This is the second novel from Asako Yuzuki, author of the global sensation BUTTER, which we have sold over 300K copies (TCM)
BUTTER won Waterstones'' Book of the Year 2024, the Books Are My Bag Breakthrough Author Award 2024 and the British Book Awards'' Debut Fiction Award 2025. It was shortlisted for the CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger Award 2025.
Asako Yuzuki has a big profile in Japan having won multiple literary awards. HOOKED (published as Nile Perch Girls Club in Japan) won the Yamamoto ShAgoro Award (awarded annually to a new work of fiction considered to exemplify the art of storytelling - previous winners include Banana Yoshimoto).
Competition: Butter; Strange Pictures; The Pisces; Convenience Store Woman; Chlorine; Strange Houses; Diary of a Void; Piglet; Breasts and Eggs; Hunger; Bunny; Boy Parts; So Thrilled For You; Sweat. Melissa Broder; Sayaka Murata; Jade Song; Uketsu; Eliza Clark; Lottie Hazell; Mieko Kawakami; Choi Jin-young; Mona Awad; Holly Bourne