This is a group of short stories centered around different sad-sack or comedic people in the waning days of World War II and the recovery after.

The setting is London at the end of the 19th century. A young vagrant boy, Louie, meets Sherlock Holmes, a consulting detective who has just opened his own practice, after a murder case. Despite his hatred for...

This is a short story collection anchored with the tale of a young woman who is trying to ignore the reality that her husband is a serial killer, including "The Record of Peter Kyulten", "Sensual Nights", "Lord...

Mitsuko is Japan’s first woman detective in the turbulent 1930s! When a handsome college student shows up with a new case, he ends up assigned as her new assistant! Join Mitsuko and Saku as they solve cases...

title The original anime film this was based on has released alongside the movie Kurayukaba, which shares the same universe. In the busy day-to-day life of those in the ever changing coal mine town nicknamed...

Maomao, a young woman trained in the art of herbal medicine, is forced to work as a lowly servant in the inner palace. Though she yearns for life outside its perfumed halls, she doesn’t long for a life of...

From J-Novel Club: In the East is a land ruled by an emperor, whose consorts and serving women live in a sprawling complex known as the hougong, the rear palace. Maomao, an unassuming girl raised in an...

In the imperial court, Maomao, a young woman is put into servitude. The tale is just beginning for the woman doctor/pharmacist from the red-light district, as rumors circulate about the emperor's children's...

Get immersed in the historical setting and intriguing characters of The Apothecary Diaries, the original light novel series that inspired the hit manga and anime! This jacketed, hardcover volume includes more...

Some live in the deep darkness behind your eyelids. Some eat silence. Some thoughtlessly kill. Some simply drive men mad. They are known as mushi creatures that came into being shortly after life emerged from...

Ginko finds himself in a village which falls victim to a mushi that blocks out the sun; however, one villager seems to benefit from this calamity.

The secret of the record left by my grandfather, the underground record shop dealing with forbidden pop music, and the old jukebox in the diner of the near future. A collection of short stories that traces the...

The novels are set in the Japanese court of 1000 years ago and follow the exploits of court astronomer, diviner, and exorcist Abe-no-Seimei and former prince and most talented musician of his time Minamoto-no...

When he was young, Prince Takaoka had been told stories of India by Fujiwara no Yakushi, the favorite concubine of his father, as a bedtime story, and he had longed for that land. Decades later, as he grew up...