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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 66 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada
    The Factory - by Hiroko Oyamada

    £12.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781803510538 | ISBN 10: 1803510536

    Beyond the town, there is the factory. Beyond the factory, there is nothing.  Within the sprawling industrial complex, three employees are assigned to different departments. There, each must focus on a specific task: one shreds paper, one proofre ... more

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  • Cover image of book Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi
    Diary of a Void - by Emi Yagi

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529114812 | ISBN 10: 1529114810

    A hilarious, feminist debut novel from a new star of Japanese fiction.   'One of the most intriguing new novels of the summer.' Independent   For the sake of women everywhere, Ms Shibata is going to pull off the mother of all deceptions...   ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto
    The Premonition - by Banana Yoshimoto

    £12.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780571382309 | ISBN 10: 0571382304

    From the beloved, bestselling author of Kitchen, comes a deeply haunting, heartwarming exploration of loneliness and painful memories set in Japan.   ‘Polished, concise, emotionally rewarding.’ Daily Mail ‘Reading Banana Yoshimoto is li ... more

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  • Cover image of book She and Her Cat by Makoto Shinkai and Naruki Nagakawa
    She and Her Cat - by Makoto Shinkai and Naruki Nagakawa

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781804993118 | ISBN 10: 1804993115

    On the outskirts of Tokyo, in a neighbourhood crossed by a commuter railway, local cats weave their way through the lives and homes of their owners as they navigate difficult times.   A cat named Chobi sends silent messages of courage to a young w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Before We Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
    Before We Say Goodbye - by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

    £14.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781035023424 | ISBN 10: 1035023423

    The million-copy bestselling series.  Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s poignant Before We Say Goodbye, translated from Japanese, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to mee ... more

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  • Cover image of book Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
    Before Your Memory Fades - by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781035032402 | ISBN 10: 1035032406

    The third novel in the international bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, following four new customers in a cafe where customers can travel back in time.  On the hillside of Mount Hakodate in northern Japan, Cafe Donna Donna is fabled ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto
    Tokyo Express - by Seicho Matsumoto

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780241439081 | ISBN 10: 0241439086

    'An irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly-plotted crime novel told in crisp, elegant prose' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train   'Matsumoto was Japan's Agatha Christie' Laura Hackett, The Sunday Times   'It was a puzzl ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Snow Ghost and Other Tales: Classic Japanese Ghost Stories by Various authors
    The Snow Ghost and Other Tales: Classic Japanese Ghost Stories - by Various authors

    £14.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781784878726 | ISBN 10: 1784878723

    Enter the haunted world of Ancient Japan in this spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales told and retold across the centuries.  From Goblin infested caves and haunted Tombs, to vengeful spirits and strange, sinister happenings, Ancient Jap ... more

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  • Cover image of book Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
    Days at the Morisaki Bookshop - by Satoshi Yagisawa

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781786583239 | ISBN 10: 1786583232

    Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books.   Twenty-five-year-old Takako has never liked reading, although the Morisaki bookshop ha ... more

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  • Cover image of book What You Are Looking for is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
    What You Are Looking for is in the Library - by Michiko Aoyama

    £12.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780857529121 | ISBN 10: 0857529129

    THE BESTSELLING JAPANESE NOVEL  For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this soul-stirring Japanese novel shows how the perfect book recommendation can help us fulfil our dreams.  'I definitely want to visit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beautiful Shining People by Michael Grothaus
    Beautiful Shining People - by Michael Grothaus

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781914585647 | ISBN 10: 191458564x

    A damaged teenage tech prodigy meets an enigmatic waitress in a tiny Tokyo café, sparking an epic journey across Japan that will change everything, forever... a captivating, masterful novel with an extraordinary mystery at its heart...  ‘Set a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Pachinko Parlour by Elisa Shua Dusapin
    The Pachinko Parlour - by Elisa Shua Dusapin

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914198168 | ISBN 10: 1914198166

    Longlisted for The National Book Critics Circle Awards for Barrios Books in Translation Prize.  From the author of Winter in Sokcho, Winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature.  The days are beginning to draw i ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa, translated by Louise Heal Kawai
    The Cat Who Saved Books - by Sosuke Natsukawa, translated by Louise Heal Kawai

