He lived in Japan for many years where he worked as a translator, and currently teaches on the Creative Writing master's programme at the University of Cambridge and also taught on the Creative Writing Prose Fiction MA at UEA.

Bradley builds a poignant, quiet and affecting novel full of love as well as loss.--Observer

Transportive, mesmerising and beautiful, there is such a poignancy and tenderness to the story . . . written with lyrical prose that is emotive and warm. Every book worm would love this.--Glamour

Heartwarming--Cosmopolitan

Bradley has created an authentic sense of place, capturing the parochial intimacies and day-to-day rhythms of small-town life in Japan--Literary Review

My favourite novel, a delight for lovers of Japan... Ingenious--David Abulafia, TLS

A soulful story about Japanese culture, tradition and resilience--Woman's Weekly

This is a gentle, tender and thoughtful book, exploring literature, love, human connection, Japanese culture and the disillusion of youth. It features beautiful imagery and is crafted in such a way that you want to savour every chapter.--Culturefly

Four Seasons in Japan doubles as a love letter to Japanese culture, its landscape, and literature, exploring the comfort found in books and the (mis)understanding between generations.--Country & Town House

This novel is like the waves of the Seto Inland Sea. Waves that calmly roll in and out, permeating the reader's heart and mind profoundly, and before you know it there's a rich high tide.--Kyoko Nakajima, author of Things Remembered and Things Forgotten