Contemporary

Natsuki isn’t like the other girls. 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?

A collection of texts exploring the ideology of celebrity and death in a surreal state that only J.G. Ballard can achieve.

A dissolute Frenchman discovers the true depths of degradation beyond his prior bourgeois imaginings.

A keen observer of human behaviour, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her life a drama injection.

Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone.

Narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport, he flees a maximum-security prison in Australia to escape to Mumbai.

Shed: a half-Indian bisexual boy who lives and works at the Indian Head Hotel in the tiny town of Excellent, Idaho. The hotel carries on a prosperous business as the town’s brothel.

When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards.