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After Dark: Murakami's atmospheric masterpiece, now in a deluxe gift edition

After Dark: Murakami's atmospheric masterpiece, now in a deluxe gift

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A special hardback edition of Murakami's mesmerising and evocative classic, After Dark. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author. A beautifully packaged hardback edition of...
Sputnik Sweetheart: a deluxe gift edition of Murakami's masterful tale of unrequited love

Sputnik Sweetheart: a deluxe gift edition of Murakami's masterful tale

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A special hardback edition of Murakami's classic love story, Sputnik Sweetheart. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author. A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki...
Strange Pictures: The Chilling Japanese Mystery Sensation

Strange Pictures: The Chilling Japanese Mystery Sensation

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THE TIMES BESTSELLER 'So captivating I read it in a day. So disturbing I thought about it all night' - Janice Hallett, author of The Appeal 'The twists of a...
Norwegian Wood: Discover Haruki Murakami's most beloved novel

Norwegian Wood: Discover Haruki Murakami's most beloved novel

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The haunting, enigmatic love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar in Japan, and is his bestselling title throughout the world *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND...
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories

The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories

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A major anthology of great Japanese short stories, now in Penguin Classics This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the...
The Memory Police

The Memory Police

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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...
Strange Houses: The Chilling Japanese Mystery Sensation

Strange Houses: The Chilling Japanese Mystery Sensation

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A sinister hidden room. A dead space between two walls. A sealed cellar. A child's face glimpsed at a window. Every house hides secrets. But some secrets are far darker...
The Snow Ghost and Other Tales: Classic Japanese Ghost Stories

The Snow Ghost and Other Tales: Classic Japanese Ghost Stories

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A spine-tinglingly beautiful hardback collection of some of Japan's scariest yet still compelling classic ghost stories Enter the haunted world of Ancient Japan in this spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales...
Earthlings

Earthlings

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Author: Sayaka Murata Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an...
Kafka on the Shore

Kafka on the Shore

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Cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky... A bewitching and wildly inventive novel from a master stylist *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS,...
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

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A wildly inventive fantasy and a meditation on the many uses of the mind from one of the world's greatest writers *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS...
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Vintage Classics Japanese Series)

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Vintage Classics Japanese Series)

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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 Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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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...
Life Ceremony

Life Ceremony

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From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing you've read before.An engaged couple falls out...
Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1: Super-Frog Saves Tokyo, Where I'm Likely to Find It, Birthday Girl, The Seventh Man

Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1: Super-Frog Saves Tokyo, Where I'm Likely to Find It, Birthday Girl, The Seventh Man

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Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Haruki Murakami's stories in graphic novel form for the first time! Haruki Murakami's novels, essays and short stories have sold millions...
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea (Vintage Classics Japanese Series)

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea (Vintage Classics Japanese

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VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - following on from the success of Vintage Russian Classics and European Classics, these are covetable new editions of the best Japanese writers on the Vintage list...
1Q84: The Complete Trilogy

1Q84: The Complete Trilogy

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A mesmerising, epic, utterly involving masterpiece from Haruki Murakami A mesmerising, epic, utterly involving masterpiece from Haruki Murakami The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no...
The Labyrinth House Murders

The Labyrinth House Murders

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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...
Kafka on the Shore

Kafka on the Shore

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A special hardback edition of Murakami's mesmerising and strange surreal classic, Kafka on the Shore. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author, to celebrate the...
After Dark

After Dark

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Reality bends all the more acutely with lack of sleep in this stunning novel from the master of the surreal. *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN...
Men Without Women: FEATURING THE SHORT STORY THAT INSPIRED OSCAR-WINNING FILM DRIVE MY CAR

Men Without Women: FEATURING THE SHORT STORY THAT INSPIRED OSCAR-

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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...
Inspector Imanishi Investigates

Inspector Imanishi Investigates

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A thrilling crime classic, from the bestselling author of Tokyo Express Tokyo, 1960. As the first rays of morning light hit the rails at Kamata Station, a man's body is...
Tokyo Express

Tokyo Express

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A perfectly plotted, cosy detective story from Seicho Matsumoto, Japan's master of mystery In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple...
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

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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...
A Wild Sheep Chase

