2023 releases

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

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

Translated by Meredith WeatherbyLong 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 quest...

Translated by Alison Watts THE BESTSELLING JAPANESE NOVEL For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this soul-stirring Japanese novel shows how the perfect book recommendation...

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...

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'....

Translated by Jamie ChangThe Prize-Winning International BestsellerWhen a mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants for her what many mothers might say they want for...

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 Anton HurSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF A PEN/HEIM TRANSLATION GRANTA woman is haunted by her own bodily waste. A pregnant woman is told she must...

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 from...

Translated by Chi-Young KimA whip-smart, taut and compelling novel about a 60-something female assassin navigating the vulnerabilities posed by her ageing body, and a meditation on loss and loneliness.She never...

Translated by Megan McDowellA damaged father battles to save his son from the sinister cult he is destined to serve, in this emotionally powerful, thrillingly paced gothic road trip, from...

Translated by Saward Hussain In 2015, a year after it started, Bushra al-Maqtari decided to document the suffering of civilians in the Yemeni civil war, which has killed over 200,000...

Translated by Maureen FreelyA lyrical autofictional account of the author's fight to survive depression and carve out her own path in 1950s and 60s IstanbulThe narrator of Cold Nights of...

Translated by Arunava SinhaIn 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 family...

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 NiedaA 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 from high...

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 from the Spanish by Heather ClearyA bewitching novel by Brenda Lozano, one of the most prominent voices of the new generation of Latin American writers.'You can't really know another...

Translated by Megan McDowell The second novel by the internationally celebrated writer Alejandro Zambra, a 'short and strikingly original' (New Yorker) book about the stories we spin for ourselves and...

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 Chi-Young KimShortlisted for the 2023 International Booker PrizeA sweeping, multi-generational tale blending fable, farce, and fantasy — a masterpiece of modern fiction perfect for fans of One Hundred...

A perfectly plotted, cosy detective story from Seicho Matsumoto, Japan's master of mysteryIn a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are...

Translated by Sam Malissa Good dad or good assassin? Can he be both? From the internationally bestselling author of BULLET TRAIN. A seemingly ordinary family man tries to juggle his...

THE NO.1 KOREAN BESTSELLER WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLDIn a mysterious town that lies hidden in our collective subconscious, there's a quaint little store where all kinds of dreams...

Translated by Heather Cleary Winner of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize for Fiction, the Bartolome-Hidalgo Fiction Prize, and the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Literature Prize. A port city...

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 and...

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 FrohIt’s never too late to find happiness….Mr Kato — a curmudgeon and recent retiree — finds his only solace during his daily walks, where he wonders how...

A scintillatingly witty memoir telling the story of a young woman’s determined struggle for freedom We all know families that are poor but ‘respectable’. Mine, in contrast, was extremely rich...

A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The Vegetarian In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek...

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

Translated by Megan McDowellA tender, heartfelt and very funny novel about fathers, sons and the many forms of family, from an internationally acclaimed writerGonzalo is a frustrated would-be poet in...

Translated by Bryan KaretnykAn 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 is in...

Translated by Daniel HahnAn exhilarating debut novel told through three different voices, Whites Can Dance Too is Kalaf Epalanga's reflection on and celebration of the music of his homeland, the...

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 balls...

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 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 distant...

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

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.Filled with rich description and luxurious...

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

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...

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...

From the mind of Japan's "queen of horror manga" comes a short story collection sure to put a grin on your face and send a chill down your spine. Survive...

Beloved, enigmatic Japanese folk talesDark and whimsical tales from one of Japan's most beloved early twentieth-century writers, these Japanese fairy tales are enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and...

The Argentine literary sensation that has taken the Spanish-speaking world by storm: a dark, surreal and beautiful novel about violence, exclusion and love'A fragment of the future' Edouard Louis'Ferocious and...

A cult cyberpunk masterpiece, and Ryu Murakami's most famous novel. Two babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds, but their lives are forever...