 | The Fox Woman (A Tom Doherty Associates book) by Kij Johnson
Buy used from: £8.28 A beautifully written tale of a fox who turns into a woman to be with a human man, and how this affects them and the man's wife.
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 | The King's Last Song by Geoff Ryman
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 In modern-day Cambodia, a gold-leaf manuscript is found - telling of historical King Jayavarman - but it sparks off violence. A sensitive examination of Cambodia's troubled past and present.
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 | The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak
Buy new: £6.45 / Used from: £0.55 Expats and locals in Japan reach turning points in their lives, encountering the real and the strange on the way: ghosts, messages left in hotel rooms, & more.
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 | The Grass-Cutting Sword by Catherynne M. Valente
Buy used from: £3.15 A lyrical telling of trickster Susanoo-no-Mikoto's fall from heaven in search of his mother across Japan, and of the girls in an eight-headed monster's stomach.
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 | Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams by Catherynne M. Valente
Buy new: £20.99 / Used from: £5.76 An old madwoman hermit in Japan dreams herself into strange landscapes and stories.
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 | The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £1.00 An enchantress once tried to steer her life. The man claiming to be her son arrives at the Mughal court to tell his tale.
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 | Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £0.01 An old former-geisha tells her life's story in this beautifully detailed novel.
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 | Engine's Child by Holly Phillips
Buy new: £9.45 / Used from: £1.95 A fantasy novel set in a strange world lightly influenced by India, just enough to give it a pleasantly different feel to most fantasy novels. That and its interesting plot make it worth a read.
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 | Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness
Buy new: £7.60 / Used from: £2.91 A short story instead of a novel: "Oblivion: A Journey" by Vandana Singh, a quest through a far-future world inspired by the Ramayana. The rest of the anthology is strong.
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 | The Drowning City by Amanda Downum
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.92 A good, fun fantasy novel in an Asia-influenced city, with small details like: banyan spirits, water spirits, local charms, food.
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 | Air (Gollancz S.F.) by Geoff Ryman
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 In an imaginary Asian country, the people of a small village struggle to cope with modern changes: how to adapt without losing themselves.
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