Haruki Murakami

In his introduction to The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories, Murakami Haruki describes the collection as giving ‘the same kind of …

Breasts. Some of us have them. Do you have them? How often do you think about them? (You may answer this question …

It seems that ‘inspired by’ is the term to use when one is shamelessly borrowing another’s good idea. With that in mind, …

So you take a look at the picture above… and then you factor in this: to which you add the latest issue …

From a writer’s point of view, reviews have one purpose. Make people read the damn book and now. But when approaching reviews …

I can do tact and diplomacy when they are required, so a couple of months after arriving in Japan, when it dawned …

A short extract of a post that features in my book about the Great East Japan Earthquake, The Teas That Bind: Like …