Tokyo Stories by Tim Anderson (Hardie Grant, 2019)

The author has a chef's instinct for good food, whether found in a department store basement, a railway station or a skyscraping hotel bar. Anderson's novel approach, exploring the Tokyo food scene from the ground up, makes sense if you've ever spent any length of time in the densely populated Japanese capital, where eateries from

holes in the wall to fine dining hot spots are tucked away in unlikely places.