Bells of Old Tokyo: Travels in Japanese TimeA hauntingly original book about Tokyo and the Japanese relationship to time, memory and history, seen through the eyes of an outsider, searching for the past that underlies the city's arrestingly visible present.

'The Book of Echoes' asks: how can we overcome the traumas of the past when they are woven so inextricably with the present

You were raised in Britain

'Being Mum and Dad'

From the author of What to Eat and Shopped

Lily questions everything she knew about herself

The night trains have fallen on hard times

'On the Road' swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America

Three days later

globalized world

the brilliant stand-up mathematician

and that the right time is only ever now

he seems revitalized in nature - outside