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Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. His body is found in his office, a locked room, within his locked house, by his wife and his best friend, both of whom have rock solid alibis. Or so it seems. At the crime scene, Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga recognizes Hidaka's best friend, Osamu Nonoguchi. Years ago when they were both teachers, they were colleagues at the same public school. Kaga went on to join the police force while Nonoguchi eventually left to become a full-time writer, though with not nearly the success of his friend Hidaka. As Kaga investigates, he eventually uncovers evidence that indicates that the two writers' relationship was very different that they claimed, that they were anything but best friends. But the question before Kaga isn't necessarily who, or how, but why. In a brilliantly realized tale of cat and mouse, the detective and the killer battle over the truth of the past and how events that led to the murder really unfolded. And if Kaga isn't able to uncover and prove why the murder was committed, then the truth may never come out. Malice is one of the bestselling—the most acclaimed—novels in Keigo Higashino's series featuring police detective Kyoichiro Kaga, one of the most popular creations of the bestselling novelist in Asia.

От награждаваната авторка Р. Ф. Куанг идва „Вавилон“ — епична историческа фентъзи творба, която се занимава със студентски революции, колониална съпротива и употребата на езика и превода като средство за господство на Британската империя. Traduttore, traditore: Всеки акт на превод е акт на предателство. 1828 г. Робин Суифт, осиротял от холера в Кантон, е доведен в Лондон от загадъчния професор Ловел. Там той години наред се обучава по латински, старогръцки и китайски, подготвяйки се за деня, в който ще постъпи в престижния Кралски институт по превод към Оксфордския университет — известен още като Вавилон. Кулата и нейните студенти са световният център на превода и, което е още по-важно, на магията. Среброделството — изкуството да се проявява изгубеният в превода смисъл с помощта на омагьосани сребърни кюлчета — е направило британците ненадминати по сила, тъй като това тайнствено изкуство служи на стремежа на Империята към колонизация. За Робин Оксфорд е утопия, посветена на преследването на знанието. Но знанието се подчинява на властта и като китайско момче, израснало във Великобритания, Робин осъзнава, че да служи на Вавилон означава да предаде родината си. С напредването на обучението си Робин се оказва разкъсан между Вавилон и потайното Общество на Хермес — организация, посветена на спирането на имперската експанзия. Когато Великобритания започва несправедлива война с Китай заради среброто и опиума, Робин трябва да реши... Могат ли могъщите институции да бъдат променени отвътре или революцията винаги изисква насилие?

One of Japan's greatest classic murder mysteries, introducing their best loved detective, translated into English for the first time. In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a son of the grand Ichiyanagi family. But amid the gossip over the approaching festivities, there is also a worrying rumour - it seems a sinister masked man has been asking questions around the village. Then, on the night of the wedding, the Ichiyanagi household are woken by a terrible scream, followed by the sound of eerie music. Death has come to Okamura, leaving no trace but a bloody samurai sword, thrust into the pristine snow outside the house. Soon, amateur detective Kosuke Kindaichi is on the scene to investigate what will become a legendary murder case, but can this scruffy sleuth solve a seemingly impossible crime?

It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, the lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.

يعمل ماركوس في مصنع المعالجة المحلي، في مجال ذبح البشر — رغم أن أحدًا لم يعد يسميهم كذلك. تركته زوجته، ووالده يغرق في الخرف، ويحاول ماركوس ألا يفكر مليًا في الطريقة التي يكسب بها رزقه. ففي النهاية، حدث الأمر بسرعة كبيرة. أولًا، أُبلغ عن أن فيروسًا معديًا جعل كل لحوم الحيوانات سامة للبشر. ثم بدأت الحكومات «التحول». والآن، أصبح أكل لحم البشر — «اللحم الخاص» — قانونيًا. يحاول ماركوس الالتزام بالأرقام والشحنات والمعالجة. ثم، في أحد الأيام، يُهدى إليه شيء: عينة حية من أجود نوعية. ومع أنه يدرك أن أي شكل من أشكال التواصل الشخصي ممنوع تحت طائلة الموت، فإنه يبدأ، شيئًا فشيئًا، في معاملتها كإنسانة. وسرعان ما يعذبه ما فُقد — وما قد لا يزال بالإمكان إنقاذه.

Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort—a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and seem to move and speak as one. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door—ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision. The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.

Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah is not the same. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded on the ocean floor, Leah has brought part of it back with her, onto dry land and into their home. Moving through something that only resembles normal life, Miri comes to realize that the life that they had before might be gone. Though Leah is still there, Miri can feel the woman she loves slipping from her grasp. Our Wives Under The Sea is the debut novel from Julia Armfield, the critically acclaimed author of Salt Slow. It’s a story of falling in love, loss, grief, and what life there is in the deep deep sea.

Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood-soaked images start haunting her thoughts, Yeong-hye decides to purge her mind and renounce eating meat. In a country where societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision to embrace a more “plant-like” existence is a shocking act of subversion. And as her passive rebellion manifests in ever more extreme and frightening forms, scandal, abuse, and estrangement begin to send Yeong-hye spiraling deep into the spaces of her fantasy. In a complete metamorphosis of both mind and body, her now dangerous endeavor will take Yeong-hye—impossibly, ecstatically, tragically—far from her once-known self altogether.

Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet. Together with her cousin Yuu, Natsuki spends her summers in the wild mountains of Nagano, dreaming of other worlds. When a terrible sequence of events threatens to part the two children forever, they make a promise: survive, no matter what. Now Natsuki is grown. She lives a quiet life with her asexual husband, surviving as best she can by pretending to be normal. But the demands of Natsuki's family are increasing, her friends wonder why she's still not pregnant, and dark shadows from Natsuki's childhood are pursuing her. Fleeing the suburbs for the mountains of her childhood, Natsuki prepares herself with a reunion with Yuu. Will he still remember their promise? And will he help her keep it?

In this Rashomon-style mystery story, each member of a high-school literature club presents her own version of the death of the group's leader. When the high-school literature club meets, the usual routine is for each member to read her own original story. But this time, the assignment has changed. Everyone is given the same topic: "The Death of Itsumi Shiraishi." Itsumi. who had been the head of the group and the most beautiful and charismatic student in the school, had died under mysterious circumstances. Rumor has it that a member of the club was responsible for her death. As one after the other reads her piece, it's revealed that the girls have completely different theories about who killed their classmate, and each points her finger at a different culprit among them. It's not until a letter from Itsumi herself is shared, that the story reaches a most unexpected and shocking conclusion.

Agatha Christie's most daring travel mystery. The tranquility of a lovely cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything – until she lost her life. Who is also on board? Christie's great detective Hercule Poirot is on holiday. He recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: ‘I’d like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.’ Despite the exotic setting, nothing is ever quite what it seems…

"As far back as I can recall, I have been in the bunker." A young woman is kept in a cage underground with thirty-nine other females, guarded by armed men who never speak; her crimes unremembered... if indeed there were crimes. The youngest of forty—a child with no name and no past—she survives for some purpose long forgotten in a world ravaged and wasted. In this reality where intimacy is forbidden—in the unrelenting sameness of the artificial days and nights—she knows nothing of books and time, of needs and feelings. Then everything changes... and nothing changes. A young woman who has never known men—a child who knows of no history before the bars and restraints—must now reinvent herself, piece by piece, in a place she has never been... and in the face of the most challenging and terrifying of unknowns: freedom.

Journalist Rika Machida is facing an unusual she is tapped to investigate serial killer Manako Kajii, notorious for drawing rich men in with her pricey cooking classes, only to murder them and move on to the next. Kajii refuses to cooperate with the press until Rika writes her a letter asking for her beef stew recipe, a correspondence and ongoing series of conversations between the two women that sees Rika transforming as she becomes closer to Kajii, taking on some of her confidence and strength but also some of her deadly intention. Game on. Set in 2011, when dairy product shortages across Japan made butter a hot commodity, Butter depicts a vivid, panoramic view of contemporary Japan as seen through a diverse cast of Japanese women. An endlessly entertaining and sharply insightful look at the relationships between women and how they engage and challenge one another, revealing the many contradictions and complexities in the process, Asako Yuzuki’s novel is filled with intoxicating descriptions of food and the body that also looks deeply at its connection to the sinister, criminal, and taboo, its enduring power and delight.

