検索キーワード： 歴史小説

En el año 1512, un navío español procedente de la primera colonia asentada en Tierra Firme regresa a la isla La Española. Tras naufragar en la costa jamaicana, veinte supervivientes, entre hombres y mujeres, se ven arrastrados por una tormenta hasta la península de Yucatán, donde son capturados por la población autóctona maya.

Jane Edwards hasn’t spoken since she was eleven years old, when armed riders expelled her family from their hometown along with every other Black resident. Now, twelve years later, she’s found a haven in the all-Black town of Awenasa. But the construction of a dam promises to wash her home under the waters of the new lake. Jane will do anything to save the community that sheltered her. So, when a man with uncanny abilities arrives in town asking strange questions, she wonders if he might be the key.

January 1970 finds Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, LA’s premier Black detective, at 50 years of age despite all expectations. He has a loving family, a beautiful home, and a thriving investigation agency. All is right with the world… and then Amethystine Stoller, his own personal Helen of Troy, arrives. Her ex-husband is missing. A simple enough case. But even as Easy takes his first step in the investigation he trips. He falls into the memory of things past. Little things, like loss, love, a world war, and a hunger that has eaten at him since he was a Black boy on his own.

Obiefuna has always been the black sheep of his family—sensitive where his father, Anozie, is pragmatic, a dancer where his brother, Ekene, is a natural athlete. But when Obiefuna’s father witnesses an intimate moment between his teenage son and another boy, his deepest fears are confirmed, and Obiefuna is banished to boarding school.

Oklahoma, 1909. Eleven-year-old Olive Augusta Radley knows that her stepfather doesn’t have good intentions toward the two Choctaw girls boarded in their home as wards. When the older girl disappears, Ollie flees to the woods, taking six-year-old Nessa with her. Together they begin a perilous journey to the remote Winding Stair Mountains, the notorious territory of outlaws, treasure hunters, and desperate men. Along the way, Ollie and Nessa form an unlikely band with others like themselves, struggling to stay one step ahead of those who seek to exploit them . . . or worse.

Ein tragisches Familiengeheimnis, eine malerische griechische Insel – und die große Liebe. Soraya Lane verführt auch mit ihrem dritten Familiengeheimnis-Roman zum Träumen, wenn sich die 30-jährige Ella aus London auf Spurensuche in Griechenland begibt. Schon lange hat Ella das Gefühl, dass in ihrem Leben etwas fehlt. Es erscheint ihr wie ein Zeichen, als sie von einem ehemaligen Londoner Frauenhaus eine mysteriöse Schachtel überreicht bekommt, auf der der Name ihrer verstorbenen Großmutter steht. Die Schachtel enthält lediglich ein verblichenes Foto aus Griechenland und ein altes Notenblatt.

Jack Barlow has a dream. For generations his family have been in service at Trenwith Estate. If he can survive the ravages of war, he’ll return home to build his own mechanic business and become master of his own destiny. Louise Saint-Claire is battling against the odds to run her family farmhouse in German occupied France after her abusive husband is taken prisoner by the Germans. She is determined to survive this brutal and bloody war. But fate throws Jack and Louise together when she finds the wounded British soldier and she decides to risk everything to keep him safe

Lily Valance wants to forget the war. She's determined to enjoy the world of the 1920s, with its music, singing, laughter and pleasure. When she meets Captain Stephen Winters, a decorated hero back from the Front, she's drawn to his wealth and status. The hidden tensions of the respectable facade of the Winters household come to a head. Stephen's nightmares merge ever closer with reality and the truth of what took place in the mud and darkness brings him and all who loves him to a terrible reckoning ...

Ten years ago, Louise Hunter's life was torn apart by tragedy. Her husband, Ben, killed himself; her brother-in-law, Jacob, was murdered; and her sister, Susan, abandoned her newborn daughter, revealing the baby is Ben's child. Louise remains haunted by guilt over the one night she spent with Ben's friend Eric and refuses to return Eric's love. But after adopting Jinnie, she finds new happiness – until Susan decides she wants Jinnie back.

