Strange Weather In TokyoTsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at least thirty years her senior, retired and, she presumes, a widower. After this initial encounter, the pair continue to meet occasionally to share food and drink sake, and as the seasons pass from spring cherry blossom to autumnal mushrooms Tsukiko and Sensei come to develop a hesitant intimacy which tilts

Foden's spellbinding narrative introduces a cast of characters ranging from Irish Republican renegades to London literary editors to some of the most famous faces of the twentieth century

off-the-beaten-track

using metrics and reporting

the character sherlock holmes was inspired by joseph bell

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extreme rice terracing

Thomas More

Brinley Booth

Mark Haddon and William Boyd

rather than merely chatty