The Boy in the Earth

Fuminori Nakamura; Allison Markin Powell (Translator)

A darkly melancholic tale that combines Scorsese's Taxi Driver and Camus's The Fall set in Tokyo--Nakamura's Akutagawa Prize-winning novel, one of Japan's most prestigious literary awards, is the here translated into English for the first time and marks another high-water mark in this important writer's...

Secret Inventor (#1 Leonora Bolt)

Lucy Brandt

Orphaned Leonora lives on a remote island, spending her days making crazy cool inventions. When a strange boy called Jack washes up on an inflatable lobster and reveals that her evil Uncle Luther has been stealing her inventions and selling them on the mainland, it begins a laugh-out-loud adventure - co...