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  Cloud of Sparrows

  by Takashi Matsuoka

  Once in a great while a new novelist comes along who dazzles us with rare eloquence and humanity, with flawless storytelling and a unique understanding of another place and time. Takashi Matsuoka is just such a writer. His magnificent new novel, set amid the violence and beauty of nineteenth-century Japan, takes us beyond the epic tradition of James Clavell’s Shogun and into a majestic realm of samurai and... (more)
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  Sari and Sins

  by Nisha Minhas

  The wickedly funny new novel from the bestselling author of CHAPATTI OR CHIPS? Kareena is understandably nervous on her wedding night, when she will make love to her husband for the first time - but at least she knows her parents have chosen well. Samir is goodlooking, gentle and considerate - and, although she's met him only a few times, Kareena is confident she will grow to love him. But Samir has a secret. A... (more)
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  Shopping

  by Gavin Kramer

  An awkward English lawyer on business in Tokyo becomes obsessed with a teenage Japanese girl who lives to shop. Shopping won the David Higham Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and was short-listed for the Whitbread First Novel Award.