Reading now, shocked about court in Japanese novel (9,4)

I believe the answer is:

norwegian wood

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'japanese novel' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'reading now shocked about court' is the wordplay.
'shocked' indicates anagramming the letters (letters are shocked or disrupted).
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'court' becomes 'woo' (both can mean to romance someone).
'reading'+'now'='readingnow'
'readingnow' anagrammed gives 'norwegiand'.
'norwegiand' placed around 'woo' is 'NORWEGIAN WOOD'.

'in' is the link.

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(Other definitions for norwegian wood that I've seen before include "Pine" , "Beatles song?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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