2021 Best Indie Book Award winner
2021 International Rubery Book Award nominee
2022 Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist

"Rowe brings to life an impressive variety of nuanced characters and cultures.  Every detail is mesmerising and nothing is predictable."

The Book

Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere is a collection of short fiction set in Japan and in seven other countries around the world. Driven by characters who are tough, gritty, charming and witty, each of the sixteen tales takes the reader on a trip which ends with a twist. 

Read 'West Wind' in Tokyo Weekender magazine, Japan's oldest English-language publication.

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​Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere

The Book
Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere is fifteen stories high, nine countries wide, and tells of people with problems and the clever - and sometimes unorthodox - ways they use to resolve them.

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​Himeji strikes again!
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The Convenience Store Ballerina makes the cut for 

​The Best Asian Short Stories 2019!

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​The Storyteller

Simon Rowe grew up in small town New Zealand and big city Australia. He writes short fiction and screenplays from a small room in an old house overlooking a samurai castle in Himeji city, western Honshu. His stories have appeared in TIME Asia, the New York Times, the Weekend Australian, the South China Morning Post and The Paris Review.

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The Readers

Good Night Kuala Lumpur

Good Night Outer Hebrides, Scotland

Good Night at 30,000 ft.

Good Night Montreal

Good Night East China Sea

Good Night Maracas Beach, Trinidad

Good Night Tokyo

Good Night Busan, Korea

Good Night in Budapest, Hungary

Good Night Vancouver, Canada

Good Night Australia

Good Night Playa Negra, Costa Rica

Good Night Cebu, Phillipines

Good Night Nashville, Tennessee

Good Night Lucerne, Switzerland

Good Night Singapore

Good Night Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Good Night Kinryu Ramen, Osaka

Good Night Amsterdam

Good Night Hong Kong

Good Night Hungary

Good Night Paris, France

Good Night Nara, Japan

Good Night Phillip Island, Australia

Good Night London

Good Night Budapest, Hungary

Good Night Melbourne, Australia

Good Night Perito Moreno Glacier, Argentina

Good Night London

Good Night Cluj Napoca, Romania

Good Night Lucerne, Switzerland

Good Night Dili, Timor Leste (East Timor)

Good Night Saigon

Good Night Mentawai Islands, Indonesia

Good Night Schloss Rosenau (Rosenau Palace), Coburg, Germany

Good Night Salzburg

​Other mad musings by Simon Rowe appear in:

Includes the story "Tuna Steak" by Simon Rowe. Click for amazon.com link

Produced by members of Swinburne University, Master of Arts (Writing) program. Click image for amazon.com link

Includes the short story "88 Seconds" by Simon Rowe. Click image for amazon.com link