Books by Samantha Sotto Yambao
“It’s all about a back street in Tokyo, where there’s a pawn shop…It’s where you go and pawn your life choices and your deepest regrets. Unlike normal pawnshops, you can’t buy them back. You think pawning your regrets is going to change your life for the better, but the book is fundamentally a journey about how those regrets are what build you…And it most definitely is fantasy. It takes you to this magical world that my brain certainly wouldn’t be able to think up. You’re in a night market up in the clouds, making worlds out of papier-mâché. You’re jumping through puddles; the water is a portal into different worlds. It’s just magical.” Read more...
Interviews where books by Samantha Sotto Yambao were recommended
The Best Adventure Novels: The 2025 Wilbur Smith Prize, recommended by Nathan Gray
Adventure means something different for everyone, says Nathan Gray, former fighter pilot and a judge for this year’s Wilbur Smith Prize for Adventure Writing. He talks us through the brilliant books that made the 2025 shortlist, and the journeys they took him on.








