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|author=Durian Sukegawa and Alison Watts (translator)
|title= Sweet Bean Paste
|rating= 5
|genre= General Fiction
|summary=''Sweet Bean Paste'' centres on Sentaro, an ex-con who dreams of being a writer, but instead spends his days making dorayaki, a type of Japanese pancake. He reluctantly employs Tokue, an elderly lady with disfigured hands, after tasting her divine bean paste - the perfect filling for said dorayaki. Predictably, a friendship soon blossoms between the pair, despite her age and appearance. In many ways, this could sound cliché - a protagonist learns a valuable lesson about not judging someone by their appearance after finding a friend in someone they never expected to like, not exactly an unheard-of concept. Yet, Sukegawa still manages to enthral his audience.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786071959</amazonuk>
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{{newreview <!-- remove 11 Oct -->
|author=Terence J Fry
|summary= Tancred Palmieri is a talented thief thrown into the path of Willow Azarian an eccentric, unpredictable heroin addict. She is also part of the Azarian dynasty, bequeathed almost a million dollars upon her father's death. Each of the Azarian children were also gifted a deeply personal memento mori, which Willow is convinced make up an intricate treasure hunt. She enlists the help of Tancred to steal each item, solve the mystery and prove she is not blindly following a baseless fantasy. Tancred must use all his skills to infiltrate the homes of each of Willow's siblings, uncover the clues hidden in each item and fight off the rival interests of competing criminals and the police.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781258422</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author= Alison Jean Lester
|title= Yuki Means Happiness
|rating= 3
|genre= General Fiction
|summary= High-tech and high-rise, kimonos, and big-eyed visuals – through a dynamic juxtaposition of the ultra modern and the traditional, Japan has succeeded in branding itself both as an intriguing travel destination that does not cease to surprise, but at the same time defies being ever wholly full understood by outsiders. All of this has come to be encapsulated and reinforced in Sofia Coppola's cult classic ''Lost in Translation'': the iconic still of Scarlett Johansson standing at the scramble crossing in Shibuya has come to represent Japan in pop culture as much as the more traditional cherry blossom imagery.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848549628</amazonuk>
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