Nautilus English Books

05/09/2026

🚀 We’re heading to Comic-Con! 🎭

We are thrilled to announce that our bookshop will be descending upon East European Comic Con at NATIONAL ARENA from September 11th to 13th. You can find our literary sanctuary at BOOTH E1, and trust us, this is one event you won’t want to skip.

Here is what is waiting for you:
⚡ The Ultimate Clearance: Massive discounts on selected manga, fantasy, and sci-fi with over 50% OFF and volumes priced at just 5, 10, and 15 lei.
⚡ Collector’s Paradise: Special editions, gorgeous Light Novels, WEBTOON comics, and top-tier manga series.
⚡ Graphic Novel Heavens: Bestselling runs from Marvel, DC, Image, and Dark Horse.
⚡ Goodies & Games: Brain-bending trivia, tarot, and art postcards so stunning they belong in a gallery.

💥 Don’t miss out on our con-exclusive prices and the amazing opportunity to reconnect with the community you love! Join us in this chaotic, glittering celebration of pop culture, fandom, and the stories that keep us under their spells. Whether you’re a hardcore collector or a casual reader, there is something waiting for you in our stacks.

04/09/2026

A magisterial history of the seven rivers representing the great natural arteries running through civilisation, by virtue of the roles they have played in our shared and conflicted world history.

📌 https://nautilus.ro/seven-rivers-a-journey-through-the-currents-of-human-history

Every river deserves its own history.

The seven rivers in this narrative were chosen because they are major rivers that magnify the common qualities of these great natural arteries that run through civilisation. The Nile, Danube, Niger, Mississippi, Ganges, Yangtze, and Thames are all “world rivers” by virtue of the roles they have each played in our shared and conflicted world history.

They have served as the power bases for empires and have been fought over as frontiers. Their river basins—those great systems of tributaries and groundwater all flowing to the main river—have been plundered for their gold, timber, salt, oil, rubber, and their people. Vast networks have been forged between these rivers, such as the deadly “middle passage” of the slave trade linking the Congo and Mississippi basins.

And rivers themselves have always had their own logic: their natural beauties, their floods, droughts, water-borne diseases, their tendency to silt up and mutate into marshland, their marshy subsidence below the cities of the unwary, their changes of course, tipping points and disappearances.

These rivers have shaped our lives, just as we have shaped theirs. What follows is the story of humanity, in seven rivers.

🔹 “This is history at its most scintillating. It’s an original, brilliantly-conceived book that will delight and excite.What a magnificent feat of imagination and of research to tell the human story through the beauty of water. These seven currents of time sparkle with erudition. With world rivers in crisis, this book should be essential reading for policy makers.” (Nicholas Crane)

04/09/2026

The Samurai Detectives are back in THE MAN IN THE MIST, the brilliant third instalment in Shotaro Ikenami’s masterful series, where mystery, swordplay, and human drama entwine to illuminate the secrets of one of the most bewitching periods in Japanese history ✨ Translated by Yui Kajita.

📌 https://nautilus.ro/shotaro-ikenami

Late spring settles over Edo with a deceptive gentleness – soft rain, a drifting haze, the first warmth of summer. But it is not only fallen blossom that gathers in the streets and woodland of Edo city – there too a terrible villainy lies hidden.

When the fearless swordswoman Mifuyu returns to her secluded lodging, her long-awaited repose is shattered: while she rests one day, a group of intruders slip into the house with violent intent. Their attack is as swift and silent as it is inexplicable – and it takes all of her skill to beat them back. Her friend and ally Daijiro soon discovers that the men were not common burglars, but mysterious ronin hunting a ghost from the house’s past. What starts as a puzzling intrusion soon draws him and his father into a tangle of shifting identities, forgotten residents, and shadowy figures whose motives dissolve like mist in the morning light. . .

03/09/2026

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s most daring and macabre novel yet, THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT is an indelible tale about dark temptations and moral depravity, and what we forget when we bargain with the devil. Translated by Martin Aitken.

📌 https://nautilus.ro/school-of-night

It’s 1985, and the young and ambitious Kristian Hadeland is moving from Norway to London to study photography. He throws himself headfirst into the bustling art scene and finds himself at a crossroads—ultimately deciding to pay any price for success in his early career, willing to sacrifice everything and to stop at nothing.

Twenty-four years later, Kristian has achieved everything he’s ever desired. Now an art photographer with a major retrospective in New York City, he sees his world around him begin to crumble as his past catches up to him and he faces his evil fate.

