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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 33 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Blanket Cats by Kiyoshi Shigematsu
    The Blanket Cats - by Kiyoshi Shigematsu

    £12.99   hardback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781529435238 | ISBN 10: 1529435234

    Is three days with a cat enough to change your life?  The troubled and anxious of Tokyo are desperate to find out. They all have their problems – and they all want to believe that a feline companion from a unique pet shop can help them find ... more

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

    £10.99   paperback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781786584328 | ISBN 10: 1786584328

    THE EMOTIONAL AND LIFE-AFFIRMING NEW NOVEL FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF DAYS AT THE MORISAKI BOOKSHOP, TRANSLATED FROM JAPANESE BY ERIC OZAWA  In Tokyo, there is a neighbourhood with the highest number of bookstores in the w ... 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 Victory City by Salman Rushdie
    Victory City - by Salman Rushdie

    £22.00   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781787333444 | ISBN 10: 1787333442

    The new novel from the Booker prize-winning, bestselling author of Midnight’s Children.  'A total pleasure to read, a bright burst of colour in a grey winter season' Sunday Times  She will whisper an empire into existence - but all ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam
    A Passage North - by Anuk Arudpragasam

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781783786961 | ISBN 10: 1783786965

    Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize   It begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother”s former care-giver, Rani, has died in unexpected circumstances, at the bottom of a well in her village in the north, her ... 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 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 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 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 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 When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy
    When I Hit You - by Meena Kandasamy

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786491282 | ISBN 10: 1786491281

    LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018  Guardian’s Best Books of 2017 Daily Telegraph’s Best Books of 2017 Observer Best Books of 2017 Fina ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Killing Room by Peter May
    The Killing Room - by Peter May

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784291686 | ISBN 10: 1784291684

    Li Yan and Margaret Campbell travel to Shanghai: where a new ally, and a new enemy, await.   THE THIRD CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED CHINA THRILLER, FROM THE MILLION-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE RICHARD AND JUDY BESTSELLER THE BLACKHOUSE.   THE NEW CASE  Whe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann
    Thirteen Ways of Looking - by Colum McCann

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408869857 | ISBN 10: 1408869853

    As it was, it was like being set down in the best of poems, carried into a cold landscape, blindfolded, turned around, unblindfolded, forced, then, to invent new ways of seeing.   It is a cold day in January when J. Mendelssohn wakes in his Up ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dog Who Dared to Dream by Sun-mi Hwang
    The Dog Who Dared to Dream - by Sun-mi Hwang

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780349142104 | ISBN 10: 0349142106

    This is the story of a dog named Scraggly.  Born an outsider because of her distinctive appearance, she spends most of her days in the sun-filled yard of her owner's house. Scraggly has dreams and aspirations just like the rest of us. But each w ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Vegetarian by Han Kang
    The Vegetarian - by Han Kang

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846276033 | ISBN 10: 1846276039

    Winner: The Man Booker International Prize 2016 Translated by Deborah Smith  Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable ... more

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  • Cover image of book Don
    Don't Let Him Know - by Sandip Roy

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408856666 | ISBN 10: 1408856662

    In a boxy apartment building in an American university town, Romola Mitra, a young bride, anxiously awaits her first letter from home in India. When she accidentally opens the wrong letter, it changes her life. Decades later, her son Amit finds the l ... 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 The Incarnations by Susan Barker
    The Incarnations - by Susan Barker

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784160005 | ISBN 10: 1784160008

    Beijing, 2008, the Olympics are coming, but as taxi driver Wang circles the citys congested streets, he feels barely alive. His daily grind is suddenly interrupted when he finds a letter in the sunshade of his cab. Someone is watching him. Someone w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fallout by Paul Thomas
    Fallout - by Paul Thomas

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781908524492 | ISBN 10: 1908524499

    Tito Ihaka, the unkempt, overweight Maori cop was demoted to Sergeant due to insubordination and pigheadedness. He investigates the unsolved killing of 17 year old girl at an election night party in a ritzy villa near Auckland. Ihaka is also embroile ... more

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  • Cover image of book In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman
    In the Light of What We Know - by Zia Haider Rahman

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447231233 | ISBN 10: 1447231236

    A bold, epic debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our century. One September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unravelling, receives a surpr ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sea of Innocence by Kishwar Desai
    The Sea of Innocence - by Kishwar Desai

    £7.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781471101441 | ISBN 10: 1471101444

    Goa, south India. A beautiful holiday hideaway where hippies and backpackers while away the hours. But beneath the clear blue skies lies a dirty secret...  Simran Singh is desperate for a break and some time away from her busy job as a social w ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Gendarme by Mark Musitian
    The Gendarme - by Mark Musitian

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781851688395 | ISBN 10: 1851688390

    An extraordinarily haunting novel of identity and remembrance, love and forgiveness. Emet Conn is an old man on the verge of senility, a feisty World War 1 veteran who suffered amnesia during the war. Now at the end of his life, he suddenly f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid
    Moth Smoke - by Mohsin Hamid

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780241953938 | ISBN 10: 0241953936

    In Lahore, Daru Shezad is a junior banker with a hashish habit. When his old friend Ozi moves back to Pakistan, Daru wants to be happy for him. Ozi has everything: a beautiful wife and child, an expensive foreign education - and a corrupt father who ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
    The Kite Runner - by Khaled Hosseini

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781408824856 | ISBN 10: 140882485x

    Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to gain the approval of his father and resolves to win the local kite-fighting tournament, to prove that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan promises to help him - for he always helps Amir - but this ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam
    The Wasted Vigil - by Nadeem Aslam

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780571238804 | ISBN 10: 0571238807

    'This land and its killing epochs.' Nadeem Aslam's dazzling new novel takes place in modern-day Afghanistan. A Russian woman named Lara arrives at the house of Marcus Caldwell, an Englishman and widower living in an old perfume factory in the sh ... 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 Galpa: Short Stories by Bangladeshi Women by Edited by Niaz Zaman and Firdous Azim
    Galpa: Short Stories by Bangladeshi Women - by Edited by Niaz Zaman and Firdous Azim

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780863565670 | ISBN 10: 0863565670

    This vibrant and thought-provoking anthology of translated short stories is representative of the variety of issues that women from Bangladesh tackle in their writings.  It includes stories on the 1971 War of Liberation, women's 'honour', mother ... more

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  • Cover image of book Peacock Cries by Hong Ying
    Peacock Cries - by Hong Ying

    £7.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780714531199 | ISBN 10: 0714531197

    A novel of political and sexual tensions set against the backdrop of the hugely controversial Three Gorges Dam Project in the Yangtze River, Peacock Cries provides a rare and fascinating insight into life in contemporary China, told through the eyes ... 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 Rape of Sita by Lindsey Collen
    The Rape of Sita - by Lindsey Collen

    £12.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780747552451 | ISBN 10: 0747552452

    'Grit your teeth, Sita, don't cry. You are not a crying kind of girl.' The oppressed cry out. They rise up. They oppose. Speak out...Sita is a strong woman, inspiration to the weak, a living legend in Mauritian society.Yet Sita has buried a secret ... more

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