Mina’s Matchbox

‘Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them’ – Roddy Doyle Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Finalist for the Orwell Prize for Fiction A ‘Book of the Year’ in The Observer, The Times & Sunday Times, The Guardian, Daily Mail, Daily Express, The Spectator, […]

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 cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story,

This is a celebration of the Japanese short story from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to remarkable contemporary works. It includes the most well-known Japanese writers – Akutagawa, Murakami, Mishima, Kawabata – but also many surprising new pieces, from Yuko Tsushima’s ‘Flames’ to Banana Yoshimoto’s ‘Bee Honey’. Ranging over myth, horror, love, nature, […]