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529081480 | ISBN 10: 1529081483

    Grandpa used to say it all the time: books have tremendous power. But what is that power really?  Natsuki Books was a tiny second-hand bookshop on the edge of town. Inside, towering shelves reached the ceiling, every one crammed full of wonderful ... more

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  • Cover image of book Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
    Heaven - by Mieko Kawakami

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781509898251 | ISBN 10: 1509898255

    From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami, comes a sharp and illuminating novel about a fourteen-year-old boy subjected to relentless bullying.   In Heaven, a fourteen-year old boy is torm ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dead-End Memories by Banana Yoshimoto
    Dead-End Memories - by Banana Yoshimoto

    £20.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781640093690 | ISBN 10: 1640093699

    Japan’s internationally celebrated master storyteller returns with five stories of women on their way to healing that vividly portrays the blissful moments and everyday sorrows that surround us in everyday life.   First published in Japan ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight by Riku Onda
    Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight - by Riku Onda

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913394592 | ISBN 10: 191339459x

    Translated by Alison Watts  From the author of The Aosawa Murders, one of the NYT Notable Books of 2020. The WSJ commented: “Part psychological thriller, part murder mystery—it is audacious in conception and brilliant in execution.” T ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
    A Tale for the Time Being - by Ruth Ozeki

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781838856250 | ISBN 10: 1838856250

    “Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you. A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be”   Shortlisted for the Man Boo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Watersong by Clarissa Goenawan
    Watersong - by Clarissa Goenawan

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914484117 | ISBN 10: 1914484118

    'Watersong transports the reader to worlds both familiar and unknown. Clarissa Goenawan’s crisp narration and vivid characters made this novel feel like a lingering dream. This is an intriguing and soul-stirring story about how we reconcile with ou ... more

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  • Cover image of book All The Lovers In The Night by Mieko Kawakami
    All The Lovers In The Night - by Mieko Kawakami

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781509898268 | ISBN 10: 1509898263

    From international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami comes All The Lovers In The Night, an extraordinary, deeply moving and insightful story set in contemporary Tokyo.  Fuyuko Irie is a freelance proofreader in her thirties. Living alone, and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami
    Breasts and Eggs - by Mieko Kawakami

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529074413 | ISBN 10: 152907441x

    On a hot summer's day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsuko, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko's teenage daughter Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing hostess despairing the loss of her looks, has travelled to Tokyo in searc ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Forest of Wool and Steel by Natsu Miyashita
    The Forest of Wool and Steel - by Natsu Miyashita

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781784162986 | ISBN 10: 1784162981

    OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD.  What he experienced that day wasn't life-changing...It was life-making.  Tomura is startled by the hypnotic sound of a piano being tuned in his school. It seeps into his soul and transports him to the fores ... more

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  • Cover image of book Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
    Earthlings - by Sayaka Murata

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781783785698 | ISBN 10: 1783785691

    Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet.  Together with her cousin Yuu, Natsuki spends her summers in the wild mountains of Nagano, dreaming of othe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Things Remembered and Things Forgotten by Kyoko Nakajima
    Things Remembered and Things Forgotten - by Kyoko Nakajima

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781908745965 | ISBN 10: 1908745967

    'If we want to understand what has been lost to time, there is no way other than through the exercise of imagination... imagination applied with delicate rather than broad strokes'.  So wrote the award winning Japanese author Kyoko Nakajima of h ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Cat and The City by Nick Bradley
    The Cat and The City - by Nick Bradley

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781786499912 | ISBN 10: 1786499916

    In Tokyo - one of the world's largest megacities - a stray cat is wending her way through the back alleys. And, with each detour, she brushes up against the seemingly disparate lives of the city-dwellers, connecting them in unexpected ways.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lost Future of Pepperharrow by Natasha Pulley
    The Lost Future of Pepperharrow - by Natasha Pulley

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781408885147 | ISBN 10: 140888514x

    "A Japan that never was, a future lost, ghosts that are not dead ... not even a partial list of ingredients can do justice to this wonderful cake of a book ... A time-defying thriller."(Robin Hobb) Strange things are happening in Tokyo.  A ... more

