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- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
‘One of the great masterpieces of Japanese crime fiction and one of the must-read books of this or any year’ David Peace Tokyo, 1995. Five men meet at the racetrack every Sunday to bet on horses. They have little...
Letters from the Ginza Shihodo Stationery Shop
- Location(s): Ginza, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Write your story, heal your heart . . . Hidden away in a corner of the Ginza neighbourhood is a venerable stationery shop. To venture inside is to find everything your stationery-loving heart desires, from the most delicate paper...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Magical Realism, Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): Contemporary
How can you save your friend’s life if she doesn’t want to be rescued? In a tranquil neighbourhood of Tokyo, seven teenagers wake to find their bedroom mirrors are shining. At a single touch, they are pulled from their...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Modern day
Beneath the sheen of its orderly streets and obedient populace, all is not well in the port city of Kobe. Business is as brisk as the Haru-ichiban spring breeze for Mami Suzuki, hotel clerk by day, private investigator by...
- Location(s): Japan, Southern California
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Postmodern present
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...
- Location(s): Saitama
- Genre(s): In Translation, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The power dynamics of the office are never more obvious than when it comes to food: mandatory lunches with the boss, the colleague who tries to curry favour with home-baked goods, discovering the discarded remnants of someone else’s late-night...
- Location(s): Osaka, Houston
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Benson and Mike are two young guys who have been together for a few years – good years – but now they’re not sure why they’re still a couple. There’s the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for...
- Location(s): England, Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, suppressing not only her heritage but her growing desire for her best friend Fran. Yuki leaves the Japanese countryside to pursue...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Modern
A beloved Japanese modern classic about our special connection with cats, and how they can change our lives over the course of a lifetime. For the last twenty years, Japanese readers have been falling in love with Mayumi Inaba’s...
- Location(s): Mount Fuji
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
When American student Jane Prescott is invited to spend the holidays with her classmate Chiyo, she jumps at the chance to see in the new year at a luxurious mansion at the foot of Mount Fuji. Chiyo belongs to...
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