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The Last Concubine: The Shogun Quartet #2
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1860s
Japan, 1865, the women’s palace in the great city of Edo. Bristling with intrigue and erotic rivalries, the palace is home to three thousand women and only one man – the young shogun. Sachi, a beautiful fifteen-year-old girl, is...
- Location(s): Hiroshima
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
- Era(s): 1945
A Japanese teenager, Mizuki, is worried about her grandfather who is clearly desperately upset about something. He says that he has never got over something that happened in his past and gently Mizuki persuades him to tell her what...
- Location(s): Kamakura, Teshima
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
On the peaceful Japanese island of Teshima there is a library of heartbeats, a place where the heartbeats of visitors from all around the world are collected. In this small, isolated building, the heartbeats of people who are still...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
The Little House is set in the early years of the Showa era (1926-89), when Japan’s situation is becoming increasingly tense but has not yet fully immersed in a wartime footing. On the outskirts of Tokyo, near a station...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Modern
For travel blogger Fiona, Japan has always been top of her bucket list so when she wins an all-expenses paid trip, it looks like her dreams are coming true. Until she arrives in vibrant, bustling Tokyo and comes face-to-face...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Edo period and modern day
When thirteen-year-old British boy Cameron Barnes travels to Japan, he finds a new friend and an old mystery. Searching for information about a castle that no longer exists, Cameron follows a trail of clues through history. He uncovers a...
The Lost Future of Pepperharrow
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1880s
For Thaniel Steepleton, an unexpected posting to Tokyo can’t come at a better moment. The London fog has made him ill and doctor’s orders are to get out. His brief is strange: the staff at the British Legation have...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
Tanizaki’s masterpiece is the story of four sisters, and the declining fortunes of a traditional Japanese family. It is a loving and nostalgic recreation of the sumptuous, intricate upper-class life of Osaka immediately before World War Two. With surgical...
- Location(s): Manhattan, Afghanistan, Japan
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Real. Invisible. Devastating. And it’s taking New York by storm. With its insatiable hunger for fast food, easy fixes and life lived at breakneck speed, the city that never sleeps is hurtling towards disaster. Now John Wyse, an ordinary New...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Dystopian, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A compelling speculative mystery by one of Japan’s greatest writers. Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river...
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