Nick Bradley
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Writer | THE CAT & THE CITY (2020) FOUR SEASONS IN JAPAN (2023) Agent @literarywhore Order: https://t.co/QnB744yT31 Publicity @Millsreid11
Norwich & Cambridge, UK
Joined March 2009
🙀 I feel like I woke up and stepped into chapter 9 of number9dream. Thank you so much for these kind words about THE CAT AND THE CITY, David. P.S. Utopia Avenue Rocks 🎸🎶🎧.
I wolfed down these interlocking stories of cats, Tokyo, loneliness and redemption. Congratulations to Nick Bradley on this vibrant & accomplished debut. @nasubijutsu @AtlanticFiction
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About 25 years ago I met Terry Pratchett at this WH Smith in Bath, and he signed his book for me. Today I stand outside with my second novel, published by the same publisher as him 😸
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Hi. My name is Nick Bradley, and I have a book buying problem 📚.
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🏆GIVEAWAY!🏆.To celebrate publication of FOUR SEASONS IN JAPAN, Nick's cat Weasel is giving away 1 of 3 signed hardbacks + bookmarks & postcards. To enter:.🌸Follow Nick.☀️Retweet + ❤️ + comment friend. 🍁Open worldwide.❄️Closes Thursday 6th July at midnight. Good luck! 🐈⬛
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Twenty years ago, when I was a student, I dreamt of being a writer. I hung out in @blackwellbooks Oxford and browsed books, hoping that I might one day write one. Try as I might, I would always give up (usually at 20,000 words). The secret to writing a novel = . Never give up
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Writing my second book was hard, very hard. But I did it, and I can't wait for readers to meet Ayako, Kyo & Flo, and the town of Onomichi in June 2023 🌸☀️🍁❄️
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Does anyone else find these chopped off covers on paperbacks annoying? Why do publishers do it? Are they saving money on that little bit of missing cover? Or, worse still, are they spending *more* money to commit this atrocity? 🤔
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🚨WORLDWIDE BOOK #Giveaway 🚨. To celebrate the Sept 1st US & Canada release of #TheCatAndTheCity I'm holding a competition. To enter [RT+❤️+FOLLOW]. Three prizes to win:. 🥇 Signed hardback.🥈 Signed export paperback.🥉 Cat & City bookmark. Ends September 1st 2020. Go go go!😻📚
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Hi all! If anyone makes it to a bookshop today, and happens to spot my CAT (pictured) on the shelves, would you mind sending me a photo? It's my debut novel, and I have really been looking forward to seeing her on the shelves. Thank you, and I love bookshops! Plz RT 😻
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🏆#Bookgiveaway 🏆. Pansy the cat is giving away 3 signed & personalised copies of THE CAT AND THE CITY. To enter:. 1. Follow.2. RT.3. Like. Another 3 copies up for grabs on my Instagram (@nasubijutsu). Closes July 15th. An international #catlover #giveaway
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🏆GIVEAWAY!🏆. To celebrate the paperback publication of FOUR SEASONS IN JAPAN this week, Nick's cat Weasel is giving away 1 of 3 signed paperbacks . To enter: .🌸Follow Nick.☀️Repost + ❤️ + tag a friend in comments . 🍁Open worldwide.❄️Closes Friday 21st June at midnight
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FOUR SEASONS IN JAPAN is now on #NetGalley! .To celebrate this, I'm doing a giveaway! .Retweet this tweet and follow me to be in with a chance of winning 1 of 5 physical proof copies. Closes 16th March. Good luck!.Request here: .#cats #japan #Onomichi
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Finished copies of my debut novel THE CAT AND THE CITY arrived in the post, and Pansy the cat 🐈 is not impressed. I know this is a bleak time, and I debate internally whether sharing this kind of stuff on social media right now is appropriate. But I'm so proud of this book.(1/4)
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Hi all! I wrote a top 10 Tokyo Books List for the Guardian.
