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Contact

Contact Lesley Downer through her agent Bill Hamilton at A M Heath & Co. Ltd

Links

The Last Concubine is available now in hardback from Bantam Press.

Sadayakko’s magnificently baroque house in Nagoya, Futaba Palace, is now open to the public and is a museum to her.
Here are some websites that take you to old Edo:

Architronic - The city of Edo

A Virtual Tour of old Edo

And two great websites that take you to the Inner Mountain Road (Nakasendo):

Nakasendo Highway - A Journey to the Heart of Japan

Hiroshige - Kisokaido Road

People

Arthur I. Miller - my husband - is a science writer extraordinaire and author of Einstein, Picasso, among much else.

Humphrey Hawksley is a leading BBC foreign correspondent, author and commentator on world affairs.

Adam Williams is the author of three acclaimed historical novels set in China.

Kirsten Ellis is the author of a wonderful new biography of Lady Hester Stanhope - and the mother of my godson.