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|author=Tomoka Shibasaki and Polly Barton (translator)
|title=Spring Garden
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Murakami, and (long before the film) Endo's ''Silence''. That's my limit as regards contemporary Japanese writing. But now there's Tomoka Shibasaki, and her noted work ''Spring Garden''. Which, make no mistake, is definitely Japanese. For instance, if I told you it starts with a man looking up to watch his female neighbour on her balcony, and concerns obsession, you could well think it was his about her. But no – perhaps only in the west is the gaze so male. The obsession is very much hers here, and it – and the novel – concern a singular house. And the very singular country it lives in, and the changes it is going through…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272704</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Sam Gayton
|summary= Seb Logan is being watched. He just doesn't know who by. When a dark figure appears and shatters Seb's idyllic life, he soon realizes that the murky past he thought he'd left behind has far from forgotten him. What's more unsettling is the strange atmosphere that engulfs him at every sighting, plunging his mind into a terrifying paranoia. To be a victim without knowing the tormentor. To be despised without knowing the offence caused. To be seen by what nobody else can see. These are the thoughts that plague his every waking moment. And once his investigation leads him to stray across the line and into mortal danger, he risks becoming another fatality in a long line of victims.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>150982040X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Eliza Graham
|title= Another Day Gone
|rating= 3.5
|genre= General Fiction
|summary=A single event from the past has the power to create a chain-reaction that has powerful consequences in the future. This is a theme explored and expanded upon in ''Another Day Gone,'' the story of sisters Sara and Polly who, despite being close during childhood, have grown emotionally distant from one another after Polly discovers a devastating family secret. We join their story at the point where the prodigal sister, Polly, returns home after years of no contact with her family. Sarah contacts their old nanny Bridie in the hope of piecing together the family mystery and unearthing the secrets before it is too late, but Bridie's memory is failing and some secrets may be lost forever.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1503940039</amazonuk>
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