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- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 19th Century
The fortunes of a family stand or fall by the use of the proper principles of the Tea Ceremony, a story as intricate as the tea ceremony itself.
- Location(s): Shanghai, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Runa is a young Japanese woman who teaches in a high school and has an affair with one of her pupils. Rather than face the consequences, she flees to Shanghai, where she hopes to meet a friend. Ralph is...
- Location(s): Sapporo, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
On the day his mother dies reclusive photographer Rob Fossick – forty-one and already in the twilight of his career – finds among her belongings an unexplained package addressed to a ‘Mr Satoshi’. So begins a quest that will...
- Location(s): Paris, Tokyo, Vienna
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): 1870s onwards
de Waal is one of Britain’s most well known potters and this is the story of a collection of netsuke, inherited from his Uncle. This is their story, which starts in Paris in the 1870s,where they were purchased by...
Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): In Translation, Fiction, Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The WSJ commented: “Part psychological thriller, part murder mystery-it is audacious in conception and brilliant in execution.” The Globe and Mail said the book was “emerging as one of the most praised novels of the year.” Set in a...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
Matsui is the driver of a taxi the colour of the night sky. Every night between the hours of 1 am and 4.30 am, Matsui guides his taxi around the streets of Tokyo, collecting passengers and their stories. Seen...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 21st Century
The cult Japanese phenomenon – a hilarious, prizewinning bestseller about making it in Manzai comedy Tokunaga is a young comedian struggling to make a name for himself when he is taken under the wing of Kamiya, who is either...
The Restaurant of Love Regained
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Set in modern-day Japan, the story follows Rinko, who is a young woman who finds herself penniless when her boyfriend clears their flat of all of her possessions. She has nowhere to go so she decides to return to...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Novella
- Era(s): Modern
The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly sometimes he doesn’t even remember the snatch. Most people are just a blur to...
Tokyo Year Zero (Tokyo Trilogy 1)
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Thriller
Post war Japan…The police force barely functions, and a variety of unpleasant individuals struggle for supremacy in Tokyo’s thriving black market. Peace’s protagonist, Detective Minami, is assigned a difficult case: the bodies of two women are found in Sheba...
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