Tokyo Ueno Station (National Book Award Winner)

Yu Miri

£9.99

This novel is short, but has such a big effect. Told from the perspective of a ghost, it really powerfully deals with real human issues – the treatment of homeless people in Japan, trauma following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and suicide. It’s one of my favourites.

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Palimpsest

Lisa Wool-Rim Sjoblom

£21.00 £19.95

This graphic novel memoir tells the story of the author, a Korean adoptee in Sweden, trying to discover more about her origins, and contending for the first time with becoming a mother. The writing and drawings in this book explain complex familial relationships and crises of identity in such beautiful and subtle ways.

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Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War

Susan Southard

£15.00

This book keeps alive first-hand accounts of the nuclear bomb attack on Nagasaki and reveals the medical fallout of the bomb, censored by the US government for many decades after, and of nuclear weapons tests on The Marshall Islands. It’s a really difficult read, but so important.

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Selected Poems

Anna Akhmatova

£9.99 £9.49

Includes Requiem, written in secret during years of Akhmatova’s son’s imprisonment by Stalin, on small scraps of paper. Lines were memorised by Akhmatova’s friends, and then burned over a candle, before years later, when it was safe, being written down again, and published; I love the miracle of this poem’s existence, and how, between its lines are the stories of friendships and perseverance.

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Woman, Eating: 'Absolutely brilliant - Kohda takes the vampire trope and makes it her own' Ruth Ozeki

CLAIRE KOHDA

£14.99

'Absolutely brilliant - tragic, funny, eccentric . . . Claire Kohda takes the vampire trope and makes it her own' Ruth Ozeki

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East Side Voices: Essays celebrating East and Southeast Asian identity in Britain

HELENA LEE

£16.99 £16.14

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