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Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51In this brilliant debut, winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, Polly Barton reflects on her experience of moving to the Japanese island of Sado at the age of twenty-one and on her... -
Porn: An Oral History by Polly Barton
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €12.51How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the abstract? How do we have meaningful conversations about it with those closest to us? In Porn: An Oral... -
What Am I, A Deer? Polly Barton 9781804272176
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €11.97What does it mean to lose yourself - and is that something you should be aiming for? A young woman with little interest in games takes up a job in Frankfurt at a famous gaming company, naively set on... -
Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai 9781804270387
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons: she does the laundry, goes on trips to the supermarket, visits friends and gossips with... -
MONKEY New Writing from Japan: Volume 6: HORROR by Ted Goossen 9798988688792
Booksplease Price: €18.37For fans of Japanese literature (Haruki Murakami and more) and readers who want to be introduced to exciting new writers.MONKEY New Writing from Japan is an annual anthology that showcases the best... -
Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink and Deviant Desire Shuang Xuetao 9781803511900
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.79The smell of leather. The flash of a harness. The snap of a latex glove. Welcome to the radical, vibrant world of sexual fetishists. In 21st century commodity culture, we are all intimately... -
Abroad in Japan: The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller by Chris Broad 9781804992227
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Chris Broad explores Japan in all its quirky glory..Endlessly fascinating!'Will Ferguson, author of Hokkaido Highway Blues'Carves a unique path across Japan bringing him... -
D Dream Colours: MPT No.1 2020 by Clare Pollard 9781910485262
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €9.50MPT's spring issue 'Dream Colours' focuses on Japan, featuring two of Japan's most popular post-war poets, Shuntaro Tanikawa and Noriko Ibaragi; new work by Sawako Nakayasu; an essay by Polly Barton... -
There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70_______________ 'Surreal and unsettling' - Observer Cultural Highlight 'Wise, comical and exceptionally relatable' - Zeba Talkhani 'Quietly hilarious and deeply attuned to the uncanny... -
The Woman Dies Aoko Matsuda 9781787705876
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51FEMINIST TALES FROM JAPAN BY THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF WHERE THE WILD LADIES ARE Piercing, inventive, and darkly humorous, the fifty-two stories in Aoko Matsuda's The Woman Dies explore the persistent... -
Hell of Solitude: Selected Writings of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 9781913513863
RRP: €14.28Booksplease Price: €10.66Hell of Solitude presents a varied and eclectic selection of writings by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, one of the most important and beloved Japanese writers of the twentieth century. Bringing together... -
So We Look to the Sky: A Novel Misumi Kubo 9781648211836
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.45This shocking, boisterous novel was a runaway bestseller and award winner in Japan"Pressingly real . . . In these pages, you will find the lives of all of us"-Japan Times Searingly honest and... -
Kafkaesque: Ten Great Writers Translate the Twentieth Century Maïa Hruska 9780008768614
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.02'A book to underline endlessly, to dog-ear, to carry around until battered, and then to tell all your friends to buy because you're too reluctant to give up your own copy. A wonder' Polly Barton ... -
Hooked Asako Yuzuki 9780008753832
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.17'Tender and thrilling it's Yuzuki at her best' ELLE 'Deliciously satisfying' iPAPER 'I couldn't... -
The Place of Shells by Mai Ishizawa 9780811237789
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.36In the summer of 2020, as Europe is beginning to open back up after the first phase of the pandemic, a young Japanese woman based in the German city of Goettingen is working on a PhD about the... -
A Woman of Pleasure by Kiyoko Murata 9781804440889
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €9.67'Irrefutable and beautiful' New York Times'Only Kiyoko Murata can convey this world' YOKO OGAWA, author of The Memory Police, Yomiuri ShibunThe year is 1903, and tenacious and spirited Aoi Ichi is... -
Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.27The apparently unremarkable Natsumi lives in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons: she does the laundry, goes to the supermarket, visits friends, and gossips with neighbors. Tracing... -
A Hundred Years and a Day: 34 Stories Tomoka Shibasaki 9798988688730
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.84This masterful collection from Tomoka Shibasaki, author of the acclaimed Spring Garden, pushes the short story form to a new level. In this ground-breaking story collection, people come together to... -
How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart by Florentyna Leow
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €7.9320-something and uncertain about her future, Florentyna Leow is exhilarated when an old acquaintance offers her an opportunity for work and cohabitation in a little house in the hills of Kyoto. ... -
Helen of Nowhere Makenna Goodman 9781804272206
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98In the middle of the countryside, a realtor is showing a disgraced professor around an idyllic house. She speaks not only about the home's many wonderful qualities but about its previous owner, the... -
City Like Water Dorothy Tse 9781804272282
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98The city you grew up in is gone, as if sunk to the bottom of the ocean. Though so much has vanished with it - classmates, teachers, counterfeit watches, the erotic toe cleavage that used to lead the... -
B2B Marketing Strategy: Differentiate, Develop and Deliver Lasting Customer Engagement Heidi Taylor 9780749481063
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €31.73B2B marketing is functioning in an increasingly fast-paced and complex business landscape, with a wealth of new technologies, tools and channels, and where customers are more in control of the buying... -
Butter by Asako Yuzuki 9780008511715
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.62THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SENSATION WINNER OF WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 WINNER OF THE... -
Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €18.23Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translatorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by... -
Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri 9780691238616
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.94Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translatorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by...