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A story of friendship and family secrets in 1970s Japan, from the prizewinning author of The Memory Police. On sleepless nights, I open the matchbox and reread the story of...

The hilarious number one bestselling memoir from YouTube sensation Chris Broad, a Brit trying assimilate into life in Japan as he unravels the wonders and eccentricities of one of the...

An intimate conversation about music and creativity, between the internationally bestselling writer Haruki Murakami and world-class conductor, Seiji Ozawa. An intimate conversation about music and creativity, between the internationally bestselling...

A classic of modern travel writing- the story of one man's epic trek across Japan, from north to south One sunny spring morning in the 1970s, an unlikely Englishman set...

A both definitive and highly enjoyable book on how modern Japan works - now fully updated to 2020 and the new 'Reiwa' Era Despite years of stagnation, Japan remains one...

A magical cultural history of modern Japan Japan Story is a fascinating, surprising account of Japan's culture, from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid 19th century to...

An enchanting and fascinating insight into Japan's landscape, culture, history and future Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author's experiences in Japan over thirty...

First Penguin volume Of best Japanese haiku Vivid translations Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Although...

Dark and whimsical tales from one of Japan's most beloved early twentieth-century writers Japanese fairy tales - enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world. Dark...

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 page-turner' New York Times THE...

THE NIGHT CIRCUS meets LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR- A Japanese bestseller about three students whose friendship is tested to the limit as they fight to compete in the drama...

Murakami's most acclaimed novel in a highly covetable gift edition Enter the surreal and enchanting world of Haruki Murakami Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant...

The latest bewitching, kaleidoscopic novel from master storyteller Haruki Murakami, author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and 1Q84 *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW*...

A dazzling new collection of short stories from the international phenomenon, Haruki Murakami *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* A dazzling Sunday Times bestselling...

A compelling and surreal, Orwellian mystery by one of Japan's greatest writers. Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from...

A Kafaesque marvel and a biting satire of bureaucracy, medicine and modern life In Tokyo, in the middle of the night, an uncalled-for ambulance arrives to spirit away a man's...

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...

A selection of Lafcadio Hearn's brilliantly entertaining and eerie ghost stories, regarded as major classics in Japan In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out...

An evocative, definitive work on Kyoto, the most beautiful city in Japan Another Kyoto is a matchless guide to a great city, It is the fruit of Alex Kerr's half-century...

A new translation of the most widely known and popular collection of Japanese poetry The best-loved and most widely read of all Japanese poetry collections, the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu contains...

First time in Penguin Classics for this Japanese work dedicated to the art of drinking tea - and much more - introduced by Christopher Benfey For a generation adjusting painfully...

A landmark work of nonfiction and the definitive account of nuclear devastation The explosion over Hiroshima of the first nuclear bomb reduced, in an instant, an entire city to rubble...

An eclectic, eccentiric and altogether brain-bending collection of short stories *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* An eclectic, eccentric and altogether brain-bending collection of...

Murakami tells the true story behind an act of terrorism that turned an average Monday morning into a national disaster Murakami tells the true story behind an act of terrorism...

A mesmerising, surreal novel - Murakami's most celebrated and influential masterpiece *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife...

Leave reality behind and enter Murakami's fictional universe where nothing is ever as it seems *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* A marvelous hybrid...

A dizzying collection that displays Murakami's genius for uncovering the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary within the ordinary *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS,...

The first novel in Mishima's masterful Sea of Fertility tetraology Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich...

International bestseller now in new gift format! A celebration of food, culture and place, here are 100 dishes from Tokyo, the gastronomic megacity. If you want sushi, miso soup, gyoza,...

Learn to cook authentic Japanese food from scratch at home, with step by step recipes for the traditional classics like ramen noodles, broth, sushi rice or homemade tofu as well...

Why Japan? In Fifty Sounds , winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, Polly Barton attempts to exhaust her obsession with the country she moved to at the age...

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 is the girlfriend of a...

The princess is taking her over, bodily and mentally. Dr Babs Halliwell is no longer herself.A young girl is plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea. In...

PRAISE FOR YUKITO AYATSUJI'S MYSTERIES 'Very clever indeed' Anthony Horowitz 'From the first page you know you're in the hands of a master... Flawless' Ian Moore, author of Death and...

The lies are bigger and the plots more treacherous when your favourite backstabbers return in the mind-blowing sequel to instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Mai Corland's epic...

In Tokyo - one of the world's largest megacities - a stray cat is wending her way through the back alleys. And, with each detour, she brushes up against the...

Strange things are happening in the Chizurui mansion... At night, a figure clad in a Hannya mask is spotted wandering around the house. The amateur crime fiction writer, Akimitsu Takagi,...

Tokyo, 1869. It is the dawn of the Meiji era in Japan, but the scars of the bloody recent civil war are yet to heal. The new regime struggles to...

Amid the rubble of post-war Tokyo, inside the grand Tsubaki house, a once-noble family is in mourning. The old viscount Tsubaki, a brooding, troubled composer, has been found dead. When...

Every year, a small group of acquaintances pay a visit to the remote, castle-like Mill House, home to the reclusive Fujinuma Kiichi, son of a famous artist, who has lived...

Kinue Nomura survived World War II only to be murdered in Tokyo, her severed limbs discovered in a room locked from the inside. Gone is the part of her that...

Nestled deep in the mist-shrouded mountains, The Village of Eight Graves takes its name from a bloody legend: in the sixteenth century eight samurai, who had taken refuge there along...

'[ Death on Gokumon Island ] is perfect summer fun' - Anthony Horowitz Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news - the son of one of...

In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami Clan dies, setting off a chain of bizarre, gruesome murders. Detective Kindaichi must unravel the clan's terrible secrets of forbidden liaisons,...

'In the only war in which Australian soldiers ever faced off against the might of Mao, this is a revealing and spellbinding account of an extraordinary victory.' - Peter FitzSimons...

Japanese home cooking is simple - no need for the difficult techniques or hard-to-find produce sometimes used in restaurants. All you need are the well-selected ingredients and seasonings that elevate...

Satisfy your ramen cravings at home (and affordably)!Kawaii CafRamen includes over 60 easy-to-follow recipes, beautifully illustrated in a fun anime style. Kawaii Caf Ramen covers everything you need to know,...

Asa tries to give her classmate a biscuit. Nami evades her classmates' playground game of acorn-throwing. Happy decides she's not interested in doing anything other than lying down on her...