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Letters Of Four Seasons
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Author: Daisaku Ikeda And Yasushi InoueBinding: HardbackPublished: Kodansha USA Inc, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis collection of correspondence presents a unique dialogue between two prominent Japanese intellectuals,...
The Hunting Gun
Three letters from three women unfold the story of a love affair and its tragic consequencesA lover, her daughter and an abandoned wife: three women write letters revealing the tragic...
Vagabond (VIZBIG Edition), Vol. 3: One With Heaven and Earth: Volume 3
Three volumes in one! A prestige treatment of Inoue's epic samurai series with bonus content, color pages, storyboard samples and more! Real-life figure Miyamoto Musashi was the most celebrated samurai...
The Lucky Ride: A Novel Full of Opportunity
Combining the whimsy and possibility of The Midnight Library with the mystery and revelatory power of The Secret , Come along for the ride of a lifetime in this heartwarming...
Vagabond (VIZBIG Edition), Vol. 5: Glimmering Waves: Volume 5
Three volumes in one! A prestige treatment of Inoue's epic samurai series with bonus content, color pages, storyboard samples and more! Real-life figure Miyamoto Musashi was the most celebrated samurai...
The Best Japanese Short Stories: Works by 14 Modern Masters: Kawabata, Akutagawa and More
Author: Lane Dunlop Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 An anthology of the greatest stories by modern Japanese masters (including previously overlooked women writers)! Fourteen distinct voices are assembled in...
Out: (Vintage Classics Japanese Series)
VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - following on from the success of Vintage Russian Classics and European Classics, these are covetable new editions of the best Japanese writers on the Vintage list...
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: The perfect book to curl up with - for
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...
Murder in the House of Omari
Osaka, 1943: as the Second World War rages and American bombers rain death down upon the city, the once prosperous Omari family is already in decline, financially ruined by the...
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
'What Japan was she owed to the samurai. They were not only the flower of the nation, but its root as well.' Inazo Nitobe's book, the most influential ever written...
Klara and the Sun: The Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year
From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass...
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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...
Never Let Me Go
In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of...
Snow Country
A tale of wasted love, and beauty, by Japan's literary master Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the...
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
A major anthology of great Japanese short stories, now in Penguin Classics This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the...
Nipponia Nippon
Isolated in his Tokyo apartment, seventeen-year-old Haruo spends all his time online, researching the plight of the endangered Japanese crested ibis, Nipponia Nippon . Living on an allowance from his...
Silence
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Author: Shusaku Endo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Shusaku Endo's New York Times bestselling classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times, now a major motion picture...
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Vintage Classics Japanese Series)
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...
The Labyrinth House Murders
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...
1Q84: The Complete Trilogy
A mesmerising, epic, utterly involving masterpiece from Haruki Murakami A mesmerising, epic, utterly involving masterpiece from Haruki Murakami The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no...
Never Let Me Go
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Atomic Sushi
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Simon May Format: Hardback...
Beast in the Shadows
A detective novelist searches for an elusive rival writer, in this classic work of Japanese crime fiction A reclusive writer of detective stories, Oe Shundei, has gone missing, leaving behind...
The Housekeeper and the Professor (Vintage Classics Japanese Series)
VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - following on from the success of Vintage Russian Classics and European Classics, these are covetable new editions of the best Japanese writers on the Vintage list...
Gachiakuta 2
In this hit gritty action manga, a young boy is framed for murder and cast off the edge of a floating city into the abyss, where he grapples with the...
Suggested in the Stars
Hiruko, from the now vanished archipelago 'somewhere between China and Polynesia', and her band of friends have searched in vain for someone who speaks her native language. They finally track...
The Man Who Died Seven Times: The Classic Time-Loop Murder Mystery
Hisataro, a young member of the wealthy Fuchigami family, has a mysterious ability. Every now and then, against his will, he falls into a time-loop in which he is obliged...
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
A mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and 1Q84 Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names...
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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...
Novelist as a Vocation: An exploration of a writer's life from the
Thoughts and advice on the creative writing process from an international master of literature. Words have power. Yet that power must be rooted in truth and justice. Words must never...
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
A mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* A mesmerising mystery story...
When We Were Orphans
England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of...
Mina's Matchbox
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...
Sushi for Beginners: British Book Awards Author of the Year 2022
A stunning bestseller from the superstar of women's fiction 'Dammit,' she realized. 'I think I'm having a nervous breakdown.' Hot-shot magazine editor Lisa Edwards' career is destined for high-rise New...
Never Let Me Go
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Atomic Sushi
As the first British Professor of Philosophy since 1882 to be invited to teach at the prestigious and enigmatic University of Tokyo - the Oxbridge of Japan - Simon May...
Evil for Pleasure
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Sharks in the Time of Saviours
A powerful debut novel that delicately blends Hawaiian myth with the broken American dream. 'The next time I went for air you were at the surface, sideways, prone and ragdolling...
Newcomer
Shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association International Dagger Award 'An intriguing mashup of police procedural and golden age puzzle mystery' Guardian International bestseller Keigo Higashino returns with his latest mindbender...
The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino
Over the course of his life, Mr Nishino falls hopelessly in love again and again. One woman is a colleague, another a chance encounter; one is the girlfriend of a...
Authors
This book examines the opinions and influences, idiosyncrasies and personalities of writers as diverse as Shakespeare and Kingsley Amis, Cervantes and Milan Kundera. Professor Miller discusses and defends the profession...
In Search of Hope: From the multi-million copy bestselling author
An unexpected inheritance from her grandmother offers Libby Pulford the opportunity to escape her abusive marriage and return to her Lancashire roots with her young son Ned. But her domineering...