Four young people captivated by chess take on battles on the board while carrying their own lives on their backs. A high-energy entertainment novel published as the winner of the 12th Poplar Novel Newcomer Award.

A board-game battle fought with one’s whole life on the line.

A special-prize work from the 12th Poplar Novel Newcomer Award in which a boy who has lost his mother faces a new life in a seaside town where his mother’s family lives. It is recorded here as a work that depicts human and natural connections with depth.

A boy who lost his mother struggles to adapt to life in a seaside town.

After being bullied, Anzu meets a “zombie” man who lives in the same apartment building and slowly begins to see the world anew from within her loneliness. A heartwarming zombie novel and Encouragement Prize winner at the 12th Poplar Novel Newcomer Award.

The one who saved me after God abandoned me was the zombie man living in the same apartment building.

A girl who has experienced loss sets out on a summer pilgrimage and rediscovers her relationship to dreams. A coming-of-age novel of renewal published as an Encouragement Prize winner at the 12th Poplar Novel Newcomer Award.

A summer pilgrimage that traces a girl’s renewal after loss.

Toraya, burdened by the trauma of a serious injury, meets Rii, a woman with the strange illness of having only one hundred meals left to live, and is gradually moved by food and travel. A gourmet novel that won the Pure Full division prize at the 12th Poplar Novel Newcomer Award.

A journey with a woman who suffers from an illness that will kill her after 100 more meals.