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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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

'Absorbing' Telegraph 'Gentle, empathetic, committed to righting undeniable wrongs' S unday Times, Book of the Week 'Illuminating and affectionate... an intimate and perceptive portrait' Publishers Weekly An intimate and revelatory...

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...

Author: Yoko Ogawa Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 An enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a...

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...

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...

Author: Hideki Yukawa; Translated by L. Brown & R. Yoshida.Binding: PaperbackPublished: World Scientific, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Light creasing on...

In this first book of an epic debut middle grade fantasy graphic novel duology by Kara Bodegon-Hikino , Mage and her shark best friend, Squalo, set off on a wild...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodA raw and unflinching portrait of suburban Sydney life, You Can't Come Back by Bruce Beaver chronicles the turbulent journey of a young man...

The Nommo Award Winner. The Nebula Award Finalist. The World Fantasy Award Finalist. The British Science Fiction Award Nominee. A contemporary fantasy filled with the mythos of Nigeria. Shigidi is...

p>Enjoy tacos the authentic way; full of the freshest ingredients andnbsp;bursting with the taste of South America. Recipes sourced from the heart of Mexico show you how to create the...

Just A Moment Too Soon is a handbook containing vital, succinct and comprehensive information to empower parents and families of both premature and sick full-term infants throughout their journey through...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedFew names in English literature carry the weight of Thomas Hardy, whose unflinching portraits of rural life, tragic fate,...

Kawaii Cakes is a baking and decorating book containing over 30 cute Japanese-inspired cakes, cookies, cupcakes, doughnuts, cake pops and more. Each design is super quick, super cute, and super...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingIn the sun-scorched grandeur of ancient Judea, a wrongfully condemned Jewish prince named Judah Ben-Hur rises from the chains of Roman slavery to seek...

From the bestselling author of This Book Kills comes a deadly new YA thriller of murder, mystery and mind-blowing twists. Perfect for fans of Holly Jackson and Karen M. McManus....

The New York Trilogy is perhaps the most astonishing work by one of America's most consistently astonishing writers. The Trilogy is three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of...

A breathtaking novel about love, loss, and the best-laid plans that are meant to be broken Love finds us, passes through us, continues. Heather Mulgrew's world has long been mapped...

In Wormwood Mire , award-winning author Judith Rossell introduced us to the lessons of fictitious Victorian writer Prudence A Goodchild ... Now the book comes to life as the perfect...

A tragic accident. It all happened so quickly. She couldn't have prevented it. Could she? In a split second, Jenna Gray's world descends into a nightmare. Her only hope of...

The hilarious, thought-provoking new novel from the Somerset Maugham and British Book Award-winning Ben Brooks. 'A sharp-witted tragicomedy about money, morality, and a family teetering on the brink. A splendidly...

Age 3 to 6 We're the Yoga Babies, look what we can do! The Yoga Babies love to have fun trying new poses. Sometimes life is busy and tricky, but...

It's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend,...

Winner of the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year - Younger Readers 2022 An exquisite, heartbreakingly beautiful gem of a novel for anyone who loved Wonder, Lenny's...

Little Bear LOVES Christmas. So do Mummy Bear and Daddy Bear. It's so magical. It's so heartwarming. It's so wonderful! Could there be anything in the world that they all...

Some dinosaurs had a deadly bite and others could run super fast. Some had club-like tails and some could make the smelliest of farts - POO-WEE! But wait, don't run...

A New York Time bestseller. A bestselling story of suspense, I'll Be Seeing You is a masterful psychological crime thriller from the world's most successful writer of suspense novels. Young...