Louise and Virginia have been immersed in some armchair travel to Tokyo, which has made them both very keen to travel there. These four books are great to read if you have a trip to Japan on your horizon or your bucket list. They also discuss some fabulous TV series to get streaming, a podcast, and they’ve both had very different recent experiences meeting Yotam Ottolenghi (although both evenings were great fun).

Books

Death in Tokyo by Keigo Higashino, translated by Giles Murray. Published by St Martin’s Publishing Group

The Book of Tokyo – A City in Short Fiction, edited by Michael Emmerich, Jim Hinks and Masashi Matsuie. 

Tokyo Redux by David Peace. Faber 2021

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata and translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori

Streaming TV series

Vardy v Rooney – Foxtel

Happy Valley – Binge

Bump – ABC

Podcast

The Mel Robbins Podcast

Yotam Ottolenghi – Test Kitchen