In a thrilling twist on Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, and set in the occult universe of The Morning Star, The Wolves of Eternity, and The Third Realm, Knausgaard masterfully spins a dark cautionary tale about the lengths we will go to achieve success—and how far we are willing to fall.

🔹 “Riveting . . . This fourth novel in Knausgaard’s Morning Star sextet squarely inhabits the series’s prevailing mood: realism undercut by a hint of the preternatural. . . . In Martin Aitken’s translation, the prose is fluent and nimble, the imagery possessed of a steely melancholia.” (The Times Literary Supplement)

🔹 “Knausgaard has surpassed even his phenomenally high standards with his latest novel. This dark and macabre offering is incredibly addictive . . . an intense but hugely rewarding read.” (The Daily Mirror)

🔹 “Sinister and surreal . . . a parable of ambition, told with epic heft—and a decent place to start if you’ve been curious about this writer but never yet read him.” (The Daily Mail)

03/09/2026

In GAZA’S GRAVEDIGGERS, the world’s leading forensic scholar exposes international duplicity and complicity in the Gaza genocide.

📌 https://nautilus.ro/gaza-s-gravediggers-an-inquiry-into-corruption-in-high-places

Methodically debunking the claims of its apologists, Norman Finkelstein has for decades laid bare the cynical politics behind Israel’s high-tech killing sprees in Gaza. Since October 7, 2023, he has been a unique voice in not just condemning Israel’s onslaught but also providing original and acute insight into it.

Now, in GAZA’S GRAVEDIGGERS, Finkelstein turns his critical lens to the global enablers of genocide—those who distort truth and manipulate justice as they pr******te themselves to power and privilege.

With meticulous research and razor-sharp analysis, he systematically dissects and dismantles the most influential arguments defending Israel’s actions. He exposes how a United Nations special representative lent credence to an Israeli smear campaign, how officials in the world’s highest court perverted international law in Israel’s defence, and how even Israel’s severe critics colluded in misrepresenting genocide as a war.

This is more than a book; it is a searing indictment of those who abused their authority to whitewash an unfolding horror. GAZA’S GRAVEDIGGERS serves as a clarion call for accountability, reminding those in power: the world is watching, and History will not forgive. “It will not be forgotten,” Finkelstein admonishes. “It will no longer be business as usual, if you choose to do the Devil’s work.”

🔹 “A brilliant, stark, and devastating account of how officials entrusted with the world’s conscience betrayed their core mission—and a clarion call to Justice and Truth for the future.” (Jeffrey D. Sachs)

🔹 “The most comprehensive examination of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and the ways in which even human rights and judicial bodies twisted law and facts to soften the blows of their judgment.” (Sarah Leah Whitson)

🔹 “We are witnessing a revolt against international law and morals. This book goes to the heart of our civilizational crisis.” (Alfred de Zayas)

02/09/2026

Winner of the 2024 Japan Fantasy Award, THE NINE LIVES OF A BOOKSHOP CAT tells the surreal story of a cat who finds himself in a mysterious bookshop filled with strange magic, other cats, and stories from the past. Translated from the Japanese by Sylvia Gallagher 🐈‍⬛

📌 https://nautilus.ro/nine-lives-of-a-bookshop-cat

In his third life, Kinnosuke belonged to a famous author.

Now, in his ninth, he wants nothing more to do with humans, who bring nothing but trouble and suffering. Drawn to the city in search of food, he comes across the Hokuto-do Bookshop, owned by a curious woman who has already given a home to four contented cats.

Soon Kinnosuke begins to notice the shop's quirks: there are few customers, but it never goes out of business. No stock is ordered, but it never runs out of books. And the other cats also belonged to famous authors in previous lives. If he wants to know more of its secrets, he will have to reveal his own about the life he shared with the author.

At first, he is reluctant, but when a young aspiring writer faces tragedy, Kinnosuke is drawn into her struggle, confronting the bookshop's hidden past to help keep her dream alive.

02/09/2026

Scion introduces James Islington’s first-ever sci-fi novel in an unmissable new series filled with deadly assassins, dark humour, and world-changing technology—perfect for fans of Dungeon Crawler Carl and The Murderbot Diaries.

📌 https://nautilus.ro/scion-tpb

KILL OR DIE . . . WHAT WOULD YOU CHOOSE?

My job, when you think about it, isn’t so different from a lot of people’s. The more old-fashioned crowd do still get hung up on the ‘killing people’ part of it, I guess, but that’s a them problem: it’s been perfectly legal to take out lifers for ages. Besides, once ultrawealthy morons realised they had a way to live forever - limited resources be damned - there was only ever going to be one genuinely practical deterrent.

