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- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Fictional dangers become real to American translator, Ruth Bennett, in this high-octane multicultural thriller. Recently returned to her childhood home in Kyoto, after losing her job in the United States-and her marriage-Ruth was hoping her new job would offer...
The Office of Gardens and Ponds
- Location(s): Honshu, Kyoto
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 12th Century
The village of Shimae is thrown into turmoil when master carp-catcher Katsuro suddenly drowns in the murky waters of the Kusagawa river. Who now will carry the precious cargo of carp to the Imperial Palace and preserve the crucial...
- 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!
What You Are Looking for is in the Library
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Sayuri Komachi is no ordinary librarian. Sensing exactly what someone is searching for in life, she provides just the book recommendation to help them find it. In this uplifting book, we meet five of Sayuri’s customers, each at a...
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1929 onwards
Chiyo-chan is a nine year old girl from a small fishing village,who has experienced a simple life until her Mother becomes fatally ill. She is sent by her Father to Gion, one of the Geisha areas of districts of...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1800s
Featured in fiction: The Financial Times Best Books of 2015 Only weeks into their marriage a young couple embark on a six-month period of separation. Tom Cavendish goes to Japan to build lighthouses and his wife Ally, Doctor Moberley-Cavendish,...
The Shogun’s Queen: The Shogun Quartet #1
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1850s
Only one woman can save her world from barbarian invasion but to do so will mean sacrificing everything she holds dear – love, loyalty and maybe life itself . . . Japan, and the year is 1853. Growing up...
- Location(s): Beijing (Peking), Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): First half of the 20th Century
A young woman travels from Edinburgh to Peking in the early 20th century,and writes about her experiences in diary form. She is trapped in a loveless marriage to a stiff and conventional man, and then falls in love with...
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The temples and teahouses of Kyoto are the scene of a Frenchwoman’s emotional awakening in the stunning new novel by international bestseller Muriel Barbery. Rose has turned 40, but has barely begun to live. When the Japanese father she...
- Location(s): Okinawa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1945 and modern
In her most ambitious, moving, and provocative novel to date, Sarah Bird makes a stunning departure. Above the East China Sea tells the entwined stories of two teenaged girls, an American and an Okinawan, whose lives are connected across seventy years...
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