Kazuo Ishiguro announces 1930s spy caper for publication next year | Books

A new book by a Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro it is expected to be published in March next year.

Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger, announced by her UK publisher Faber, is a spy. Set in 1938, the novel follows Richard Hadley as he meets the mysterious Miss Lambert, follows her to a meeting at a hotel in Devon, and then to a train to Scotland, where he meets a school friend and former Tory minister, among others.

Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger is Ishiguro’s ninth novel. “Based on his love of music, art and cinema from the Golden Age, this is an exciting new evolution of Ishiguro’s work,” said Faber publishing director Angus Cargill.

Ishiguro – who was born in Japan and moved to Britain aged five – is the author of the best-selling book Don’t Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, which won the Booker prize in 1989.

The book, published by Alfred A Knopf of Penguin in the US, is Ishiguro’s first since his 2021 novel Klara and the Sun. His most recent book is The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain, a collection of songs the author wrote for American jazz singer Stacey Kent.

The adaptation of Clara and the Sun starring Jenna Ortega and Amy Adams will be released in October. Previous film adaptations of Ishiguro’s works include his debuts A Pale View of Hills (2025), Never Let Me Go (2010) and The Remains of the Day (1993).