Murakami’s Fatherland Takes the Metro by Storm!

Ryu Murakami’s North-Korean invasion epic has arrived on British shores, to great acclaim in the Metro. Andrzej Lukowski calls it “a troubled meditation on the soul of modern Japan” and says it’s “as brilliant a novel about the credit crunch as has so far been written”. It’s a “morbidly funny comedy”, he writes, before his final summing up: (more…)

69—the T-Shirt!

We loved David Pearson’s cover for Ryu Murakami’s 69 so much that we thought we’d turn it into a t-shirt!

You can buy yours here.

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Once upon a time in Icelandic, Danish, German, French…

The Indy tells tells the story of Pushkin Children’s Books, read here

UK’s children are still missing out on some of the best stories in the world

Pushkin Press is coming to the rescue!

Read all about the launch of Pushkin Children’s Books and David Almond and our very own Adam Freudenheim’s interview in the Guardian here and on You & Yours on BBC Radio 4.

and in the Bookseller here and Bookstrust here!

The Dark Future of Japan

Ryu Murakami on the adolescent misfits characters of From the Fatherland, with Love and how Japan would react to an invasion by North Korea. Read the whole interview with VICE.