Viz Media, the number 1 manga publisher in the world, and Simon & Schuster UK are proud to announce a new publishing programme bringing the best in manga to the British market.

Detective Alex Cross makes his second appearance in the worldwide No 1 bestseller that also became a No 1 box office hit as a film starring Morgan Freeman -- now reissued in striking new cover style.

Features Lists 7, 8, 9, 12, 14, and 13. An old man is a ventriloquist and used to amuse many children with his girl doll. Now that he's old, no one appreciates his songs and performances anymore. He steals a doll one winter day. She starts singing for him and attracts people on the street. Only it's too late.

A tale that tells the story of a geisha girl, uncovering a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the heart of Kyoto in the 1930s, where a peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a geisha house. She tells her story many years later from New York.