So, sure, I have to deal with a tonne of boring planning. Inconvenient hours. Some pretty awkward face-to-face interactions. And like most of us, I’m really only clocking in to try and crawl out from beneath my debts. But someone’s got to do it.

Luckily, my genetic compatibilities make me really, really good at doing it.

Still. This next job . . . I don’t know. It’s something I haven’t had to deal with in years. Kind of the opposite of my regular duties. Strange, that it got thrown my way.

I’m sure it’ll all go totally fine though.

In a world where the rich live forever and the poor die young, Azure is an assassin trained to kill the richest of them all - until he’s hired to protect one of them instead. The question is: when you’re drowning in debt, how far is too far? Fusing the dystopian morality of cyberpunk with the explosive action of anime, SCION is a fever dream you can binge in one sitting.

🔹 “A brilliant page turner by my new auto-buy author. Action-packed, bingeable, and remarkably witty, SCION was one heck of a cyberpunk story from start to finish.” (Adalyn Grace)

🔹 “SCION is a high-octane cyberpunk thrill ride jammed full of insane tech, dry wit, and frenetic violence. I devoured it.” (Fonda Lee)

🔹 “A propulsive, adrenaline-filled thriller that grips you from the first sentence to the last. Islington's narrator leaps off the page with wit and smarts in this incredible story.” (T. L. Huchu)

02/09/2026

The largest collection of Jorge Luis Borges’ poetry ever assembled in English, including many previously untranslated, along with short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America’s most influential and imaginative writers.

📌 https://nautilus.ro/jorge-luis-borges

Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This collection brings together many of his stories, including the celebrated ‘Library of Babel’, whose infinite shelves contain every book that could ever exist, ‘Funes the Memorious’ the tale of a man fated never to forget a single detail of his life, and ‘Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote’, in which a French poet makes it his life’s work to create an identical copy of Don Quixote. In later life, dogged by increasing blindness, Borges used essays and brief tantalising parables to explore the enigma of time, identity and imagination. Playful and disturbing, scholarly and seductive, his is a haunting and utterly distinctive voice.

Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A poet, critic and short story writer, he received numerous awards for his work, including the 1961 International Publisher’s Prize (shared with Samuel Beckett). He has a reasonable claim, along with Kafka and Joyce, to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.

01/09/2026

Deadly games, breathtaking wonderlands, exquisite tarot decks, and the most sought-after modern translation of Homer’s THE ODYSSEY are among our latest fiction and non-fiction arrivals! 🍃📖🍂

📌 https://nautilus.ro/new-in

A lavishly illustrated gift book for art lover and folklore enthusiasts, THE ART OF FAIRY TALES offers a spellbinding exploration of human creativity and imagination; already an unhinged bestseller in Japan, PLEASE FORM PAIRS is a candy-coated survival drama about keeping up and staying (barely) alive in a girl-eat-girl Tokyo; the winner of the 2026 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, THE FINEST HOTEL IN KABUL offers a vividly human history of modern Afghanistan through the lives of the people who have kept the Inter-Con Hotel running; Rachel Cusk’s LIFE OF M is a narrative hall of mirrors reflecting on fame, power, beauty, on who we are, and who we pretend to be; Simon Sebag Montefiore’s THE CAULDRON is an essential guide to the making of the modern Middle East from 1900 to the present; the queen of gothic romantasy, returns with higher stakes, darker mysteries, and deeper longings in THE KNAVE AND THE MOON; drawing on literature, myth, history, and tradition from different cultures, SANCTUARY offers “a dazzling meditation on the idea of home, hospitality, and refuge;” MY THIRD LIFE explores what it means to meet another version of yourself later in life, and how to surrender to new realms of love and acceptance; THE MUSEUM OF IMAGINARY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS is a guided tour through centuries of fictional artefacts that are windows into what music might mean, even when it cannot be played.

And of course, beautiful hardcover and paperback special editions featuring sprayed edges and full-colour illustrated endpapers ❤️‍🔥 As we’ve warned you before: they have a habit of vanishing into the void rather quickly. Browse the full selection! Which title are you picking from these stacks?
👉 https://nautilus.ro/new-in

01/09/2026

The River Has Roots is the 2026 Hugo Award winner for Best Novella!

The River Has Roots won the 2026 Hugo Award for Best Novella! A big congratulations to Amal El-Mohtar! 🎉