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Tennis Clubbed, Snubbed and Rubbity-Dub Dubbed
- Location(s): Yokohama
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Postmodern present
SET IN THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN … In historically rich Yokohama, the wicked shiver of the tennis snub pits David Adams against K: a puffed up, xenophobic tyrant who rules over the courts of a club that...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Territory of Light is the radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her two-year-old daughter. Its twelve chapters follow the first year of the narrator’s separation from her husband. The novel is full of light,...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 18th century
47 Ronin is the unforgettable tale of a band of samurai who defied the Emperor to avenge the disgrace and death of their master, and faced certain death as a result. This set off a chain of events that...
- Location(s): Japan, Scotland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Johnny Jackson used to be a famous film director, but his brother Duke was a hero. Just turned 75, JJ is heading home from exile in Japan for one last blockbuster and a civic honouring. But home is where...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Biography, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16th Century
The incredible story of the slave who became a Japanese samurai. In 1579, a Portuguese trade ship sails into port at Kinchotsu, Japan, loaded with European wares and weapons. Also aboard is an East African slave. Taken from his...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s/Contemporary
The Aosawa Murders won the 59th Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Novel. The novel starts in the 1960s when 17 people die of cyanide poisoning at a party given by the owners of a prominent clinic in...
- Location(s): Hiroshima
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1945
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF A HIROSHIMA SURVIVOR ENCOUNTERED ONE OF THE SCIENTISTS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ATOMIC BOMB? This is the way Emiko Amai recalls August 6th, 1945 – the day she survived the Hiroshima bomb. Emiko was six years...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
For over 300 years, Japan closed itself to outsiders, developing a remarkable and unique culture. During its period of isolation, the inhabitants of the city of Edo, later known as Tokyo, relied on its public bells to tell the...
The Book of Tokyo (Reading The World)
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A shape-shifter arrives at Tokyo harbour in human form, set to embark on an unstoppable rampage through the city’s train network… A young woman is accompanied home one night by a reclusive student, and finds herself lured into a...
- Location(s): Peru, Japan
- Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
- Era(s): Present
In a chilling continuation of their Apex Predator novels, Bayard & Holmes compel us into the darkest corners of the Shadow World. A world where billionaires are not subject to governments and assassins, rogue nations, and terrorists are their...
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