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- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool – sparking an unspoken infatuation that draws out darker possibilities. A young woman records the daily...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): N/A
Million-copy bestselling winner of the Japan Booksellers Award, selected by bookshop staff as the book they most wanted to hand-sell: A tender and uplifting novel for fans of A WHOLE LIFE by Robert Seethaler. ”A mesmerising reading experience for...
- Location(s): China, Japan, Northeast (Manchuria)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1900s
Manchuria, 1908: A young woman is found frozen in the snow. Her death is clouded by rumours of foxes, believed to lure people into peril by transforming into beautiful women and men. Bao, a detective with a reputation for...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Graphic Novel
- Era(s): Present
A beautiful story of healing and growth through mindfulness and gardening. Joanna is a high-powered finance consultant who’s been signed off work after having a nervous breakdown. Seeking more than just something to pass the time, she travels to...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Against changing seasons in Japan, seven cats weave their way through their owners’ lives … A needy kitten rescued from the recycling bin teaches a new father how to parent his own human baby; a colony of wild cats...
- Location(s): Matsuyama, Shikoku
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
This is the second book in the Josie Clark in Japan mystery series. The first book is The Cherry Blossom Murder. A haiku-writing trip turns to tragedy when charismatic financier Mr Ando falls from the top of Matsuyama castle....
- Location(s): Okamura, Japan
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1930s
Japan’s greatest classic murder mystery, translated into English for the first time In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a son of the grand Ichiyanagi family. But amid...
The Housekeeper and the Professor
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
Yoko Ogawa’s The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family. He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Captain Cleve Connell arrives in Korea with a single goal: to become an ace, one of that elite fraternity of jet pilots who have downed five MIGs. But as his fellow airmen rack up kill after kill – sometimes...
- Location(s): Japanese Inland Sea (Seto)
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
“Earns its place on the very short shelf of books on Japan that are of permanent value.”-Times Literary Supplement. “Richie is a stupendous travel writer; the book shines with bright witticisms, deft characterizations of fisherfolk, merchants, monks and wistful...
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