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So, it's finally publication day for my novel, THE CAT AND THE CITY, and I have been overwhelmed with kind messages and photos. Thank you so much to everyone! I'd also just like to take a moment to thank some of the people who worked so hard to make this book, in a thread
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🚨 PAPERBACK COVER REVEAL! 🚨. Super super excited to share the new cover for the paperback of my novel FOUR SEASONS IN JAPAN 🌸☀️🍂❄️🐈⬛. Hitting shelves June 13th 🗓️
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Still can't really believe it, but I'll be chatting to @jowhiley on @BBCRadio2 on June 1st about my book THE CAT AND THE CITY 😼🌆 *pinches self*.
The next book chosen for the @jowhiley @BBCRadio2 Book Club will be #TheCatandTheCity by @nasubijutsu. Discover more about this fascinating collection of tales set in Tokyo: #R2BookClub @AtlanticBooks
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🙀Wow! @Waterstones tweeting about my book! This is like a dream! 🇯🇵📘🌸☀️🍁❄️🐈⬛.
Following a Tokyo translator who stumbles upon a mysterious book left on the subway, Four Seasons in Japan is the beautifully constructed, heartwarming and quietly profound story-within-a-story novel from @nasubijutsu, out now:
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Thank you so much to my publisher, wonderful readers, and all the lovely booksellers out there. I am so incredibly grateful 🙏🐈.
Concatulations to Nick Bradley and The Cat and The City on being picked as one of @Waterstones Paperbacks of the Year! 👏🐈 @nasubijutsu
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Was a wonderful feeling to go into the @Waterstones where I used to work and see my book on a table there. Thank you @watsalisbury 📕🐈
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Hardbacks of FOUR SEASONS IN JAPAN have now been printed, and don't these two look good together?? 🐈⬛🐈
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🙀 The Cat and The City is on the longlist for the Dublin Literary Award #DubLitAward 🙀.
Delighted to announce the 2021 #DubLitAward #Longlist of #Library Nominations!. Sponsored by @DubCityCouncil | Managed by @dubcilib. @ILFDublin @DublinCityofLit @LordMayorDublin .@LibrariesIre @WaterfordLibs @corkcitylibrary @SDCClibraries @VPL
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Finally, the paperback cat cover is out of the bag! (designed by genius @BalitCarmen). 🐈Hits the streets 6th of May, 2021, but available to pre-order now!🗼. Publishing a debut during lockdowns has been tough. RTs and support, very much appreciated 🙏🙇♂️
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Very excited to share the news that THE CAT AND THE CITY has been picked for the new series of the @BBCRadio2 Book Club with @jowhiley. Congratulations to the other 5 authors too! 🍾🎉🎊🥳.
We're very excited to share the new season of the @jowhiley @BBCRadio2 Book Club. Such a wonderful selection of books to be featured over the next 12 weeks. Congratulations to all of the authors! Find out more here:
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What better place to hold a book launch than Norwich Waterstones, in the shadow of my two greatest literary inspirations – Kazuo Ishiguro and Alan Partridge! 😸📘🎉. 📅Tuesday June 20th from 7pm (TOMORROW!). 🎟️Tickets here:.
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I have some bookshop events in June to celebrate the release of FOUR SEASONS IN JAPAN and will be doing some signings. Excited, because my debut THE CAT AND THE CITY was released to closed bookshops in 2020 during the height of lockdown 🧵
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Swung by Norwich independent bookshop @bookhive today and signed a stack of books for them (pictured). Grab them while you can!. In more important news: I got some kimchi pork ramen from the market (also pictured). It was delicious 🤤🍜
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A box of paperback Cats arrived in the post! 😻📚. Thank you so much, all at @AtlanticBooks!. Available in all meow-vellous bookshops May 6th
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THE CAT AND THE CITY is in the city of Tokyo, and FOUR SEASONS IN JAPAN is in Japan (check out the shiny new paperback). I might leave these signed copies somewhere around the city for people to find.
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Just a quick tweet to say THANK YOU to all the wonderful readers and people who have been so kind to my book this year. 2020 was dreadful, but hearing from you all has brought immense joy to me during this dark time. Thank you, and I hope 2021 is a brighter year for us all
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I got a box of hardback copies of FOUR SEASONS IN JAPAN in the post 😸🌸☀️🍁❄️
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THE CAT AND THE CITY has been longlisted for the Not the Booker prize!! 😻📚. If anyone liked the book, and deems it worthy, I would be so grateful for your vote to take it to the shortlist. Details on voting are at this page 👇👇 Thank you! 🙏🙇♂️.
