Books like Leaves from an autumn of emergencies by Samuel Hideo Yamashita

A collection of Borges’ short stories that frequently employ the labyrinth as a literary device, probing philosophical and everyday aspects of human life.

A groundbreaking memoir that blends personal narrative with rigorous theory, charting Maggie Nelson’s queer romance, pregnancy, and the politics of love and family.

The Nao Of Brown follows Nao Brown, a 28‑year‑old hafu artist battling obsessive‑compulsive disorder as she seeks creative success, love and inner peace.

A disorienting journey through memory and identity as a Nebraska truck driver with Capgras Syndrome confronts a sister who may be an impostor, while a cognitive neurologist probes the blurred line between reality and perception.

A masterly narrative history of the climactic battles of the Second World War, and companion volume to his bestselling 'Armageddon', by the pre-eminent military historian Max Hastings.The battle for Japan that ended many months after the battle for Europe involved enormous naval, military and air operations from the borders of India to the most distant regions of China. There is no finer chronicler of these events than the great military historian Max Hastings, whose gripping account explores not just the global strategic objectives of the USA, Japan and Britain but also the first-hand experiences of the airmen, sailors and soldiers of all the countries who participated in the Far East and the war in the Pacific. The big moments in the story are chosen to reflect a wide variety of human experience: the great naval battle of Leyte Gulf; the under-reported war in China; the re-conquest of Burma by the British Army under General Slim; MacArthur's follies in the Philippines; the Marines on Iwojima and Okinawa; LeMay's fire-raising Super-fortress assaults on Japan; the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the kamikaze pilots of Japan; the almost unknown Soviet blitzkrieg in Manchuria in the last days of the war, as Stalin hastened to gather the spoils; and the terrible final acts across Japanese-occupied Asia.This is classic, epic history – both in the content and the manner of telling.

Japanese doctors conducted horrific human experiments during World War II, using victims for biological warfare and targeting Chinese civilians and POWs.

A curated anthology of contemporary short stories, each penned by a different renowned writer, introduced by Zadie Smith.