Satoshi Yagisawa's follow-up to Days at the Morisaki Bookshop clinched by Manilla Press

Manilla Press has acquired the follow-up to the international bestseller Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa, entitled More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop. 

Managing editor Justine Taylor acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, from Kelsey Young at HarperCollins US. It is translated by Eric Ozawa and will be published in paperback, audiobook and e-book in July 2024.

The first book, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, was a major hit for the Bonnier Books UK literary imprint, which described the title as an "internationally bestselling phenomenon". The publisher said it was “a huge bookseller’s favourite and a true word-of-mouth hit”. It was backed by a Book Marketing Society award-winning campaign and became an Indie Champion title for Bookshop.org. 

Taylor said: “We’ve all loved spending time at the Morisaki Bookshop and I can’t wait to bring the sequel to all the booksellers and readers who loved the first book. We have exciting, ambitious plans in store for More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop and I’m sure this book will be taken to people’s hearts in the same way as the first.” 

Yagisawa was born in Chiba, Japan in 1977. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, his debut novel, was originally published in 2009 and won the Chiyoda Literature Prize.