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Based on one of China's most famous online crime serials, a killer crowd-sources his victims, playing a deadly but ingenious game of cat-and-mouse with the police. For fans of Jo...

Translated by Ken LiuPublished with the blessing of Cixin Liu, The Redemption of Time extends the universe conjured by the Three-Body Trilogy. You'll discover why the universe is a 'dark...

Translated by Sung Ryu A bestselling and award-winning debut collection from one of South Korea's most prominent young writers In crisp, unembellished prose, Choi Eun-young paints intimate portraits of the...

'What Japan was she owed to the samurai. They were not only the flower of the nation, but its root as well.'Inazo Nitobe's book, the most influential ever written on...

'One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. Akutagawa was a born short-story writer' — Haruki MurakamiThe stories in this fantastical, unconventional collection are subtly wrought depictions of...

Translated by Ginny Takemori and Ian MacDonald This prize-winning Japanese author offers stories haunted by history. 'If we want to understand what has been lost to time, there is no...

A timeless, visionary collection of poems from one of China's most acclaimed poets-now available in English for the first time in a generation and featuring a foreword by his son,...

Translated by Margaret MitsutaniYoshiro celebrated his hundredth birthday many years ago, but every morning before work he still goes running in the park with his rent-a-dog. He is one of...

Translated by Ted Goossen From the best-selling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo, here is a collection of playful, delightful, delectable Japanese micro-fiction. Take a story and shrink it. Make...

The tale of a cat with no name but great wisdom! Illustrated by Zack Davisson and Chiroru Kobato Japan's beloved literary masterpiece brought to life in manga form! Soseki Natsume's...

Translated by TulachandraThe story of a young modern Siamese girl and her quest for true love, Prisna Volume 1 and Volume 2 take place in 1938 in Phra Nakhon, Thailand,...

A seductive, disorienting, and wholly original story about parallel lives, unfolding over a day and a night in the sweltering heat of Seoul's summer. 'As cryptic and compelling as a...

Translated by Khalid Hasan and Muhammad Umar MemonStories encircling the marginalized, forgotten lives of Bombay, set against the backdrop of the India-Pakistan Partition, this is by far the most comprehensive...

Based on China's most famous online crime serial, a killer crowd-sources his victims, playing a deadly but ingenious game of cat-and-mouse with the police. The second book in China's bestselling...

Kobo Abe's existential and entertaining masterpiece 'This is the record of a box man' The streets of Tokyo have been seeing a strange phenomenon recently — people who have decided...

Translated by Ari Larissa Heinrich It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. Humanity has migrated to domes...

'A long-time confidante of the rain and snow, I am ninety years old. The rain and snow have weathered me, and I too have weathered them'At the end of the...

“One who sings and chants these supremely confidential teachings to My devotees will attain supreme devotion for Me and will attain Me. There is no doubt in this matter.” —Sri...

Translated from the Korean by Sandy Joosun Lee. The Emissary meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime in this poignant and triumphant story about how love, friendship,...

Translated by Jamie ChangThe multi-million copy selling, international bestseller Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is the South Korean sensation that has got the whole world talking.The life story of one young...

Translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang A woman reclaims her own story in this taut and wholly original literary tale from one of China’s literary superstars. Hongmei is the...

Translated by Giles MurrayA DETECTIVE GALILEO NOVELMultiple murders. Decades apart. No solid evidence. A popular young girl disappears without a trace, her skeletal remains discovered three years later in the...

The alliance between ants and dinosaurs created a veritable Age of Wonder! But such magnificent industry comes at a price — a price paid first by Earth's biosphere, and then...

Translated by Danny LimFear and panic spread as a sinister phenomenon marks individuals for certain death.One day, you will receive a message from an unknown sender. The message will only...

Translated by Shamya DasguptaaIt’s the mid-to-late 1800s and the British have banished Wajid Ali Shah — the nawab of Awadh in Lucknow — to Calcutta. To the sound of the...

