検索キーワード： 歴史小説

大坂・東町奉行所の同心、山中小鹿（やまなか・ころく）は、上役の筆頭与力・和田山の娘をわけがあることを承知で娶ったにもかかわらず、裏切られてしまう。妻の不貞を許せなかった小鹿は、義父の和田山に妻を公然と突っ返すという方法に及ぶ。

将軍の毒味役、鬼役を代々務めてきた矢背家。当主の蔵人介は、ついに自らの跡を継ぐ者として居候の卯三郎を試すこととする。命懸けの毒味、驚異の水練、死に物狂いの武芸、桁外れの早駆け……。

A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran Pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits. This is an American Indian revenge story written by one of the new masters of horror, Stephen Graham Jones.

Originally published in 1965, this autobiographical novel covers a key year in Jack Kerouac’s life—the period that led up to the publication of On the Road in September of 1957. After spending two months in the summer of 1956 as a fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the North Cascade Mountains of Washington, Kerouac’s fictional self Jack Duluoz comes down from the isolated mountains to the wild excitement of the bars, jazz clubs, and parties of San Francisco, before traveling on to Mexico City, New York, Tangiers, Paris, and London.

Germany is at war. The Nazis have absolute power. Evil men carry out their crimes without fear, knowing that the police dare not defy the regime. But Criminal Inspector Schenke - a good man living in terrible times - believes in justice. Whatever the personal cost.

Sie hat die Pest überlebt – doch der Tod schleicht weiter um die Häuser. Rosenheim 1648: Die junge Marianne lebt und arbeitet in der Brauerei, die von der Witwe Hedwig Thaler geführt wird. Die alte Frau hat Marianne bei sich aufgenommen und aufgezogen – doch das Mädchen hat von ihr nur böse Worte und Ungerechtigkeiten empfangen. Einzig der Pfarrer des Ortes begegnet Marianne freundlich und nimmt sie vor den Anfeindungen der Leute in Schutz: Diese sehen in ihr so etwas wie eine Hexe, da sie einst die Pest überlebt hat.

関八州の出水は公領を水没させたばかりか、ついに江戸にまで魔の手を伸ばす。増水する大川に公儀も手をこまねくなか、公領で呑気に踊り狂っているのはご存知放蕩同心・八巻卯之吉。

茂兵衛の一人娘が祝言を挙げたのも束の間、太閤・秀吉薨去により世は大いに動揺する。続く前田利家逝去、豊臣家武断派による石田三成襲撃を経て、いよいよ家康は天下への野心を隠さなくなった。

洪水で崩れた深川洲崎の石垣普請の入札にまつわる普請奉行と岩槻屋の不正を暴いたものの、御手伝普請のための費用がいまだ足りぬ正紀たちは、窮地に追い込まれる。

品川宿の老舗宿屋「紅屋」を営む吉次郎は、二年ぶりの長旅から、見知らぬ女童を連れ帰ってきた。吉次郎は、女童・おやすの類まれな嗅覚の才に気づき、「紅屋」のお勝手女中見習いとして引き取ることに──。

将軍の毒味役を務める矢背蔵人介は、実父・孫兵衛の料理屋で孫兵衛の元上役である天守番之頭・中村勝之進と出会う。しかし、中村は何者かに斬られてしまう。その裏には薩摩の影がちらつく。

As the much doted-on daughter of the local doctor Violet Stroud had a comfortable, happy childhood - despite a distinct lack of love from her cold-hearted mother. But when her father unexpectedly dies, Violet's life is turned upside down. As secrets about the family come to light, Violet finds herself homeless and with no one to turn to apart from Edie, the family's gentle and loving housekeeper.

To the world Mrs Copplefield is the epitome of Victorian propriety: an exemplary society lady who writes a weekly column advising young ladies on how to be better wives. Only Adeline has never been a good wife or mother; she has no claim to the Copplefield name, nor is she an English lady. Now a black woman, born in Africa, who dared to pretend to be something she was not, is on trial in the English courts with all of London society baying for her blood. And she is ready to tell her story.

宮部みゆきのライフワーク、語り手を新たに新章スタート!文字は怖いものだよ。遊びに使っちゃいけない――。江戸は神田にある袋物屋〈三島屋〉は、一風変わった百物語を続けている。

The pampered daughter of a wealthy Georgian plantation owner, sixteen-year-old Scarlett O’Hara soon realises that young men can’t resist her charms, despite her forthright manners and her refusal to embrace her mother’s ladylike ways. She enters into an early marriage, but when the war between the Union and the Southern States breaks out and she is left a young widow, Scarlett’s life is turned upside down, and she finds herself embroiled, together with the world surrounding her, in a long struggle for survival.

上州倉賀野で転覆したはずの川船は無事だった。しかも、積まれていた三国屋扱いの御用米の行方も、隠密廻り同心・八巻卯之吉の名推理で判明する。その裏には幕閣の思惑が絡む複雑な事情が。

将軍の毒味役を務める矢背蔵人介の元にかつて矢背家に居候していた望月宗次郎が帰ってきた。窮地に陥った吉原の花魁を助けに戻ったと告げる宗次郎だったが、その花魁は消息を絶っていた。

Lenore is the wife of steel magnate Henry, but ten years into their marriage the relationship has soured, and no child has arrived to fill the distance growing between them. Henry's ambitions take them from London to Sheffield, and with his success hinged on a hunt, an old tradition looms over the home; the hunt is a time to settle old scores. If a bullet finds a human home, then it is only that they were foolish to become prey. In the weeks leading up to the hunt, a carriage accident near their remote home brings the mysterious Carmilla into Lenore's life.

When Lizzie McDuffie, maid to Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt, boldly proclaimed herself FDR’s “Secretary-On-Colored-People’s-Affairs,” she became more than just a maid—she became the President’s eyes and ears into the Black community. After joining the White House to work alongside her husband, FDR’s personal valet, Lizzie managed to become completely indispensable to the Roosevelt family. Never shy about pointing out injustices, she advocated for the needs and rights of her fellow African Americans when those in the White House blocked access to the President.

活気溢れるお夏の居酒屋の片隅で、静かに油揚げを食べるその男は、過去のしくじりに縛られていた。そんな男の日常にも、変化の風は吹く。