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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."
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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.

REVIEWS!

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Paperback (274 pages) for immediate delivery
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​Good Night Papa:
​Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere

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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.

Paperback (193 pages) for immediate delivery
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For Kindle


​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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Good Night Philippines!


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Buy the Stories
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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!

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Good Night Kuala Lumpur
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Good Night Outer Hebrides, Scotland
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Good Night at 30,000 ft.
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Good Night Montreal
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Good Night East China Sea
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Good Night Maracas Beach, Trinidad
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Good Night Tokyo
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Good Night Busan, Korea
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Good Night in Budapest, Hungary
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Good Night Vancouver, Canada
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Good Night Australia
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Good Night Playa Negra, Costa Rica
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Good Night Cebu, Phillipines
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Good Night Nashville, Tennessee
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Good Night Lucerne, Switzerland
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Good Night Singapore
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Good Night Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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Good Night Kinryu Ramen, Osaka
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Good Night Amsterdam
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Good Night Hong Kong
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Good Night Hungary
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Good Night Paris, France
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Good Night Nara, Japan
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Good Night Phillip Island, Australia
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Good Night London
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Good Night Budapest, Hungary
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Good Night Melbourne, Australia
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Good Night Perito Moreno Glacier, Argentina
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Good Night London
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Good Night Cluj Napoca, Romania
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Good Night Lucerne, Switzerland
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Good Night Dili, Timor Leste (East Timor)
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Good Night Saigon
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Good Night Mentawai Islands, Indonesia
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Good Night Schloss Rosenau (Rosenau Palace), Coburg, Germany
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Good Night Salzburg




​Other mad musings by Simon Rowe appear in:

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Includes the story "Tuna Steak" by Simon Rowe. Click for amazon.com link
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Produced by members of Swinburne University, Master of Arts (Writing) program. Click image for amazon.com link
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Includes the short story "88 Seconds" by Simon Rowe. Click image for amazon.com link
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