Japanese Ghosts

In 1930s Tokyo, a young woman uncovers a secret that rewrites her family’s heroic samurai past. Now, the truth her grandmother has spent a lifetime protecting might just be the death of them both.

She was raised on a legend of glorious death and battlefield honour. But when a hidden document exposes a link between that legend and a modern...

Some secrets are kept in the heart. Hers were kept in a diary.

To the world, Akiko Sato was a success story in the cutthroat world of Tokyo finance. But behind the serene smiles and perfectly executed strategy was a private war, chronicled in the pages of a book no one else was ever meant to read.

It reveals a game played not with money, but...

In 1868, Japan is a nation tearing itself apart. The age of the samurai is ending. The Emperor’s modern, rifle-wielding army marches to erase 700 years of warrior tradition, and their final target is the fiercely loyal Aizu clan, the last bastion of the old world. Based on the extraordinary true story of the Boshin War, this novel brings to life...