S. Hideo Yokoyama stretching from the gas-lit streets

stretching from the gas-lit streets of London to the teeming criminal underworld of Boston and the mysterious 'House of Silk'

with a deadly secret at the heart of his luxury ski resort

who posed as his secretary

And so she travels to Europe as a passenger on a tanker bound through the Panama Canal

'Full of heart and strangeness' Nell Stevens

S. Hideo Yokoyama stretching from the gas-lit streetsOne book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace and desire. A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown. THE BOOK: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer