TO BE RELEASED EARLY 2027

Faber announces a new novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger

Faber is delighted to announce a glorious new novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger will be published by Faber in the UK on 9 March 2027. Publishing Director Angus Cargill acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Peter Straus at RCW.

‘At first, I took you for a charming jewel thief.’

London, 1938. After attending a music hall matinee, Richard Hadley has an unexpected encounter with the mysterious Miss Lambert. Determined to defend her from the apparently hostile forces closing in, he pursues Miss Lambert to a grand hotel deep in the English countryside, then onto a train bound for Scotland. From one of the great storytellers of our time, Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger is an exquisite entertainment in which nothing is quite as it seems.

Angus Cargill, Publishing Director, Faber: ‘Drawing on his love of music, art and Golden Age cinema, this disarming and memorable caper offers a delicious new twist to Ishiguro’s work. We can’t wait for readers to climb aboard.’

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

KAZUO ISHIGURO was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His works of fiction have earned him many honours around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize, have been translated into over fifty languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide. Ishiguro also works occasionally as a screenwriter and his screenplay for Living (2022) received Academy Award and BAFTA nominations. Film adaptations of his novels include The Remains of the Day (1993), Never Let Me Go(2010), A Pale View of Hills (2025) and Klara and the Sun (to be released in October 2026).

'Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger' is published by Faber and distributed in South Africa by Jonathan Ball Publishers