The year is 1967, and a young Japanese man is thinking about the future. On one side of the water, the war is raging in Vietnam; far away on the other side, the Apollo Project has just met with disaster as t...

Emanon's wanderings across late-1960s Japan bring her across other lives in small country towns, with each encounter leaving people transformed in her wake. Yet the awareness she brings may not give peace of...

Easy Going Scans The story begins with the eradication of Qing-cheng martial art faction by a group of martial art fanatics from Wudang, whose master and disciples only has one belief – to become the stro...

In The Unwomanly Face of War, Alexievich chronicles the experiences of the Soviet women who fought on the front lines, on the home front, and in the occupied territories. These women—more than a million in...

The Three Forest Cantons that would eventually become Switzerland, early 14th century: the St. Gotthard Pass is the main north-south artery through the Alps. It's guarded by the merciless Governor Wolfram in...

An anthology of six short stories: 1) The Ice Wanderer (Toudo no Tabibito - 凍土の旅人) [2003] Set in the Klondike region in 1897, and recounts the American author Jack London’s fortuitous encounter ...

After losing everything in the Great Famine, Amelia and Connor emmigrated from Ireland to the United States of America in 1849 to find happiness and become rich in California during the Gold Rush period.

Collection of short stories, including; - Flower - Memories - SOUND OF SAND - Farewell To Weapons - Hair - Electric Bird Land - MINOR SWING - Chronicle of The Planet TAKO - Chronicle of The Planet TAKO, Cha...

With the (non-accidental) death of Claudius, the emperor of Rome, his emotionally and psychologically unstable adopted son Nero takes the throne. A historically based Roman adventure, full of political intri...

The first story in this anthology, Who Fighter, is a play on the legendary "Foo Fighters," the nickname given to the mysterious, UFO-like fireballs that were sighted by World War II pilots. An ace Japanese p...

A collection of eight short stories. 1. Witch of the Flower Forest (Hana no Mori no Majo-san) The quiet old lady who lives alone has long being rumoured to be an evil witch. Two siblings are determined to d...

Simo Häyhä, the legendary sniper who distinguished himself defending Finland from Russia in World War II, is a woman.

A spin-off of the manga Akagi depicting Washizu Iwao in the pre- and early post-war period.

The personal stories and military feats of Soviet Union's first female pilots during World War II.

The brave tale of the peerless Great Emperor Leonard the First was evaluated as a universal truth. However, in his younger days, before he managed to unify the continent, he was a boorish and clumsy young m...

This is the tale of two members of a Beatles cover band who find themselves transported back in time to 1961 – to a time before anyone had ever heard of the Beatles – and decide to take the mantle of the...

This is the story of several harem girls for a new ruler. The most beautiful is the silver-haired, large-chested Relenia, but she has a lot of rough edges in terms of her personality. She can jump extremel...

Takeshi Yamato is a stout high schooler, the charismatic leader of a gang of swashbucklers. But, in reality, Takeshi lets off steam with fights to distract himself from the problems due to his ... disproport...

After whopping 20 years as the headsman of the kingdom, Denil finally gets to hang up his ax – not. With the flickering prospect of a tranquil, possibly happy post-beheading life snatched from him, he’s ...

Takano Shoko is a beautiful girl born between a rebellious critic and a famous geisha in Yanagibashi. When her father disappeared, Shoko lost her mother in an air raid and became a vagrant child, becoming th...

Set in 1940, Yusaku runs a trading company in Kobe, Japan and he is married to Satoko. While on a business trip in Manchuria, Yusaku learns of a horrific national secret. For the sake of justice, he decides ...