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The Pachinko Parlour

When Claires parents arrived in Tokyo, they opened Shiny, a pachinko parlour. Shiny draws people ...

Winter in Sokcho

A young woman works as a receptionist in a tired guesthouse on the border between South and North...

Real Life

Bear

Lord Jim at Home

When Dinah Brooke’s second novel, Lord Jim at Home, was first published in 1973, it was described...

Faces

A Small Place

'If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see...'So begins Jamaica Kincaid's powe...

A Good Place to Die

1974. Eighteen-year-old drifter John Pitt leaves England with nothing more than his wits and a de...

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

'Enchanting.' -- Financial TimesIn my reckless and undiscouraged youth, I worked in a walnut-pane...

The Smoke is Rising

The future is here. India has just sent its first spacecraft to the moon, and the placid city of ...

The Dominant Animal

'Unusual, finely judged and wrought work... has reminded us of the beauty that can be discovered ...

The Matriarch

A wonderfully gossipy novel that whisks readers through the glamorous worlds of turn-of-the-centu...