2023 || Paperback || Alexander McCall Smith || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The twenty-third book in the perennially adored The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.
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Old God's Time
2023 || Hardcover || Sebastian Barry || Veltman Distributie Import Books
There were no saints in any era, Tom knew, just good men and bad, and sometimes both in the one bottle. Retired policeman Tom Kettle is enjoying the quiet of his new home, a lean to annexed to a white Victorian Castle in Dalkey overlooking the sea.
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Prequel Novel
2023 || Hardcover || Random House Worlds || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Discover the thrilling origin stories of the bard Edgin, the barbarian Holga, and their whole adventuring party in this official prequel to Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
Edgin Darvis’ life is a mess. All that he has left are his lute, his dashing good looks, and...not much else. After a chance encounter with badass bruiser Holga, Edgin is forced to take a hard look at his bad choices. But the road to redemption is long, and paved with unforeseen expenses. Fortunately, the world i...
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Portrait of a Thief
The Instant Sunday Times & New York Times Bestseller
2023 || Paperback || Grace D. Li || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A cinematic, entertaining and fast-paced debut novel that is part-Ocean's Eleven, part-The Social Network and part-Crazy Rich Asians, Portrait of a Thief is an addictive mix of heist and unlikely friendships by way of the politics of colonization.
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Rabbit Hole
2023 || Paperback || Brody Kate Brody || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Vivid, beautiful writing, and disturbing in the best way, Rabbit Hole is absolutely unputdownable' MILA KUNIS
'I fell down Rabbit Hole in an obsessive spiral' KATE REED PETTY, AUTHOR OF TRUE STORY
'A mindblowing debut' HEATHER DARWENT, author of THE THINGS WE DO TO OUR FRIENDS
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A deliciously dark and twisted debut about family secrets, true crime, and destructive obsession - by a striking new talent
Teddy Angstrom is no stranger to morbid public interest in he...