Novelist as a Vocation

A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami’s breakout hit, now with a new introduction by the author and a unique design by japanese artist Takeshi Miyasaka. When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty […]

Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all. Marked by the same […]

Enter the surreal and enchanting world of Haruki Murakami Toru Okada’s cat has disappeared. ‘Mesmerising, surreal, this really is the work of a true original’ The Times Part of the VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS series – five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions.

A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami’s mesmerizingly surreal classic, now with a new introduction by the author and a unique design by japanese artist Kyoko Nakamura. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father’s dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from […]