Louise and Virginia have been immersed in some armchair travel to Tokyo, which has made them both very keen to travel there. These four books are great to read if you have a trip to Japan on your horizon or your bucket list. They also discuss some fabulous TV series to get streaming, a podcast, and they’ve both had very different recent experiences meeting Yotam Ottolenghi (although both evenings were great fun).
Books
Death in Tokyo by Keigo Higashino, translated by Giles Murray. Published by St Martin’s Publishing Group
The Book of Tokyo – A City in Short Fiction, edited by Michael Emmerich, Jim Hinks and Masashi Matsuie.
Tokyo Redux by David Peace. Faber 2021
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata and translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
Streaming TV series
Vardy v Rooney – Foxtel
Happy Valley – Binge
Bump – ABC
Podcast
The Mel Robbins Podcast
Yotam Ottolenghi – Test Kitchen
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67. It’s that Time of Year Again!
66. Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
65. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
64. Deep and Fragile Connections with a Natural World
63. Capturing the Zeitgeist with some Fantastic New Releases
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57: New Releases by New (to us) Authors
56: The Diving In podcast girls are back with some new releases!
55. The Revenge of Cervantes – Book Club Part 2
54. Tilting at Windmills – Book Club Part 1
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