PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE UK | Letters from the Ginza Shihodo Stationery Shop

FEATURES:

✅ Hidden away in a corner of the Ginza neighbourhood is a venerable stationery shop.

✅ To venture inside is to find everything your stationery-loving heart desires

✅ from the most delicate paper to fountain pens that fit exactly to the shape of your hand to gorgeously coloured inks.

✅ The shop owner intuits your every need, inviting you to take a seat at a small wooden table on the top floor

✅ where you'll find the words flowing, helping you unlock repressed memories, secret longings and your own mysteries.

✅ To this shop comes a young company employee, uncertain in his career and needing a connection back to his past

✅ the hostess of an elegant club; the vice-captain of a high-school archery team, an ageing businessman and a formerly homeless sushi chef.

✅ With impeccable manners and a warm demeanour, the shop owner helps each of them with more than just their stationery needs