A novel of betrayals: one by an admiral in the C19th, another by an innkeeper and former military policeman in WW2. A fascinating insight into two pivotal periods of Japanese history.
The old order gives way to the new in this Hungarian Gormenghast: an epic tale based on the experiences of the young author's family. Translated from the German.
Two estranged sisters are reunited in their childhood home to sift through their belongings and their past. By the author of Winter in Sokcho and The Pachinko Parlour.
Short stories by the late C19th author who, despite dying very young, was Japan's first professional woman writer. From a well-to-do family who fell on hard times, she was intimately familia... read more
A dark tale set in the Accursed Mountains, in which a young woman becomes a 'Sworn Virgin' to avoid an arranged marriage and to live as a man. Translated from the Bulgarian and published by ... read more
The 'Duke' is in fact a count, living in a sprawling, isolated pile in the Dolomites, fixing his roofs and sifting the family archives. But modernity and the outside world converge upon him ... read more
Exile, in the case of Stepanova - who left Russia after the invasion Ukraine - is not merely geographical. In this haunting and powerful novella, her protagonist ('M.') finds herself incommu... read more
Two powerful women's lives collide on a bleak farm on the coast of Sweden. This is the first English translation of the celebrated Swedish writer's works.
The veteran Spanish author of swashbuckling yarns has alighted on a Greek island with an unwilling sleuth - an actor known for playing Sherlock Holmes.
The all-seeing author holds up a highly polished mirror to the lives of a young couple living an expat, digital life in Berlin. Their days are carefully lit, their interiors punctuated with ... read more
We have been fervent advocates of the first two in this series at Sandoe's and we have high expectations for the third - in which Tara meets a man who, like her, has been reliving November 1... read more
A surgeon returning home from the trenches at the end of WW1 finds himself at odds with his wife and haunted by what he has seen. First English translation of this powerful 1926 novel.
A man's journey on a wooden boat from a small town, Vaim, to a larger city and then back again, lured by a past love. Fosse's first new novel since his 2023 Nobel Prize.
Once the most widely read of German romantic stories, the capricious water nymph Undine has inspired countless artists and writers, from E.T.A. Hoffmann to George MacDonald, Arthur Rackham a... read more
An immersive, rather sinister novel of ambition, success and artistic corruption in 1980s' London. The fourth in his Morning Star series, it nevertheless works well on its own and is a good ... read more
Four fugitives hide from Franco in the aftermath of the Civil War, fighting their desire to return home and learning to survive in the wild, unforgiving Cantabrian mountains.
Already a huge bestseller in Europe, this novel - written with a bludgeon wielded in fury - is set during Finland's Winter War with the USSR in 1939-40. It centres on Simo Häyhä, the snipe... read more
Warned that she only has a year before she loses her eyesight forever, Mona's grandfather resolves to take her to see a great work of art each week. A stirring book about beauty, loss, melan... read more
In 1741, Vitus Bering was shipwrecked off Kamchatka and the surviving crew began to devour the noble herbivore that became known as Steller's sea cow: it was hunted to extinction within thir... read more
A haunting, spectral thriller with its own turbulent history. Due to its allusions to Austrian resistance and its brutal account of Germany's invasion of Poland, the book was banned by the N... read more
Tekla Berg - enigmatic, pill-popping doctor and amateur sleuth - is enlisted by an unsavoury detective to figure out a spate of shootings in Stockholm.
First published in 1936, this endearing Icelandic novella follows the annual wintry trek of an aging shepherd, his dog and a tough old ram to round up any stray livestock and bring them off ... read more
Ravishingly illustrated with ink wash and brush, this is a tale about a mythological creature that inhabits China's primeval forests and a mischievous wind. Together they encounter a lake, a... read more
A Japanese classic, recently translated. Each generation of the Moriyamas must take on the care of a group of tiny people who live in their house in Tokyo. Now the task has fallen to Yuri. B... read more