Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami

Norwegian Wood - Haruki MurakamiRead the haunting love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar. When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has

' The story culminates at the close of the eighteenth century with a young British naval officer who managed to keep his damaged vessel afloat for two long months

bee keeping and to the closeness of small communities … The book has an exceptionally strong emotional pulse

60 paintings in full colour

but real young women of flesh and blood - who certainly don't need rescuing

covering the very best that Naples and the Amalfi Coast have to offer and ensuring that you don't miss a thing

Acting on a dinner party tip from Mrs Algernon Stitch

Duchess of Ferrara

Alicia Klepeis

profiting in colonial Africa

hyenas in hoop skirts

This revelatory book is 'not so much a biography of the man but of the boson named after him'

Featuring Mediterranean-style dishes