![]() ![]() ![]() Each tale is a two-hander, its narration passed back and forth between a human and her pet. This unabashedly whimsical quartet of interlinked stories unfolds on the outskirts of Tokyo, a place of office blocks, railway lines and talking cats. Makoto Shinkai and Naruki Nagakawa (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori ) There’s some nice travel writing here as he wends his way from Wigtown to Penzance, along with cosy anecdotes about the folk he encounters and some madcap tangents, invariably prompted by his eclectic reading habits. In 2021, when Covid nixed a tour he’d planned with Prof Brian Cox, Ince hit on the idea of visiting 100 bookshops around the UK in just two months, notionally promoting his last book, The Importance of Being Interested. Incapable of exiting a bookshop with just one volume, he ran out of shelf space long ago – and that’s after he donated 6,000 books to charity. You may think you have a book problem but, as likely as not, comedian Ince’s will dwarf it. ![]()
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