Browse by category
Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa
19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In a crumbling, seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet, seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother fusses over the off-season customers. When, one night, they are forced to eject a prostitute and a middle-aged man from his room, Mari finds herself drawn to the man's voice, in what wi ...Show more
Mina's Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa; Stephen Snyder (Translator)
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
After the death of her father, twelve-year-old Tomoko is sent to live for a year with her uncle in the coastal town of Ashiya. It is a year which will change her life.The 1970s are bringing changes to Japan and her uncle's magnificent colonial mansion opens up a new and unfamiliar world for Tomoko; its ...Show more
Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A woman goes into a bakery to buy a strawberry cream tart. The place is immaculate but there is no one serving so she waits. Another customer comes in. The woman tells the new arrival that she is buying her son a treat for his birthday. Every year she buys him his favourite cake; even though he died in ...Show more
Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Editions Ser.
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MEMORY POLICE'A conspicuously gifted writer...To read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state tinged with a nightmare, and her stories continue to haunt. She possesses an effortless, glassy, eerie brilliance' GuardianMurderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and innocent by ...Show more
Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A woman goes into a bakery to buy a strawberry cream tart. The place is immaculate but there is no one serving so she waits. Another customer comes in. The woman tells the new arrival that she is buying her son a treat for his birthday. Every year she buys him his favourite cake; even though he died in ...Show more
The Diving Pool by OGAWA, YOKO
19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Beautiful, twisted and brilliant - discover Yoko Ogawa. A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - sparking an unspoken infatuation that draws out darker possibilities. A young woman records the daily moods of her pregnant s ...Show more
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. he is a sensitive but astute young housekeeper who is entrusted to take care of him. Each morning, as the Professor and the Hou ...Show more
The Housekeeper and the Professor (Vintage Classics Japanese Series) by Yoko Ogawa
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classic Japanese Series
Each morning, the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to one another. The Professor may not remember what he had for breakfast, but his mind is still alive with elegant mathematical equations from the past. He devises clever maths riddles - based on her shoe size or her birthday - and the numbe ...Show more
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
A compelling and surreal mystery story by one of Japan's greatest writers. Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the island forgets it ever ...Show more
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'A masterpiece' Guardian A compelling speculative mystery by one of Japan's greatest writers. Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the i ...Show more
0 - 9 of 10