London: Pushkin Press, 2018. Ginny Tapley Takemori (tr.), New Pushkin Press Edition. Second Printing. Paperback. "I am still unable to leave the burnt-out ruins" Akiyuki Nosaka, 2014 In 1945, Akiyuki Nosaka watched the Allied firebombing of Kobe kill his adoptive parents, and then witnessed his sister starving to death..... More
London: Pushkin Press, 2015. First Edition. Paperback. Translated by Sondra Silverston. In the late 1930s, two men - Yaacov Markovitch, perennially unlucky in love, and Zeev Feinberg, virile owner of a lustrous moustache - are crossing the sea to marry women they have never met. They will rescue them from..... More
London: Pushkin Children's Books, 2013. Mikel Valverde (illus). New Edition. Hardcover. Winner of the 2014 Marsh Award for Children’s Literature Shola is a little dog with attitude. Frustratingly for her, she loves both comfort (mainly in the form of food) and adventure (in theory, at least), and spends much..... More
London: Pushkin Children's Books, 2013. Mikel Valverde (illus). New Edition. Paperback. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa "So…” Shola wagged her tail doubtfully, “if I’m a lion, why does Grogó insist on calling me a mere mutt?” Shola is sure that her noble nature and ambitions of grandeur mean..... More
London: Pushkin Vertigo, 2015. Reprint. Paperback. Translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury. Every Saturday evening, travelling salesman Ferdinand Ravinel returns to his wife, Mireille, who waits patiently for him at home. But Ferdinand has another lover, Lucienne, an ambitious doctor, and together the adulterers have devised a murderous plan. Drugging..... More
London: Pushkin Press, 2014. First Edition. Paperback. With a foreword by John le Carré. 1984. East Germany. Captain Gerd Wiesler, a loyal member of the secret police, is assigned to spy on the playwright Georg Dreyman. The flat is bugged, and Wiesler begins to listen in to the daily..... More
London: Pushkin Press, 2019. Will Stone (tr.). First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. "Feeling in moments of death-like existence: all humans are worthy of love. Awakening you sense the world's bitterness, in which resides all resolved guilt; your poem an imperfect atonement." --- George Trakl, autumn 1914... More
London: Pushkin Press, 2016. Reprint. Paperback. Translated by Andre Naffis-Sahely. The crew of a French reconnaissance plane during the First World War consisted of just two men: a pilot and an observer. Two such men are Jean Herbillon and Claude Maury. Herbillon’s dreams of glory as an air ace..... More
London: Pushkin Press, 2013. First Pushkin Press Edition. Paperback. Murakami’s 69, a side-splittingly funny coming-of-age novel set in the Japan of the sixties In a small, inconsequential city in Japan, all that matters to 17-year-old Kensuke Yazaki and his friends is girls, rock music and, to a much lesser..... More
London: Pushkin Press, 2019. Anna Morrison (cover design). First Pushkin Press Edition. First Printing. Softcover. Translated from the German by Mark Ledsom. The hilariously wicked classic, in a lively new translation Lock up your chickens! Look out for the bugs in your bed! And check that there’s nothing..... More
London: Pushkin Children's Books, 2017. William Steig (illus). Reprint. Paperback. 'Impossible to resist' Kirkus Reviews From the creator of Shrek. Gawain is a kind, honest goose. He loves King Basil very much, and while he does sometimes long for his pond and his prize cabbages, he carries out his duties..... More
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