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  • Cover image of book What
    What's Left of Me is Yours - by Stephanie Scott

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781474610896 | ISBN 10: 1474610897

    One of the Observer's Ten Best Debut Novelists of 2020  A gripping debut set in modern-day Tokyo and inspired by a true crime, What's Left of Me Is Yours follows a young woman's search for the truth about her mother's life - and her murder.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tales from the Cafe: Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
    Tales from the Cafe: Before the Coffee Gets Cold - by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529050868 | ISBN 10: 1529050863

    In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time...   From the author ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ms Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami
    Ms Ice Sandwich - by Mieko Kawakami

    £7.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781782276722 | ISBN 10: 1782276726

    A young boy returns obsessively to a supermarket sandwich counter, entranced by the beauty of the woman who works there. Her aloof demeanour and electric blue eyelids make him feel the most intense joy he's ever known. He calls her Ms Ice Sandwich, a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Strange Weather In Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami
    Strange Weather In Tokyo - by Hiromi Kawakami

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781783785797 | ISBN 10: 1783785799

    Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at least thirty years her senior, retired and, she presumes, a widower. After this initial encounter, the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Where The Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda, translated by Polly Barton
    Where The Wild Ladies Are - by Aoko Matsuda, translated by Polly Barton

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781911284383 | ISBN 10: 191128438x

    Winner of an English PEN Award Named a ‘new book you need to read in 2020‘ by i-D Named a ‘best book of the year so far‘ by Tatler  Witty, inventive, and profound, Where the Wild Ladies Are is a contemporary feminist retelling of tr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
    Pachinko - by Min Jin Lee

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781838930509 | ISBN 10: 1838930507

    Yeongdo, Korea 1911.   In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza ... more

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  • Cover image of book Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
    Before the Coffee Gets Cold - by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781529029581 | ISBN 10: 1529029589

    What would you change if you could go back in time?  In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experienc ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
    The Memory Police - by Yoko Ogawa

    £14.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781846559495 | ISBN 10: 1846559499

    Discover a timely mystery about the loss of every day existence by one of Japan's greatest writers that featured in the Entertainment Weekly ‘Quarantine Book Club’.  Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no ... more

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  • Cover image of book Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
    Convenience Store Woman - by Sayaka Murata

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781846276842 | ISBN 10: 1846276845

    Keiko has never really fitted in. At school and university people find her odd and her family worries she'll never be normal. To appease them, Keiko takes a job at a newly opened convenience store. Here, she finds peace and purpose in the simple, dai ... more

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  • Cover image of book Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
    Killing Commendatore - by Haruki Murakami

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784707330 | ISBN 10: 1784707333

    The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84.   In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous art ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Forest of Wool and Steel by Natsu Miyashita
    The Forest of Wool and Steel - by Natsu Miyashita

    £9.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780857525185 | ISBN 10: 0857525182

    What he experienced that day wasn’t life-changing... It was life-making.   Tomura is startled by the hypnotic sound of a piano being tuned in his school. It seeps into his soul and transports him to the forests, dark and gleaming, that surround ... more

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  • Cover image of book If Cats Disappeared From The World by Genki Kawamura, translated by Eric Selland
    If Cats Disappeared From The World - by Genki Kawamura, translated by Eric Selland

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781509889174 | ISBN 10: 1509889175

    Our narrator’s days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctor’s diagnosis that he has only months to live. But before he can set about tackling his bucket list, t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
    Kitchen - by Banana Yoshimoto

    £7.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571342723 | ISBN 10: 0571342728

    Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is a startlingly original first work by Japan's brightest young literary star and is now a cult film.  When Kitchen ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fireworks by Angela Carter
    Fireworks - by Angela Carter

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784872984 | ISBN 10: 1784872989

    `I started to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.'   So says Angela Carter of this collection, written during a period living in Toyko. These exotic, sensuous stories represent Carter's first major achiev ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa
    Sweet Bean Paste - by Durian Sukegawa

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786071958 | ISBN 10: 1786071959

