Strangers Press

exciting book mail from the UK small press Strangers Press, their new set of chapbooks KANATA, translations from Japanese. Strangers Press catalog is worth checking out, link in reply 📚✨

Udon: Unknown Dog of Nobody, available as a gorgeous chapbook from @strangers_press, follows three sisters and their dog into adulthood. Haneko Takayama writes speculative ecofiction about animals, and it's fantastic to see her work in translation! japaneselit.net/2025/10/03/udo…

🌞August slipped away into a moment in time.. but our chapbooks are forever! Why not spend the rest of this Summer reading these coming-of-age-sexual-awakening-identity-questioning short stories from our Lithuanian mini-series KŪNAI Visit our website: strangers.press/k%C5%ABnai

📖Indie bookshop lovers – if you want to get your hands on these, ask your local bookseller to order them in so you can get them for publication day! Tag your favourite indie below to help us spread the word about this amazing new series… INDIE PRESSES <3 INDIE BOOKSHOPS!

Pre-orders make a big difference to us, so if you think your customers will like them, pop them on order! They look beautiful displayed face-out as a set and are available from Gardners at a 45% discount (if you want more info, please DM us).

🚨CALLING ALL INDIE BOOKSHOPS (and indie bookshop lovers!)🚨 📚We’ve got a new series coming out in August – specifically 5 chapbooks translated from Japanese. Expect strange, beautiful, witty stories, all packaged up in stunning cover designs from Studio Grrr.

COMING SOON... 👀 🩵Then Why Ask Me to Come? by Wataya Risa, tr. Yuki Tejima🩵 📚This is the FINAL CHAPBOOK in our KANATA series. Visit this link to join our mailing list and be the first to hear more - less than a month to go now until publication! strangers.press/about

COMING SOON... 👀 📸Kamachi Pictures by Takiguchi Yusho, tr. @jpkirkwood 📚This chapbook is part of KANATA, our upcoming series of chapbooks from Japan! Join our newsletter and be the first to hear more: strangers.press/about

...Waiting for KANATA? 🩷The perfect way to keep you occupied while you wait is by catching up on our previously published chapbooks! ✨Interested? Visit this link to get a copy: strangers.press/k%C3%A1-si%C3%…

Enjoy!!! ❤️

COMING SOON...🦀The Three Crabs by Ōba Minako, tr. Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda🦀 📚This chapbook is part of KANATA, our upcoming series of chapbooks from Japan! Follow this link to find out more: strangers.press/kanata

INTRODUCING... UDON: UNKNOWN DOG OF NOBODY by Takayama Haneko, tr. LK Nithya!🌙 📚This chapbook is part of KANATA, our upcoming series from Japan! 👀More cover reveals to be revealed soon! Follow this link to find out more: strangers.press/product-page/u…

COMING SOON... 👀💖 God of the Word by Kou Machida, tr. Daniel Joseph This exciting new chapbook is part of our upcoming series KANATA, featuring incredible writers from Japan! Find out more by visiting our website: strangers.press/kanata

📖Check out Maya Rubin's review of Ká-sióng, a beautifully-designed series of Taiwanese chapbooks from Strangers Press (edited by @JeremyTiang) in @newbloommag. 🔗Read the review here: newbloommag.net/2025/04/05/ka-…

LOOK AT THIS BABY! almost 8 years of saving & scraping I finally got my paws on Nao-Cola Yamazaki's Friendship for Grownups (+3 more titles) from @Strangers_Press, and it's only possible because of the miracle worker that is @transitreads. I finally got to put it on my wall T.T

🎉We’re delighted that Cage (by Qiu Miaojin & translated by Shengchi Hsu) is on @chinabksreview End of Year List!! 👀Take a look at the list here: chinabooksreview.com/2024/12/19/bes… 🔗 We’re currently reprinting Cage! Pre-order here: strangers.press/product-page/c…

🎉Reminding you about the great review of Mountain Rat (by Lulyang Nomin & translated by @tonyutengwei), in @asymptotejrnl! 🔗Read the review here: asymptotejournal.com/blog/2024/12/1… 🔗Pick up your copy of Mountain Rat here: strangers.press/product-page/m…

👀Great Christmas idea...

So excited to see Mountain Rat written by Lulyang Nomin and translated by @tonyutengwei mentioned in Asymptote's round-up for the best new books in world lit! Read the article here! asymptotejournal.com/blog/2024/12/1…

🎉Congratulations to the wonderful Lin King @linkinglionking, winner of the 2024 US National Book Award for Translated Literature! 📚Her translation of Cloud Labour by Sabrina Huang is part of ká-sióng, our new series of chapbooks. 📸Photo by Annette An-Jen Liu