In his introduction to The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories, Murakami Haruki describes the collection as giving ‘the same kind of…
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Breasts. Some of us have them. Do you have them? How often do you think about them? (You may answer this…
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It seems that ‘inspired by’ is the term to use when one is shamelessly borrowing another’s good idea. With that in mind,…
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So you take a look at the picture above… and then you factor in this: to which you add the latest issue…
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I can do tact and diplomacy when they are required, so a couple of months after arriving in Japan, when it dawned…
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A short extract of a post that features in my book about the Great East Japan Earthquake, The Teas That Bind: Like…
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The last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, it turns ever more perfect. And when it’s perfect, it falls. And then…
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Needless to say, this whole adventure was probably at least 68% inspired by Haruki Murakami. Therefore I am almost as excited about…
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Very excited to read today that Haruki Murakami has revealed some of the inspiration for his new book: Murakami has now admitted…
