by NRB | 25 Nov 2021 | Fiction |
Japanese author Sosuke Natsukawa’s second novel brings together a cat and a bookshop, and contains more than its slim volume suggests. The Cat Who Saved Books is like a TARDIS. It has simple language and is only 224 pages, yet in many ways it is ‘bigger on the...
by NRB | 13 Jul 2021 | Fiction |
Katherine Brabon’s timely and thought-provoking second novel explores a phenomenon with resonances beyond its Japanese setting. There is a world we live in, on this side, and another world, achiragawa, [the other side] that is a place of dreams, death and...
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