'An astonishing debut' Independent

A magnificent achievement and an utterly engrossing experience, Ghostwritten is a novel about chance. An apocalyptic cult member carries out a gas attack on a rush-hour metro, but what connects him to a jazz buff in downtown Tokyo? What links a woman on a holy mountain who talks to a tree, a burnt-out lawyer, a redundant English spy, a despondent 'zookeeper', a nuclear scientist, a ghostwriter, a ghost, and a late night New York DJ? Each must play their part as they are caught up in the inescapable forces of cause and effect, in this spellbinding literary debut.

'A firework display, shooting off in a dozen different narrative directions...truly remarkable...enjoy the wit and colour of the storytelling, the speed Of thought. the inventiveness of the language. This is a remarkable novel by a young writer of remarkable talent. Sit back end soak up the voice' Observer

By the author of Ghostwritten

Eiji Miyake arrives in a sprawling Japanese metropolis to track down the father he has never met. But the city is a mapless place if you are 18, broke, and the only person you can trust is John Lennon. His 8-week hunt plunges into the hinterland between the city and the mind, where a Polish art movie is no less real than the coffee in front of him and letters from an Imperial Army soldier are signposts to next week, and where he crosses paths with numerologists, staion masters, gateballers, hostesses, organ harvesters and insane chefs. Philosophical, colourful, sometimes violent, this is a dazzlingly inventive novel about image, control and memory.

This is a prizewinning debut of an extraordinary new voice in crime writing. Shanghai in 1990. An ancient city in a country that despite the massacre of Tiananmen Square is still in the tight grip of communist control. Chief Inspector Chen, a poet with a sound instinct for self-preservation, knows the city like few others. When the body of a prominent Communist Party member is found, Chen is told to keep the party authorities informed about every lead. Also, he must keep the young woman's murder out of the papers at all costs. When his investigation leads him to the decadent offspring of high-ranking officials, he finds himself instantly removed from the case and reassigned to another area. Chen has a choice: bend to the party's wishes and sacrifice his morals, or continue his investigation and risk dismissal from his job and from the party. Or worse...