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Twenty-five-year-old Takano 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 Ojisan, who has devoted his life to the bookshop since his wife Momoki left him five years earlier. When Takano's boyfriend reveals he's marrying someone else, she reluctantly accepts her eccentric uncle's offer to live rent-free in the tiny room above the shop. Hoping to nurse her broken heart in peace, Takano is surprised to encounter new worlds within the stacks of books lining the Morisaki bookshop.

We were fighting on the wrong side of a war we couldn't win. And that was the good news. The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the native Americans in 1492. Over the horizon come ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There go the good old days, when humans only got killed by each other. So, Columbus Day. It fits. When the morning sky twinkled again, this time with Kristang starships jumping in to hammer the Ruhar, we thought we were saved.

Hidden away, the Morisaki Bookshop is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building, the shop is filled with hundreds of second-hand books. Here is where Takako comes to nurse a broken heart, finding within its crowded shelves books to soothe and uplift her flagging spirits. Over the course of two novels, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop and More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, Takako and her uncle Satoru discover their similarities and differences, and learn all about life, love and the healing power of books.

Things change; we have to recognise that; the world will not stay still. What we must hope is that the new is better and stronger than the old. Anno Domini 1546. In a manor house in England a young woman feels the walls are closing round her, while her dying husband is obsessed by his vision of a chapel where prayers will be said for his immortal soul. As the days go by and the chapel takes shape, the outside world starts to intrude. And as the old ways are replaced by the new, the people of the village sense a dangerous freedom.

If Cameron Vaux can’t find it, he will lose everything. “You will lose your mind. When it starts happening.... You must find the Book of Days.” When Cameron’s dying father delivers this message, he brushes it off. Lose his memory? He’s only 25. Find a book that doesn’t even exist? Foolishness. Nothing more than the product of his father’s dementia. But now, eight years after his father’s death, it’s happening. Chunks of Cameron’s life are just — gone.

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. Books crowd the shelves and invade every corner of the floor; when a customer arrives, the owner, Satoru, immediately pops out from behind the counter.

Bloomsbury presents Every Day I Read by Hwang Bo-reum, read by Rosa Escoda. From the internationally bestselling author of Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop comes a warm and reflective collection of essays about reading, language and life. Why do we read? What is it that we hope to take away...

Curl up with a coffee and Days at the Torunka Cafe, the cosy, life-affirming, beloved Japanese novel - from the author of international bestseller Days at the Morisaki Bookshop. Praise for Satoshi Yagisawa - an author beloved by readers . . . 'It gently healed my soul' 'Simply beautiful' 'A...

Hey People! This is Disha and here we will talk about and review those precious books which we as a generation should read. The language will be both Hindi and English. This will be a limited episodes season also encircling why book reading as a hobby should be developed! So brace yourselves for a light breezy and exciting conversations on some heavy and deep content of our favourite books! You can also recommend me books on the links attached. Kudos!

'One of the world's thriller masters' – Daily Mail Zero Day is the explosive first instalment in David Baldacci's thrilling John Puller series, featuring a gifted investigator with an unstoppable drive to find out the truth . . . * * * * * Distinguished as a top investigator in the US...

A twenty-one-day challenge is all it takes to get on the path of reversing diabetes Sounds unbelievable? It's true. Based on her revolutionary diabetes reversal programme, Dr Nandita Shah, renowned homeopath and founder-director of SHARAN, elaborately breaks down the real cause of diabetes using...

Brought to you by Penguin. The happily ever after is only part of the story… A funny, touching, hopeful gem about love, marriage and second chances It’s the day before her daughter’s wedding and things are not going well for Gail Baines. First thing, she loses her job – or quits...

Brought to you by Penguin. *NARRATED BY FIONA SHAW (Harry Potter, Killing Eve, Bad Sisters)* The unmissable new mystery in the bestselling, record-breaking Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman Who's got time to think about murder when there's a wedding to plan? It’s been a quiet year...

The author used a yearly calendar to focus on pieces written by Southern authors. Many of these writers are little known, having created for their own enjoyment or peace of mind, not necessarily for publication. (Summary by Bill Boerst)

1948, Japan. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson; his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet lantern-lit bars. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to the past - to a life and a career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism - a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity.

The second brilliant novel in the highly acclaimed Malabar House series featuring Persis Wadia, India's first female police detective. A priceless manuscript. A missing scholar. A trail of riddles. Bombay, 1950 For over a century, one of the world's great treasures, a six-hundred-year-old copy...

'Monumentally epic . . . a superb novel' LEE CHILD From the master of epic fiction comes the deeply human story of one of the world's greatest mysteries: the building of Stonehenge. A PRIESTESS WHO BELIEVES IN THE IMPOSSIBLE A MONUMENT THAT WILL DEFINE A CIVILIZATION In the high summer heat...

Bloomsbury presents These Precious Days written and read by Ann Patchett. A BARACK OBAMA TOP BOOK OF 2021 ‘A heartfelt and witty collection of essays on everything from marriage and knitting to the inevitability of death’ Guardian 'A pitch-perfect collection ... She can turn a sentence like...

'As profound as Katherine Mansfield, restrained as Jane Austen, sharp as Dorothy Parker' Independent INTRODUCED BY NICOLA BEAUMAN The lark rose in the brilliant air, higher, higher on its spun-glass spiral of song, knowing nothing of peace or war, accepting joyously the bounty of another day. A...

The Prodigal Peer. Lucien, Marquess of Lynnfield, disappeared from the family seat nearly a decade ago, and now he's back, ready to take his inheritance in hand. Questions swirl: Where was he? Why return now? What sort of man has he become? Lucien can't offer much in the way of explanations. All he knows is, the dearest companion of his youth, Lady Penelope Richard, is being courted by a handsome cad, and Lucien cannot allow her ladyship to waste her future on a scoundrel. Or the return of the rogue?