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US: Vintage, 2009. Paperback. New. A new copy. A mesmerising, epic, utterly involving masterpiece from Haruki Murakami The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo and Aomame, are closely inter twined. They are each, in their own way, doing something very dangerous. An d in this world, there seems no way to save them both. Something extraordinary is starting. '1Q84 has a range and sophistication that surpasses anything else in his oeuvre. It is his most achieved novel; an epic in which form and content are neatly aligned' Independent on Sunday.

US: Random House UK, 2012. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo and Aomame, are closely intertwined. They are each, in their own way, doing something very dangerous. And in this world, there seems no way to save them both. Something extraordinary is starting.

London, United Kingdom: Vintage Publishing, 2008. Paperback. New. The midnight hour approaches in an almost empty all-night diner. Mari sips her coffee and glances up from a book as a young man, a musician, intrudes on her solitude. Both have missed the last train home. The musician has pla ns to rehearse with his jazz band all night, Mari is equally unconcerned an d content to read, smoke and drink coffee until dawn. They realise they've been acquainted through Eri, Mari's beautiful sister. The musician soon lea ves with a promise to return before dawn. Shortly afterwards Mari will be i nterrupted a second time by a girl from the Alphaville Hotel; a Chinese pro stitute has been hurt by a client, the girl has heard Mari speaks fluent Ch inese and requests her help. Meanwhile Eri is at home and sleeps a deep, heavy sleep that is 'too perfec t, too pure' to be normal; pulse and respiration at the lowest required lev el. She has been in this soporfic state for two months; Eri has become the classic… Read More

Vintage, 2002. Paperback. New.

US: Vintage, 2022. Paperback. New. Five killers. One train journey. But who will survive? An original and prop ulsive thriller from a massive Japanese bestseller. Satoshi looks like an innocent schoolboy but he is really a viciously cunni ng psychopath. Kimura's young son is in a coma thanks to him, and Kimura ha s tracked him onto the bullet train heading from Tokyo to Morioka to exact his revenge. But Kimura soon discovers that they are not the only dangerous passengers onboard. Nanao, the self-proclaimed 'unluckiest assassin in the world', and the deadly partnership of Tangerine and Lemon are also travelling to Morioka. A suitcase full of money leads others to show their hands. Why are they all on the same train, and who will get off alive at the last station?

US: Tuttle Shokai Inc, 2000. Tankobon Softc. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

US: Picador, 2023. Paperback. New. Toshikazu Kawaguchi's poignant Before We Say Goodbye, translated from Japan ese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you d o if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? The regulars at the magical Cafe Funiculi Funicula are well acquainted with its famous legend and extraordinary, secret menu time travel offering. Man y patrons have reunited with old flames, made amends with estranged family, and visited loved ones. But the journey is not without risks and there are rules to follow. Travellers must have visited the cafe previously and most importantly, must return to the present in the time it takes for their cof fee to go cold. In the tradition of Toshikazu Kawaguchi's sensational 'Before the Coffee Ge ts Cold' series, readers will once again be introduced to a new set of visi tors: The husband with something important left to say The woman who couldn't bid her dog farewell… Read More

US: Pan Macmillan, 2019. Paperback. New. What would you change if you could go back in time? In a small back alley i n Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a u nique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In Before the Coffee G ets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café?s time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early on set Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughte r they never got the chance to know. But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot l eave the café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coff ee gets cold ... Toshikazu Kawaguchi?s beautiful, moving story ? translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot ? explores the age-old… Read More

US: Tuttle Publishing, 1905. Paperback. New. Written over the course of 1904-6, Soseki's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the follies of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Mei ji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and f oibles of the people around him. The New Yorker called it "a nonchalant str ing of anecdotes and wisecracks, told by a fellow who doesn't have a name, and has never caught a mouse, and isn't much good for anything except watch ing human beings in action...

