Pushkin Press

An ambitious and powerful examination of fate and faith, this is a novel based on historical fact that reveals how people react to events and how these events impact on their personalities and beli...

The end of the moment we had

Two multi-layered stories from Toshiki Okada, winner of the Kenzaburo Oe Prize. On the eve of the Iraq War, a man and a woman meet in a nightclub in Tokyo. They go to a love hotel, and spend the ne...

The bear and the paving stone

A Japanese man, far from home, travels the countryside of Normandy with a friend – talking about war, literature and everything in between. As his ideas of his life become more entangled, wit...

Mary, or, The birth of Frankenstein

Scotland, 1812. When Mary is sent to the countryside for her health, she soon finds herself falling for Isabella, the brooding, grief-stricken eldest daughter of the Baxter family. While the girls ...

Harlequin butterfly

Successful entrepreneur A. A. Abrams is pursuing the enigmatic writer ‘Tomoyuki Tomoyuki’, who is never in one place for long. Very little is known about this wandering author, least of...

This is Amiko, do you copy?

A surprising and moving novella about a misunderstood neurodivergent girl from one of Japan’s most acclaimed young writers. Other people don’t seem to understand Amiko. Whether eating c...

Swann in love

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‘Swann in Love’ is the story of Charles Swann and his infatuation with Odette de Crecy and the revealing psychological turmoil his relations with her involves. A study in jealousy and t...

Murder in the age of enlightenment

A stylishly original collection of seven newly translated stories from the iconic Japanese writer. The stories in this fantastical, unconventional collection are subtly wrought depictions of the da...

The damned thing

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A bone-chilling, beautifully produced new collection of 11 uncanny tales from one of the great American masters of the ghost story. Any lover of dark and unsettling tales will be enthralled by the ...

Siddhartha

Dissatisfied with the ways of life he has experienced, Siddhartha, the handsome son of a Brahmin, leaves his family and his friend, Govinda, in search of a higher state of being. Having experienced...

The unhappiness of being a single man

No one has captured the modern experience, its wild dreams, strange joys, its neuroses and boredom, better than Franz Kafka. His vision, with its absurdity and twisted humour, has lost none of its ...

The evenings

‘I work in an office. I take cards out of a file. Once I have taken them out, I put them back in again. That is it.’ 23-year-old Frits – office worker, daydreamer, teller of inapp...

Beware of pity

In 1913 young second lieutenant Hofmiller discovers the terrible danger of pity. He had no idea the girl was lame when he asked her to dance – so begins a series of visits, motivated by pity,...

Nails and eyes

A young girl addresses her stepmother, who has moved in shortly after her mother’s death in unusual circumstances. The girl shows strangely detailed knowledge of the older woman’s life,...

Nipponia nippon

A teenager gripped by obsession seeks to free endangered birds in this study of solitude and toxic masculinity set in modern-day Tokyo. Isolated in his Tokyo apartment, 17-year-old Haruo spends all...

A different sound

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During the 1940s and 1950s, female writers were producing a remarkable body of short stories – many of which have only recently begun to be appreciated. Selected and introduced by writer and ...

Dinner Party

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To mark the anniversary of a death in the family, Kate meticulously plans a dinner party – from the fancy table setting to the perfect baked alaska waiting in the freezer. But by the end of t...