Power is shifting. Queen Elizabeth I is dying, James waiting to become King. Everywhere, there is opportunity to ascend. But who will thrive, and who will fail, under the new King? Will it be the scholar Francis Bacon, whose brilliant mind is the envy of the royal court? Or his hated rival the attorney Edward Coke, already acclaimed as the greatest lawyer of his generation? The Winding Stair tells the gripping story of these two founders of our modern world and their battle for power, pre-eminence - and the hand of the most eligible woman in the realm.

After becoming pregnant out of wedlock, only to find out her betrothed was already married, Kathy feared for her future. Her mother agreed to pass off baby Dennis as her own, treating Kathy as his older sister instead. Then a chance meeting with Alisdair, a handsome RAF airman, changes everything. They grow close quickly, but when Kathy believes Alisdair has discovered her secret, she runs away from heartbreak by joining the Auxiliary Territorial Service.

Desperate to break free of small-town Florida, Addie Anne Buckley dreams of following in the path of her glamorous aunt Jean—known to the world as Marilyn Monroe. When Aunt Jean plans a trip to Hollywood for Addie’s eighteenth birthday, Addie sees her chance to escape. One thing stands in her way: her boyfriend. Truitt Holt is Addie’s first and only love and will be joining her in California. But days before Addie’s due to leave, Truitt does an about-face and gives her a painful ultimatum: stay and marry him, or they’re through. Addie chooses her dream.

北町奉行所定町廻り同心の木暮信次郎の姿が消えた。奉行所はおろか屋敷からも姿を消し、信次郎から手札を預かる岡っ引きの伊佐治は、大番屋に連れていかれる。

大人気上田秀人の代表シリーズ、時代小説文庫書下ろし「百万石の留守居役」、待望の第八弾！　若すぎる留守居役瀬能数馬は、藩主綱紀お国入りの交渉役として、参勤交代の準備に奔走する。金沢に残した数馬の婚約者琴が襲撃されるなど、国元では不穏な動きが相次ぐ。藩主綱紀も、異例の急ぎ足、わずか十日間の帰国を命じた。道中の諸藩に気を配る交渉役の数馬に、藩主の継室の座を狙った思いもかけぬ難題が降りかかる！

霙ふる師走のころ、夜討ちの陣吾と呼ばれる裏の世界で畏れられている男が、平九郎の露店にやって来た。呉服屋の大店「越後屋」に勤める比奈という女性を晦まして欲しいという。

財布や煙草入れなど、身につける小物に刺繡と金銀の箔をあわせて模様を入れる、縫箔師の咲。両親を亡くし、弟妹の親代わりとなって一生懸命に腕を磨いてきた。

ある事件を境にぴたりと他人に心を閉ざしてしまった十七歳のおちか。ふさぎ込む日々を、叔父夫婦が江戸で営む袋物屋「三島屋」に身を寄せ、黙々と働くことでやり過ごしている。

Das internationale Phänomen, das den Weltruhm des Autors begründet hat. Natal, Südafrika im Jahr 1860: Als Erben der väterlichen Farm ist den Courtney-Zwillingen Sean und Garrick ein ehrliches Leben unter der unnachgiebigen afrikanischen Sonne vorherbestimmt. Doch alles kommt anders, als zwischen den englischen Kolonialisten und ansässigen Zulu-Stämmen Krieg ausbricht: Die Brüder werden auseinandergerissen – und während Garrick auf der Familienfarm zurückbleibt, beginnt für Sean ein Leben voller Wagnisse. Nervenkitzel der Großwildjagd in den weitläufigen Steppen.

When German forces invade the Channel Islands and the citizens of Jersey are cut off from the rest of the UK, the islands’ residents bond together to resist the enemy. East London native Helen Bowman was never meant to be here, but when she found herself alone and pregnant her beloved aunt’s home in Jersey was the only place she could go. But now, as the enemy start rounding up anyone not born on the island to be sent to a camp on the continent, Helen is forced to rely on the kindness of strangers, like her new friend Peggy Hamel, to keep herself and her son hidden.

Based on the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of turn-of-the-twentieth-century New Orleans, Coming Through Slaughter is an extraordinary recreation of a remarkable musical life and a tragic conclusion. Through a collage of memoirs, interviews, imaginary conversations and monologues, Ondaatje builds a picture of a man who would work by day at a barber shop and by night unleash his talent to wild audiences who had never experienced such playing. But Buddy was also playing the field with two women, and inside his head was a ticking time-bomb.