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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 11 books in this booklist
£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
View book details£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... Â From the author ... more
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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 Guantánamo Bay. How did it come ... more
View book details£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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