2023 releases

Translated by Ted Goossen Included in The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023 Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions...

An epic story of love, war and redemption, set against the backdrop of the Korean independence movement In 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished local...

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...

A Goodreads Best Science Fiction Choice Award NomineeA New York Public Library Top 10 Book of 2022 An immersive, electrifying space-fantasy, Neon Yang's debut novel The Genesis of Misery is...

In Sunpo, nobody gets out alive. A year ago, assassin Shin Lina botched a mission and her entire beloved street gang was murdered. Their deaths still weigh heavy on her,...

A Memoir of Uyghur Loss, Exile and Hope A powerful and urgent memoir of loss, exile and hope by Uyghur activist Gulchehra Hoja 'This gripping memoir conveys the courage and...

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...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION‘A mighty achievement’ OCEAN VUONG‘Beautiful, brilliant’ R. F. KUANG‘Dazzling’ OBSERVER‘Will shatter your heart’ GLAMOUR‘Powerful’ SUNDAY TIMESAn extraordinary story of the journey of one young...

Flow is a debut collection of poems by Luoyang Chen published in collaboration with Centre for Stories and Red River Press in Delhi. Flow was developed and published as a...

One of the most critically acclaimed and beloved adventure comics!This volume in the definitive Usagi Yojimbo Saga series includes the storylines "Bridge of Tears," in which a new love tempts...

A Gaijin Sarariman provides a first-hand account of the lifestyles, customs, and culture of the Japanese people, particularly that of the office-workers known as sarariman, along with their historic context...

Translated by Ken Liu'This series will soon become a Netflix series... so get in on the ground floor while you still can' EsquireImagine a universe patrolled by numberless and nameless...

Easy Recipes for Korean Favorites That Anyone Can MakeNew to cooking? Don't worry about it! You can cook Korean like a pro.If you've always wanted to make your favorite Korean...

From a leading psychotherapist comes an electrifying examination into female desire told through the stories of seven very different women. After thirty years of research, Sigmund Freud still felt the...

In a fallen kingdom, one girl carries the key to discovering the secrets of her nation's past – and unleashing the demons that sleep at its heart. An epic new...

Crazy Rich Asians meets Gossip Girl by way of Jenny Han in this knock-out sequel, about a Korean American teen who is thrust into the competitive, technicolor world of K-pop,...

Translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd The acclaimed and bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and Heavenreturns with a blistering, shocking and poetic story about a...

Ai Weiwei — one of the world's most famous artists and activists — tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics — irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Territory of Light is the...

Translated by Sam Malissa THEIR MISSION IS MURDER. HIS IS REVENGE. A propulsive new thriller from the bestselling author of BULLET TRAIN. SUZUKI IS JUST AN ORDINARY MATHS TEACHER...UNTIL HIS...

Surreal, hilarious, and shrewdly poignant — a novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends her to Seoul on a journey of...

THE FIRST EVER OFFICIAL BOOK Published in celebration of BTS's 10th Anniversary, stories that go beyond what you already know about BTS, including unreleased photos, QR codes of videos, and...

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...

Assassin. Immortal. Spy. An ill-matched pair of spies pose as a couple to investigate a series of murders in 1930s Shanghai, from the author of These Violent Delights. Four years...

A dragon's kingdom. A star-crossed love. And a cursed pearl with the power to mend the world, or break it . . . Shiori's quest continues in the soaring sequel...

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...

Translated by Alison Anderson Awarded the Prix des libraires by France’s booksellers, a universal story about music and restoring one’s faith in others amid the aftermath of tremendous loss. Tokyo,...

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,...

A debut YA graphic memoir about a Korean American girl's coming-of-age story — and a coming-home story — set between a New Jersey suburb and Seoul, South Korea. Deborah (Jung-Jin)...

Translated by Dias Novita WuriA dazzling novella from a rising star of Indonesian literature that explores what it means to be a woman — whoever you are, wherever you are,...

Translated by Caroline Froh It’s never too late to find happiness…. Mr Kato — a curmudgeon and recent retiree — finds his only solace during his daily walks, where he...

Izumi Suzuki had ideas of how things might be done differently, ideas that paid little the laws of physics, or the laws of the courts. In this new collection her...

Translated by Takami Nieda A Zainichi Korean teen comes of age in Japan in this groundbreaking debut novel about prejudice and diaspora. Seventeen-year-old Ginny Park is about to get expelled...

An instant bestseller in Korea and the follow up to the international bestseller, Please Look After Mother; centering on a woman's efforts to reconnect with her aging father, uncovering long-held...

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...

WIN, OR DIE TRYING. Five years ago, Princess Calla vowed to tear down San-Er's tyrannical monarchy. First she killed her parents. Now her sights are set on her uncle: the...

Translated by Deborah Smith and e. yaewon A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The Vegetarian In a classroom in...

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 Jeffrey Angles Winner of the Sakutaro Hagiwara Prize and the MurasakiShikibu Prize Introducing Hiromi Ito, an award-winning Japanese author who has been compared to Haruki Murakami and Yoko...

The conclusion to Ken Liu's chronicle of the Dandelion Dynasty, which sees two empires face a whirlwind that threatens to utterly consume them. Ukyu-Gonde. Stalked by foes and dogged by...

The highly anticipated English-language debut from a literary star — nine iridescent, beguiling, witty and wonderous stories of dispossession and longing. 'How do you know this is all real and...

What would you do if the world's biggest K-pop star asked you to prom? Perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Sandhya Menon, this hilarious and heartfelt novel brings the...

What's a retired assassin to do but save the City of San Francisco from the dead? Emiko Soong belongs to one of the eight premier magical families of the world....

After their family encounters terrible hardship in rural China, siblings Fu and Pei must draw on all their resilience and courage as they embark on a dangerous journey towards a...

Translated by An Seon Jae Two women's lives and identities are intertwined — through World War II and the Korean War — revealing the harsh realities of class division in...

Sisterhood bonds and courage are tested in the new tale from the New York Times bestselling author of Six Crimson Cranes and The Dragon's Promise. One must fall for the...

Translated by Bryan Karetnyk An ingenious and highly atmospheric classic whodunit from Japan's master of crime. Amid the rubble of post-war Tokyo, inside the grand Tsubaki house, a once-noble family...

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...

Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan – a dazzling queer historical fantasy of war and destiny set in an epic alternate China, and sequel to Sunday Times bestselling She...

A dazzling new collection of short stories written over a decade, spanning loss, alienation, ageing and the strangeness of contemporary life – from Yiyun Li, the prize-winning author of The...