Blogs in August 2022

Tokyo-ing!: Three Novellas 3rd August 2022

Tokyo-ing is a masterful tour de force of a book, combining three short fast-paced novellas into a compassionate and profound look at life and culture in contemporary Japan. Though author Eric Madeen has taken on serious matters — karoshi...

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Tennis Clubbed, Snubbed and Rubbity-Dub Dubbed 15th September 2021

SET IN THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN … In historically rich Yokohama, the wicked shiver of the tennis snub pits David Adams against K: a puffed up, xenophobic tyrant who rules over the courts of a club that...

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Massage World: The Novel 1st July 2021

Massage World is a crime thriller that concerns a massage therapist striving to open a straight, grandiose health spa against the wishes of a wild man from the shady side of the industry who takes her business over with...

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Water Drumming in the Soul: A Novel of Racy Love in the Heart of Africa 1st July 2021

From the moment Peace Corps volunteer David Fields sees Assam Mabino water drumming, playing the stream as a drum, in the early stretches of the novel there’s a tension or excitement between them that never dissipates in this literary...

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Asian Trail Mix: True Tales from Borneo to Japan 1st July 2021

By turns pathbreaking and intimate, this smorgasbord of travel essays scales down the sprawl of Asia by focusing on the unique and revelatory. See up close and personal the razzmatazz of novice monks at play in northern Laos, the...

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