Not the Booker prize longlist: vote now to decide the 2020 shortlist
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THE CAT AND THE CITY is published in paperback today! 😼🏙️🥳 A lovely day of badgering Pansy for Cat + Book photos. Then some book signings in town 📖🖋️
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Weasel inspecting his new box to play in later. Oh, and some paperbacks, with a familiar looking cat on the front 📚🐈⬛
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A lovely review of THE CAT AND THE CITY in the Guardian. I'm seriously touched 😿🙀😻.
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A lovely review of my book, in The Times of London, no less. I think I might need to go lie down.
If you can’t wait to read a new book by David Mitchell, then. well, he’s got one out in July. But this debut novel might push some of the same buttons for you. It might even make you feel young again. Me on Nick Bradley’s THE CAT AND THE CITY:.
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A fancy French feline is released into the wild today 🇫🇷🐈. Translated by Maxime Berrée, published by @Belfond
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Thank you so much to my wonderful publisher @DoubledayUK. Today is publication day for FOUR SEASONS IN JAPAN, so my timeline might get a little emotional. 😹.
Happy publication day to @nasubijutsu and his beautiful novel, Four Seasons in Japan! 🌸☀️🍁❄️. A big-hearted book-within-a-book about finding purpose and belonging. We are so excited that this is now out in the world 📚. Get your copy here: Out now 🐈⬛
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Lovely seeing THE CAT AND THE CITY on a Japanese Cat book display at @NorwichStones today! 🇯🇵🐈📚
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The Cat is out the bag June 4th. So grateful for the kind words from David Peace. I can't wait either 😼🌆.
'A vivid tapestry of Toyko' David Peace. We CAN'T WAIT for this inventive debut from @nasubijutsu, in which a stray cat dances through Tokyo, connecting a group of apparent strangers. It's out next month!. Amazon: Waterstones:
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So. I have some big news. 👇.
🚨 COVER REVEAL 🚨 . Just in time for the end of #Japanuary, we are extremely excited to reveal the cover for #FourSeasonsInJapan by @nasubijutsu, a gorgeously crafted book within a book about literature, purpose and what it is to belong.
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Lovely words about FOUR SEASONS IN JAPAN in The Observer today: .'Bradley builds a poignant, quiet and affecting novel full of love as well as loss.'.
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I'd never met Mariko in person before, but we worked together on the manga illustrations in #TheCatAndTheCity. She happened to be in Norwich today, so I made her go to @NorwichStones and sign a couple of books. (Thanks to kind staff member, Grace, for taking the photo!)
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Pssst! Pansy says #TheCatAndTheCity is 99p on Kindle for a limited time only: Spread the word! 😼🌆📲 You can even read it on your tabby-let🐾
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Spent yesterday morning signing beautiful bookplates designed by @BalitCarmen for the paperback of THE CAT AND THE CITY. Also wrote the kanji for "cat" in the top left corner of each one with a Japanese brush pen (fudepen)
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The proofs of #TheCatAndTheCity are in! (resisted urge to photoshop into a pudding. ). @AtlanticBooks are the best, and @poppymowen is my favourite editing human. The book will be out May 7th 2020 in hardback. Shout out to @BalitCarmen for the AMAZING cover art
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I'm extremely excited to share that I'll be one of the judges for this brand new prize from @Soc_of_Authors and @GBSasakawa which celebrates Japanese books in translation. A box of books in Japanese and English arrived this morning, and I can't wait to get stuck in!
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For anyone in Norwich: I swung by @NorwichStones today, signed a copy of THE CAT AND THE CITY and had a chat with the lovely staff. Thanks to all the booksellers who've been back this week -- have definitely missed bookshops. How are books "non-essential". ? 🤔
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When writing fiction, forget about word counts. Think instead about scenes, about characters, about emotions, and about storytelling. Lose yourself in your work.
