Kazuo Ishiguro will publish a new novel described as a WWII spy caper in March 2027, reports bookriot.com.
The book, titled “Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger,” opens in London in 1938. It begins with a man leaving a music hall performance who has a chance encounter with an enigmatic woman.
Jordan Pavlin, publisher and editor-in-chief at Knopf, said the novel blends spy fiction with the wit associated with P.G. Wodehouse.
The announcement comes from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day (1989), which is also set in 1930s Britain. Ishiguro has frequently experimented with genre, including the dystopian Never Let Me Go (2005), the Arthurian-influenced The Buried Giant (2015), and Klara and the Sun (2021), narrated by an artificial intelligence.
“Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger” is scheduled for release on March 9, 2027.
Ishiguro received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017 for his body of work exploring memory, time and human connection across varied literary forms.