Faber acquires Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘disarming, exquisite’ new novel
Faber has acquired a new novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro, Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger.
Publishing director Angus Cargill acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Peter Straus at RCW. Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger will be published by Faber in the UK, Alfred A Knopf in the US and Knopf in Canada on 9th March 2027.
Set in 1938, the novel begins when, 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," the blurb continues.
"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," the publisher says.
Cargill said: "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."
Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His works of fiction have earned him numerous honours, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize, have been translated into more than 50 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 the upcoming Klara and the Sun, to be released in October 2026.
