My Japanese bookshelf

傍聞き (kataegiki, Overheard, 2008) is a collection of four long short stories by 長岡弘樹 (NAGAOKA Hiroki, born 1969). It won the short story a...

I seem to have read a small pile of books since my last post without getting round to writing a review. So I'll try and write them up qu...

From the "detective story" and "science fiction" labels I've added to the post, you might guess thatノックス・マシン ( Knox ...

米澤穂信 ( Y ONEZAWA Honobu , born 1978) is probably best known outside Japan for a series of everyday life mysteries, starting with 氷菓 (hyouk...

The title of the short story collection なんでも屋大蔵でございます (nandemoya Daizou degoizaimasu, It's Daizou the Odd Jobs Man , 1985) by OKAJIMA ...

体育館の殺人 (taiiku kan no satsujin, The Gymnasium Murder , 2012) is a mystery novel by AOSAKI Yuugo ( 青崎有吾 , born 1991). The publishers, Sougen ...

大きい1年生と 小さな2年生 (ookii ichinensei to chiisana ninensei, A Big 1st Year and a Little 2nd Year, 1970) is a children's book by FURUTA Taruhi...