Tiga anak jalanan ditemukan tewas, tergantung di pinggir flyover kawasan Jatinegara. Satu mayat lagi menyusul, kali ini terlilit kabel tiang listrik. Penyelidikan dimulai dengan enggan, para polisi bertindak meski jauh dari kata maksimal. Pemikiran semua orang sama : mereka hanya gelandangan, lebih baik disingkirkan. Seolah ada yang bertekad membersihkan jalanan, mengurangi masalah pelik kota. Namun, benarkah anak-anak itu pantas mati? Dengan cara seperti itukah mereka layak dilenyapkan? Dua Dini Hari adalah novel debut Chandra Bientang. Novel ini terpilih untuk mendapatkan dana penerjemahan nukilan ke dalam Bahasa Inggris dari LitRi Translation Funding Program yang diselenggarakan oleh Komite Buku Nasional di tahun 2019. Novel ini menjadi pemenang 2 kategori yaitu Best Novel dan Best Crime Drama & Thriller dalam Scarlet Pen Awards (Anugerah Fiksi Kriminal Indonesia) 2020 yang diselenggarakan oleh Crime Fiction Author Indonesia dan Komunitas Detectives Indonesia. "Ide cerita dan gaya tulisannya membuat setiap peristiwa terasa sangat dekat. Pencapaian yang baik untuk sebuah karya perdana." \-Fransisco Rosarians, jurnalis hukum TEMPO "Meneror mental dan pikiran sejak awal. Mengerikan, menuntun pembaca berhadapan dengan misteri yang tak berkesudahan." \-Aprillia Ramadhina, penulis buku Turn On The Radio

Dalam Sihir Perempuan, Intan Paramaditha mengolah genre horor, mitos, dan cerita-cerita lama dengan perspektif feminis. Buku ini pertama kali diterbitkan Katakita tahun 2005 dan meraih penghargaan 5 besar Khatulistiwa Literary Award (Kusala Sastra Khatulistiwa). Setelah 12 tahun, Sihir Perempuan diterbitkan ulang oleh Gramedia Pustaka Utama (April 2017) dengan kemasan baru dan ilustrasi untuk tiap cerita oleh Emte. Perempuan bisa menjadi apa saja: ibu, anak, karyawati yang baik, hingga boneka porselen. Namun dalam buku yang menghadirkan 11 cerita pendek ini, peran-peran yang seharusnya nyaman justru diteror oleh lanskap kelam penuh hantu gentayangan, vampir, dan pembunuh. Di sinilah perempuan dan pengalamannya yang beriak dan berdarah terpintal dalam kegelapan. Cerita: Pemintal Kegelapan Vampir Perempuan Buta Tanpa Ibu Jari Mobil Jenazah Pintu Merah Mak Ipah dan Bunga-Bunga Misteri Polaroid Jeritan dalam Botol Sejak Porselen Berpipi Merah itu Pecah Darah Sang Ratu

The spine\-tingling bestseller that has taken Japan by storm—an eerie fresh take on horror for fans of Hidden Pictures and Junji Ito, in which a series of seemingly innocent pictures draws you into a disturbing web of unsolved mysteries and shattered psyches. An exploration of the macabre, where the seemingly mundane takes on a terrifying significance... A pregnant woman's sketches on a seemingly innocuous blog conceal a chilling warning. A child's picture of his home contains a dark secret message. A sketch made by a murder victim in his final moments leads an amateur sleuth down a rabbithole that will reveal a horrifying reality. Structured around these nine childlike drawings, each holding a disturbing clue, Uketsu invites readers to piece together the mystery behind each and the over\-arching backstory that connects them all. Strange Pictures is the internationally bestselling debut from mystery horror YouTube sensation Uketsu—an enigmatic masked figure who has become one of Japan's most talked about contemporary authors.

A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful, witty, and wildly imaginative ode to magical girl manga. Twenty\-nine, depressed, and drowning in credit card debt after losing her job during the pandemic, a millennial woman decides to end her troubles by jumping off Seoul’s Mapo Bridge. But her suicide attempt is interrupted by a girl dressed all in white—her guardian angel. Ah Roa is a clairvoyant magical girl on a mission to find the greatest magical girl of all time. And our protagonist just may be that special someone. But the young woman’s initial excitement turns to frustration when she learns being a magical girl in real life is much different than how it’s portrayed in stories. It isn’t just destiny—it’s work. Magical girls go to job fairs, join trade unions, attend classes. And for this magical girl there are no special powers and no great perks, and despite being magical, she still battles with low self\-esteem. Her magic wand . . . is a credit card—which she must use to defeat a terrifying threat that isn’t a monster or an intergalactic war. It’s global climate change. Because magical girls need to think about sustainability, too. Park Seolyeon reimagines classic fantasy tropes in a novel that explores real\-world challenges that are both deeply personal and universal: the search for meaning and the desire to do good in a world that feels like it’s ending. A fun, fast\-paced, and enchanting narrative that sparkles thanks to award\-nominated translator Anton Hur, A Magical Girl Retires reminds us that we are all magical girls—that fighting evil by moonlight and winning love by daylight can be anyone's game. Translated from the Korean by Anton Hur.

