At an end-of-the London season soiree, the young Hungarian scholar-dilettante Janos Batky is introduced to the Earl of Gwynedd, a reclusive eccentric who is the subject of strange rumours. Invited to the family seat, Pendragon Castle in North Wales, Batky receives a mysterious phone-call warning him not to go.

The mysterious and unbearably tense tale of a detective's obsessive pursuit of a child murderer, from one of the post-war era's greatest writers in German.

A collection of haunting mystical poems of the night by the great Rainer Maria Rilke - most of which have never before been translated into English.

Babylon Berlin meets Boris Akunin in this atmospheric and relentlessly dark detective series set in Stalinist Russia.

'With tender rage, one of India's most powerful living writers breathes life into an age-old tale of forbidden passion' - Nilanjana Roy

Record of a brief night was first published as Hebi o Fumu in 1996.