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- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Set in Japan, The Earthquake Bird begins with an earth-tremor on its first page that echoes metaphorically through the book. Lucy is a young and insecure translator straining to survive in the bustling, impersonal city of Tokyo. She becomes...
- Location(s): Amsterdam, Nagasaki, Plymouth
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1640s
How do you start a new life, leaving behind all you love? It’s 1641, and when Midori Kumashiro, the orphaned daughter of a warlord, is told she has to leave Japan or die, she has no choice but to...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Second Word War
The lovers room would always be theirs, and they would take it with them wherever they went. As the Allied forces occupy Japan at the end of World War II, an intense love affair develops between Australian Allen Spin...
- Location(s): Japan, Plymouth
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1600s
Abducted by a Samurai warlord in 17th-century Japan what happens when fear turns to love? England, 1611, and young Hannah Marston envies her brother’s adventurous life. But when she stows away on a merchant ship, her powers of endurance...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 19th Century
The fortunes of a family stand or fall by the use of the proper principles of the Tea Ceremony, a story as intricate as the tea ceremony itself.
- Location(s): Shanghai, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Runa is a young Japanese woman who teaches in a high school and has an affair with one of her pupils. Rather than face the consequences, she flees to Shanghai, where she hopes to meet a friend. Ralph is...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
Matsui is the driver of a taxi the colour of the night sky. Every night between the hours of 1 am and 4.30 am, Matsui guides his taxi around the streets of Tokyo, collecting passengers and their stories. Seen...
- Location(s): Sapporo, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
On the day his mother dies reclusive photographer Rob Fossick – forty-one and already in the twilight of his career – finds among her belongings an unexplained package addressed to a ‘Mr Satoshi’. So begins a quest that will...
- Location(s): Paris, Tokyo, Vienna
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): 1870s onwards
de Waal is one of Britain’s most well known potters and this is the story of a collection of netsuke, inherited from his Uncle. This is their story, which starts in Paris in the 1870s,where they were purchased by...
Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): In Translation, Fiction, Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The WSJ commented: “Part psychological thriller, part murder mystery-it is audacious in conception and brilliant in execution.” The Globe and Mail said the book was “emerging as one of the most praised novels of the year.” Set in a...
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