The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story about the crucible of girlhood, from a writer of rare and startling talent We would not be born out of sweetness, we were born out of rage, we felt it in our bones. In Falls Landing, Florida—a place built of theme parks, swampy lakes, and scorched bougainvillea flowers—something sinister lurks in the deep. A gang of thirteen-year-old girls obsessively orbit around the local preacher's daughter, Sammy. She is mesmerizing, older, and in love with Eddie. But suddenly, Sammy goes missing. Where is she? Watching from a distance, they edge ever closer to discovering a dark secret about their fame-hungry town and the cruel cost of a ticket out. What they see will continue to haunt them for the rest of their lives. Through a darkly beautiful and brutally compelling lens, Dizz Tate captures the violence, horrors, and manic joys of girlhood. Brutes is a novel about the seemingly unbreakable bonds in the "we" of young friendship, and the moment it is broken forever.

The brand new unmissable crime thriller from Holly Jackson, best-selling, award-winning author of the Good Girl’s Guide to Murder trilogy. Eight hours. Six friends. One sniper . . . Eighteen year old Red and her friends are on a road trip in an RV, heading to the beach for Spring Break. It’s a long drive but spirits are high. Until the RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere. There’s no mobile phone reception and nobody around to help. And as the wheels are shot out, one by one, the friends realise that this is no accident. There’s a sniper out there in the dark watching them and he knows exactly who they are. One of the group has a secret that the sniper is willing to kill for. A game of cat-and-mouse plays out as the group desperately tries to get help and to work out which member of the group is the target. Buried secrets are forced to light in the cramped, claustrophobic setting of the RV, and tensions within the group will reach deadly levels. Not everyone will survive the night.

The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery:" with twenty\-four equally unusual stories. Together they demonstrate Jackson's remarkable range\-\-from the hilarious to the truly horrible\-\-and power as a storyteller.

Θεωρούμενο ένα από τα σπουδαιότερα, αλλά και πιο αμφιλεγόμενα, μυστήρια της Αγκάθα Κρίστι, «Η δολοφονία του Ρότζερ Άκροϊντ» παραβιάζει τους κανόνες του παραδοσιακού αστυνομικού μυθιστορήματος. Το ήσυχο αγγλικό χωριό του Κινγκς Άμποτ συγκλονίζεται. Η χήρα Φέραρς πεθαίνει από υπερβολική δόση Βερονάλ. Λιγότερο από είκοσι τέσσερις ώρες αργότερα, ο Ρότζερ Άκροϊντ —ο άντρας που σχεδίαζε να παντρευτεί— δολοφονείται. Πρόκειται για μια αινιγματική υπόθεση εκβιασμού και θανάτου που εξαντλεί τα «μικρά γκρίζα κύτταρα» του Ηρακλή Πουαρό, προτού καταλήξει σε ένα από τα πιο συγκλονιστικά συμπεράσματα της καριέρας του. Σημείωση βιβλιοθηκάριου: τα πρώτα δεκαπέντε μυθιστορήματα της σειράς Ηρακλής Πουαρό είναι: 1) Η μυστηριώδης υπόθεση στο Στάιλς, 1920· 2) Ο φόνος στο γήπεδο του γκολφ, 1923· 3) Η δολοφονία του Ρότζερ Άκροϊντ, 1926· 4) Οι τέσσερις μεγάλοι, 1927· 5) Το μυστήριο του γαλάζιου τρένου, 1928· 6) Κίνδυνος στο Έντχαους, 1932· 7) Ο λόρδος Έτζγουερ πεθαίνει, 1933· 8) Έγκλημα στο Οριάν Εξπρές, 1934· 9) Τραγωδία σε τρεις πράξεις, 1935· 10) Θάνατος στα σύννεφα, 1935· 11) Οι φόνοι με τα αρχικά Α.Β.Γ., 1936· 12) Φόνος στη Μεσοποταμία, 1936· 13) Χαρτιά στο τραπέζι, 1936· 14) Άφωνος μάρτυρας, 1937· και 15) Θάνατος στον Νείλο, 1937. Αυτά είναι μόνο τα μυθιστορήματα· ο Πουαρό εμφανίζεται επίσης την περίοδο αυτή σε ένα θεατρικό έργο, Μαύρος καφές, 1930, και σε δύο συλλογές διηγημάτων, Ο Πουαρό ερευνά, 1924, και Φόνος στα Μέουζ, 1937. Κάθε μυθιστόρημα, θεατρικό έργο και διήγημα έχει τη δική του καταχώριση στο Goodreads.

