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- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Time Slip, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The million-copy bestselling series In the fifth book in the sensational Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, the mysterious Tokyo café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests: – The...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In Ueno Park, Tokyo, as workers and tourists gather for lunch, the pollen blows, a fountain erupts, pigeons scatter, and two women meet, changing the course of one another’s lives. Dinah has come to Japan from New Zealand to...
- Location(s): Kichijōji
- Era(s): Contemporary
Riko Nishioka is assistant manager of the flagship Pegasus bookstore in Kichijoji. After working her way up from a part-time position, she is now, aged forty, a respected figure in the Japanese publishing industry. But she has a nemesis....
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
On a hot summer’s day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsuko, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko’s teenage daughter Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing hostess despairing the loss of her looks, has travelled to...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Five killers find themselves on a bullet train from Tokyo competing for a suitcase full of money. Who will make it to the last station? An original and propulsive thriller from a Japanese bestseller. Satoshi looks like an innocent...
Close Encounters of the Traveling Kind
- Location(s): South America, Japan, Nepal, South Africa, Thailand
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
This collection of near-death (and a few almost-near-death) stories take you on adventures in Africa, South America, Nepal, Japan and Thailand. Close Encounters with an angry snake, the edge of an abyss, an unfriendly African tribe, a shady guide...
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning ‘red pine’, and Oumi, ‘blue sea’, while the girls’ names were Shirane, ‘white root’, and...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy
- Era(s): Contemporary
FIX ME. DRAW ME WHOLE. COLOUR ME IN. “A dream of a novel”Buzz feed “Dark, vivid and totally original. I loved it.” Lisa Williamson, author of The Art of Being Normal “Remember the name Lydia Ruffles” Stylist The Catcher...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Toru’s girlfriend, Ryoko, disappears, he tries to track her down, despite the warnings of a PI he’s hired to find her. Ryoko’s past is shrouded in mystery, but the one clue to her whereabouts is a previous address...
- Location(s): Bournemouth, Japan, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mostly 1970s
Grace J Reviewerlady: “What a beautiful book! This is a novel I will reflect on time and time again.” Convinced that his imperfect, solitary existence is the best it will ever be, Martin unexpectedly finds himself being sent to...
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