Bestsellers

Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing you've read...

Japan's most popular filmmaker speaks on life, love, and the world of anime. The Starting Point...of the Greatest Career in Animation History In the first two decades of his career,...

99 Chilling Stories of Yokai, Ghosts, Demons and the Supernatural Translated by William Scott Wilson Prepare to be spooked by these chilling Japanese short stories! Strange Tales from Japan presents...

'I write scenes from life that the eye cannot see, as if I was trying to paint air or spirit.'Written from the perspective of an Iraqi soldier this is a...

Translated by Jessica Powell With unguarded humor and breathtaking directness, Nine Moons questions the dogmas, upends the stereotypes, and embraces all the terror, beauty, and paradoxes of the propagation of...

'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...

The new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author — a haunting portrait of a woman, her decisions, her conversations, her solitariness, in a beautiful and lonely Italian...

INNER OF THE 2021 AKUTAGAWA PRIZE A bestselling and award-winning Japanese phenomenon - about obsession, pop culture and fandom 'My oshi was on fire. Word was he'd punched a fan'...

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...

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...

Translated by Margaret MitsutaniA mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference and what it means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist.Welcome to the not-too-distant future. Japan, having vanished...

Translated by Louise Heal Kawai Japan's greatest classic murder mystery, translated into English for the first time. In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement...

A surreal work of science fiction from one of Japan's most brilliant novelists In anticipation of a coming nuclear apocalypse, Mole has converted a huge underground quarry into an 'ark'....

In 1966, the Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti, then twenty-two, left his country to return to university in Cairo. A year later came the Six Day War and Barghouti, like many...

Another of Junji Ito's classics, the sci-fi masterwork Remina tells the chilling tale of a hell star. An unknown planet emerges from inside a wormhole, and its discoverer, Dr. Oguro,...

‘Jia's playful mix of tradecraft, puzzle-solving and human folly brings an original twist to the spy fiction canon' — Sunday Times Five code-breakers gather in the mountains of China. Which...

The landmark poetry collection that transformed 20th-century Arabic poetry, in a brilliant new translation by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Ivan EubanksWritten in the early 1960s by Adonis, 'the most eloquent...

Horror master Junji Ito explores a new frontier with a grand cosmic horror tale in which a mysterious woman has her way with the world!A woman walks alone at the...

Translated by Elisabeth Jaquette Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, this is an electrifying new novel from contemporary Syria on life in a climate of fear In Damascus,...

Translated by Marilyn Booth.An astoundingly powerful novella weaving together a series of devastatingly honest confessions, from a prize-winning Lebanese author.In an unnamed country torn apart by war, six strangers are...

A funny, poignant, and surprising novel about a goat's life in rural India by the greatest living Tamil author. A farmer in India is watching the sun set over his...

A stunning collection of short fiction by one of South Korea's most treasured writers, available in English for the first time.In the title story, an engaged couple working in distant...

Clever, bewildering and darkly comic, The Woman in the Purple Skirt is the story of two women whose lives are set to become terribly entwined. I suppose what I'm trying...

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...

A woman keeps her daughters safe in the wake of war and political trauma in Central and Latin America Through war and its aftermaths, a woman fights to keep her...

Translated by Anton Hur SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF A PEN/HEIM TRANSLATION GRANT A woman is haunted by her own bodily waste. A pregnant woman is told...

The novel Mishima considered to be his masterpiece — a tale of family, nuclear war, love and UFOs. The Osugi family have come to a realization. Each of them hails...

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 Jamie Chang The Prize-Winning International Bestseller When a mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants for her what many mothers might say they...

The first volume of a new trilogy telling the saga of one French family between 1946 and 2016. Alsace, 1944. Mathilde finds herself falling deeply in love with Amine Belhaj,...

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting yearning that will not let them rest. A breakout, genre-blurring novel from one of the most...

Translated by Quyen Nguyen-Hoang  An incantatory poetic novel that interweaves the legends, tragedies, and histories of a village in Vietnam “The book bursts with characters, poetry, philosophy, romance, violence, and struggle....

Translated by Tejaswini Niranjana Winner of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and the Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, Jayant Kaikini is one of India's most...

Murakami tells the true story behind an act of terrorism that turned an average Monday morning into a national disaster In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack...

In 20 short books, Penguin Classics brings you the new canon of great environmental worksOver the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living...

Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel Humanity must rally together to save the Earth when its existence is threatened by the violent death throes of the...

A collection of award-winning hard science fiction short stories. A Financial Times Book of the Year From the author of The Three-Body Problem, a collection of award-winning short stories –...

'The queen of crime . . . You-Jeong Jeong is shaking up the world of suspense' — Glamour'You-Jeong Jeong is a certified international phenomenon . . . one among the...

An immeasurably influential female voice in post-war Japanese literature, Kono writes with a strange and disorienting beauty: her tales are marked by disquieting scenes, her characters all teetering on the...

Translated by Kalau AlmonyThe magnum opus by Japanese literary sensation Fuminori Nakamura, Cult X is a story that dives into the psychology of fringe religion, obsession, and social disaffection.When Toru...

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 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 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...

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 Giles Murray* A New York Times Editor's Choice *Part Sherlock Holmes, part Harry Bosch, Higashino's hero is a quietly majestic force to be reckoned with. — Kirkus Reviews...

Translated by Arunava Sinha In Melbourne a one-time research student with interests in philosophy and psychology is diagnosed with her third episode of psychosis. As she is moved from her...

The true life adventures of Shoji Morimoto, who launched a business in which he rents himself out to do nothing in Japan. Today, I’m starting a ‘rent a person who...

Translated by Bryan Karetnyk Nestled deep in the mist-shrouded mountains, The Village of Eight Graves takes its name from a bloody legend: in the sixteenth century eight samurai, who had...