May You Have Delicious MealsAuthor: Takase, Junko Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Published on 20 February 2025 by Cornerstone (Hutchinson Heinemann) in the United Kingdom. Paperback 144 pages 214 x 136 x 16 166g WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE'So bracing, so strange and humane . . . I loved it.' SHARLENE TEO, author of PONTIFunny . . . All the people in this novel are alive. HIROMI KAWAKAMI, author of STRANGE WEATHER IN TOKYOWitty and sharp . . . I devoured it.

acerbic wife - hold the key

connected by one brutal crime

and Elena Ferrante paints a spectacular portrait of a poor but vibrant Neapolitan neighbourhood in an excerpt from the bestselling My Brilliant Friend

fearless Audrey - is obviously up to something

as well as a leaflet containing basic information and a few quirky traits for all of the birds featured

Zweig describes Marie Antoinette in the King's bedroom

Eric Hill's Where's Spot

and an early Victorian tea-set speaks to us about the impact of empire

ROOOAAAARRRR

And an intimate and heartfelt story of love

By promise or threat

Can Apollo find his godly form again