May 1998: Mimi Traung and her baby daughter Ngan wait restlessly at the gates of Philadelphia airport. There is still a day’s travelling left before they would land back home on Vietnamese soil. While ...
Emi Yagi is an editor at a women's magazine in Japan. She was born in 1988 and lives in Tokyo. Diary of a Void is her first novel; it won the Osamu Dazai Prize, awarded annually to the best debut work ...
A manuscript is found. Filled with small, precise writing and smelling of pit-water, it tells the story of an old recluse and his strange home – and it’s even stranger, jade-green double, seen by that ...
Following on from Star Wars: Tempest Runner, comes the script for the brand-new audio original in the beloved Star Wars series, The High Republic.
A place that is unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day. Once the hideaway of Vanessa, a famous artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago. Now ...
It’s getting colder outside, have you noticed? Whether you’re the type who spends summer grumbling about being sticky, or someone who dreads the moment the clocks go back, the longer nights and cooler ...
Multi-prizewinning and internationally acclaimed Yan Lianke -- 'China's most controversial novelist' (New Yorker)-- returns with a campus novel like no other following a young Buddhist as she journeys ...
In her magnificent novel, Marguerite Yourcenar recreates the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world. The Emperor Hadrian, aware his demise is imminent, writes a long ...
If you love reading books from around the world – especially the ever-popular and growing canon of translated Japanese fiction – then the literature of Korea is your next fix. Modern Korea, split into ...