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泣きたいときもあるけれど、食べて、飲んで、生きていく！ 犬森祥子、バツイチ、アラサー、職業は「見守り屋」。営業時間は夜から朝まで。様々な事情を抱える客からの依頼で人やペットなど、とにかく頼まれたものを寝ずの番で見守る。

The cosy, heartwarming first book in the multi-million copy bestselling series. What would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s Before the Coffee Gets Cold, translated from Japanese, explores this...

Seven radio dramas from one of the defining playwrights of his generation, starring Martin Freeman, Ruth Wilson, Robert Glenister, Frances Barber and David Schofield Acclaimed by The Observer as ‘a poet of the east end overspill’, David Eldridge ranks among Britain’s most exciting...

Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.

When friends and could-have-been-a-couple Rishi and Diya follow their charismatic friend Darpan Ray into the glittering, chaotic heart of Bollywood, they expect adventure. What they don't expect is Vishal Alwar - a visionary director haunted by catastrophic failure, convinced that Darpan is his...

The Cities Classics Collection: London, Paris, New York allows you to step into the vibrant streets of three of the world's most iconic cities through a carefully curated collection of literary masterpieces. From the foggy alleys of London to the grand boulevards of Paris, and the buzzing avenues of New York, these stories bring to life the essence of urban life, capturing the triumphs, tragedies, and timeless experiences of the people who shaped these cities.

A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: It’s close to her home, and it requires no reading, no writing, and, ideally, very little thinking. Her first gig - watching the hidden-camera feed of an author suspected of storing contraband goods - turns out to be inconvenient. Her next gives way to the supernatural: announcing advertisements for shops that mysteriously disappear. As she moves from job to job, it becomes increasingly apparent that she's not searching for the easiest job at all but something altogether more meaningful.

Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel takes place over the course of a single June day in the lives of some very different Londoners: wealthy society hostess Clarissa Dalloway, who is preparing for a party; her old friend Peter Walsh, recently returned from India, whose proposal of marriage Clarissa rejected years ago; Septimus Warren Smith, a WWI veteran suffering from shell shock; and his Italian-born wife, Rezia, who is trying to care for him as best she can. Woolf's beautiful prose captures the minds and souls of these vivid characters.

The London Classics Collection: Stories of the City allows you to step into the heart of London with a curated selection of iconic literary works that explore the soul of one of the world's most fascinating cities. From the smoky alleys of Victorian London to the political upheavals of the 20th century, this collection brings together stories that capture the city's rich history, diverse characters, and unflinching reflections on society.

珠玉の人間ドラマ×絶品グルメ小説第２弾 犬森祥子が離婚をきっかけに「見守り屋」の仕事を始めて約一年。気づけば、小三の娘と会えないまま半年が経つ。元夫が再婚して以来、面会させてもらえなかったのだ。

“An exhilaratingly weird and funny Japanese novel about a long-term convenience store employee. Unsettling and totally unpredictable—my copy is now heavily underlined.” —Sally Rooney, The Guardian Selling over a million copies in Japan and named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker...

WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is...

From a bestselling novelist, this "cultural phenomenon" is a fascinating foray into the hearts, minds, and mating habits of modern-day New Yorkers and the inspiration behind the television series (Oprah). Enter a world where the shocking and hilarious dating rituals of the privileged are exposed...

大国の野望と戦火に翻弄されたバルト海の小さな港町が、いかにして灰燼の中から立ち上がり、世界最高峰の北欧デザインと高福祉を誇る美しい首都へと変貌を遂げたのか、息を呑むような都市史のドラマが展開します。...

Les jours passés à la librairie Morisaki resteront à jamais gravés dans ma mémoire. Puisque c'est là-bas que j'ai commencé à vivre, à vivre réellement. Sans cette parenthèse, ma vie aurait été bien moins colorée, bien plus monotone, bien plus triste. Un lieu précieux, inoubliable...

The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller 'I can never forget the sense of pure astonishment I felt when I first read Mieko Kawakami' – Haruki Murakami 'The most exciting Japanese novelist at work today' – The Times A heart-stopping story of teenage girls on the brink in 1990s Tokyo from the...

Don’t miss the next book in MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Rosie Clarke’s Dressmakers' Alley series Times are changing. Is there a glimmer of hope on the horizon for the women of Dressmaker Alley? London’s East End 1927 Yvonne White is content as head seamstress at Miss Susie, raising her beloved...

The brand new, utterly gripping gangland thriller from bestseller Heather Atkinson. You’ll never forget The Bloody MacGregors. The Bloody MacGregors are caught in the crossfire and the streets of Glasgow are about to burn. Virgil MacGregor and his fiercely loyal brothers thought working as...

THE MILLION COPY #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BUTTER IS BACK WITH A NEW NOVEL OF OBSESSION ‘Tender and thrilling it’s Yuzuki at her best’ ELLE ‘Deliciously satisfying’ iPAPER ‘Enjoyable and addictive’ INDEPENDENT ‘Fantastically dark’ ERIN KELLY Eriko really wouldn't mind being...

From a bestselling novelist, this "cultural phenomenon" is a fascinating foray into the hearts, minds, and mating habits of modern-day New Yorkers and the inspiration behind the television series (Oprah). Enter a world where the shocking and hilarious dating rituals of the privileged are exposed...