Julian Sedgwick and Chie Kutsuwada

Both author Julian Sedgwick and illustrator Chie Kutsuwada will be joining us to talk about their latest book, 100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café! You can expect storytelling from Julian, live manga drawing from Chie, and lots of fun from all.

Abducted by spirits from his village, lost boy Akira must make the long journey in north Japan to find his family and save his young sister, before time runs out. Voyaging deeper and deeper into a Japan 'between the worlds', Akira and his companions encounter a host of yokai monsters and famous ghosts, discovering a sometimes comical and sometimes terrifying world of interlinked and ghostly short stories along the way.

100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café is a ghostly journey through Northern Japan in search of yokai monsters and the Otherworld, told equally in manga and prose.