Norwegian Wood is a hauntingly beautiful exploration of love, loss and memory, rendered in Murakami’s signature lyrical style. It captures the fragility of human connection with quiet, devastating power.
DISCOVER THE SHORT STORY COLLECTION THAT GAVE THE WORLD DRIVE MY CAR, THE BAFTA AND OSCAR WINNING FILM
A dazzling Sunday Times bestselling collection of short stories from the beloved internationally acclaimed Haruki Murakami.
Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all.
Marked by the same wry humour that has defined his entire body of work, in…
A Burnt Out Case is a stark, introspective novel that probes the emptiness of a man seeking meaning in the depths of the Congo. Greene masterfully blends moral ambiguity with a profound study of faith and disillusionment.
Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper mutilated by disease and amputation. Querry slowly moves towards a cure, his mind getting clearer as he works for the colony. However, in the heat of the tropics, no relationship with a married woman, will ever be taken as innocent...
V2 is a gripping wartime thriller that blends meticulous historical detail with relentless suspense. Harris delivers a tense, character-driven narrative that captures the peril and ingenuity of the rocket war.
Rudi Graf used to dream of sending a rocket to the moon. Instead, he has helped to create the world's most sophisticated weapon: the V2 ballistic missile, capable of delivering a one-ton warhead at three times the speed of sound.
In a desperate gamble to avoid defeat in the winter of 1944, Hitler orders ten thousand to be built. Graf is tasked with firing these lethal 'vengeance weapons' at London.
Kay Caton-Walsh is an officer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force who joins a unit of WAAFs…
Europe, 1941. Twin brothers Romulus and Remus Hutchinson are serving their country at sea: Rom as a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy and Remmie in the Merchant Navy.
Rom is aboard the HMS Southampton and quickly finds himself in the thick of it when the ship is bombed during Operation Excess in the Mediterranean. A valiant rescue of a crewmate from the burning pilothouse brings him a visit to Buckingham Palace to receive the Distinguished Service Cross. Remmie, meanwhile, has his own personal struggles on board the John Holt, as the ship arms itself against the threat from the skies.
Returning to the waves, Rom joins HMS Walker, set to take on the Nazi U-boat aces Otto Kretschmer and Joachim Schepke. With both brothers in dangerous waters, a twist of fate brings them back together. But will they both make it out in one piece…?
IN DANGER’S HOUR is the second book in the Romulus Hutchinson Naval Adventure series: action-packed, authentic historical adventures following twin brothers fighting with the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy during the second world war.
