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Here are the 30 bestselling books from international authors the week

Jul 10, 2024 | calgaryherald.com | Lauren Roberts |Aaron Blabey |Ben Clanton |Satoshi Yagisawa

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The Waterstones Round Up: July's Best Books

Jun 26, 2024 | waterstones.com | Taffy Brodesser-Akner |Satoshi Yagisawa |Costanza Casati |Anita Desai

With its warm-hearted quirkiness and insights into Japanese culture, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop became one of the sleeper hits of last year - and this July the delightful sequel arrives as a real treat for all bibliophiles. In addition, Constanza Casati weaves another deft exploration of women in ancient history with Babylonia and the eagerly-awaited new novel from Taffy Brodesser-Akner, author of the hugely acclaimed Fleishman in Trouble.
More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop Prize Draw

Apr 7, 2024 | waterstones.com | Satoshi Yagisawa

In Tokyo, there is a neighbourhood with the highest number of bookstores in the world. It is called Jinbocho where book lovers can browse to their heart's delight and where hunters of first editions or autographed copies prowl the bookcases. The Morisaki bookshop, a small family-run shop, is so packed with books that barely five people can fit inside.
Carmen and Grace by Melissa Coss Aquino

Feb 1, 2024 | l8r.it | Melissa Aquino |Yomi Adegoke |Wandeka Gayle |Satoshi Yagisawa

LoveReading Says About Press Reviews Author LoveReading Says Reeling with raw beauty and an unstoppable spirit of survival, Melissa Coss Aquino’s Carmen and Grace debut is a devastatingly forceful coming of age novel set around an underground drug empire in the Bronx.
Make a Bad Day Better With a Good Book: Cats, Coffee and Comforting Japanese Fiction

Sep 4, 2023 | barnesandnoble.com | Brittany Bunzey |Hiro Arikawa |Michiko Aoyama |Satoshi Yagisawa

Make a Bad Day Better With a Good Book: Cats, Coffee and Comforting Japanese Fiction A purring cat curled in your lap, a good cup of coffee, sitting in a café with a good book — these are just a few of our favorite things. With whimsy, tenderness and adventure, these novels, translated from the Japanese, have our whole hearts, and we know they’ll capture yours too.
Powell's Picks Spotlight: Satoshi Yagisawa's 'Days at the Morisaki Bookshop' by Kelsey Ford

Jul 7, 2023 | powells.com | Satoshi Yagisawa |Kelsey Ford

This week, we’re taking a closer look at Powell’s Pick of the Month, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa. The summer after I graduated from college, I spent a month sleeping between the stacks of Shakespeare & Co in Paris.
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa

Jul 4, 2023 | waterstones.com | Satoshi Yagisawa

Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books. Twenty-five-year-old Takako has never liked reading, although the Morisaki bookshop has been in her family for three generations. It is the pride and joy of her uncle Satoru, who has devoted his life to the bookshop since his wife Momoko left him five years earlier.