General Fiction

Translated by Jordan Taylor THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM JAPAN. HALF A MILLION COPIES AND TRANSLATED INTO 20 LANGUAGES Welcome back to the Full Moon Coffee Shop. What do you...

The two phenomenal international bestsellers now in one beautiful, foiled gift editionA beautiful, collectable hardback that brings together Days at the Morisaki Bookshop and More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop in one volume.A young...

The Menu of Happiness, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the third book in the bestselling, delightful Japanese sleuthing series for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold. Nostalgic and...

Translated by Margaret Mitsutani **Winner of The Yomiuri Prize for Literature, 2012** The Japanese novel comes of age in this gripping story of love, art and life as a group...

Translated from the Japanese by Yui Kajita The perfect cosy read for 2025 - cats and food come together as the seasons change Meet Chimaki and Norimaki - two young...

Translated from the Japanese by Haydn Trowell Can two very different women put aside their differences to save the bookstore they love? The Japanese bestseller that kicked off a seven-book...

A Novel Full of Opportunity Translated by Takami Nieda Combining the whimsy and possibility of The Midnight Library with the mystery and revelatory power of The Secret, Come along for...

Translated by Allison Markin Powell Over the course of his life, Mr Nishino falls hopelessly in love again and again. One woman is a colleague, another a chance encounter; one...

Translated by Allison Markin Powell From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo, here is a story of treasure hoarders, bargain hunters and would-be lovers Among the jumble of...

Translated by Takami Nieda 'Kabahiko is an amazing hippo. People say that if you touch the area of his body that you want to make better on yours, he'll provide...

Translated by Yuki Tejima A quirky, joyful queer love story about a lonely museum worker who falls in love with a statue of Venus, from the author of cult hit Diary...

The classic Japanese bestseller published in English for the very first time - a darkly funny and relatable book portraying the lives of five women 'Witty, wise and thought-provoking' Cecelia...

Follow the bank of the Koitogawa river until you reach the beach. From there a path of white seashells will lead you to the Chibineko Kitchen. Step inside, they'll be...

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...

Translated by Allison Markin Powell A moving portrayal of a troubled mother–daughter relationship, shortlisted for Japan’s prestigious Akutagawa Prize. In 2008, the unnamed narrator of Gifted is working as a...

From the authentic and original healing fiction author of TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES comes a 1.4-million-copy bestseller - set in a famously scenic railway line in Japan, following key emotional dramas...

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...

Translated by Morgan Giles For readers of BREASTS AND EGGS and CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN comes Junko Takase's Akutagawa Prize-winning novel about the pressures of modern life, and the pleasure of...

The highly anticipated sequel to Sosuke Natsukawa's The Cat Who Saved Books, this is a wise and wonderful tale from Japan about a talking cat, a book-loving girl, and the power...

A charming and heartwarming Japanese tale about the importance and magic of books, for all who love reading them. Grandpa used to say it all the time: books have tremendous...

Translated by Margaret Mitsutani Hiruko, from the now vanished archipelago 'somewhere between China and Polynesia', and her band of friends have searched in vain for someone who speaks her native...

Follow the bank of the Koitogawa river until you reach the beach. From there a path of white seashells will lead you to the Chibineko Kitchen. Step inside, they'll be...

A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, a breathtaking new novel about the boundaries between worlds and individuals, from the Sunday Times bestseller.When...

A startling novella from the heir to Haruki Murakami and Gabriel Garcia Marquez 'I've never made it out of Tokyo. I can't tell you how many times I've asked myself...

The Restaurant of Lost Recipes, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the second book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing series for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, and...

Translated by Haydn Trowell A symphony of interconnected lives that offers a compelling reflection on life in modern-day metropolises at the intersection of isolation and intimacy. Matsui is the driver...

Translated by Allison Markin Powell A moving portrayal of a troubled mother–daughter relationship, shortlisted for Japan’s prestigious Akutagawa Prize. In 2008, the unnamed narrator of Gifted is working as a...

Is three days with a cat enough to change your life? The troubled and anxious of Tokyo are desperate to find out. They all have their problems - and they...

Translated by Lucy North The startling first collection of dark, surreal, and unsettling stories from the international prize-winning author of The Woman in the Purple Skirt. Asa tries to give her...

The cosy sequel to DAYS AT THE MORISAKI BOOKSHOP, the perfect gift for book lovers In this charming and emotionally resonant sequel to the internationally bestselling Days at the Morisaki...

What if you could revisit the one moment when everything changed? Imagine waking up in a cosy photo studio in the mountains, between this world and the next. A kind...

A surprising and moving novella about a misunderstood neurodivergent girl from one of Japan's most acclaimed young writers, the author of The Woman in the Purple Skirt A sensitive and...

THE big next read for fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD, DAYS AT THE MORISAKI BOOKSHOP and BUTTER 'Lose yourself in a world of talking cats with Mai Mochizuki's...

It's not the journey that counts, but who's at your side.Nana is on a road trip, but he is not sure where he is going. All that matters is that...

A witty, dizzying literary caper about books, travel, and translation — perfect for fans of David Mitchell and the work of Hideaki Anno Translated by David Boyd This delightfully surreal...

Translated by Jesse Kirkwood *WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE, Japan's most prestigious literary award, first published when the author was just 24* *A Japanese contemporary classic, perfect for fans of...

A beloved and bestselling classic in Japan, this groundbreaking tale of a dead soul who gets a second chance is perfect for readers of The Midnight Library. "Congratulations, you've won...

A mindbending new collection of short stories from the unique, internationally acclaimed author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. A GUARDIAN AND SUNDAY TIMES 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK...

Shortlisted for the 2021 Costa First Novel Award 'The perfect marriage of Sally Rooney and early Murakami' — Kathy Wang, author of Impostor Syndrome Mizuki is a Japanese housewife. She...

Kobo Abe's existential and entertaining masterpiece 'This is the record of a box man' The streets of Tokyo have been seeing a strange phenomenon recently — people who have decided...

Nao lives in Tokyo. She is sixteen, and has decided to write a diary before she kills herself. She has plenty of material — school bullies, depressed parents — but...

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...

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...

Translated by Haydn TrowellA dream-like, emotionally charged tale by a bold new voice in Japanese fiction.Natsuko's husband Taichi was forced to stop working eight years ago by the sudden onset...

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 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...

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...

Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is a startlingly original first work by Japan's brightest young literary star and is...

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...