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People Who Eat Darkness

People Who Eat Darkness
  • Author(s): Richard Lloyd Parry
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): mid 200s onwards

A deeply compelling and chilling journey into the dark side of Japan, centred on the tragic case of Lucie Blackman

Point Zero

Point Zero
  • Author(s): Seicho Matsumoto, Louise Heal Kawai (Translator)
  • Location(s): Kanazawa, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, In Translation, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1958

Tokyo, 1958. Teiko marries Kenichi Uhara, ten years her senior, an advertising man recommended by a go-between. After a four-day honeymoon, Kenichi vanishes. Teiko travels to the coastal and snow-bound city of Kanazawa, where Kenichi was last seen, to...

Rainbirds

Rainbirds
  • Author(s): Clarissa Goenawan
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense
  • Era(s): 1994

Intertwining elements of suspense and magical realism, award-winning literary debut RAINBIRDS opens with a murder and shines a spotlight on life in fictional small-town Japan. Ren Ishida is nearly done with graduate school when he receives news of his...

Roppongi

Roppongi
  • Author(s): Nick Vasey
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Roppongi is an ‘adventure-travel-fiction’ story, exploring the crazy and often dangerous world which is living and working as a foreigner in the Roppongi nightlife industry of Tokyo, Japan. The novel follows the (mis)adventures of its travel-addicted protagonist Zack, and...

Sayonara Bar

Sayonara Bar
  • Author(s): Susan Barker
  • Location(s): Osaka
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Mary, a blond graduate from England, has drifted into a job in a hostess lounge in Osaka. She and other ?economy geishas? are employed by the enigmatic Mama san to spend their evenings flirting with rich Japanese salarymen, playing...

Shogun

Shogun
  • Author(s): James Clavell
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1500s

A bold English adventurer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love. All brought together in an extraordinary saga of a time and a place aflame with conflict, passion, ambition,...

Silk

Silk
  • Author(s): Alessandro Baricco
  • Location(s): France, Japan
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): 1861

The year is 1861. Herve Joncour is a French merchant of silkworms, who combs the known world for their gemlike eggs. Then circumstances compel him to travel farther, beyond the edge of the known, to a country legendary for...

The Blanket Cats

The Blanket Cats
  • Author(s): Kiyoshi Shigematsu, Jesse Kirkwood (Translator)
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The troubled and anxious of Tokyo are desperate to find out. They all have their problems – and they all want to believe that a feline companion from a unique pet shop can help them find a solution. But...

The Courtesan and the Samurai: The Shogun Quartet #3

The Courtesan and the Samurai: The Shogun Quartet #3
  • Author(s): Lesley Downer
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Second half 19th Century

1868. In Japan’s exotic pleasure quarters, sex is for sale and the only forbidden fruit is love … Hana is just seventeen when her husband goes to war, leaving her alone and vulnerable. When enemy soldiers attack her house...

The Devil of Nanking

The Devil of Nanking
  • Author(s): Mo Hayder
  • Location(s): Nanjing (Nanking), Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Suspense
  • Era(s): 1937 and 1990

Grey Hutchins is in pursuit of an obsession. She is searching for a piece of film taken during the infamous Nanking massacre of 1937. Some say it never existed. Grey is certain that it does, and that it lies...

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