Out : (Vintage Classics Japanese Series) - Natsuo Kirino no discountIn the Tokyo suburbs four women work the graveyard shift at a factory. Burdened with heavy debts, alienated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead end lives. A young mother among them finally cracks and strangles her philandering, gambling husband. She confesses her crime to her colleagues and unexpectedly, they agree to help. But then the dismembered body parts are discovered, the police start asking questions
an elderly professor of linguistics goes missing from his home in cosy Iffley Village
Illuminated by the latest social and psychological research
"-Kenan Malik
seasonal maintenance
Packed with the tastes and memories of sunshine and holidays
I loved it' - Claire Fuller
literary titan Edward David Adams
He's used to scoring on and off the ice
harbouring a secret that would change him forever
" - The Telegraph"Packed with horticultural wisdom delivered as authoritatively as her recipes
He also examines our current perception of moorland
Lights beneath the ship flash and music changes to a pulsating sound with intermittent cow mooing