Sydney. Hachette. 2008. Young adult novel, paperback. The powerful conclusion to the Tales of the Otori trilogy which transports us once again to an imagined medieval Japan, a land of formal ritual and codes, harsh beauty and deceptive appearance. The teenage lovers, Takeo and Kaede, are now married, but their..... More
Sydney. Hachette. 2008. Young adult novel, paperback. The second book in the extraordinary Tales of the Otori trilogy continues the epic story of Otori Takeo and Shirakawa Kaede, the young lovers whose fate is played out in an ancient Oriental world, where ritualised codes of high honour counter the cruelty..... More
New York. Little, Brown and Company. 2008. Children's picture book bilingual, dustjacket. "Wabi Sabi, a little cat in Kyoto, Japan, had never thought much about her name until friends visiting from another land asked her owner what it meant. At last, the master says, "That's hard to explain." And that..... More
Tokyo. Tuttle. 2016. Bilingual English and Japanese Edition. Full page colour illustrations, 32pp, notes, 28.6 x 22.6cm. A very good hardback copy in dustjacket. "Norihei is a boy who lives in the old Japanese countryside. One day he discovers a young kappa and saves his life. The two become fast..... More
Tokyo. Tuttle. 2018. Cartoon style colour illustrations throughout, 128pp, paperback. 25.5 x 19cm. A very good paperback copy. "Part fantasy, part travelogue, Onibi: Diary Of A Yokai Ghost Hunter follows the adventures of two foreign visitors as they tour Japan. When they buy an antique camera along the way, they..... More
United Kingdom. Random House. 2012. Young adult novel, paperback. A beautifully told story about a mixed heritage girl struggling to come to terms with a classmate's suicide. Kana travels to Japan to stay with her grandmother and begins to learn more about her heritage and, in so doing, to process..... More