US: Pushkin Press, 2023. Paperback. New. Two babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds, but their lives are forever tainted by this inauspicious start. As th ey grow up, they join the ranks of Toxitown: a district of addicts, freaks and prostitutes. While one becomes a bisexual rock star searching for his m other, the other one, an athlete, seeks revenge on the woman who abandoned him. This savage and stunning story unfolds in a surrealistic whirl of violence.

US: Vintage Publishing, 2015. Paperback. New. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage centers on a devastati ng emotional betrayal and its consequences. Tsukuru Tazaki belongs to a tig ht-knit group of five friends in high school--three boys and two girls who form a perfect circle they imagine will stay together forever. But when Tsu kuru returns home from college in Tokyo, he finds himself inexplicably rebu ffed by the group. Something has changed, but nobody, not even his closest friends, will tell him what. Years later, Tsukuru, now a successful enginee r, begins dating an older woman named Sara and confesses to her the shadow this betrayal has cast over his life. Sara urges Tsukuru to try to find his old group and to try to solve the mystery that has haunted him all these y ears: why did they suddenly turn on him? On a quest to discover the truth, Tsukuru travels back to meet his old friends--with the exception of Shiro, the group's most volatile and psychologically unstable member,… Read More

London, United Kingdom: Granta Books, 2019. Paperback. New. Meet Keiko. Keiko is 36 years old. She's never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years. Keiko's family wishes she'd get a proper job. Her friends wonder why she wo n't get married. But Keiko knows what makes her happy, and she's not going to let anyone com e between her and her convenience store... *Convenience Store Woman comes in three different colours; the colour you receive will be chosen at random*.

US: Granta Books, 2016. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. For her part, in the convenience store she finds a predictable world mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the workers should act and what they should say, and she copies her coworkers' style of dress and speech patterns so that she can play the part of a normal person. However, eighteen years later, at age 36, she is still in the same job, has never had a boyfriend, and has only few friends. She feels comfortable in her life, but is aware that she is not living up to society's expectations and causing her family to worry about her. When a similarly alienated but cynical and… Read More

US: Vintage Publishing, 2003. Paperback. New. Features such characters as: High-class call girls billed to Mastercard; a psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads; a hunky matin ee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers; and, a one-armed beach-combin g poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem.

US: Corgi, 1989. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A body with underworld connections lies sprawled in the Tama River. Araki, a hardened investigative journalist, looks into the circumstances behind the death and soon finds himself in grave danger. Only his skill and determination can save him as he moves towards the startling climax of his search.

US: New English Library, 1978. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

US: Abacus Software, 2012. Paperback. New.

US: FABER ET FABER, 2021. Paperback. New. Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mir ror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet. Together with h er cousin Yuu, Natsuki spends her summers in the wild mountains of Nagano, dreaming of other worlds. When a terrible sequence of events threatens to p art the two children forever, they make a promise: survive, no matter what. Now Natsuki is grown. She lives a quiet life with her asexual husband, sur viving as best she can by pretending to be normal. But the demands of Natsu ki's family are increasing, her friends wonder why she's still not pregnant , and dark shadows from Natsuki's childhood are pursuing her. Fleeing the s uburbs for the mountains of her childhood, Natsuki prepares herself with a reunion with Yuu. Will he still remember their promise? And will he help he r keep it?

US: Banseisha. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

US: Doubleday, 2021. Paperback. New. The uplifting new cat novel from the million-copy bestselling author of The Travelling Cat Chronicles 'Quirky and life-enhancing' THE TIMES Biggest Books of the Autumn 2023 _____________________ Against changing seasons in Japan, seven cats weave their way through their owners' lives. - A needy kitten rescued from the recycling bin teaches a new father how to parent his own human baby - An elderly cat hatches a plan to pass into the next world as a spirit so that he and his owner may be together for ever - A colony of wild cats on a holiday island shows a young boy not to stand in nature's way - A family is perplexed by their cat's devotion to their charismatic but un caring father - A woman curses how her cat constantly visits her at night Bursting with empathy and love, THE GOODBYE CAT explores the unstoppable cy cle of life as we see how the steadiness and devotion of a well-loved cat n ever lets us down. A huge bestseller in Japan, every page is a joyous… Read More