A Wild Sheep Chase

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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...
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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A special hardback edition of Muarkami's epic, magical masterpiece, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author, to celebrate the forthcoming publication...
Kitchen

Kitchen

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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...
The City and Its Uncertain Walls

The City and Its Uncertain Walls

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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...
A Wild Sheep Chase: the surreal, breakout detective novel, now in a deluxe gift edition

A Wild Sheep Chase: the surreal, breakout detective novel, now in a

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A special hardback edition of Murakami's brilliantly surreal, detective-story classic, A Wild Sheep Chase. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author. A beautifully packaged hardback...
Sputnik Sweetheart

Sputnik Sweetheart

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A mystery story about love, the cosmos and other fictional universes *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* A mystery story about love, the cosmos...
1Q84: Books 1, 2 and 3

1Q84: Books 1, 2 and 3

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Lonely Castle in the Mirror

Lonely Castle in the Mirror

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A #1 Japanese bestseller and winner of the influential Japan booksellers' award, for fans of BEFORE COFFEE GETS COLD For fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD, fairy tale and...
The Woman in the Purple Skirt

The Woman in the Purple Skirt

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Author: Natsuko Imamura Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Very powerful ... Reading this book made me feel like I was in an unstable and strange world.' - Sayaka Murata...
Strange Weather in Tokyo

Strange Weather in Tokyo

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Author: Hiromi Kawakami (Y) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former...
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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ONE OF FIVE NEW VINTAGE FUTURE CLASSIC READING GUIDE EDITIONS INCLUDES A READING GUIDE Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more...
Mina's Matchbox

Mina's Matchbox

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Author: Yoko OgawaFormat: Paperback, 136mm x 216mm, 287g, 288 pagesPublished: Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom, 2024A story of friendship and family secrets in 1970s Japan, from the prizewinning author of The...
Wind/ Pinball: Two Novels

Wind/ Pinball: Two Novels

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Discover Haruki Murakami's first two novels. Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami's two first novel - here they are together in one edition. Now I think...
The Elephant Vanishes

The Elephant Vanishes

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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,...
South of the Border, West of the Sun

South of the Border, West of the Sun

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'Casablanca remade Japanese-style'- a moving, thoughtful story of long-lost love and second chances *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* A moving, thoughtful story of...
Coin Locker Babies

Coin Locker Babies

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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...
Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 2: The Second Bakery Attack; Samsa in Love; Thailand

Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 2: The Second Bakery Attack; Samsa in Love; Thailand

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Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Haruki Murakami's best-loved stories finally in graphic novel form! Haruki Murakami's novels, essays and short stories have sold millions of copies...
Norwegian Wood: the classic Japanese love-story, now in a deluxe gift edition

Norwegian Wood: the classic Japanese love-story, now in a deluxe gift

$45.00 AUD$38.25 AUD
A special hardback edition of Murakami's iconic classic, and breakout hit, Norwegian Wood. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author, to celebrate the forthcoming publication...
End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland

End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland

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New to our Vintage Classics Murakami Collector's Library - a newly translated, unabridged edition of Murakami's most mind-bendingly brilliant novel. A special hardback edition of Murakami's surreal, mind-bending masterpiece, in...
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

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Considered one of Mishima's masterpieces, this novel is a fictionalised version of real events - the torching of a Kyoto temple by a disturbed Buddhist acolyte in 1950. This is...
Spring Snow

Spring Snow

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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...
The Lucky Ride: A Novel Full of Opportunity

The Lucky Ride: A Novel Full of Opportunity

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Combining the whimsy and possibility of The Midnight Library with the mystery and revelatory power of The Secret , Come along for the ride of a lifetime in this heartwarming...
Strange Weather in Tokyo

Strange Weather in Tokyo

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A tale of modern Japan and old-fashioned romance. 'Enchanting, moving and funny in equal measure, this compelling love story is expertly crafted against a backdrop of modern Japanese culture' Stylist...
Soseki Natsume Kokoro: A Classic Novel of Japan

Soseki Natsume Kokoro: A Classic Novel of Japan

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Author: Soseki Natsume Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Natsume Soseki is the representative modern Japanese novelist, a figure of truly national stature.' Haruki Murakami A chance encounter irrevocably links...