    ‘I’m in story heaven with this book.’ Cecelia Ahern, author of P.S. I Love You  A charming tale of friendship, love and loneliness in contemporary Japan.   Sentaro has failed. He has a criminal record, drinks too much, and his dr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blue Light Yokohama by Nicolás Obregón
    Blue Light Yokohama - by Nicolás Obregón

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781405926898 | ISBN 10: 1405926899

    Inspired by a blistering real-life murder, Blue Light Yokohama's Inspector Iwata is perfect for fans of Jo Nesbo's Harry Hole.  THE MURDERER'S IN YOUR HOUSE... A family of four are found murdered in their own home. A painted black sun is left dr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Moshi Moshi by Banana Yoshimoto
    Moshi Moshi - by Banana Yoshimoto

    £14.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781640090156 | ISBN 10: 1640090150

    In Moshi Moshi, Yoshie’s much-loved musician father has died in a suicide pact with an unknown woman. It is only when Yoshie and her mother move to Shimo-kitazawa, a traditional Tokyo neighborhood of narrow streets, quirky shops, and friendly resid ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel
    The Travelling Cat Chronicles - by Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780857524195 | ISBN 10: 0857524194

    Recommended by thousands of international readers - the tender feelgood story of a man's journey around Japan with a streetcat. Translated by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami.  Includes specially commissioned line-drawings  It's not t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami
    Men Without Women - by Haruki Murakami

    £16.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781911215370 | ISBN 10: 191121537x

    'I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.'   Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear ... more

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  • Cover image of book Spring Garden by Tomoka Shibasaki
    Spring Garden - by Tomoka Shibasaki

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782272700 | ISBN 10: 1782272704

    Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, a sharp, photo-realistic novella of memory and thwarted hope.   Divorced and cut off from his family, Taro lives alone in one of the few occupied apartments in his block, a block that is to be torn down as soon a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Little Aunt Crane by Geling Yan
    Little Aunt Crane - by Geling Yan

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099569633 | ISBN 10: 0099569639

    In the last days of World War II, the Japanese occupation of Manchuria has collapsed. As the Chinese move in, the elders of the Japanese settler village of Sakito decide to preserve their honour by killing all the villagers in an act of mass suicide. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wind/ Pinball: Two Novels by Haruki Murakami
    Wind/ Pinball: Two Novels - by Haruki Murakami

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099590392 | ISBN 10: 0099590395

    Wind/Pinball includes Haruki Murakami�s first two novels, published back-to-back, available for the first time in English outside Japan. With a new introduction by the author.� If you�re the sort of guy who raids the refrigerators of silent ki ... more

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  • Cover image of book Signs for Lost Children by Sarah Moss
    Signs for Lost Children - by Sarah Moss

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781847089137 | ISBN 10: 1847089135

    Only weeks into their marriage a young couple embark on a six-month period of separation. Tom Cavendish goes to Japan to build lighthouses and his wife Ally, Doctor Moberley-Cavendish, stays and works at the Truro asylum. As Ally plunges into the ins ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Tokyo: A City in Short Fiction by Jim Hinks, Masashi Matsuie & Michael Emmerich (Editors)
    The Book of Tokyo: A City in Short Fiction - by Jim Hinks, Masashi Matsuie & Michael Emmerich (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781905583577 | ISBN 10: 1905583575

    Featuring Banana Yoshimoto, Osamu Hashimoto, Toshiyuki Horie, Shūichi Yoshida, Hiromi Kawakami, Nao-Cola Yamazaki, Hitomi Kanehara, Hideo Furukawa, Kaori Ekuni & Mitsuyo Kakuta A shape-shifter arrives at Tokyo harbour in human form, set to e ... more

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  • Cover image of book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
    Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - by Haruki Murakami

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099590378 | ISBN 10: 0099590379

    A mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestseller author of Norwegian Wood. Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning red pine ... more

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  • Cover image of book Night Boat by Alan Spence
    Night Boat - by Alan Spence

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780857868541 | ISBN 10: 0857868543

    On the side of a mountain, in eighteenth century Japan, sits a man in perfect stillness as the summit erupts, spitting fire and molten rock onto the land around him. The man is Hakuin. He will become the world's most famous teacher of zen. This is no ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide
    The Guest Cat - by Takashi Hiraide

