Natalia's New Year Picks 2025

From the publisher:
A city is always a cemetery. When a professor named Cristina Rivera Garza stumbles upon the corpse of a man in a dark alley, she finds a stark warning on the brick wall beside the body, scrawled in coral nail polish: ‘Beware of me, my…

From the publisher:
A brilliant reinvention of the detective novel, set in Renaissance Florence and packed with art, scandal, murder and scheming – from the author of the international bestseller HHhH.Florence, New Year’s Day 1557. As dawn…

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A rediscovered classic - a Japanese cosy crime novel in translation set at the foot of Mount Fuji, first published in 1982, and now reissued for a 21st century readershipWhen American student Jane Prescott is invited to spend the…

From the publisher:
Translated by Katy DerbyshireThe international bestselling author of A Whole Life and The Tobacconist returns with a captivating historical tale set in 1960s ViennaIt is 1966, and Robert Simon has just fulfilled his…

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'A writer for whom language is an end not a means, a beginning not an end.' Jeanette Winterson'A writer of remarkable power and originality.' Times Literary Supplement'Day. Another. London city and world. There before me as you…