Just out in paperback, this excellent new translation (by Jesse Kirkwood) of Tokyo Express, by one of the godfathers of Japanese detective fiction, Seicho Matsumoto, an engrossing, old-school detective novel from Penguin Classics, highly recommended by our own Joe

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#WhatWereReading : Joe is enjoying a new translation of acclaimed Japanese writer Seicho Matsumoto's Tokyo Express (one of the godfathers of Japanese detective fiction) from Penguin Classics

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Lunchtime reading: continuing new translation of Matsumoto's Tokyo Express from Penguin Classics, and very much enjoying both story and the descriptions of life in 1950s Japan.

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Heading back to Edinburgh after a few days home with dad, travelling in company of one of Japan's greatest detective novel writers, Seicho Matsumoto, a new translation by Jesse Kirkwood for a lovely Penguin Classics edition, with French flaps.

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