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781447279402 | ISBN 10: 1447279409

    An international bestseller. A charming and wonderful novel about a cat that brings joy into a couple's life.  The New York Times bestseller.  A couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo. They work ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Goddess Chronicle by Natsuo Kirino
    The Goddess Chronicle - by Natsuo Kirino

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781782111603 | ISBN 10: 1782111603

    In a place like no other, on an island in the shape of a tear drop, two sisters are born into a family of the oracle. Kamikuu, with creamy skin and almond eyes, is admired far and wide; Namima, small but headstrong, learns to live in her sister's sha ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
    A Tale for the Time Being - by Ruth Ozeki

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780857867971 | ISBN 10: 0857867970

    Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013. 'Hi! My name is Nao, and I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you.' Ruth discovers a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shore of her beach ... more

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  • Cover image of book 1Q84: Books 1 and 2 by Haruki Murakami
    1Q84: Books 1 and 2 - by Haruki Murakami

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099549062 | ISBN 10: 0099549069

    The year is 1Q84.  This is the real world, there is no doubt about that.   But in this world, there are two moons in the sky.   In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo and Aomame, are closely intertwined. They are each, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell
    The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet - by David Mitchell

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780340921586 | ISBN 10: 0340921587

    Be transported to a place like no other: a tiny, man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki, for two hundred years the sole gateway between Japan and the West. Here, in the dying days of the 18th-century, a young Dutch clerk arrives to make his fortune. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories by Edited by Theodore W. Goossen
    The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories - by Edited by Theodore W. Goossen

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780199583195 | ISBN 10: 0199583196

    This collection of short stories, including many new translations, is the first to span the whole of Japan's modern era from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with the first writings to assimilate and rework Western lite ... more

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  • Cover image of book Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
    Burnt Shadows - by Kamila Shamsie

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781408800874 | ISBN 10: 140880087x

    Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2009, this is a powerful, sweeping epic crossing generations, cultures and continents. In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantnamo Bay. How did it come ... more

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  • Cover image of book Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
    Confessions of a Mask - by Yukio Mishima

    £12.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780720612851 | ISBN 10: 0720612853

    This autobiographical novel, regarded as Mishimas finest book, is the haunting story of a Japanese boys development toward a homosexual identity during and after the Second World War.   Detailing his progress from an isolated childhood thro ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
    Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - by Haruki Murakami

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780099488668 | ISBN 10: 0099488663

    A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear; a mirror appears out of nowhere and a nightwatchman is unnerved as his reflect ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Search of a Distant Voice by Taichi Yamada
    In Search of a Distant Voice - by Taichi Yamada

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780571229710 | ISBN 10: 0571229719

    Kasama Tsuneo is an immigration officer in Tokyo, struggling to live a 'normal' life after an event that happened eight years previously, on the other side of the world, in Portland, Oregon.When he is seized one day by a strange emotional fit his li ... more

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  • Cover image of book Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
    Never Let Me Go - by Kazuo Ishiguro

    £7.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780571224135 | ISBN 10: 057122413x

    In one of the most acclaimed and original novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go hauntingly d ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
    Sputnik Sweetheart - by Haruki Murakami

    £8.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780099448471 | ISBN 10: 0099448475

    Twenty-two-year-old Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamourous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Am a Cat by Soseki Natsume
    I Am a Cat - by Soseki Natsume

    £16.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780804832656 | ISBN 10: 080483265x

    "A nonchalant string of anecdotes and wisecracks, told by a fellow who doesn't have a name, and has never caught a mouse, and isn't much good for anything except watching human beings in action..."(The New Yorker) Written from 1904 through 1906 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto
    Asleep - by Banana Yoshimoto

    £8.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780571205370 | ISBN 10: 0571205372

    Banana Yoshimoto has a magical ability to animate the lives of her young characters, and here she spins the stories of three women, all bewitched into a spiritual sleep.   One, mourning a lost lover, finds herself sleepwalking at night. Anoth ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - by Haruki Murakami

    £9.99   paperback   (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780099448792 | ISBN 10: 0099448793

    Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving.  As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy subur ... more

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