Japanese Literature

Fumiko EnchiPaperback Published for the first time in the UK, one of Japan's greatest modern female writers In the late nineteenth century, Tomo, the

Paperback A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltran

Paperback Meet Keiko. Keiko is 36 years old. She's never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years. Keiko's

Cover: Softback, Pages: 352, Author: Tetsuya Ayukawa

Cover: Softback, Pages: 224, Author: Yasunari Kawabata

Natsume Soseki Paperback 256 pages In the seaside city of Kamakura, a student is drawn to an enigmatic older man who swims at the same beach. Th

Shusaku Endo Paperback 288 pages A group of Japanese tourists journey to the sacred River Ganges, each on a secret personal pilgrimage. Widower I

Michiko Aoyama Paperback 256 pages What are you looking for?So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi. But she is no ordinary lib

Natsuko Imamura Paperback 208 pages Asa tries to give her classmate a biscuit. Nami evades her classmates' playground game of acorn-throwing. Hap

Yukio Mishima Hardback 272 pages Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's

Yukio Mishima Paperback 288 pages Beautiful Star is a 1962 tale of family, love, nuclear war and UFOs, and was considered by Mishima to be one o

Hiromi Kawakami Paperback 288 pages Having married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship that has been so

Nanako Hanada Hardback 224 pages Nanako Hanada's life has not just flatlined, it's hit rock bottom... Recently separated from her husband, she

Toh EnJoe Paperback 112 pages Successful entrepreneur A.A. Abrams is pursuing the enigmatic writer Tomoyuki Tomoyuki, who appears to have the abi

Kazushige Abe Paperback 224 pages Shiori knows that she was destined to sing - even if she is completely tone-deaf. Forced to give up her dream o

Kotaro Isaka Paperback 272 pages Good dad or good assassin? Can he be both?From the internationally bestselling author of BULLET TRAIN: A seemin

Ryunosuke Akutagawa Paperback 208 pages These are short stories from an unparalleled icon of modern Japanese literature. Sublimely crafted and s

Taichi Yamada Paperback 208 pages Middle-aged, jaded and divorced, TV scriptwriter Harada returns one night to the dilapidated downtown district

Paperback 224 pages `Edmund WhiteWith the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters - b

Haruki Murakami Paperback 816 pages Read this imaginative masterpiece from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood The year is

Michiko Aoyama Hardback 256 pages For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this soul-stirring Japanese novel shows ho

Hiroko Oyamada Paperback 80 pages A UK debut from a fresh, prize-winning talent, this quietly surreal novel is perfect for fans of Sayaka Murata

Paperback 352 pages An ingenious and highly atmospheric classic whodunit from Japan's master of crime. Amid the rubble of post-war Tokyo, inside t

Yoko Tawada Paperback 224 pages A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference and what it means to belong, by a Nat