Soji Shimada the master of the postmodern whodunnit who originally wanted to become a painter but turned instead to reinventing the art of mystery writing,… Read more »
Earlier this month, the Asahi Shimbun started publishing daily installments of Fuminori Nakamura’s latest novel, The Card Shark (Kaado-shi), in its morning edition and its… Read more »
Red Circle, the curated group of award-winning Japanese writers, has published an extensive interview in English with the Japanese author Takuji Ichikawa, an imaginative storyteller… Read more »
From today, all of the titles in the recently launched series, Red Circle Minis, are on sale at another one of London’s highly regarded independent bookshops,… Read more »
Takuji Ichikawa, the multi-million selling author of Ima Ai ni Yukimasu (Be With You) has become the seventh author to join Red Circle Authors, the… Read more »
Last month Kawade Shobo Shinsha, a major Japanese publisher founded in 1886 and publisher of the important Japanese quarterly literary journal Bungei, published the first… Read more »
This summer hundreds of students in the United Kingdom have been sampling contemporary Japanese fiction, many for the very first time, as part of Broadening… Read more »