- Location(s): Kentucky
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century
For generations, Perry James’ family has lived under the shadow of the Cumberland range and worked in the coal mines. Staunch union supporters, Perry’s grandfather and father have known hard times and after Perry helps to sabotage the mine...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad), Stockholm
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1770s, 1990s
To The Hermitage is Sir Malcolm Bradbury’s first novel in nearly a decade, and its length and ambition provide some clue as to why it has been so long in the making. The novel begins with the arrival of...
- Location(s): Naxos
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back to 1960s
He disappeared. That’s all she really knew. In search of her father Andreas, whom she has never met, Lena travels with her small son from Australia to Greece. On the island of Naxos she finds him, a wary, tormented...
- Location(s): Mali, Sahara, West Africa
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Nina Sovich had always yearned for adventures in faraway places: she imagined herself leading the life of a solitary traveler. Yet at the age of thirty-four, she found herself married and contemplating motherhood. Catching her reflection in a window...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Her troubled female protagonist in Tokyo is Grey, haunting the thronging streets of Tokyo in search of an elusive piece of film recording the infamous Nanking massacre of 1937. But did the film ever exist? The past is a...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
Thirteen short stories told by passengers stranded for the night at Tokyo airport. A tenuous link to Tokyo, but neverthless a collection of fairytales that are interesting.
- Location(s): Kyoto, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Haruka and Takashi are devoted to shopping and going out in Tokyo. She loves her Louis Vuitton handbags, Hermès scarves and Louboutin shoes. He enjoys eating out and looking through the department stores in Ginza and Shibuya. Together they...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Chavouet is a Frenchman in Tokyo who has pulled together pencil drawings and observations in this book, with notes on the people and the culture. Illustration, design and Tokyo combined!
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
A page turning insider’s account fighting crime in Japan. Does for Tokyo what Homicide did for Baltimore.
Tokyo Year Zero (Tokyo Trilogy 1)
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Thriller
Post war Japan…The police force barely functions, and a variety of unpleasant individuals struggle for supremacy in Tokyo’s thriving black market. Peace’s protagonist, Detective Minami, is assigned a difficult case: the bodies of two women are found in Sheba...
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