Japanese Literature

Yukio Mishima Hardback 144 pages A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and t

Haruki Murakami Paperback 224 pages A unique look at the craft of writing from a bestelling master of storytelling. Readers who have long wonder

Toshikazu Kawaguchi Paperback 256 pages The million-copy bestselling series. Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s touching Before Your Memory Fades, tra

Futaro Yamada Paperback 384 pages okyo, 1869. It is the dawn of the Meiji era in Japan, but the scars of the recent civil war are yet to heal.

Hiroko Oyamada 128 pages From the award-winning author of Weasels in the Attic, a modern fable about the world of workBeyond the town, there is t

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

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

Kobo Abe Paperback 336 pages In this unnerving fable from one of Japan's greatest novelists, a recluse known as 'Mole' retreats to a vast under

Jami Nakamura Lin Hardback 352 pages In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeously illus

Banana Yoshimoto Paperback / softback 144 pages I had a premonition of setting out on a journey and getting lost inside a distant tide ... It w

Hiro Arikawa Paperback / softback 256 pages Against changing seasons in Japan, seven cats weave their way through their owners' lives. - A needy

Clarissa Goenawan Paperback 304 pages A mesmerising novel set in Japan, by the author of Rainbirds and The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida, about

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

Izumi Suzuki Paperback 288 pages A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom. Izumi Suzuki had ideas about doing thing

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

Kazushige Abe Softback 160 pages An off-kilter darkly ironic novella about a boy's strange obsession with the Japanese crested ibis, from a Japan

Kaori Fujino Paperback 144 pages Tense, subtly disturbing literary horror from a prize-winning Japanese writerA young girl loses her mother, a

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

Mieko Kanai Paperback 176 pages Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons: she

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

Junichiro Tanizaki paperback 576 pages Tanizaki's masterpiece is the story of four sisters, and the declining fortunes of a traditional Japanese

Banana Yoshimoto Paperback 384 pages A celebrated actress who has died in mysterious and shocking circumstances leaves behind an unconventional

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

Banana Yoshimoto Paperback 160 pages Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in cont