London: Pushkin Press, 2018. Ginny Tapley Takemori (tr.), New Pushkin Press Edition. First 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 about The Cake Tree in the Ruins
London: Pushkin Press, 2016. First Pushkin Edition. Paperback. Translated by Anthony Briggs. Bored and aloof, tired of St Petersburg high society, Yevgeny Onegin goes to live on the country estate he has just inherited from his uncle. There he encounters Tatyana, who becomes hopelessly infatuated with him. From this story... More about Yevgeny Onegin: A Novel in Verse
London: Pushkin Children's Books, 2015. Laura Paoletti (illustrations). Reprint. Softcover. “The crow crossed the sky, slow-beating her wings. Beat, beat, beat. It was night, not yet morning, and her feathers were so black that she coasted the air invisible above the city wall.” Thus begins Ali Smith’s masterful retelling..... More about The Story of Antigone
London: Pushkin Vertigo, 2016. Reprint. Paperback. An Inspector De Vincenzi Mystery. Translated by Jill Foulston. A body is discovered in a Milan apartment, and Inspector De Vincenzi investigates. The apartment happens to belong to and old university friend of his, Aurigi. When the body turns out to be... More about The Murdered Banker
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 about One Night, Markovitch
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 about The Adventures of Shola
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 about Shola and the Lions
London: Pushkin Vertigo, 2015. Reprint. Paperback. Translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury. “Do you think it’s possible to live again, Monsieur? … I mean … is it possible to die and then … live again in someone else?” You’re no longer in the police, but when an old friend asks..... More about Vertigo
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 about She Who Was No More
London: Pushkin Children's Books, 2014. Walter Trier (illustrations). New translated edition by Pushkin Press. Softcover. Translated by Anthea Bell. ‘Walter Trier’s deceptively innocent drawings are as classic as Kästner’s words; I never tire of them’ Quentin Blake Luise has ringlets. Lottie has braids. Apart from that they look..... More about The Parent Trap
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 about The Lives of Others (The Screenplay
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 about Surrender To Night
London: Pushkin Press, 2019. Timo Kuilder (cover illustration). First Pushkin Press Edition. First Printing. Paperback. Translated from the Russian by Bryan Karetnyk and Irina Steinberg, and with an introduction by Bryan Karetnyk. “No, I’m no queen,” she repeated. “In fact, I’m very modern. Why do you look at me..... More about Isolde
London: Pushkin Press, 2019. Nathan Burton (cover design). New Pushkin Press Edition. First Printing. Paperback. Translated by Alison Entrekin. Meet Zezé – Brazil’s naughtiest and most loveable boy, his talent for mischief matched only by his great kindness. When he grows up he wants to be a ‘poet with..... More about My Sweet Orange Tree
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 about The Crew
London: Pushkin Press, 2018. Mio Matsumoto (cover illustration). New Pushkin Press Edition. Paperback. Translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter. //Like the morning paper you slipped into my life and the word "beginning" took a glow The sight of you from behind reading a paperback as you... More about Salad Anniversary
London: Pushkin Press, 2019. Kack Hughes (cover illustration). First Pushkin Press Edition. First Printing. Paperback. Translated from the French and introduced by Faith Evans. ‘Madeleine Bourdouxhe is one of the more remarkable literary discoveries of the last few years’ Jonathan Coe These are stories of longing and dissatisfaction... More about A Nail, A Rose
London: Pushkin Vertigo, 2018. Reprint. Paperback. A dizzying tale of lust and murder, from one of Japan’s greatest mystery writers. A hunter prowls the night spots of Shinjuku But he’s the one walking into a trap… Ichiro Honda leads a double life: by day a devoted husband and a...... More about The Lady Killer
London: Pushkin Press, 2013. Reprint/First Pushkin Press Edition. Paperback. Coin Locker Babies is Ryu Murakami’s cult cyperpunk novel. Two babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds, but their lives are forever tainted by this inauspicious start. As they grow up, they... More about Coin Locker Babies
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 about Sixty-Nine
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 about Max and Moritz
London: Pushkin Children's Books, 2017. William Steig (illus). Reprint. Paperback. Winner of the Newbery Medal and Honor: a heartwarming tale of one mouse's struggle to go home, by the author of Shrek. Abel has been happily married to Amanda for over a year. He has a comfortable home, an... More about Abel's Island
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 about The Real Thief
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