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Took a brand new signed paperback of FOUR SEASONS IN JAPAN for a train ride on the Yamanote line just now . Left it there for a reader to find (just like Flo finds SOUND OF WATER in the book. )
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Anyone in Bath? Happened to be in my old stomping ground, so swung by the wonderful @mrbsemporium and signed a copy of THE CAT AND THE CITY (grab it while you can). [Also spotted @e_wasserberg's incredible new novel, which is out now!]
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Yesterday, I had the pleasure of showing Natsume Fusanosuke - the grandson of Japanese literary giant Natsume Sōseki - around Norwich. He signed my copy of his grandfather's book "I am a cat" and drew a cool cat inside. Best day ever. #Caturday (1/3)→
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Love seeing FOUR SEASON IN JAPAN. in Japan!! 😸🇯🇵🌸☀️🍁❄️.
【フィクション新刊】主人公は東京暮らしの翻訳者フロー。仕事もマンネリ化し交際相手ともお別れした彼女。地下鉄で偶然見つけた小説を読み始めると. 自分の居場所を探す人々に贈る、東京と尾道が舞台の小説。"Four Seasons in Japan" フィクション新刊台にて。
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🙀 FOUR SEASONS IN JAPAN in the window and on a table at @WaterstonesOxf. I spent hours browsing this shop when I was a student of English literature at @WolfsonCollege @UniofOxford. Thank you for the photo @theotherkirsty 😸
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New Japanese word I learnt today: . クリぼっち (kuribocchi) ."Spending Christmas alone". Apparently the hashtag #くりぼっち is now trending on Japanese Twitter.
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Proof of the new #Murakami book -- essays on being a novelist. I have the original Japanese hardback which came out in 2015, but looking forward to revisiting these in English. Check out the cool stickers!
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I'm going on a little UK book tour in June to celebrate the release of FOUR SEASONS IN JAPAN. These are the dates and places. Come say hello! 😸🌸☀️🍂❄️
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American & Canadian friends! 🇺🇸🇨🇦. Today #TheCatAndTheCity publishes on the other side of the pond🐈🌆. I'm so happy to see how far my little cat has travelled, and hope she gets into plenty more adventures on North American shelves 😻📖. (My cat Pansy couldn't care less. 😹)
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It's publication day for the Dutch translation of The Cat and The City (translated by Linda Broeder). I had a stroopwafel to celebrate. DE KAT EN DE STAD published by @amboanthos 🇳🇱🐈🗼🇯🇵
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Just received Italian copies of FOUR SEASONS IN JAPAN and they are wonderful. Forever grateful to @HeleneFAgent for making these things happen 🇮🇹🐈⬛🌸☀️🍁❄️
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I'll be at Waterstones Kingston tonight from 7pm. Come along for all things Japan, cats, and writing 🇯🇵😸📚✍️
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I did a really tough (but fun) Q&A with a lovely independent bookshop in Singapore called @BooksActually. Just 8 hard, intense questions, short and sweet, and you can read it here:
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Very pleased with this wonderful review of FOUR SEASONS IN JAPAN by @john_self in The Times today.
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Spanish copies of FOUR SEASONS IN JAPAN arrived in the mail, and they are too beautiful to not share with the world 🇪🇸🐈⬛
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If anyone hasn't been able to make it to my in-person bookshop events, but is interested, I'm doing a FREE online event for FOUR SEASONS IN JAPAN with University of Cambridge on Thursday at 7pm (GMT) @Cambridge_ICE @litandcw_ice . Just requires registration. Details below👇.
Join us on July 13th, 19:00 BST to hear Nick Bradley, author of the best-selling The Cat and The City, talk to Joe Mungo Reed about his new novel Four Seasons in Japan. There will be a Q&A and a chance to win a signed copy of Four Seasons in Japan.
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Taken in Onomichi, about 15 years ago on my Nikon 35mm SLR with black & white film. The genesis of the character Kyo in FOUR SEASONS IN JAPAN
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At my parents for Christmas and looking through some of my Japanese books. Here are some of my original Murakami novels and essay collections
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A regal Romanian Cat arrived in the post 🇷🇴🐈. Translated by Magdalena Ciubăncan
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This has been a dream of mine for as far back as I can remember. Cannot wait to let my Tokyo cat book out into the world in April 2020 with @AtlanticBooks.