Illustrated by Sylvain Runberg Welcome to The Worlds of Cixin Liu, a series of graphic novels created by 35 artists including writers, illustrators and colourists from 13 countries, to salute...

Illustrated by Dan Panosisan Welcome to The Worlds of Cixin Liu, a series of graphic novels created by 35 artists including writers, illustrators and colourists from 13 countries, to salute...

Illustrated by Xavier Besse Welcome to The Worlds of Cixin Liu, a series of graphic novels created by 35 artists including writers, illustrators and colourists from 13 countries, to salute...

Illustrated by Jean-David Morvan Welcome to The Worlds of Cixin Liu, a series of graphic novels created by 35 artists including writers, illustrators and colourists from 13 countries, to salute...

Translated by Ouyang YuA multiple-award winner, widely published at home and abroad, and translated into many languages, Xiao Xiao is known for her sharp take on China’s human rights record...

A fiendish classic murder mystery, from one of Japan's greatest crime writers. In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami Clan dies, setting off a chain of bizarre, gruesome...

An ever-increasing malice. A mind-numbing terror. The seeds of horror are sown in this collection of Junji Ito’s earliest works.A vengeful family hides an army deserter for eight years after...

Translated by TulachandraThe story of a young modern Siamese girl and her quest for true love, Prisna Volume 1and Volume 2 take place in 1938 in Phra Nakhon, Thailand, during...

Translated by Ken Liu The final installment of China's best-selling, award-winning apocalyptic space opera trilogy that ranges from the 1960s to the heat death of the Universe. Read the award-winning,...

Translated by Ken LiuAfter a spate of apparent suicides among elite scientists, nanotech engineer Wang Miao is asked to infiltrate a secretive cabal. During his investigation, Wang is inducted into...

Translated by Joel Martinsen The universe is a forest, patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. In this forest, others are hell, a dire existential threat. Stealth is survival. Any civilisation...

Spring Snow is the first book of Mishima’s masterpiece tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. The novel is set in Tokyo in 1912, in the closed circles of the imperial court...

Translated by Peter Dominique MutucA reluctant Filipino migrant takes a savage journey of life in Australia, working two jobs and surviving on a diet of weed, booze and little elseTony...

Translated by An Seon JaeCould you marry a man you've never met? Three Korean women in 1910 make a life-changing journey to Hawaii where they will marry, having seen only...

Translated by Danny LimTerror intensifies as the truth behind a series of deadly and mysterious attacks is revealed...Death, murder, and hysteria. The reality of hell on earth has reached new...

Be Who You AreKodo Nishimura rose to fame following his appearance in Queer Eye: We're in Japan. Now this celebrity make-up artist and ordained Buddhist monk shares his unique and...

48 Lessons on Achieving CalmPut yourself at ease with this highly practical, internationally bestselling guide to reducing anxiety and living worry free by the renowned Zen Buddhist author of ZEN:...

Translated by Simon GroveA new edition of this prizewinning classic mystery from one of Japan's best-loved crime writers.A building full of secrets. A key that will unleash them all...The K...

Translated by Stephen J. EpsteinThe most ingenious, unique novel you will read all year, where you choose your own story as you travel across the world, from one of Asia's...

Translated by Sam BettWhat transforms a person into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion?Turn this page, and you may forfeit your entire life.With My Annihilation,...

Translated by Carlos Rojas The five major religions collide in an exploration of spirituality and gender fluidity in a novel imbued with celebrated Chinese author Yan Lianke's distinctive wit and...

Translated by Polly BartonConvenience Store Woman meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation in this strange, compelling, darkly funny tale of one woman's search for meaning in the modern workplaceA...

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its...

A MISGUIDED LOVE, TRAMPLED BY DREAMS...Tetsu is a seemingly normal student whose passionate love for his teacher turns violent in the most unexpected of ways when another suitor attempts to...

Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori Mind-blowing, dark and wild, the new novel from Sayaka Murata — author of bestseller Convenience Store Woman — asks: how far would you go just...