The Crooked House sits on a snowbound cliff at the remote northern tip of Japan. A curious place to build a house, but even more curious is the house itself - a maze of sloping floors and strange staircases, full of bloodcurdling masks and uncanny dolls. When a guest is found murdered in seemingly impossible circumstances, the police are called. But they are unable to solve the puzzle, and more bizarre deaths follow. Enter Kiyoshi Mitarai, the renowned sleuth. Surely if anyone can crack these cryptic murders it is him. But you have all the clues too - can you solve the mystery of the murders in The Crooked House first?

A spiritual companion to Strange Pictures and a bestselling horror phenomenon in Japan —mysterious spaces, trap doors, windowless children's rooms . . . something is wrong with this house. Can you solve the "mystery" of its floor plan? A writer fascinated by the macabre is approached by an acquaintance who is considering purchasing a second-hand house in Tokyo. With its bright and spacious interior, the home seems perfect. But looking closer, the building’s floor plan reveals a mysterious "dead space” hidden between the walls. Seeking a second opinion, the writer shares the floor plan with an architect friend only to discover more “strange spaces” dotted across the house. What are these mysterious “strange spaces” and why do they exist—are they really there, or is there something off with the floor plan? Who is the home’s former resident who suddenly disappeared? The freelance writer and his architect friend can’t resist the challenge of solving the riddle of these puzzling floor plans . . . and the terrifying plot behind it all.

A propulsive crime drama featuring a legendary Hong Kong detective on a decades-long quest to expose the city’s dark underbelly. Covering six cases that span Kwan Chun-dok’s impressive fifty-year career, The Borrowed takes readers on a tour of Hong Kong history from the Leftist Riot in 1967; the conflict between the HK Police and ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption) in 1977; the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989; the Handover in 1997; to the present day of 2013, when Kwan is called on to solve his final case, the murder of a local billionaire, while Hong Kong increasingly resembles a police state. Along the way we meet Communist rioters, ultraviolent gangsters, stallholders at the city’s many covered markets, pop singers enmeshed in the high-stakes machinery of star-making, and a people always caught in the shifting balance of political power, whether in London or Beijing. A gripping and brilliantly constructed novel from a talented new voice in crime fiction, The Borrowed paints a dynamic portrait of Hong Kong and reveals just how closely the past and present are connected in this fascinating city.

Raped and horribly murdered, the body of ten-year-old Maureen Sutton is eventually discovered in woods near a sleepy commuter village in Kent. With nerve, inspiration and deadpan brilliance Caroline Blackwood draws us into the village to witness the macabre and devastating effects of this story on a local family: the historian Rowan Anderson, his wife Cressida and their sickly daughter, Mary Rose.

At once a time-travelling horror story and a fugue-like feminist manifesto, this is a singular, genre-warping new novel from the author of the acclaimed Paradise Rot. “It’s 1992 and I’m the Gloomiest Child Queen.” Welcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her past, her practice and her hatred, things start stirring themselves up around her. In a corner of Oslo, a coven of witches begins cooking up some curses. A time-travelling Edvard Munch arrives in town to join a black metal band, closely pursued by the teenaged subject of his painting Puberty, who has murder on her mind. Meanwhile, out deep in the forest, a group of school girls get very lost and things get very strange. Awful things happen in aspic. Jenny Hval’s latest novel is a radical fusion of feminist theory and experimental horror, and a unique treatise on magic, gender and art.

The most ingenious, unique novel you will read all year, where you choose your own story as you travel across the world You’ve grown roots, you’re gathering moss. You’re desperate to escape your boring life teaching English in Jakarta, to go out and see the world. So you make a Faustian pact with a devil, who gives you a gift, and a warning. A pair of red shoes to take you wherever you want to go. But where will you choose to go? To New York, to follow your dreams? To Berlin or Amsterdam? Lima or Tijuana? Or onto a train that will never stop? You’re forever wandering, everywhere and nowhere, but are you ever home? The choices you make may mean you end up as a tourist or an undocumented migrant, a mother or a murderer, and you will meet many travellers with their own stories to tell. As your paths cross and intertwine, you’ll come to realise that no story is ever new. The Wandering is a novel about the highs and lows of global nomadism, the politics and privileges of travel and desire, and the freedoms and limitations of the choices we make, by one of Asia’s most exciting writers. It’s a playful and ingenious reminder that borders are real, that turns the traditional adventure story on its head.

