Shōgun: new TV series and for sale leather bound from Ludlow Rare Books

Shōgun: The brutal Japanese history that inspired 2024's latest TV hit

Shōgun: The brutal Japanese history that inspired 2024's latest TV hit - BBC Culture

Ludlow Rare Books has a copy of Shōgun ready to be leather bound to make a sunning addition to any library (Hodden and Stoughton Fourth Impression, 1975). You can select your choice of blocking die and leather colour for this quality rebind. 

Shōgun is set in Japan in the year 1600 – a time of great unrest after two centuries of civil wars. The book is a 

Having endured starvation, scurvy, and a captain's suicide aboard a ravaged Dutch trade ship, pilot major John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis) and his surviving crew are shipwrecked off the coast of Anjiro, only to be thrown into a pit by sword-wielding captors to await their fate. Though Blackthorne avoids execution himself, a member of his entourage is less fortunate – he's bound and placed into a cauldron, where he is slowly boiled to death.

Originally a world-famous bestseller (James Clavell's 1975 historical fiction had shifted 15 million copies by the year 1990), Shōgun has demonstrated its small-screen potential before. In 2024, Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks' new series largely eschews big names, but instead brings even more vivid historical context to the forefront - ultimately delivering a rich depiction of feudal Japan in all its terrifying glory.