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Bookstore Girls
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Can two very different women put aside their differences to save the bookstore they love? The Japanese bestseller that kicked off a seven-book series - adapted for TV and 200,000 copies sold Bookstore Girls follows the story of Riko Nishioka, the assistant manager of the flagship...
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Bookstore Girls
The Japanese bestseller that kicked off a seven-books series - adapted for TV and 200,000 copies sold. Enemies to friends set in the cut-throat Tokyo publishing scene
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Can two very different women put aside their differences to save the bookstore they love? The Japanese bestseller that kicked off a seven-book series - adapted for TV and 200,000 copies sold
Bookstore Girls follows the story of Riko Nishioka, the assistant manager of the flagship Pegasus bookstore in Kichijoji. After working her way up from a part-time position, she is now, at age forty, a respected figure in the Japanese publishing industry. However, she has a nemesis.
Aki Kitamura, twenty-seven, has waltzed in as a full-time employee thanks to her family connections. A free spirit with a rebellious streak and a silver spoon in her mouth, she's anything but a team player.
The two are always clashing - both at work and over their personal lives. But when Riko is given notice that the store will be closing in six months' time, they face a stark choice.
Can they put their petty enmities aside to boost sales and save their livelihoods, or will they go down fighting... each other?
Translated from the Japanese by Haydn Trowell
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781529446333
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 September 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: MacLehose Press
Contributors:
- Translated by Haydn Trowell
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 135.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 320g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Kei Aono was born in 1959 in Nagoya, Japan and studied at Tokyo Art university. After starting her career at an anime magazine, she worked as an fiction editor at a publishing company. In 2006 she made her novel debut with The Reason I Won't Quit, and in 2014 Bookstore Woman won the Grand Prize in the "Book I want made into a movie" category at the Shizuoka Bookstore Awards.
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