The compelling narratives in Jayne Joso’s new collection Japan Stories, come together to create a mosaic of life in contemporary Japan, its people, its society, its thinking, its character. Illustrated by Manga artist Namiko, Japan Stories provides a window to a country we would all love to know more deeply. Available now. 

Drawing on a long tradition of storytelling Hammad Rind’s debut novel Four Dervishes skewers issues like religious bigotry, injustice, the denial of women’s rights, and class division in a lavishly inventive, verbally rich, exotic confection, that is both darkly thematic and humorously playful. Available now. 

“Easily the most remarkable work of fiction to come out of Wales in a thousand moons.” – Jon Gower

In his debut novel Darkness in the City of Light, Tony Curtis transports us to the ‘city of light’ in the warped times of the German occupation. On the streets of Paris, a mass murderer is at work. Marcel Petiot: who is he, why is he killing? Perhaps even he himself does not know. Available now.

Faced with two murders, industrial espionage, a sexual predator, a mining disaster, Thomas Chard must puzzle how these things fit together to capture a mysterious killer, and avoid becoming the poisoner’s victim himself. Authentic and atmospheric, Fatal Solution is the gripping second installment in the Inspector Chard mysteries by Leslie Scase. Available now.

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