The friday bookshop

When college student Fumiya visits The Friday Bookshop as a last-ditch effort to find a book for his ill father, he is disappointed in its ordinary appearance despite whispers of its peculiar charm. But he soon discovers that it not only includes a café where the food menu changes daily on the chef’s whim but also a vast underground vault lined with bookshelves, lovingly converted from an ol…

Taipei story

The electrifying new novel from literary phenomenon, Rebecca F. Kuang, Yale student Lily Chen arrives in Taipei hungry: for family, for culture, for connection.

Colony

In the vast underground world of ants, every life serves the colony. Queens give birth to the future. Workers labour without rest. Soldiers defend the nest. And generation after generation, the cycle endures. When a catastrophe destroys her home, the young queen Darojak finds refuge in a foreign colony ruled by the formidable Queen Gegana. What begins as survival soon draws her into a strugg…

The midnight train

No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there.The chance to re-live the moments that meant most.To see what kind of person you really were.For Wilbur his best days were with Maggie, the love of his life. On his honeymoon in Venice.Before he gave it all away.He wishes he could go back and live differently. But to do so risks everything . . .A magical, time-travelling love…

My grandfather the master detective

There used to be a café called Mon Cheri at Nishi Waseda, where members of the Waseda Mystery Club spent day after day frothing in excitement over the latest mystery novels. Now, one former member is enlisted by his granddaughter to solve real-life mysteries . . . As a lover of classic crime stories, it’s perhaps no surprise that twenty-seven-year-old schoolteacher Kaede encounters everyd…

Deserts

Captivating overlays reveal how desert animals and nomads survive in some of the world’s harshest environments, all with clear, engaging explanations and beautifully detailed illustrations.

Burmese days

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Coming up for air

George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond recognition, and the…

Rahasia salinem

Memasak memang tentang takaran. Mungkin, hidup begitu juga. Kalau pas, bisa mencerahkan. Selepas kematian Mbah Nem, Tyo menyadari bahwa keluarganya takkan terlihat sama lagi. Kematian tersebut membuka fakta baru tentang Mbah Nem. Pertama, Mbah Nem bukan nenek kandungnya. Lantas, siapa Mbah Nem yang selama ini telah Tyo anggap mengalirkan darah di tubuhnya? Kedua, dalam kemelut masa revolusi, …

Wolves in helicopters

Hop has night terrors, filled with big, scary, hungry-eyed wolves. She knows they only live in her dreams but they still seem very real. Her mummy has some good advice, but will Hop be brave enough to take it?