Bookstore Girls

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 Riko Nishioka is assistant manager of the flagship Pegasus bookstore in Kichijoji. After working her way up from a part-time position, she is now, aged forty, a respected figure in the Japanese publishing industry. But 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

Product details

• Authors: Kei Aono
• Assisted by: Haydn Trowell (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 04.06.2026
• EAN: 9781529446340
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-4634-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / City Life, Tokyo, Fiction in translation, Publishing and book trade, FICTION / World Literature / Japan, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general