PICADOR SHOTS - ' Water from the Sun': Discovering Japan

Includes stories by Russell Banks, Ethan Canin, Raymond Carver, David Foster Wallace, Andrea Lee, Daniel Lyons, Lynda Sexson, Paul Theroux, William Trevor, Haruki Murakami, and others. This anthology aims to capture a range of emotions evoked by advancing age and the passing of time, from events fondly recalled to the impact of appalling tragedy.

Sex, excess and urban paranoia How It Ended returns to hallmark McInerney territory

Explores works from the classic to the graphic novel, as well as poems, plays, sports books and other kinds of non-fiction. This work reveals why we still read, even when there's football on TV, a pram in the hall or a good band playing at our local pub.

What if you were middle-aged and were offered the chance to trade in your sagging flesh for a much younger and more pleasing model? This is the situation in which one character in this collection of stories finds himself. Taking the plunge, he embarks on an odyssey of hedonism but soon has regrets.

This collection, which contains all of Muriel Spark's published short stories together with some new writing, portrays all the Spark obsessions, such as ghosts and judges, priests, murder and French chateaux.

Jack Havoc, jail-breaker and knife artist, is on the loose on the streets of London once again. In the faded squares of shabby houses, in the furtive alleys and darkened pubs, the word is out that the Tiger is back in town, more vicious and cunning than ever. It falls to Albert Campion to pit his wits against the killer and hunt him down through the city's November smog before it is too late.

A young woman who has been involved in an affair with an Indian man feels bound to both her memories and her adopted country after his death; the protagonist of 'Outside the Eastern Gate' returns to her childhood home in Delhi to find a house still inhabited by the impulsive, desperate spirit of her mother.

Tells the story of twenty-five year old American, who has found herself in India, rootless, living according to unfamiliar rules and having an affair with a married Indian man. When he dies suddenly, she feels strangley bound to her adopted country and decides not to return home but stay and face the judgement of his mother and ex-wife.

This title offers a collection of travel writing by a British critic.

As a young man, Haruki Murakami played records and mixed drinks at his Tokyo Jazz club, Peter Cat, then wrote at the kitchen table until the sun came up.