Bestsellers

Winner of the Reddit Fantasy Award for Best Debut 2018‘The best fantasy debut of 2018' — WIRED A brilliantly imaginative epic fantasy debut, inspired by the bloody history of China's...

An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. Oxford, 1836. The city of dreaming spires. It is the...

The New York Times bestseller from the Grammy-nominated indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, deeply moving memoir about growing up mixed-race, Korean food, losing her Korean mother, and forging her...

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...

Instant New York Times No.1 Bestseller I have no faith in love. Love cannot save me. I choose vengeance. The boys of Huaxia dream of the celebrity status that comes with...

HUGO AWARDWINNER FOR FOR BEST NOVEL 2022 THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER An absorbing historical fantasy, She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan reimagines the rise to power...

Translated by Polly Barton The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There...

Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900’s Asia, in a richly imagined world of art deco-inflected steampunk, MONSTRESS tells the story of a teenage girl who is struggling to survive the...

The searing follow-up to 2018's most celebrated fantasy debut – THE POPPY WAR. Rin is on the run… Haunted by the terrible choices she had to make to save her...

A beautiful and immersive YA fantasy retelling of the Grimm brothers' The Six Swans fairytale, set in an East-Asian inspired world, by the author of Spin the Dawn. A princess...

A victorian epic transplanted to Japan, following a Korean family of immigrants through eight decades and four generations. 'This is a captivating book ... Min Jin Lee's novel takes us...

TRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON HUR THE PHENOMENAL KOREAN BESTSELLER PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?ME: I don't know, I'm what's the word depressed? Do I have to...

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan's greatest writers. Finalist for the National Book Award 2019....

The exciting end to The Poppy War trilogy, R.F. Kuang's acclaimed, award-winning epic fantasy that combines the history of 20th-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters, to...

A beautiful, unsettling novel in three acts, about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul. Winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. WINNER...

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 Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition Chosen as a Guardian BOOK OF 2020, picked by AnOther as a Book You Should Read This Year, BBC Best Books of...

Translated by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami A #1 Japanese bestseller and winner of the influential Japan booksellers' award. For fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, fairy tale...

Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori The surprise smash hit — Japan's answer to Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. Meet Keiko. Keiko is 36 years old. She's never had a boyfriend,...

One of the Time 100 Best Fantasy Books Of All Time The fall and rebirth of an empire. With a cast of hundreds and a world unlike any you have...

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...

Translated by Ho-Ling Wong A classic Japanese murder mystery inspired by the golden age of British crimewriting. The members of a university mystery club decide to visit an island which...

“She is hated by both men and gods, and heaven and earth cannot allow her to exist.” After suffering devastating loss, Zetian finds herself at the seat of power in...

A New York Times 'Notable Book of 2020' One of Elena Ferrante's 'Top 40 Books by Female Authors' 'A sharply observed and heartbreaking portrait of what it means to be...

Translated by Ken Liu After 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...

The brilliantly imaginative New York Times bestselling fantasy retelling of Romeo and Juliet set against the immersive backdrop of 1920s Shanghai. In glittering Shanghai, a monster awakens . . ....

The first English language publication of the work of Izumi Suzuki, a legend of Japanese science fiction and a countercultural icon. On a planet where men are contained in ghettoised...

"Normality is the creepiest madness there is..."From the author of the bestselling literary sensations Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a surprising and highly imaginative story set in a version of Japan where sex...

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...

A tailor in disguise. Three legendary dresses. The competition of a lifetime. Project Runway meets Mulan in this sweeping fantasy about a young girl who poses as a boy to...

Translated by Anton Hur From the author and translator of the National Book Award finalist and Booker Prize shortlisted Cursed Bunny, comes a new novel-in-ghost-stories, set in a mysterious research centre...

Translated by Jamie Chang The 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...

What's the one dish you'd do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant called the Kamogawa Diner run by...

Tales of upheaval and confusion, longing and love in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake. For the characters in After the Quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a...

The third novel in the international bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold, following four new customers in a cafe where customers can travel back in time. In northern Japan, overlooking...

Translated by Shanna Tan There was only one thing on her mind.'I must start a bookshop.' Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man,...

Translated by Asa Yoneda In the distant future, humans are on the verge of extinction and have settled in small tribes across the planet under the observation and care of...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2022 From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami, comes a sharp and illuminating novel about a teenage...

Set in Joseon Dynasty-era Korea, this evocative YA debut follows a sixteen-year-old indentured servant within the police bureau who becomes entangled in the politically-charged investigation into the murder of a...

As if Marguerite Duras wrote Convenience Store Woman— a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut French-Korean author. It's winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and...

Translated from the Korean by Sandy Joosun Lee A BTS fan favorite! A WALL STREET JOURNAL STORIES THAT CAN TAKE YOU ANYWHERE PICK * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S STAY HOME AND READ PICK * SALON'S BEST...

Translated by Janet HongThis is not a murder story. It is the story of those left behind. Parasite meets The Good Son in this piercing psychological portrait of three women...

Translated by Alison Watts THE TWO-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING INTERNATIONAL NOVEL The irresistible hardback Times bestseller and bookshop favourite about the healing power of books and community; Time magazine Top 100 books of 2023; 'An undeniable...

Translated by Meredith Weatherby Long regarded as one of the most important novels to appear in post-war Japan, Confessions of a Mask is an allegory of a lonely boy’s yearning...

The second volume of legendary animation director Hayao Miyazaki’s career memoir continues with essays, interviews, and discussions about some of his most popular films, including Spirited Away and Ponyo. In...

Translated by Margaret Mitsutani Yoshiro 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...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Renee Ahdieh returns with a sumptuous, sultry and romantic new series set in 19th century New Orleans where vampires hide in plain sight. In...

A coming-of-age story about falling in and out of love, brimming with humour and heartbreak, Bellies asks — is it worth losing a part of yourself to become who you...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM STUDIO GHIBLI The beloved multi-million copy bestselling Japanese classic about finding one's place in the world 'In How Do You Live?, Copper, our hero,...

Translated by Emily North A hilarious Japanese debut novel, where a young woman, thoroughly fed up with gendered expectations at work, announces she's pregnant. She's not. Thirty-four-year-old Ms Shibata works...