A young woman in Tokyo takes a few tentative steps outward after years of isolation. Kawakami's unsettling lyricism and candour about ordinary modern lives have made her one of Japan's most ... read more
A boy has a strange and unique gift: he can undo curses, in a world where everyone can cast them. Hardinge has been writing for years but only reached a huge audience when The Lie Tree won t... read more
A girl paints a picture, with a blue tree frog and a red hot-air balloon to float away in: with a rhyming text and splendid illustrations, flaps to lift and peep-holes. For ages 3-5.
Another slim, powerful novel from this excellent writer: as in The Order of the Day, he shows the web of overlapping and competing interests amongst politicians, industrialists and financier... read more
A quiet and thoughtful novel about a girl growing up on an island off the Welsh coast before WW2, whose horizons are altered by the arrival of two ethnographers.