2025 releases

WHO IS THE BIGGEST VILLAIN IN YOUR OFFICE? A gripping and incisive psychological drama from the internationally bestselling author of DallerGut Dream Department Store Eight unsuspecting people receive an invitation to...

WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE In the summer of 2020, as Germany slowly emerges from lockdown, a young Japanese woman studying in Gottingen waits at the train station to meet...

Translated by Shanna Tan Your next summer read! The feel-good Korean bestseller about small-town life and chosen family. FROM THE TRANSLATOR OF WELCOME TO THE HYUNAM-DONG BOOKSHOP AND MARIGOLD MIND LAUNDRY. 'When will...

Translated by Chi-Young Kim An award-winning and movingly introspective exploration of life, art and love from South Korea 'If you wanted to end your life instantly, perfectly, you needed practice...

'Tawada's strange, exquisite book toys with ideas of language, identity and what it means to own someone else's story or one's own' The New Yorker on Tawada's Memoirs of a Polar Bear Are you formed...

A Novel Full of Opportunity Translated by Takami Nieda Combining the whimsy and possibility of The Midnight Library with the mystery and revelatory power of The Secret, Come along for...

Translated by Jim Rion A Japanese mystery bestseller, revolving around a series of unsettling floorplans, in which the reader is the detective - from the Youtube sensation Uketsu A sinister...

Translated by Allison Markin Powell Over the course of his life, Mr Nishino falls hopelessly in love again and again. One woman is a colleague, another a chance encounter; one...

Translated by Allison Markin Powell From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo, here is a story of treasure hoarders, bargain hunters and would-be lovers Among the jumble of...

Translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda Vibrating with the injustices of class and gender, tradition and power, Swallows is an acerbic, witty vision of contemporary Japan by Natsuo Kirino, acclaimed author of...

Translated by Jeremy Tiang A provincial ambulance drives through the night in search of a hospital, a fifth-rate actor goes method as a hitman on a sweltering rooftop, a legendary...

Translated by Gene Png A bestseller in Korea, a biting, fast-paced vampire murder mystery exploring queer love and the consequences of loneliness. When four isolated elderly people die back-to-back at...

  90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'I walked in a daze of illusions toward my future.'Deeply felt and told with an intrepid spirit, Tales from the Heart are the...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksRazor-sharp, pugnacious and blackly funny, Wang Xiaobo's essays established him as one of China's most popular - and subversive - writers. From...

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...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksRumi's verses have been a balm for readers' souls for over eight centuries. This exquisite selection brings together some of the Persian...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksMay I remember always when,Your glance in secrecy met mine,And in my face your love was likeA visibly reflected sign.May I remember...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksAll moonlight is moving, wherever it may be...Japanese gentlewoman Sei Shonagon invites us to look behind the painted screens in the Emperor's...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Saadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and translated writer in the Urdu language, captured the devastation and absurdity of the...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksWu Cheng'en's 16th-century novel Journey to the West is widely regarded as one of the most important Chinese novels ever written. Here, in Julia...

Translated by Sylvia Lin Ph.D. and Howard Goldblatt After the Chinese Civil War, the Kuomintang imposed authoritarian rule on Taiwan in the name of anticommunism. The White Terror, as martial...

Translated by Max Weiss A heart-wrenching story about love, loss, sex, friendship between women, and the universal struggle to come to terms with death. Just before the outbreak of the...

Translated by Archana Madhavan An exhilarating speculative short story collection from South Korean author Amil, transporting readers to new worlds We had always been rare and mysterious creatures. We'd been...

Translated by Sora Kim-Russell WINNER OF THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD A prizewinning psychological horror from Korea - after a devastating car crash, a man wakes to find himself paralysed and...

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...

Translated by Takami Nieda 'Kabahiko is an amazing hippo. People say that if you touch the area of his body that you want to make better on yours, he'll provide...

Discover the Korean runaway prizewinning bestseller for fans of Lonely Castle on the Mirror and Klara and the Sun Let's all learn how to slow down... 2035: In the shadow...

Translated by Polly Barton This ground-breaking collection from Tomoka Shibasaki, author of the acclaimed novel Spring Garden, pushes the short story to a new level. In these stories of human connection...

Translated by Victor Meadowcroft The residents of a desolate town nestled in the Ecuadorian Andes are forced to reckon with the legend of Mildred, a girl wronged by the town...

Translated by Ruth Padel Diaries 'A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland...

Translated by Yuka Maeno Uplifting, poignant healing fiction from the Japanese bestselling author brand new for 2025 OR FANS OF BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD, WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR...

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...

How do power and beauty join forces to determine who is considered ugly? What role does that ugliness play in fomenting hatred? Moshtari Hilal, an Afghan-born author and artist who...

Translated by Sophie Lewis From bestselling novelist Patrcia Melo comes a masterful thriller set in the far west of Brazil that is by turns poetic, inspiring, humourous and harrowing. To...

Translated by Eduardo Aparicio The Stories behind the Symbols A marvelous compendium of mathematical symbols and their fascinating histories Galileo famously wrote that the book of nature is written in...

Translated by Lulu Norman Welcome to Paradise opens a window into the hearts of a small group of African would-be emigrants, waiting on the beach in Morocco for a boat that...

Translated by Sam Malissa Two inventive tales of espionage in one, from the internationally bestselling author of Japanese fiction sensation Bullet TrainIn Japan's recent past, Miyako suspects her mother-in-law is a...

Translated by Yuki Tejima A quirky, joyful queer love story about a lonely museum worker who falls in love with a statue of Venus, from the author of cult hit Diary...

From the author of LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR, the bestselling companion read to LOST SOULS MEET UNDER A FULL MOON, adored by fans, now in English for the first...

Translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda An epic novel of postwar, nuclear-age Japan, by the author of Territory of LightMitch and Yonko haven't spoken in a year. As children, they were inseparable, raised...

The South Korean bestselling phenomenon a compulsive story about friendship, freedom, and what we'll risk for the future of our dreams In Seoul, three women in their thirties meet while...

Translated by Karen McNeill, Miled Faiza "A kaleidoscopic portrait of Tunisian history."--The New York Times Two prominent families, an illicit love affair, and a chorus of voices with multiple perspectives...

Translated by Rosalind Harvey Deft and disquieting, oscillating between the real and the fantastical, The Accidentals is the brilliant new short story collection from International Booker-shortlisted duo Guadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey....

Translated by Sarah Booker and Robin MyersThe dazzling, award-winning novel from one of Mexico's greatest living writers, translated into English for the first time A city is always a cemetery....

A suspenseful tale of abduction, obsession and lost identity that spans Vietnam, East Berlin, West German and Paris - and fantasies of Catherine Deneuve. A young Vietnamese woman is invited...

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...

Rumi's 100 Most Passionate Poems Translated by Muhammad Ali Mojaradi A smoldering collection of 100 love poems by master poet Rumi that will set fire to even the iciest of...

Notes on Loving and Parting The million-copy international bestseller from Korean sensation Taewoan Ha 'Never give up Your every moment is meaningful' In Every Moment Was You, Taewoan Ha reflects...

Mifuyu is a high school student living with a large collection of books left by her great-grandfather―the vast library known as Mikura Hall. Although her father is the current caretaker,...

NO LAW, NO GUN, NO GOD COULD STOP ME NOW. ONLY HIM. THE KOREAN CULT CLASSIC PHENOMENON A ONCE-IN-A-GENERATION HIT WITH OVER A QUARTER OF A MILLION COPIES SOLD 'A...