Books


  1. Books I have written
  2. Books I have translated
  3. Novels I recommend
  4. Non-fiction I recommend
  5. Other recommendations

Books I have written

Kanji Idioms, co-authored with Kayoko Kimiya, published by Kodansha International, 1995. ISBN 4-7700-1943-2

Kodansha's Dictionary of Basic Japanese Idioms, co-authored with Jeff Garrison, Kayoko Kimiya and Masahiko Goshi, published by Kodansha International, 2002. ISBN 4-7700-2797-4

Interfacing with Britain, published by Shohakusha, 1993. ISBN 4-88198-343-1

Face to Face with Britain, published by Shohakusha, 1994. ISBN 4-88198-348-2

Many Faces of Britain, published by Shohakusha, 1995. ISBN 4-88198-366-6

A Taste of Britain, published by Shohakusha, 1996. ISBN 4-88198-395-4

Student Life in Britain, published by Shohakusha, 1997. ISBN 4-88198-414-4

Food and Culture of Britain, published by Shohakusha, 1998. ISBN 4-88198-475-6

The British Today, published by Seibido, 2000. ISBN 4-7919-4047-4

 


Books I have translated

The Ultimate Guide to Etiquette in Japan, published by Kodansha International, 1998. ISBN4-7700-2193-3

Japanese Society: An Update, published by Hokuseido, 1991. ISBN4-590-00888-2

 


Novels I recommend

Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility & Pride and Prejudice

Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre

Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights

Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Raymond Chandler: Playback

Agatha Christie: A Murder is Announced, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 4.50 from Paddington, The ABC Murders

Joseph Conrad: The Heart of Darkness

Charles Dickens: David Copperfield & A Christmas Carol

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles & A Study in Scarlet

Michel Faber: Under The Skin

Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d'Urbevilles & Jude the Obscure

Patricia Highsmith: The Talented Mr Ripley

Barry Hines: A Kestrel for a Knave

Michael Ondaatje: The English Patient

George Orwell: Animal Farm

Edgar Allan Poe: The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Purloined Letter, The Black Cat, The Fall of the House of Usher

Alan Warner: Morvern Callar

Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting

P.G. Wodehouse: Right Ho, Jeeves

Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway & To The Lighthouse

 


Non-fiction I recommend

Simon Armitage: All Points North

Jeffrey Bernard: Low Life & Reach for the Ground

Marcus Berkmann: Rain Men - The Madness of Cricket

Dale Carnegie: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Tony Cascarino: The Secret Life of Tony Cascarino

Nick Danziger: Danziger's Britain

Eamon Dunphy: Only a Game?

Simon Kuper: Football Against the Enemy

Michael Lewis: Liar's Poker & The New New Thing

Steve Martin: Pure Drivel

Tony Parker: The People of Providence - A Housing Estate and Some of its Inhabitants & The Violence of Our Lives - Interviews with Life Sentence Prisoners in America

Tim Parks: Italian Neighbours

Harry Pearson: A Tall Man in a Low Land, Racing Pigs and Giant Marrows - Travels Around North Country Fairs & The Far Corner - A Mazey Dribble Through North-East Football

Harry Ritchie: Here We Go - A Summer on the Costa del Sol & The Last Pink Bits - Remnants of the Empire

Giles Smith: Lost in Music

Jerry Stahl: Permanent Midnight

 


Other recommendations

Caroline Aherne & Craig Cash: The Royle Family - The Scripts

John Betjeman: Summoned by Bells

Stuart Clarke: The Homes of Football

Beryl Cook: The Works

Adrian Henri, Roger McGough & Brian Patten: New Volume

August Sander: Menschen des 20 Jahrhunderts

Marcia Williams: Mr. William Shakespeare's Plays