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Books By Lesley Downer - Author

Lesley Downer’s mother was Chinese and her father a professor of Chinese, so she grew up in a house full of books on Asia.But it was Japan, not China, that proved the more alluring.She lived there for a total of some fifteen years.It has been an ongoing love affair.

She has written many books about the country and its culture.To research Geisha: The Secret History of a Vanishing World, she lived among the geisha and little by little found herself being transformed into one of them. Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha who Seduced the West, is the story of the turn-of-the-century Japanese actress who was the model for Puccini’s Madame Butterfly.

Lesley has presented television programmes on Japan for Channel 4, the BBC and NHK.She lives in London with her husband, the author Arthur I. Miller, and still makes sure she goes to Japan every year. The Last Concubine is her first novel.

Author's Website: https://www.lesleydowner.com/

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The Mindful Kitchen

Lesley Downer

Hardback

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The Shogun's Queen

Lesley Downer

Paperback

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£11.69 £12.99

The Samurai's Daughter

Lesley Downer

Paperback

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£11.69 £12.99

The Courtesan and the Samurai

Lesley Downer

Paperback

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£17.09 £18.99

The Last Concubine

Lesley Downer

Paperback

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£16.19 £17.99

Women of the Pleasure Quarters

Downer and 1 more

Ebook (Epub)

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£16.53