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Across A Bridge Of Dreams by Lesley Downer
Category: Fiction
Based on the true story of the 'last samurai', Across a Bridge of Dreams is an epic tale of love and war, of a nation divided and a love that can never be. In the brave new Japan of the 1870s, Taka and Nobu meet as children and fall in love; but their relationship will test the limits of society. Un ...Show more
Lesley Downer's Mindful Kitchen - The Zen of Japanese Vegetarian Cooking by Lesley Downer
Category: Food & Wine
Many years ago, Lesley Downer walked the same legendary road as the 17th century poet Basho. Along the way she picked up recipes from the country villages where she stayed. Later she spent time in a Buddhist monastery. From these unique experiences she has formulated her own view of food, of cooking, of ...Show more
The Courtesan and the Samurai by Lesley Downer
Category: Fiction
1868. In Japan's exotic pleasure quarters, sex is for sale and the only forbidden fruit is love ...Hana is just seventeen when her husband goes to war, leaving her alone and vulnerable. When enemy soldiers attack her house she flees across the shattered city of Tokyo and takes refuge in the Yoshiwara, i ...Show more
The Courtesan and the Samurai by Lesley Downer
Category: Fiction
1868. In Japan's exotic pleasure quarters, sex is for sale and the only forbidden fruit is love ...Hana is just seventeen when her husband goes to war, leaving her alone and vulnerable. When enemy soldiers attack her house she flees across the shattered city of Tokyo and takes refuge in the Yoshiwara, i ...Show more
The Last Concubine by Lesley Downer
Category: Fiction
Japan, 1865, the women's palace in the great city of Edo. Bristling with intrigue and erotic rivalries, the palace is home to three thousand women and only one man - the young shogun. Sachi, a beautiful fifteen-year-old girl, is chosen to be his concubine. But Japan is changing, and as civil war erupts, ...Show more
The Last Concubine by Lesley Downer
Category: Fiction
How do you fall in love when your society has no word for it? The Last Concubine is an epic love story closely based on historical events, chronicling 19th century Japan's extraordinary change from a medieval to a modern country. This is the story of a shogun, a princess and the three thousand women of ...Show more
The Samurai's Daughter by Lesley Downer
Category: Accessories
In the brave new Japan of the 1870s, Taka and Nobu meet as children and fall in love; but their relationship will test the limits of society. Unified after a bitter civil war, Japan is rapidly turning into a modern country with rickshaws, railways and schools for girls. Commoners can marry their childre ...Show more
The Shogun's Queen by Lesley Downer
Category: Fiction | Series: The Shogun Quartet
Only one woman can save her world from barbarian invasion but to do so will mean sacrificing everything she holds dear - love, loyalty and maybe life itself ...Japan, and the year is 1853. Growing up among the samurai of the Satsuma Clan, in Japan's deep south, the fiery, beautiful and headstrong Okatsu ...Show more
The Shogun's Queen : The Shogun Quartet, Book 1 by Lesley Downer
Category: Fiction
Only one woman can save her world from barbarian invasion but to do so will mean sacrificing everything she holds dear - love, loyalty and maybe life itself . . . Japan, and the year is 1853. Growing up among the samurai of the Satsuma Clan, in Japan's deep south, the fiery, beautiful and headstrong Oka ...Show more