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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: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., 2013. 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. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to no tice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 - -"Q is for 'question mark.' A world that bears a question." Meanwhile, an a spiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He beco mes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his prev iously placid life begins to come unraveled. As Aomame's and Tengo's narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterio us religious cult that… Read More

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.

US: Random House UK, 2017. Paperback. New. It's not the journey that counts, but who is at your side Nana is on a road trip, but he is not sure where to. All that matters is th at he can sit beside his beloved Satoru in the front of his silver van. Sat oru is keen to visit three old friends from his youth, though Nana doesn't know why and Satoru won't say. Set against the backdrop of Japan's changing seasons and narrated with a rare gentleness and striking humour, Nana's story explores the wonder and thrill of life's unexpected detours. It is about friendship, solitude, and knowing when to give and when to take. Above all, it shows how acts of love, both great and small, can transform our lives.

US: Faber & Faber, 2013. Paperback. New. Kazuo Ishiguro's eight books have won him world-wide renown and many honour s, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His work h as been translated into over forty languages. The Remains of the Dayand Nev er Let Me Go have each sold in excess of one million copies in Faber editio ns alone, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films. His most recen t novel, The Buried Giant, was published in 2015, debuting at number 1 on t he Sunday Times bestseller list.

US: Faber & Faber, 1986. Paperback. New. It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The ce lebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his hou se repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson, and his evenings drin king with old associates in quiet lantern-lit bars. His should be a tranqui l retirement. But as his memories continually return to the past - to a lif e and a career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism - a dark s hadow begins to grow over his serenity.

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: Picador, 2012. Paperback. New. A beguiling novel about three women struggling to determine their own lives in contemporary Tokyo. 'Breathtaking' - Haruki Murakami author of Norwegian Wood A New York Times 'Notable Book of the Year' and one of Elena Ferrante's 'To p 40 Books by Female Authors'. Shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. On a hot summer's day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty -year-old Natsuko, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko's teenage daughter M idoriko. Makiko, an ageing hostess despairing the loss of her looks, has tr avelled to Tokyo in search of breast enhancement surgery. She's accompanied by her daughter, who has recently stopped speaking, finding herself unable to deal with her own changing body and her mother's self-obsession. Her si lence dominates Natsuko's rundown apartment, providing a catalyst for each woman to grapple with their own anxieties and their relationships with one another. Eight years later, we meet Natsuko again.… Read More

US: Picador, 2012. Paperback. New. A beguiling novel about three women struggling to determine their own lives in contemporary Tokyo. 'Breathtaking' - Haruki Murakami author of Norwegian Wood A New York Times 'Notable Book of the Year' and one of Elena Ferrante's 'To p 40 Books by Female Authors'. Shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. On a hot summer's day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty -year-old Natsuko, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko's teenage daughter M idoriko. Makiko, an ageing hostess despairing the loss of her looks, has tr avelled to Tokyo in search of breast enhancement surgery. She's accompanied by her daughter, who has recently stopped speaking, finding herself unable to deal with her own changing body and her mother's self-obsession. Her si lence dominates Natsuko's rundown apartment, providing a catalyst for each woman to grapple with their own anxieties and their relationships with one another. Eight years later, we meet Natsuko again.… Read More

US: Picador, 2021. Paperback. New. On a hot summer's day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty -year-old Natsuko, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko's teenage daughter M idoriko. Makiko, an ageing hostess despairing the loss of her looks, has tr avelled to Tokyo in search of breast enhancement surgery. She's accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently stopped speaking, finding herself unable to deal with her own changing body and her mother's self-obsession. Her silenc e dominates Natsuko's rundown apartment, providing a catalyst for each woma n to grapple with their own anxieties and their relationships with one anot her. Eight years later, we meet Natsuko again. She is now a writer and find herself on a journey back to her native city, returning to memories of that summer and her family's past as she faces her own uncertain future.

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: 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: Kurodahan Press, 2023. 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. "DNA contains two types of base pair sequences. Exons are meaningful templa tes for making proteins. Introns are meaningless, random sequences. Yet int rons account for ninety-five percent of human DNA. Why is such a huge propo rtion of the genome reserved for useless code?" What if all that genetic information wasn't really useless? What if it was put there by someone, something, in the impossibly distant past, for a purp ose? And what if humanity's interest in understanding and engineering human DNA unlocks something that should have remained hidden? Award-winning science fiction author Umehara drags you screaming into a dar ker future as the monsters of our own genetic code come to life, revealing all too clearly humanity's fatal misunderstanding of its place in the unive rse... and its very reason for… Read More

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: Vintage Publishing, 2017. Paperback. New. You've just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your lif e, the person you're destined for - what do you do? In Murakami's world, yo u tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued language of desire, whether it takes the form of h unger, lust, sudden infatuation or the secret longings of the heart."--Back cover.

US: Virago, 2017. Paperback. New. You've just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life , the person you're destined for - what do you do? In Murakami's world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued language of desire, whether it takes the form of hu nger, lust, sudden infatuation or the secret longings of the heart. Selected from Haruki's Murakami's short story collections The Elephant Vani shes, Blind Willow Sleeping Woman, Men Without Women VINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human Also in the Vintage Minis series- Love by Jeanette Winterson Psychedelics by Aldous Huxley Eating by Nigella Lawson Summer by Laurie Lee.