Pushkin Press

A sublimely eerie manga adaptation of classic Kafka stories, with a starkly beautiful illustration style – part of Pushkin’s second series of Japanese novellas Nine of Franz Kafka’s most memorable tales are here given fresh life with dazzling graphic renderings by the brother-and sister manga creators Nishioka Kyodai . With their distinctive, surreal style of […]

Tense, subtly disturbing literary horror from a prize-winning Japanese writer A young girl loses her mother, and her father blindly invites his secret lover into the family home to care for her. As she obsessively tries to curate a pristine life, this new interloper remains indifferent to the girl, who seems to record her every […]

An off-kilter darkly ironic novella about a boy’s strange obsession with the Japanese crested ibis, from a Japanese literary star Seventeen-year-old Haruo spends all his waking hours online, fixated on the endangered Japanese crested ibis, Nipponia Nippon. Alone in his Tokyo apartment, living off his parents’ indulgence, he descends into a fantasy world where he […]

The Akutagawa Prize-winning stories from one of the most highly regarded and provocative contemporary Japanese writers ‘The nightingale sang again. The plates on the table gleamed, and the food, in all its ceaseless variety, breathed, glossy and bright. The night had only just begun.’ In these three haunting and lyrical stories, three young women experience […]

“Directly you are in motion you will feel quite helpless, and experience a sensation of being run away with, and it will seem as if the machine were trying to throw you off” Cycling: The Craze of the Hour is part of ‘Found on the Shelves’, published with The London Library. The books in this […]

The restaurant is where we go to celebrate, to experience pleasure, to show off – or, sometimes, just because we’re hungry. But these temples of gastronomy hide countless stories.

“Every age has its own special difficulties and dangers. The disease which specially threatens this generation is restlessness, distraction, dissipation of intellectual and moral power. Its consequence is exhaustion and nervous collapse. And its symptom is Hurry” Life in a Bustle: Advice to Youth is part of ‘Found on the Shelves’, published with The London […]

Sonja’s over forty, and she’s trying to move in the right direction. She’s learning to drive. She’s joined a meditation group. And she’s attempting to reconnect with her sister. But Sonja would rather eat cake than meditate. Her driving instructor won’t let her change gear. And her sister won’t return her calls. Sonja’s mind keeps […]

“Oh! that the faculty would look deeper into and make themselves better acquainted with the crying evil of obesity – that dreadful tormenting parasite on health and comfort” On Corpulence: Feeding the Body and Feeding the Mind is part of ‘Found on the Shelves’, published with The London Library. The books in this series have […]

“This little body of thought, that lies before me in the shape of a book, has existed thousands of years, nor since the invention of the press can anything short of an universal convulsion of nature abolish it” On Reading, Writing and Living with Books is part of ‘Found on the Shelves’, published with The […]

“One would hear considerably less of hysteria, of morphine-mania, and of other regrettable characteristics of fin-de-siecle existence, if women were to take to fencing as one of the regular occupations of their day” The Gentlewoman’s Book of Sports is part of ‘Found on the Shelves’, published with The London Library. The books in this series […]

“If you give anything to a Norwegian (old meat tins are always thankfully received), he will give your hand a silent grip more expressive than many words” The Lure of the North is part of ‘Found on the Shelves’, published with The London Library. The books in this series have been chosen to give a […]