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- 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...
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Travelogue, Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
At thirty-five, Leslie Buck made an impulsive decision to put her personal life on hold to pursue her passion. Leaving behind a full life of friends, love, and professional security, she became the first American woman to learn pruning...
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