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Memoirs of a Geisha: The Literary Sensation and Runaway Bestseller

Memoirs of a Geisha: The Literary Sensation and Runaway Bestseller

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Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa

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Author: David Peace Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The acclaimed author of Occupied City, Tokyo Year Zero, and The Red Riding Quartet now gives us a stunning work of...
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: The perfect book to curl up with - for lovers of Japanese translated fiction everywhere

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: The perfect book to curl up with - for

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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...
A Perfect Day to be Alone: the award-winning Japanese coming-of-age classic

A Perfect Day to be Alone: the award-winning Japanese coming-of-age

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*WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE, Japan's most prestigious literary award, first published when the author was just 24**A Japanese contemporary classic, perfect for fans of Convenience Store Woman**A love letter...
The North Light

The North Light

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A Financial Times Translated Fiction Book of the YearTranslated from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino...
What You Are Looking for is in the Library

What You Are Looking for is in the Library

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The irresistible hardback Times bestseller and bookshop favourite about the healing power of books and community; Time magazine Top 100 books of 2023; 'An undeniable page-turner' New York Times THE...
Memoirs of a Geisha

Memoirs of a Geisha

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Author: Arthur Golden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 316 Summoning up more than 20 years of Japan«s most dramatic history, the geisha«s story uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and...
Tokyo Redux

Tokyo Redux

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Author: David Peace (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The Occupation had a hangover, but still the Occupation went to work. Tokyo, July 1949, President Shimoyama, Head of the...
The Snow Kimono

The Snow Kimono

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Mina's Matchbox

Mina's Matchbox

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A story of friendship and family secrets in 1970s Japan, from the prizewinning author of The Memory Police. On sleepless nights, I open the matchbox and reread the story of...
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

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An eclectic, eccentiric and altogether brain-bending collection of short stories *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* An eclectic, eccentric and altogether brain-bending collection of...
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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A mesmerising, surreal novel - Murakami's most celebrated and influential masterpiece *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife...
Empire of the Sun (Collins Modern Classics)

Empire of the Sun (Collins Modern Classics)

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Author: J. G. Ballard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books...
The Ruined Map

The Ruined Map

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A hardboiled detective story that combines the narrative suspense of Chandler with the psychological suspense of Dostoevsky Mr Nemuro, a respected salesman, disappeared over half a year ago, but only...
A Wild Sheep Chase: the surreal, breakout detective novel, now in a deluxe gift edition

A Wild Sheep Chase: the surreal, breakout detective novel, now in a

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A special hardback edition of Murakami's brilliantly surreal, detective-story classic, A Wild Sheep Chase. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author. A beautifully packaged hardback...
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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A special hardback edition of Muarkami's epic, magical masterpiece, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author, to celebrate the forthcoming publication...
Kafka on the Shore

Kafka on the Shore

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A special hardback edition of Murakami's mesmerising and strange surreal classic, Kafka on the Shore. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author, to celebrate the...
Hotel Lucky Seven

Hotel Lucky Seven

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A luxury hotel full of assassins - what could go wrong? The original, twisty and inventive sequel to the international bestseller Bullet Train 'Fresh and fun and full-throttle' A.J. FINN,...
Honeybees and Distant Thunder

Honeybees and Distant Thunder

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THE NIGHT CIRCUS meets LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR- A Japanese bestseller about three students whose friendship is tested to the limit as they fight to compete in the drama...
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Vintage Classics Japanese Series)

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Vintage Classics Japanese Series)

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Murakami's most acclaimed novel in a highly covetable gift edition Enter the surreal and enchanting world of Haruki Murakami Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant...
Killing Commendatore

Killing Commendatore

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The latest bewitching, kaleidoscopic novel from master storyteller Haruki Murakami, author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and 1Q84 *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW*...
Secret Rendezvous

Secret Rendezvous

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A Kafaesque marvel and a biting satire of bureaucracy, medicine and modern life In Tokyo, in the middle of the night, an uncalled-for ambulance arrives to spirit away a man's...
The Box Man

The Box Man

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Kobo Abe's existential and entertaining masterpiece 'This is the record of a box man' The streets of Tokyo have been seeing a strange phenomenon recently - people who have decided...
A Wild Sheep Chase

A Wild Sheep Chase

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Leave reality behind and enter Murakami's fictional universe where nothing is ever as it seems *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* A marvelous hybrid...
The Elephant Vanishes

The Elephant Vanishes

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A dizzying collection that displays Murakami's genius for uncovering the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary within the ordinary *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS,...
The Red Queen

The Red Queen

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The princess is taking her over, bodily and mentally. Dr Babs Halliwell is no longer herself.A young girl is plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea. In...
The Labyrinth House Murders

The Labyrinth House Murders

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PRAISE FOR YUKITO AYATSUJI'S MYSTERIES 'Very clever indeed' Anthony Horowitz 'From the first page you know you're in the hands of a master... Flawless' Ian Moore, author of Death and...
The North Light

The North Light

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A Financial Times Translated Fiction Book of the YearTranslated from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino...
Lost in the Long March: A Novel

Lost in the Long March: A Novel

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From a rising literary star, an epic historical novel, set against the tense backdrop of the Long March and Mao's rise to power, that tells a powerful and moving story...
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

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Elizabeth Smart's passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as 'Like Madame Bovary blasted by lightening ... A masterpiece'. One day,...
What's Left of Me is Yours

What's Left of Me is Yours

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A NEW YORK TIMES 'EDITOR'S PICK'ONE OF THE OBSERVER'S 10 BEST DEBUT NOVELISTS OF 2020'Enrapturing' New York Times'A brilliant debut' Louise Doughty'You'll have the heart rate of an Olympic hurdler'...
Across the Scorched Sea (The Mu Chronicles, Book 2)

Across the Scorched Sea (The Mu Chronicles, Book 2)

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Don't miss the second spellbinding chapter in The Mu Chronicles duology...'One of the most unique books you'll read this year' Buzzfeed on Beneath the Burning Wave 'Jennifer Hayashi Danns does...
Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa

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Author: David Peace (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Ryunosuke Akutagawa was one of Japan's great writers - author of the stories 'Rashomon' and 'In a Bamboo Grove', most...