Somewhere between finishing a book and starting the next one, Kazuo Ishiguro apparently decided he'd earned the right to have some fun.
The Nobel laureate behind Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Dayannounced on June 16 that his next novel is Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger, a spy caper set in London in 1938. It will be published March 9, 2027 by Alfred A. Knopf in North America and Faber in the UK, Ishiguro's first new book since Klara and the Sun in 2021 (a book being tuned into a movie starringJenna Ortega). For readers who came to Ishiguro through stories of clones quietly accepting their fate or butlers quietly suppressing their feelings, the description of the new novel reads like a different author entirely.
The book opens when Richard Hadley, a music hall enthusiast, has an unexpected encounter with the title character after a matinee performance. A connection forms over a shared love of singing, and Hadley follows the mysterious Miss Lambert to a secretive conference at a Devon estate, then onto a Scotland-bound train. Knopf editor in chief Jordan Pavlindescribes the novel as part spy fiction, part 'Wodehousean' comedy of manners (P.G. Wodehouse being the British humorist best known for the Jeeves stories, whose work was defined by cheerful absurdity and impeccably mannered chaos). The combination, with Ishiguro's name attached, produced something close to collective delight among book readers online.
The 1930s England setting is not entirely new terrain for Ishiguro. The Remains of the Day, his 1989 Booker Prize winner, takes place across the same decade, though its emotional texture could not be more different from what Pavlin is describing. The publisher's statement praises the novel's 'light touch' and describes characters 'bursting into song,' which suggests an Ishiguro working in a mode his readers have never encountered. Pavlin called the book 'an enchantment' and praised the 'palpable joy in the exploits of the novel's characters, in their innate goodness and irresistible acts of heroism.'
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A film adaptation of Klara and the Sun, directed by Taika Waititi and starring Jenna Ortega and Amy Adams, opens in theaters October 23, 2026, meaning two Ishiguro properties will be in front of audiences simultaneously for the first time in his career. The announcement of Miss Lambert arrived just as that film was entering its marketing campaign, making this an unusually active moment for a writer who typically surfaces every four or five years.
Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017, with the Swedish Academy citing his 'novels of great emotional force.' Emotional force has defined his reputation so completely that the phrase 'spy comedy' attached to his name almost sounds like a joke. Based on early reporting from Book Riot and Kirkus, it's most definitely not. The book is real and preorders are already open. What Ishiguro does with the comedy of manners, and whether he can resist making readers cry anyway, is a question that will be answered on March 9, 2027.
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