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- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Late 1940s
Tokyo, 1947. The Pink Labyrinth is one of the bomb-scarred city’s most shady neighbourhoods. There, in the dead of night a patrolling policeman catches a young Buddhist monk digging in the back yard of The Black Cat Cafe, a...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Jane Takagi-Little, by trade a documentary filmmaker, by nature a truth seeker, is “racially half, ” Japanese and American, and, as she tells us, “neither here nor there…” Jane is sharp-edged, desperate for a job, and determined not to...
Naked As The Day: A Tokyo Novel
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A young man finds himself in ragingly cosmopolitan Tokyo, haunted by memories of the past, facing an uncertain future. When a typical twenty-something year old English teacher in Japan develops severe physical and psychological aversions to his daily routine...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): World War II
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids recounts the exploits of 15 teenage reformatory boys evacuated in wartime to a remote mountain village where they are feared and detested by the local peasants. When plague breaks out, the villagers flee,...
Not My Job – A Len Palmer Mystery (Book 2)
- Location(s): Japan, French Alps
- Genre(s): Adventure, Fiction
- Era(s): Current
Please read the Len Palmer books in order. This is no.2, start with Snow Job Len Palmer, a ski-lift designer, is looking for work. After the disastrous end of the HiFly megalift (Snow Job – the first Len Palmer...
Occupied City (Tokyo Trilogy 2)
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): 1940s
In occupied Tokyo a man arrives at a bank talking of a dysentery outbreak, which he has been sent to treat. He administers a potion, and they fall dead. He robs the bank and disappears. Nothing has ever happened...
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Haru, a successful Japanese art dealer, appreciates beauty, harmony, balance, and good sake. A few months after an affair with Maud, a mysterious Frenchwoman, he learns that she is pregnant with his child. But she issues him a heartbreaking...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
‘A celebration of all things Japan, magic, and romance, readers will swoon at this charming, big-hearted friends-to-lovers story’ – Emiko Jean, author of Tokyo Ever After Destiny, magic, true love . . . Remy is in love with her...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
Yeongdo, Korea 1911. In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by a married...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Anyone with a small child knows that patience is not a virtue easily won. In this magically illustrated story the young girl Miyuki, who we first met in the critically acclaimed Time for Bed, Miyuki, anxiously awaits the opening...
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