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Hello, today on Open Book, we're haunted by the 1980s.

Later, a teenage coming of age tale set in San Francisco during the greed decade, courtesy of Vendalavida.

But first, as sporting attention shifts from Wembley and Wimbledon to Tokyo in the Olympics,

we're turning our literary gaze on Japan, a place I lived for a while as a child during the late 1980s bubble economy.

Whist from a terrace house in Sheffield to the supercharged streets of 80s Tokyo,

I still have neon-lit memories of what felt then like the future.

I returned to Japan for the first time in 2013 and was actually in Tokyo when the successful bid for the Olympics was announced.

But I felt that the promise of the 1980s hadn't quite delivered. I saw a future that

had never quite come to be. And it made me feel that there are two Japan's, the version that is

exported in all its gloss, and then the version that exists for people actually live in there.

Most of us won't be able to travel to Japan this summer, but books can help us travel there in

our minds and reveal a side of the country we don't often see.

So to help us uncover Japan through literature, I'm happy to say I'm joined in the studio by

Emily Atame, a Japanese British author whose debut novel Fault Lines is out now.

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