Blogs in December 2022

A Death in Tokyo 4th December 2022

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...

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The Illuminated 30th November 2022

A remarkable debut novel about women’s relationships – with each other and with the men in their lives – and the rise of fundamentalism in India today. ‘When the light shifts, you see the world differently.’ A superbly nuanced...

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The Pachinko Parlour 22nd November 2022

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...

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Fear and Lovely 22nd November 2022

Mallika is a painfully shy young woman growing up in the heart of a close-knit, sometimes stifling, New Delhi colony. Though she is surrounded by love, her life is complicated by secrets that she, her mother and her aunt...

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On Sal Mal Lane 20th November 2022

On the day the Herath family moves in, Sal Mal Lane is still a quiet street, disturbed only by the cries of the children whose triumphs and tragedies sustain the families that live there. As the neighbors adapt to...

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