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The Snow Ghost and Other Tales: Classic Japanese Ghost Stories

The Snow Ghost and Other Tales: Classic Japanese Ghost Stories

by Various
$42.99 AUD$36.54 AUD
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...
Norwegian Wood: Discover Haruki Murakami's most beloved novel

Norwegian Wood: Discover Haruki Murakami's most beloved novel

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
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...
After Dark: Murakami's atmospheric masterpiece, now in a deluxe gift edition

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

$45.00 AUD$20.00 AUD
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A special hardback edition of Murakami's mesmerising and evocative classic, After Dark. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction...
The City and Its Uncertain Walls

The City and Its Uncertain Walls

$49.99 AUD$20.00 AUD
The breathtaking new novel about the boundaries between worlds and individuals, from the internationally bestselling author of 1Q84. A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the...
Kafka on the Shore

Kafka on the Shore

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
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,...
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories

The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories

$26.99 AUD$22.94 AUD
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...
Strange Houses: The Chilling Japanese Mystery Sensation

Strange Houses: The Chilling Japanese Mystery Sensation

by Uketsu
$32.99 AUD$28.04 AUD
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...
Strange Pictures: The Chilling Japanese Mystery Sensation

Strange Pictures: The Chilling Japanese Mystery Sensation

by Uketsu
$32.99 AUD$28.04 AUD
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...
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-

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
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...
Earthlings

Earthlings

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
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...
The Final Curtain

The Final Curtain

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
The Final Curtain brings the story of Detective Kaga to a surprising conclusion in a series of rich, surprising twists with a confounding murder in Tokyo connected to the mystery...
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
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...
The Elephant Vanishes

The Elephant Vanishes

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
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,...
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 of unrequited love

$45.00 AUD$38.30 AUD
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A special hardback edition of Murakami's classic love story, Sputnik Sweetheart. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from...
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
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...
Tokyo Express

Tokyo Express

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
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...
Honeybees and Distant Thunder

Honeybees and Distant Thunder

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
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...
Sputnik Sweetheart

Sputnik Sweetheart

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
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...
Lonely Castle in the Mirror

Lonely Castle in the Mirror

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
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 Labyrinth House Murders

The Labyrinth House Murders

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
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...
Mina's Matchbox

Mina's Matchbox

$34.99 AUD$29.74 AUD
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...
Inspector Imanishi Investigates

Inspector Imanishi Investigates

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
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...
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Vintage Classics Japanese Series)

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

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
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...
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
A mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* A mesmerising mystery story...
The City and Its Uncertain Walls

The City and Its Uncertain Walls

$26.99 AUD$22.94 AUD
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

A Wild Sheep Chase

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
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 Tattoo Murder

The Tattoo Murder

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
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...
Kitchen

Kitchen

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
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...
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
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...
South of the Border, West of the Sun

South of the Border, West of the Sun

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
'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...
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

$19.99 AUD$16.99 AUD
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...
Wind/ Pinball: Two Novels

Wind/ Pinball: Two Novels

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
Haruki Murakami's first two novels, available for the first time in English in Vintage's Murakami backlist style. Discover Haruki Murakami's first two novels. 'If you're the sort of guy who...
Beautiful Star

Beautiful Star

$26.99 AUD$22.94 AUD
The novel Mishima considered to be one of his best works- a tale of family, nuclear war, love and UFOs The Osugi family have come to a realization. Each of...
Death on Gokumon Island

Death on Gokumon Island

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
'[ 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...
Life Ceremony

Life Ceremony

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
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...
The Noh Mask Murder

The Noh Mask Murder

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
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,...
Forbidden Colours

Forbidden Colours

$29.99 AUD$25.49 AUD
A Japenese masterpiece, reissued in Modern Classics Written when Mishima was only twentysix, Forbidden Colors is a depiction of a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys...
The Lucky Ride: A Novel Full of Opportunity

The Lucky Ride: A Novel Full of Opportunity

$27.99 AUD$23.79 AUD
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...
People From My Neighbourhood

People From My Neighbourhood

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
Author: Hiromi Kawakami (Y) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Take a story and shrink it. Make it tiny, so small it can fit in the palm of your hand....
Soseki Natsume Kokoro: A Classic Novel of Japan

Soseki Natsume Kokoro: A Classic Novel of Japan

$27.99 AUD$23.79 AUD
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...
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

$45.00 AUD$20.00 AUD
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...
Mina's Matchbox

Mina's Matchbox

$34.99 AUD$29.74 AUD
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...
Killing Commendatore

Killing Commendatore

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
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*...
Dance Dance Dance

Dance Dance Dance

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
An assault on the senses, part murder mystery, part metaphysical speculation; a fable for our times as catchy as a rock song blasting from the window of a sports car....
After the Quake

After the Quake

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
Tales of upheaval and confusion, longing and love in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* Tales of upheaval...
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

$34.99 AUD$29.74 AUD
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...
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

$34.99 AUD$29.74 AUD
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...
The Lucky Ride: A Novel Full of Opportunity

The Lucky Ride: A Novel Full of Opportunity

$27.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
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...