A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy begins George Smiley's chess match of wills and wits with Karla, his Soviet counterpart. It is now beyond a doubt that a mole, implanted decades ago by Moscow Centre, has burrowed his way into the highest echelons of British Intelligence. His treachery has already blown some of its most vital operations and its best networks. It is clear that the double agent is one of its own kind. But which one? George Smiley is assigned to identify him. And once identified, the traitor must be destroyed.

Unter dem Einfluss ihres charismatischen Professors für Klassische Philologie entdeckt eine Gruppe kluger, exzentrischer Außenseiter an einem elitären College in Neuengland eine Denk- und Lebensweise, die Welten entfernt ist von der eintönigen Existenz ihrer Altersgenossen. Doch als sie die Grenzen der normalen Moral überschreiten, gleiten sie allmählich von Besessenheit in Korruption und Verrat und schließlich – unaufhaltsam – ins Böse ab.

From Eliza Clark, the author of the brilliant novels Boy Parts and Penance and one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, comes a fierce, visionary and darkly comic story collection. A woman welcomes a parasite into her body. A teenager longs for perfect skin. A scientist tends to fragile alien flora. A young man takes the night into his own hands. Unsettling, revelatory, and laced with her signature dark humor, Eliza Clark’s debut short story collection plumbs the depths of that most basic human feeling: hunger.

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly magazine (January 27 - April 16, 1898). In October 1898 it appeared in The Two Magics, a book published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London. A very young woman's first job: governess for two weirdly beautiful, strangely distant, oddly silent children, Miles and Flora, at a forlorn estate... An estate haunted by a beckoning evil. Half-seen figures who glare from dark towers and dusty windows- silent, foul phantoms who, day by day, night by night, come closer, ever closer. With growing horror, the helpless governess realizes the fiendish creatures want the children, seeking to corrupt their bodies, possess their minds, own their souls. But worse-much worse- the governess discovers that Miles and Flora have no terror of the lurking evil. For they want the walking dead as badly as the dead want them. Excerpt: I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and the wrong. After rising, in town, to meet his appeal, I had at all events a couple of very bad days - found myself doubtful again, felt indeed sure I had made a mistake. In this state of mind I spent the long hours of bumping, swinging coach that carried me to the stopping place at which I was to be met by a vehicle from the house.

Chan Ho-Kei’s The Borrowed was one of the most acclaimed international crime novels of recent years, a vivid and compelling tale of power, corruption, and the law spanning five decades of the history of Hong Kong. Now he delivers Second Sister, an up-to-the-minute tale of a Darwinian digital city where everyone from tech entrepreneurs to teenagers is struggling for the top. A schoolgirl—Siu-Man—has committed suicide, leaping from her twenty-second floor window to the pavement below. Siu-Man is an orphan and the librarian older sister who’s been raising her refuses to believe there was no foul play—nothing seemed amiss. She contacts a man known only as N.—a hacker, and an expert in cybersecurity and manipulating human behavior. But can Nga-Yee interest him sufficiently to take her case, and can she afford it if he says yes? What follows is a cat and mouse game through the city of Hong Kong and its digital underground, especially an online gossip platform, where someone has been slandering Siu-Man. The novel is also populated by a man harassing girls on mass transit; high school kids, with their competing agendas and social dramas; a Hong Kong digital company courting an American venture capitalist; and the Triads, market women and noodle shop proprietors who frequent N.’s neighborhood of Sai Wan. In the end it all comes together to tell us who caused Siu-Man’s death and why, and to ask, in a world where online and offline dialogue has increasingly forgotten about the real people on the other end, what the proper punishment is.

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her mother’s fate—and find a connection that is more than skin deep? For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother’s considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother’s demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red shoes, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Méduse, the same lavish, culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There, Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother’s) obsession with the mirror—and the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass. Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this surreal descent into the dark side of beauty, envy, grief, and the complicated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror, Rouge explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry—as well as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with California sunshine and blood-red rose petals, Rouge holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality, our collective fixation with the surface, and the wondrous, deep longing that might lie beneath.

My friend is missing. When he disappeared, he’d been working on a magazine about the paranormal—his first real job as an editor. With almost no budget, he’d resorted to digging through back issues and unused research material, looking for inspiration. As he did, a terrifying truth began to emerge about a certain place in the Kinki region. I have collected the relevant articles, interviews, and other materials in this book. And once you have understood everything, I would like to ask for your cooperation. I hope you will get in touch.