Contemporary

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.

A beautiful young woman vanishes, and a former detective quickly finds she was not whom she had claimed to be. Is she a victim, a killer, or both? In a country that tracks its citizens at every turn, how can two women claim the same identity and then disappear without a trace?

Lena’s life and that of her two children follows the rules set by their captor, the father.

13-year-old Jake Weber witnesses the brutal murder of a Native American woman by the town banker. Jake’s parents forbid him to speak of the killing or name its perpetrator, even as the woman’s lover stands falsely accused.

Frank, an American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo’s sleazy nightlife. But Frank’s behaviour is so strange that Kenji begins to entertain a horrible suspicion: that his new client is, in fact, the serial killer currently terrorising the city.

Interesting is always a word that comes to mind. It’s a shame that in Less Than Zero, catatonic is another.

A woman sits by the open window of her Brazilian beachfront studio, writing a long letter to someone no more specific than ‘you.’

Durtal, a writer obsessed with the life of one of the darkest figures in history, Gilles de Rais.