Blogs in November 2023

The North Light 28th November 2023

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...

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Our Cursed Love 20th November 2023

‘A celebration of all things Japan, magic, and romance, readers will swoon at this charming, big-hearted friends-to-lovers story’ – Emiko Jean, author of Tokyo Ever After Destiny, magic, true love . . . Remy is in love with her...

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Bird Life 19th November 2023

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...

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The Kamogawa Food Detectives 9th November 2023

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...

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Point Zero 26th October 2023

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...

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