Beloved

Sonoko Kakiuchi is a cultured Osaka lady, unfortunately widowed young. it is a tale of infatuation and deceit, of eliberate evil. Its theme is humiliation, its victim Sonoko’s mild-mannered husband. At is centre – seductive, manipulating, enslaving – is one of Tanizaki’s most extraordinary characters, the beautiful and corrupt art student Mitsuko.

Is who we are really only skin deep? In this searing, remonstrative book, Toni Morrison unravels race through the stories of those debased and dehumanised because of it. A young black girl longing for the blue eyes of white baby dolls spirals into inferiority and confusion. A friendship falls apart over a disputed memory. An […]

VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS – five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions. Each morning, the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to one another. The Professor may not remember what he had for breakfast, but his mind is still alive with elegant mathematical equations from the past. He devises clever maths riddles – […]

The unmissable debut novel by the critically acclaimed author of Between the World and Me and We Were Eight Years in Power – a richly imagined and compulsively page-turning journey to freedom OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK ‘I haven’t felt this way since I first read Beloved… I wish Toni [Morrison] was alive to actually read this […]