Kazuo Ishiguro Wrote a WWII Spy Novel!
If you felt a disturbance in the force earlier this week, it was probably just the Book Riot editorial team making exclamation points both literal and spiritual about the news that Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro’s next novel is a WWII spy caper.
Due out March 9, 2027 (smash that preorder button), Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger opens in London in 1938 as a man departing from a music hall performance has a chance meeting with an enigmatic woman. Jordan Pavlin, publisher and editor-in-chief of Knopf, describes the book as “a blend of spy fiction and the kind of wit P.G. Wodehouse was known for,” to which we say, “LET’S GOOOOOO.”
Ishiguro is no stranger to this setting—his 1989 novel The Remains of the Day also takes place in 1930s Britain—nor to experiments with genre.
- Never Let Me Go (2005) is a frighteningly prescient dystopian board school novel about class, connection, and medical ethics.
- The Buried Giant (2015) offers a meditation on memory mediated through Arthurian legend.
- Klara and the Sun (2021) asks questions about technology and humanity in a story told through the perspective of an AI robot.
Catch up on Ishiguro’s backlist while you wait with our Zero to Well-Read episode about Never Let Me Go.
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