About The Cat and the City Publisher : Atlantic Books; Main edition (6 May 2021) Paperback : 304 pages ‘A love letter to Japan and its literature’ Rowan Hisayo Buchanan ‘Ingenious… Touching, surprising and sometimes heartbreaking’ Guardian ‘An ideal tonic for anyone craving far-flung adventure’ Mail on Sunday ‘If you’re itching to read a new novel by David Mitchell…try this’ The […]
Ana Johns, author of THE WOMAN IN THE WHITE KIMONO, on tour May/June 2019
Join us for an Instagram and review tour for THE WOMAN IN THE WHITE KIMONO About The Woman in the White Kimono Hardcover: 352 Pages Publisher: Park Row; Original edition (May 28, 2019) Oceans and decades apart, two women are inextricably bound by the secrets between them. Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura’s prearranged marriage to the son […]
Jing-Jing Lee, author of HOW WE DISAPPEARED, on tour April/May 2019
Join us for an Instagram and review tour for HOW WE DISAPPEARED About How We Disappeared Hardcover: 352 Pages Publisher: Hanover Square Press; Original edition (May 7, 2019) A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel set in World War II Singapore about a woman who survived the Japanese occupation and a man who thought he had lost everything—for fans […]
Susan Spann, author of TRIAL ON MOUNT KOYA, on tour July 2018
Please join us for an Instagram tour and review tour of TRIAL ON MOUNT KOYA About Trial on Mount Koya Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Seventh Street Books (July 3, 2018) Master ninja Hiro Hattori and Jesuit Father Mateo head up to Mount Koya, only to find themselves embroiled in yet another mystery, this time in a Shingon […]
Zack Davisson, author of KAIBYO: THE SUPERNATURAL CATS OF JAPAN, on tour April 2nd – 8th
Join us for an Instagram tour for Kaibyo: The Supernatural Cats of Japan! About Kaibyo: The Supernatural Cats of Japan Paperback: 120 pages Publisher: Chin Music Press Inc. (November 7, 2017) An in-depth exploration of the sometimes charming, sometimes gruesome feline creatures and ghosts of Japan. Davisson illuminates the vast realm of kaibyo, or supernatural cats, with […]
Clarissa Goenawan, author of RAINBIRDS, on tour March 2018
About Rainbirds Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Soho Press (March 6, 2018) Set in an imagined town outside Tokyo, Clarissa Goenawan’s dark, spellbinding literary debut follows a young man’s path to self-discovery in the wake of his sister’s murder. Ren Ishida has nearly completed his graduate degree at Keio University when he receives news of his sister’s violent […]
Susan Spann, author of BETRAYAL AT IGA, on tour July 2017
About Betrayal at Iga Series: A Shinobi Mystery Paperback: 250 pages Publisher: Seventh Street Books (July 11, 2017) Autumn, 1565: After fleeing Kyoto, master ninja Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo take refuge with Hiro’s ninja clan in the mountains of Iga province. But when an ambassador from the rival Koga clan is murdered […]
Susan Spann, author of THE NINJA’S DAUGHTER, on tour July/August 2016
About The Ninja’s Daughter Series: A Shinobi Mystery Paperback: 230 pages Publisher: Seventh Street Books (August 2, 2016) Autumn, 1565: When an actor’s daughter is murdered on the banks of Kyoto’s Kamo River, master ninja Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo are the victim’s only hope for justice. As political tensions rise in the wake of the […]
Susan Spann, author of Flask of the Drunken Master, on tour July/August 2015
In celebration of the release of FLASK OF THE DRUNKEN MASTER, the latest installment in Susan Spann’s Shinobi Mysteries Series, we are putting the whole series on tour! About Flask of the Drunken Master Series: Shinobi Mysteries (Book 3) Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Minotaur Books (July 14, 2015) August 1565: When a rival artisan turns up dead outside Ginjiro’s […]
Michelle Bailat-Jones, author of Fog Island Mountains, on tour November/December 2014
About Fog Island Mountains Paperback: 176 pages Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc. (November 4, 2014) What if you could rewrite a tragedy? What if you could give grace to someone’s greatest mistake? Huddled beneath the volcanoes of the Kirishima mountain range in southern Japan, also called the Fog Island Mountains, the inhabitants of small town Komachi are waiting for […]