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A Perfect Day to be Alone

A Perfect Day to be Alone
  • Author(s): Nanae Aoyama, Jesse Kirkwood (Translator)
  • Location(s): Chofu, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It was raining when I arrived at the house. The walls of my room were lined with cat photos, set in fancy frames just below the ceiling. When her mother emigrates to China for work, twenty-year-old Chizu moves in...

Theft

Theft
  • Author(s): Peter Carey
  • 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...

Bird Life

Bird Life
  • Author(s): Anna Small
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Ueno Park, Tokyo, as workers and tourists gather for lunch, the pollen blows, a fountain erupts, pigeons scatter, and two women meet, changing the course of one another’s lives. Dinah has come to Japan from New Zealand to...

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...

Butter

Butter
  • Author(s): Asako Yuzuki
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, who she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case has captured the nation’s imagination but Kajii refuses...

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
  • Author(s): Satoshi Yagisawa, Eric Ozawa (translator)
  • Location(s): Jimbocho
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation, Novella
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Japanese bestseller: a tale of love, new beginnings, and the comfort that can be found between the pages of a good book. When twenty-five-year-old Takako’s boyfriend reveals he’s marrying someone else, she reluctantly accepts her eccentric uncle Satoru’s...

What You Are Looking for is in the Library

What You Are Looking for is in the Library
  • Author(s): Michiko Aoyama, Alison Watts (translator)
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sayuri Komachi is no ordinary librarian. Sensing exactly what someone is searching for in life, she provides just the book recommendation to help them find it. In this uplifting book, we meet five of Sayuri’s customers, each at a...

Four Seasons in Japan

Four Seasons in Japan
  • Author(s): Nick Bradley
  • Location(s): Hiroshima, Japan, Onomichi, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Flo is sick of Tokyo. Suffering from a crisis in confidence, she is stuck in a rut, her translation work has dried up and she’s in a relationship that’s run its course. That’s until she stumbles upon a mysterious...

Tokyo Express

Tokyo Express
  • Author(s): Seicho Matsumoto, Jesse Kirkwood (Translator)
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

‘It was a puzzle with no solution. But he did not lose heart.’ In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Stood in the coast’s wind and cold,...

Beautiful Shining People

Beautiful Shining People
  • Author(s): Michael Grothaus
  • 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...

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