BOOK REVIEW BY THE JAPAN SOCIETY, UK:
GOOD NIGHT PAPA: SHORT STORIES FROM JAPAN AND ELSEWHERE (paperback, 2017)
"Seemingly a keen and adventurous traveller himself, Rowe stays clear of the norm in his themes, exhibiting both memorable and wildly entertaining anecdotes of Tarantino-esque extravagance with ninja barbershop owners, fugitive pilgrims and man-eating serpents terrorising Balinese villagers!"  (Harry Martin)
Full review HERE

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​Good Night Papa:
Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere
(paperback, 2017)

Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere is fifteen tales for the time-poor and travel-hungry. Triumphing over adversity is a central theme: a fugitive disguised as a pilgrim discovers his fate rests in the hands of a novice Buddhist monk in Japan (The Pilgrim); a recovering alcoholic mail pilot crashes his plane in the Australian desert with a bottle of gin on board (The Finke River Mail); a snobbish widow must ask the help of local cannery workers to carry a grand piano uphill to her home in Fiji (Baby Grand). These are some of the tales told. ​

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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