Year of the Talking Dog is available to download from all Amazon sites right now. And I’m even more delighted to see the first reviews have come in from readers on the Amazon.com site with the following comments that particularly tickled me: “I finished this in one sitting.” “A thoroughly enjoyable read.”  “Way more than worth the ridiculously…

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My name is Hana Walker. I am 13 years old. My Mum is Japanese, my Dad is English. Japanese call me “half”. But I am not 50/50. I am 100 percent me. I speak English, but I don’t speak Japanese. I go to a Japanese Junior High School. I solve mysteries by looking and thinking.…

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I’m really happy to announce that my latest book, Children of the Tsunami: A road trip through post-disaster Japan in words and sketches, is written, laid out, edited, and sitting on the virtual shelves right now. It’s a bit of an odd one. It’s not exactly a travelogue, not exactly an essay, not exactly journalism, not exactly art,…

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