2023 releases

The bestselling novel by cult writer Wang Xiaobo, a satire of the Cultural Revolution, in its first full English translation 'Life is but a slow, drawn-out process of getting your...

Translated by Giles Murray The third and penultimate novel in the Detective Kyoichiro Kaga series by bestselling Japanese crime writer Keigo Higashino On the Nihonbashi Bridge in Tokyo stands the...

Translated by Polly Barton Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons: she does the laundry, goes on trips to...

A novel in stories A startling and vivid debut novel in stories from acclaimed poet and translator Fiona Sze-Lorrain, featuring deeply compelling Asian women who reckon with the past, violence,...

Translated by Jamie Chang Eight women. Eight stories. One reality. A woman is born. A woman is filmed in public without consent. A woman suffers domestic violence. A woman is...

Three-time Eisner Award winner Junji Ito invites you to the horrific Tomb Town and beyond. Countless tombstones stand in rows throughout a small community, forming a bizarre tableau. What fate...

The million-copy bestselling series Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s poignant Before we say goodbye, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back...

The Story of Tencent and China s Tech Ambition In 2017, a company known as Tencent overtook Facebook to become the world's fifth largest company. It was a watershed moment,...

The captivating sequel to Foul Lady Fortune, by the New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights. A lover in peril. A nation under threat. The clock is ticking...

Translated by Kerim YasarAn off-kilter, darkly ironic novella from a Japanese literary star - part of Pushkin's second Japanese Novella seriesIsolated in his Tokyo apartment, seventeen-year-old Haruo spends all his...

Translated by Kendall Heitzmann Tense, subtly disturbing literary horror from a prize-winning Japanese writer — part of Pushkin's second Japanese Novella series Under strange circumstances, a young girl loses her...

One woman’s escape from North Korea The harrowing story of a woman who escaped famine and terror in North Korea, not once but twice. North Korea is an open-air prison...

Translated by Haydn Trowell Yūka Ishii’s debut novel The Mud of a Century was a major literary success in Japan where it won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize. Several days after...

Translated by Clare Richards Vacuum cleaner bitch. When Jina sees this anonymous comment on a forum it forces her out of her stupor. It is posted on a website dissecting...

Seven uplifting tales of warm, wise and sarcastic cats set in modern Japan through the changing seasons. The uplifting new Japanese cat novel from the million-copy bestselling author of The...

The deeply moving new novel from the beloved, internationally bestselling author of Kitchen. I had a melancholy premonition of reaching the end of the road and getting lost inside a...

Translated from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a prizewinning and much discussed private residence...

Translated from the Chinese by Gigi Chang THE CHINESE "LORD OF THE RINGS" — NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME. CHINA , 1237 A.D. Genghis Khan is dead, but...

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...

The dazzling essays of the beloved, subversive Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo, a continual bestseller in China, now in English for the first time Wang Xiaobo made his name as a...

A realist novel about dating apps and unrequited online love, set in fast-moving, modern Shanghai In modern-day China, a man has travelled to Shanghai on impulse to meet his online...

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...

Ten tales of loss and longing, from one one Japan's greatest writersBringing together Yukio Mishima's finest stories, this selection shows his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of human...

A memoir in images from the iconic South Korean Sally Rooney illustrator and author of Starry Night, Blurry DreamsEverything I feel from reading and listening to musicI commit to paper...

Translated by Marie Iida and Allison Markin Powell *THE JAPANESE CRIME CLASSIC — ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD* One of Japan's great modern writers, this second half of Lady Joker brings...

Jenny’s never had much time for boys, K-pop, or really anything besides her dream of being a professional cellist. But when she finds herself falling for a K-pop idol, she...

StoriesPraised as “utterly remarkable” and “deeply resonant” by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Viet Thanh Nguyen and Robert Olen Butler, a bold and brilliant debut collection, in the vein of The Refugees,...

Translated from the Chinese by Dylan Levi KingAn unprecedented and heartfelt memoir that illuminates the lives of rural Chinese workers, offering a portrait of generational strife, family, love, and loss...

From the critically acclaimed author of The Library of Legends comes a vividly rendered novel set in WWI France about two young women — one Chinese, one French — whose...

For fans of Children of Blood and Boneand Six of Crows comes the thrilling conclusion to the Blood Heir trilogy. A princess with a dark secret must ally with a...

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,...

Love in the time of protests a stunning coming of age novel set in Hong Kong. It's 2019 in Hong Kong and sixteen-year-old Phoenix fears the city she calls home...

You cannot create good without also creating evil. Zilan dreams of becoming a royal alchemist, of providing for her family by making alchemical gold and gems for the wealthy to...

Memories and stories from my family’s kitchen Practically any home-cooked Japanese meal revolves around rice. It sits beside miso soup, pickles, tofu and a piece of grilled fish at breakfast....

Translated by Joshua L. Freeman A Uyghur poet's piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in history'Essential reading'AI WEIWEI, author of 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows'Deserves to be...

Perfect for fans of They Both Die at the End and You’ve Reached Sam, this gripping, atmospheric YA novel follows a teen with a mysterious condition that transports her to...

Translated by Haydn Trowell A woman turns herself into a forest after long being co-opted to serve as the subject of her husband's novels — this surrealist fable challenges traditional...

Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori For fans of The Travelling Cat Chronicles and translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, translator of Convenience Store Woman. On the outskirts of Tokyo, local cats...

4 Pax to Emptiness is an urban fantasy set in Singapore and China, in 1997 Four people from the tiny, wealthy, hypermodern nation of Singapore visit a remote village in...

WINNER OF THE 2024 WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE A playful, ambitious...

Translated by Ryan HolmbergAfter thirty years as a mainstay in the alt-manga periodicals Garo, Yagyo, and Comic Baku, cult comics artist Tsuge Tadao gets philosophical with Boat Life.Serialised between 1996...

When Ping leaves Hong Kong to live in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, she discovers that life in the Land of the Long White Cloud is not the...

"Her life was a bridge from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, from the time-hallowed beauty and rigidity of a samurai household to the disorienting, forward-looking freedoms of the West."...

How to Win at Life and Love as a Highly Sensitive and Emotionally Intense Person This is a book about being successful, fulfilled and happy in a world in which...

Translated by Clement Egerton and Shu QingchunGolden Lotus tells the story of Ximen Qing, a wealthy, unscrupulous merchant who takes the beautiful and ambitious widow Pan Jinlian as his fifth...

Translated by Zack DavissonThe entire fascinating story of Japan told in one exciting manga-style volume!A History of Japan in Manga tells the action-packed saga of Japan from its misty origins...

Translated by Michael BerryA twisted, wildly imaginative tale of one man's mysterious illness and his journey through a dystopian hospital system.When Yang Wei travels to C City for work, he...

Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and the Superpower Future of Chinashatters the many myths and caricatures that shroud one of the world's most secretive political organisations and...

A glorious, sweeping novel about family, migration and the search for a place to belong With every misfortune there is a blessing and within every blessing, the seeds of misfortune,...

100 deliciously healthy stir-fry dishes in 30 minutes or lessStir-frying is one of the quickest and easiest ways to cook — and one of the healthiest, using little oil and...