2025 releases

Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori  The heartbreaking story of two orphans fighting for survival at the end of World War Two, published in English for the first time. In the...

Discover Haruki Murakami's first two novels.Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami's two first novels - here they are together in one edition.Now I think it's time to tell my...

The haunting, enigmatic love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar in Japan, and is his bestselling title throughout the worldAutumn 1969, and soon I would be 20.When he...

Haruki Murakami's third novel, A Wild Sheep Chase is the mystery hybrid which completes the odyssey begun in Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973.The man was leading an aimless life, time passing, one big...

Translated by Erik Lofgren 1,000 haiku by Sseki Natsume, collected into one volume for the first time! Sōseki Natsume is Japan's most popular writer, well known in the West for...

Records of Ancient Matters The classic story of Japan's origins—now in a fully revised and reader-friendly edition. The Kojiki is Japan's oldest surviving text, chronicling the mythical creation of the...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksKikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father, only to find that the mistress' rival...

A biting psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Tokyo Express, now available in English for the first time Onizuka Kumako is a fierce woman- tall, beautiful, and not afraid to...

A rediscovered classic - a Japanese cosy crime novel in translation set at the foot of Mount Fuji, first published in 1982, and now reissued for a 21st century readership...

Translated by Rebecca Copeland A piercingly beautiful and candid novel of love, sex and independence in 1920s Japan by a trailblazing Japanese writer “Remarkable . . . [Chiyo] has a...

New to our Vintage Classics Murakami Collector's Library - a newly translated, unabridged edition of Murakami's most mind-bendingly brilliant novel. A special hardback edition of Murakami's surreal, mind-bending masterpiece, in...

Translated by Van C. Gessel A gripping adventure story from “a masterly historical writer” about a Japanese expedition to cross the Pacific Ocean in the 17th century (David Mitchell) "A...

WINNER OF THE JAPANESE DETECTIVE WRITERS CLUB PRIZE This prize-winning railway murder mystery from Japan is a crime classic perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Seichō Matsumoto. Early one...

A new selection of lyrically haunting short stories from a Japanese literary iconA writer is seized by apocalyptic visions; a voyeuristic marquis commits a brutal act; and a trio of...

No one really understands how we suffer. One day, when we're adults, we may come to recall this suffering, this misery, as silly and laughable, but how are we to...

Classic Japanese Ghost Stories Enter the haunted world of Ancient Japan in this spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales told and retold across the centuries. From Goblin infested caves and haunted...

A powerful, poignant novel about three half sisters in post-war Japan, from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Snow CountryWith the Second World War only a few years in the past, and...

A new selection and translation of short stories by a hugely prominent classic Japanese writer, filled with eroticism and fantasy The sage Confucius visits a cultured duke, whose pursuit of...

Translated by Umeji Sasaki A modern classic in Japan, Botchan is as widely read today as when it was first published, occupying a place in the canon similar to The...