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- Location(s): Peru, Japan
- Genre(s): Spy, Thriller
- Era(s): Present
In a chilling continuation of their Apex Predator novels, Bayard & Holmes compel us into the darkest corners of the Shadow World. A world where billionaires are not subject to governments and assassins, rogue nations, and terrorists are their...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
Takeout Sushi is a collection of 17 illustrated short stories set mostly in contemporary Japan that explore feelings of belonging, displacement, and the strangeness of everyday human interaction. In an innovative, fast-paced company, a man’s job comes under threat...
- 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): 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): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Current
Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a prizewinning and much discussed private residence built in the shadow of Mount Asama. Aose has never been able to replicate this triumph and...
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Cosy Mystery, Food and Drink
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Kamogawa Food Detectives, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing series for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold. What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just...