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 | 10 Dec 2020 | Fiction |
Kikuko Tsumura’s debut novel explores how even a seemingly simple task can become unexpectedly complicated. This whole situation had come to be because I’d sat down one day in front of my recruiter and informed her that I wanted a job as close as possible to my...
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