Japanese Literature

Cover: Hardback, Pages: 448, Author: Haruki Murakami...

PaperbackMieko Kawakami On a hot summer's day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsu, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko's teenage daughter Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing ...

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Author: Hiromi Kawakami, Cover: Softback, Pages: 288...

Author: Mai Mochizuki, Cover: Softback, Pages: 320...

Hiromi Kawakami Paperback 224 pages A tale of modern Japan and old-fashioned romance. 'Enchanting, moving and funny in equal measure, this compelling love story is expertly crafted against a bac...

Author: Junko Takase, Cover: Softback, Pages: 144...

Author: Shizuko Natsuki, Cover: Softback, Pages: 304...

Author: Syou Ishida, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 256...

SoftbackYukito Ayatsuji The lonely, rockbound island of Tsunojima is notorious as the site of a series of bloody unsolved murders. Some even say it's haunted. One thing's for sure: it's the perfect d...

Yasunari KawabataPaperback Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beauti...

Cover: Softback, Pages: 240...

Cover: Softback, Pages: 208, Author: Hisashi Kashiwai...

Author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 192...

Author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Cover: Softback, Pages: 192...

Banana Yoshimoto Paperback 224 pages There was no past, no future, no words, nothing - just the light and the yellow and the scent of dry leaves in the sun. Japan's internationally celebrated sto...

Hideo Furukawa Paperback 128 pages A startling novella from the heir to Haruki Murakami and Gabriel García Márquez 'I've never made it out of Tokyo. I can't tell you how many times I've ask...

Seishi Yokomizo Paperback 320 pages An old friend of Kosuke Kindaichi's invites the scruffy detective to visit the remote mountain village of Onikobe in order to look into a twenty-year-old murd...

Toshikazu Kawaguchi Paperback 192 pages The million-copy bestselling series. Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s poignant Before We Say Goodbye, translated from Japanese, explores the age-old question: what ...

Akimitsu Takagi Paperback 224 pages Can you solve the puzzle of the Noh Mask Murder?Death and madness have haunted the Chizui family for years. Now a strange figure has been seen wandering their...

For that friend whose thrice-delayed trip to Japan you can’t wait for them to finally go on....

Hisashi Kashiwai Paperback The Kamogawa Food Detectives, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing series for fans of Bef...

Mieko Kanai Paperback 176 pages Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons: she does the laundry, goes on trips to the supermarke...

Paperback 237 pages The third novel in the international bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, following four new customers in a cafe where customers can travel back in time. On the hill...