検索キーワード： 歴史小説

Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick. But the only person who can make her dream come true is dead and – inconveniently – in Hell. And Alice, along with her biggest rival Peter Murdoch, is going after him. But Hell is not as the philosophers claim, its rules are upside-down, and if she’s going to get out of there alive, she and Peter will have to work together.

After being raised in a children’s asylum, Josie Smith ends up on the streets and quickly learns how to take care of herself. Her singing voice draws crowds on every corner, and she’ll stop at nothing to become famous and travel the world, loved and adored by all. Maybe then she won’t think about the family who gave her away as an infant.

大好評「まんまこと」シリーズ、ついに第10弾!子が生まれ、張り切る新米父の麻之助だが、相談事は待ってくれない。悪友に妻たちまで巻き込み、時に怠けながら、今日も果敢に揉め事を捌く!

幼くして母との離別。さらに父広忠の非業の死。そして今川家への人質。乱世の嵐は容赦なく竹千代を翻弄する。しかし、思いがけず宿敵織田方の手に落ちた運命のいたずらで、竹千代は生涯の盟友となる信長と相まみえた。

秘めた想いを届けます――季節うつろう幕末の京都。伏見にある旅籠・月待屋には、不思議なほどに人の心を動かす手紙を書く代筆屋「懸想文（けそうぶみ）売りさま」がいるという。

「女官をひとり斬ってもらう」――将軍毒味役の矢背蔵人介は、御小姓番頭の橘右近から裏御用を命じられる。

将軍ご愛玩のお犬、お珠様探索で大活躍した放蕩同心、八巻卯之吉。側室のお静の方の寵愛も得て万々歳――のはずだったが、お犬様発見の手柄をこともあろうに真の黒幕、上郷備前守に譲ってしまう。

命は奪えても、誰にも魂は奪わせない――。本屋大賞作家が放つ、書き下ろし大型時代エンタメ。小説版「十一人の賊軍」！戊辰戦争のただ中、侍殺しの罪で捕まった駕籠かき人足の政（まさ）は、薩長率いる「官軍」から砦を守るよう命じられる。

When gardener Robert Bardsley arrives at Anderby Hall, an Elizabethan manor house in the Gloucestershire countryside, it is home to 'Greenfields', a community of artists and idealists. Robert has been employed to revive Anderby's famous roses and restore the topiary garden, but he also soon befriends the other residents: from colourful neighbour Trudie, who makes a formidable cocktail and keeps her late-fiancé's ashes on the mantelpiece, to composer Daniel, recovering from the horrors of the Great War. The only person he can't win over is Anderby's schoolteacher, Faye, who finds him . . .

Althea Hartley has lost her spark. As the youngest daughter of an eccentric family, playwrighting is in her blood. But two failed Seasons have left her disenchanted. In desperate need of inspiration, she takes matters into her own hands by creating a tale of a dashing highwayman. What could possibly go wrong? But her stories prove to be a little too true for the actual highwayman living beneath the tons’ nose.

将軍・吉宗による登用で御広敷用人となった水城聡四郎。しかし、具体的な担当はなく無任所のままだった。そこへ吉宗から直々の命が下り、竹姫付きとなる。

品川宿の宿屋「紅屋」では、おやすが見習いから、台所付きの女中として正式に雇われることとなり、わずかばかりだがお給金ももらえるようになった。

掘割で溺れる犬を助けた放蕩同心、八巻卯之吉は八丁堀の役宅に連れ帰り溺愛する。

京から江戸に戻った将軍毒味役の矢背蔵人介は、相番を務める同僚の桜木兵庫から娘の縁談を聞かされる。しかし、縁談相手の由緒ある乙山家の息子には悪評が。そして、相番の娘は窮地に陥る――。

この部屋で語られる怪談は、ひとの心を解きほぐす。江戸は神田の袋物屋・三島屋は風変わりな百物語で知られている。語り手一人に聞き手も一人。話はけっして外には漏らさない。

Keiko Furukura is thirty-six, and she has been happily working at a Tokyo “Smile Mart” for eighteen years, fitting in by copying her colleagues’ dress and mannerisms, playing the part of a “normal person” excellently—more or less. But her packaged idyll is threatened by mounting pressure to find a husband and a proper career, prompting her to take desperate action to protect her peaceful world.

All'apparenza il racconto di un'esperienza scolastica, un semplice aneddoto con un inizio appena abbozzato ma privo di un reale finale, all'apparenza molte cose innocenti... di fatto un racconto intenso e pregno delle sensazioni provate durante la Guerra Civile Spagnola e l'immediato periodo del dopoguerra; una storia che non ha un inizio, perché già noto, e che non ha fine, perché era ancora in via di sviluppo quando il racconto fu pubblicato, confrontando più o meno velatamente vincitori e vinti; una storia piena di cose innocenti solo in apparenza.

昨年の大地震が残した爪痕も、ようやく幾らか薄れてきたように思えた頃。品川宿の宿屋「紅屋」では、おやすが見習いから、台所付きの女中として正式に雇われることとなり、わずかばかりだが給金ももらえることになった。

八代将軍となった徳川吉宗の登用で御広敷用人となった水城聡四郎。将軍の命を受け、幼くして大奥にいる竹姫の事情を調べるため京へ来ていた。しかし、その背後には伊賀者の影が。

竹千代（家康）が生まれた年、信玄は22歳、謙信は13歳、信長は９歳であった。動乱期の英傑が天下制覇の夢を抱くさなかの誕生。それは弱小松平党にとっては希望の星であった――