Knopf (US)

Tokyo Year Zero

By David Peace - Published 2007

Genres:

Literary

Tokyo, August 1946: one year after Japan’s surrender and the extensive bombings of its capital. The murdered bodies of two women are found ...Read Review

Arthur and George

By Julian Barnes - Published 2005 (UK)Published 2006 (US)

Genres:

Literary

I should perhaps point out that as Julian Barnes is one of my favourite contemporary prose writers, I approached his new novel in ...Read Review

Suite Française

By Irène Némirovsky - Published 2006

Genres:

Literary

Suite Française, an unfinished five-part epic that boldly illustrates the effect of the WWII German occupation on the ordinary people of France, ...Read Review

Flashman on the March

By George MacDonald Fraser - Published 2005 (US)Published 2006 (UK)

Genres:

Adventure

The impressionable (reprehensible?) Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., K.C.B., K.C.I.E. (none of them deserved) rides again to the ...Read Review

Fan-Tan

By Donald Cammell - By Marlon Brando - Published 2005

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The tale begins with a cockroach race in a Hong Kong prison in 1927. Like guardian dogs outside a Chinese temple, the repulsive details ...Read Review

The Girl Who Played Go

By Shan Sa - Published 2003

Genres:

Adventure

They say that Go, a strategic two-player game popular in both China and Japan, takes only five minutes to learn but a lifetime ...Read Review

The Clearing

By Tim Gautreaux - Published 2003 (UK)Published 2003 (US)

Genres:

AdventureSaga

This classic Southern gothic novel is set in the cypress forest of Louisiana in the 1920s. The rich plot of family, marriage, and ...Read Review