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Author: Yoko Tawada Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Welcome to the not-too-distant future. Japan, having vanished into the sea, is now remembered as 'the land of sushi'. Hiruko, a...

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 highly anticipated new novel from award-winning, critically acclaimed novelist Yoko Tawada. Patrik is a literary researcher living in Berlin, a city just coming back to life after lockdown. Though...

Amo, an African kidnapped to Europe as a boy, and Tamao, a Japanese exchange student in Germany, live in different countries but are being followed by the same shadow; Kazuko,...

The highly anticipated new novel from award-winning, critically acclaimed novelist Yoko Tawada. Patrik is a literary researcher living in Berlin, a city just coming back to life after lockdown. Though...

Author: Yoko Tawada Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Yoshiro celebrated his hundredth birthday many years ago, but every morning before work he still goes running in the park with...

A tale of passion and romance between a Japanese schoolteacher and a doglike man, from the prize-winning author of The Last Children of Tokyo Mitsuko, a schoolteacher at the Kitamura...

A young Vietnamese woman is invited to travel from Ho Chi Minh City to speak at an International Youth Conference in East Berlin. On her arrival, as she is preparing...

A young Vietnamese woman is invited to travel from Ho Chi Minh City to speak at an International Youth Conference in East Berlin. On her arrival, as she is preparing...

From the author of The Last Children of TokyoA mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference and what it means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist.Welcome to the...

Mitsuko, a schoolteacher at the Kitamura school, inspires both rumour and curiosity in the parents of her students because of her unconventional manner - not least when she tells the...

In this concluding volume, intrepid Hiruko and her band of friends embark on a sea voyage in search of Hiruko's lost island homeland - the Land of Sushi. The boat...

In this concluding volume, intrepid Hiruko and her band of friends embark on a sea voyage in search of Hiruko's lost island homeland - the Land of Sushi. The boat...

A compelling and surreal, Orwellian mystery by one of Japan's greatest writers. Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from...

Author: Yoko OgawaFormat: Paperback, 136mm x 216mm, 287g, 288 pagesPublished: Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom, 2024A story of friendship and family secrets in 1970s Japan, from the prizewinning author of The...

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...

An enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family where one before did not exist. He is...

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...

Anita Yasuda's evocative picture book biography about Junko Tabei, the first woman to summit Everest, is equal parts grit and grace. Dazzlingly illustrated by Caldecott Honor artist Yuko Shimizu. "An...

One of the manga worldP#39;s most intriguing artists returns to the English language world with a re-release of his breakthrough work BLAME! Sanakan attempts to destroy the Central A.I., as...

Kochin is a Heartsooth - a rare being with the ability to heal any wound. Any wound, that is, except death. Gradually he realises the answer to his desperate quest...

In a turn-of-the-century, once elegant building at 16 Ujazdowskie Avenue in the center of Warsaw, 10 Jewish families began reconstructing their lives after the Holocaust. While most surviving Polish Jews...

Experience the quirky, action-packed adventures of Maka and Soul Eater like never before, with this all-new, deluxe collector's edition to celebrate Atsushi Ohkubo's global hit!! Experience the quirky, action-packed adventures...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Some general wear on binding but otherwise good copy.What does it mean for a woman writer to find herself — truly find herself...

'Tense, twisty, and packed with shocks' RILEY SAGER Six friends. One college reunion. One unsolved murder. Ten years after graduation, Jessica Miller has planned every detail of her triumphant return...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedIn a world where the sea holds secrets older than memory, The Shipwright and the Shroudweaver by Rafael Torrubia chronicles a gripping...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the glittering yet corrupt underbelly of Second Empire Paris, a city intoxicated by wealth, spectacle, and moral...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedFew intellectuals have navigated the ideological battlegrounds of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with as much candour and conviction as Robert Manne, and this...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Spiral binding,Few corners of the world preserve a cultural heritage as ancient and visually arresting as Groote...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLong before emojis and digital shorthand, human beings were already fluent in the world's most ancient language —...

'Smith's eye for life's everyday transcendence rarely fails her' Sunday Times , 'Books of the Year' 'A triumph' Joseph O'Connor, Irish Times , 'Books of the Year' 'Quietly sacred, utterly...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Spiral binding.From the remote shores of Groote Eylandt, a rugged island nestled in the Gulf of Carpentaria,...

WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON COOKERY BOOK AWARD 2026 WINNER OF THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS' INTERNATIONAL COOKERY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2026 'The recipes are pure gold.' -...

The world needs to adapt to climate change - but how? What are the key problems and hard choices that lie ahead for the global community? This book reveals all....

'This compilation shows he was so much more than the sum of his television work' Spectator THE MAN BEHIND THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, TONY , STARRING DOMINIC SESSA & EMILIA...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the misty halls of Arthurian legend emerges one of the most thrilling and morally complex tales of...