.@AtlanticBooks has pre-empted The Cat and the City, the "disturbing, delightful" debut novel by Nick Bradley:
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In a bizarre turn of events, I was mentioned in The Nikkei newspaper in Japan yesterday, because they were running an article about cats in Japanese literature, and so a reporter got in touch with me to ask about my research. 😼.我輩の名前が日本経済新聞に出ました。ご覧下さい！
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Monday is coming fast! 😬😬😬. Will have to practise my radio voice 🥴.
#TheCatandTheCity by @nasubijutsu will be on the @jowhiley @BBCRadio2 Book Club on Monday 1 June. Our readers loved this wonderfully atmospheric book - see what they had to say: #R2BookClub @AtlanticBooks
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FOUR SEASONS IN JAPAN comes out a week tomorrow (eek!) 🙀 Here's some wonderful book swag courtesy of @sarabethsbooks at @DoubledayUK who came up with these beautiful bookmarks and set of 4 seasonal postcards. I love them! 🌸☀️🍁❄️
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Honoured to be included on this list of 10 Rising Stars of UK writing, chosen by @WritersCentre in partnership with @BritishArts . What great company! 🥳.
Introducing the ILX10: Rising Stars of UK writing! ⭐ We’re delighted to share 10 early-career writers whose work has the powerful potential to speak to & engage with global literary audiences. Supported by @BritishArts @ace_southeast. Part of #LitExchange
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First trip to London in a year has been a blast (so far). Stopped by @Foyles to sign some Cats. Thanks to the friendly staff member who sold me a book 😂 Foyles hits me in the feels, cos it's where I first met my amazing agent @literarywhore in the cafe upstairs -- cheers Ed!
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I'm incredibly thrilled myself, and so grateful to @NorfolkLibs for nominating my little Cat 🐈. Thank you so much @WritersCentre and the City of Norwich in general -- the best place in the world to write a book! 📚.
We are thrilled @nasubijutsu is longlisted the 2021 #DubLitAward, for his novel The Cat and the City! Nick was nominated by the wonderful folk at @NorfolkLibs and represents Norwich, @UNESCO City of Literature. @DubCityCouncil @dubcilib
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50 pages in and loving it! Congratulations @NaomiIshiguro and thank you @TinderPress for the proof of #CommonGroundBook
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OUT NOW! 発売中！😼🌆.
OUT NOW!. The Cat and The City.猫と街 .🐈🗼🏙️. In this inventive and beguiling literary novel by @nasubijutsu, a stray cat dances through Tokyo, connecting a group of apparent strangers. Amazon: Waterstones:
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Happy publication day to these two fantastic books! 🥳. MEMORIAL by @brywashing .VICTORIA PARK by @g_c_reeves . Can't recommend either highly enough! Congratulations to both Gemma & Bryan!
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Had a fab time launching the paperback of FOUR SEASONS IN JAPAN at @WaterstonesOxf last night. Many thanks to the wonderful booksellers and all who came. While I'm thanking people, I just want to thank some specific people for all the help they've given me with everything.
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📢BOOK EVENT!. 📅 Thursday June 22nd (tomorrow!) I'll be celebrating the publication of FOUR SEASONS IN JAPAN at Cambridge Waterstones. I'll be talking rural Japan, writing, creativity. and maybe cats? 😸. 🎟️Tickets here:. Do come join!
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Spanish translation of THE CAT AND THE CITY, out today! 😸🇪🇸.
🐈¡Hoy sale a la venta #ElGatoYLaCiudad de @nasubijutsu!. Una lectura encantadora e innovadora que sabemos que estabais esperando… ¡y por fin ya está disponible en librerías!. ¿Qué estáis esperando para conseguir vuestro ejemplar?🥳. ✍️Traducción de @_DaniCasado.
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Love to see FOUR SEASONS IN JAPAN in Japan 🇯🇵⛩️🗾📘🐈⬛.
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