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- Location(s): Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagano
- Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction, Future
- Era(s): Future
This world is anything but ordinary, and it’s about to change forever… It’s our world, but decades into the future… An ordinary world, where cars drive themselves, drones glide across the sky, and robots work in burger shops. There...
- Location(s): Bournemouth, Japan, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mostly 1970s
Grace J Reviewerlady: “What a beautiful book! This is a novel I will reflect on time and time again.” Convinced that his imperfect, solitary existence is the best it will ever be, Martin unexpectedly finds himself being sent to...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Fuyuko Irie is a freelance proofreader in her thirties. Living alone, and unable to form meaningful relationships, she has little contact with anyone other than Hijiri, someone she works with. When she sees her reflection, she’s confronted with a...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
The third and penultimate novel in the Detective Kyoichiro Kaga series by bestselling Japanese crime writer Keigo Higashino On the Nihonbashi Bridge in Tokyo stands the statue of a mythic beast – a kirin. One evening a man staggers...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and gaze out of the window. Women’s calves, men’s shoes, heels trodden down by the weight of bodies...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
On the outskirts of Tokyo, in a neighbourhood crossed by a commuter railway, local cats weave their way through the lives and homes of their owners as they navigate difficult times. A cat named Chobi sends silent messages of...
- 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, Corsica, Hawai'i, The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950 - 2012
The deep traditions and values of Kaito Tanaka’s Japanese heritage are severely tested when he returns home to Honolulu from duty in Vietnam to find his wife Hana in the grip of progressive mental health challenges. As Hana’s condition...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
As the only woman in her office, Ms Shibata is expected to do all the menial tasks. One day she announces that she can’t clear away her coworkers’ dirty cups – because she’s pregnant and the smell nauseates her....
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present
Tokyo-ing is a masterful tour de force of a book, combining three short fast-paced novellas into a compassionate and profound look at life and culture in contemporary Japan. Though author Eric Madeen has taken on serious matters — karoshi...
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