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- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Current
An in-depth, personal journey around Japan’s whisky distilleries. Award-winning author and Japanese whisky expert, Dave Broom, tells their story and unveils the philosophy that lies behind this fascinating whisky culture, and how it relates to many Japanese concepts. Dave...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada’s vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading,...
- Location(s): Japan, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s to present day
Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura’s prearranged marriage secures her family’s status in their traditional Japanese community. However, Naoko has fallen for an American sailor and to marry him would bring great shame upon her entire family. When it’s learned...
- Location(s): Yokosuka, Yokohama
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
The Wrong Goodbye pits homicide detective Eiji Futamura against a shady Chinese business empire and U.S. military intelligence in the docklands of recession Japan. After the frozen corpse of immigrant barman Tran Binh Long washes up in midsummer near...
- Location(s): Australia, Manhattan, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his ‘damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother’ Hugh, Theft: A Love Story once again displays Peter Carey’s extraordinary flair for language. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Social psychologist Ben Monroe has returned to Tokyo after a failed marriage, determined to seek out his former lover Kozue. His estranged teenage daughter Mazzy reluctantly flies from California to join him. On the flight she meets a young...