Historic novel

Philippa Gregory: Dark Tides

SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2021

Midsummer Eve, 1670. A turbulent time to seek the truth..

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Philippa Gregory: Dawnlands

SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2023

In a divided country, power and loyalty conquer all... Ned Ferryman, inspired by news of a rebellion against the Stuart kings, returns from America with his Pokanoket servant to join the uprising against roman catholic, King James.

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Philippa Gregory: The King's Curse

SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2015

The riveting story of Margaret Pole, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, and was one of the few surviving members of the Plantagenet dynasty after the Wars of the Roses.

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Philippa Gregory: The Lady of the Rivers

SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2011

Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI.

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Philippa Gregory: The Other Boleyn Girl

HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS, 2011

The acclaimed international bestseller set around the Tudor court, during the years when Henry VIII traded his mistress Mary Boleyn for courtship of her sister Anne - and tracing the extraordinary events that changed the course of a country’s history.

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Philippa Gregory: The Queen's Fool

HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS, 2007

Into the treacherous Tudor court cornes Hannah. Becoming entangled in the schemes ofhandsome traitor Robert Dudley, she is sent as a Holy Fool to spy on Princess Mary.

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Philippa Gregory: The Virgin's Lover

HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS, 2007

Sumptuous historical novel from bestselling author of THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL and THE QUEEN'S FOOL Elizabeth I has acceded to the throne of England, a position she has waited and schemed for all her life.

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Philippa Gregory: The White Princess

SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2013

The haunting story of the mother of the Tudors, Elizabeth of York, wife to Henry VII. Beautiful eldest daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville - the White Queen - the young princess Elizabeth faces a conflict of loyalties between the red rose...

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Philippa Gregory: The White Queen

POCKET BOOKS, 2009

1464. Cousin is at war with cousin, as the houses of York and Lancester tear themselves apart...

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Philippa Gregory: Three Sisters, Three Queens

SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2017

When Katherine of Aragon is brought to the Tudor court as a young bride, the oldest princess, Margaret, takes her measure.

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Philippa Gregory: Tidelands

SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2020

Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands – the marshy landscape of the south coast.

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Pierre Boulle:Bridge on the River Kwai

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2002

One of the finest war novels ever written, Bridge on the River Kwai tells the story of three POWs who endure the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway - Colonel Nicholson, a man prepared to sacrifice his life but not his dignity;

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Pip Williams: The Bookbinder of Jericho

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2024

As World War One brings women unexpected new freedoms, bookbinder Peggy has the chance at a new future.

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Rebecca Gablé: Hiobs Brüder

BASTEI LÜBBE TASCHENBUCH, 2011

Was dachte Gott sich nur dabei, das geschehen zu lassen? War es eine Prüfung? Hatte Gott sich überlegt:

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Robert Graves: Claudius the God

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2006

If you enjoyed Claudius the God, you might like Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.

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Robert Harris: Dictator

DEBOLSILLO, 2017

Hubo un tiempo en que Marco Tulio Cicerón tenía a Julio César en su mano; de haberla cerrado, lo habría destrozado.

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Robert Harris: Dictator - Cicero Trilogy 3

ARROW BOOKS, 2016

There was a time when Cicero held Caesar’s life in the palm of his hand.

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Robert Harris: Lustrum - Cicero Trilogy 2

ARROW BOOKS, 2016

In a city on the brink of acquiring a vast empire, seven men are struggling for power. Cicero is consul, Caesar his ruthless young rival, Pompey the republic's greatest general, Crassus its richest man, Cato a political fanatic, Catilina a psychopath, Cl

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Robert Harris: Munich

ARROW BOOKS, 2018

Spying. Betrayal. Murder. Is any price too high for peace?

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Robert Harris: V2

HUTCHINSON, 2020

The first rocket will take five minutes to hit London.You have six minutes to stop the second.

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Robert Harris:Múnich

DEBOLSILLO, 2019

Adolf Hitler está decidido a invadir Checoslovaquia para devolver a Alemania un territorio que considera suyo.

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Robert Merle: En nos vertes années (Fortune de France Tome 2)

LIVRE DE POCHE, LE, 2018

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Robert Merle: Fortune de France (Fortune de France Tome 1)

LIVRE DE POCHE, LE, 1994

De la mort de François Ier en 1547 a l'édit de Nantes en 1599, la France s'enlise dans l'épreuve des guerres de Religion.

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Roger Field: Rogue Male - Death and Seduction Behind Enemy Lines with Mister Major Geoff. by Roger Field and Geoffrey Gordon-Creed

CORONET BOOKS, 2012

This is the untold story of one of the most lethal and successful soldiers of the Second World War - a highly decorated hero as well as a self-confessed rogue.

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Rose Tremain: Adieu, Sir Merivel

INSEL VERLAG, 2014

Die Aussichten sind nicht rosig: Sir Robert Merivel, Medicus, Lebemann und Vertrauter Charles‘ II., hat bessere Zeiten gesehen.

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Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe

SIGNET, 2009

During the Crusades, Wilifrid, a young Saxon knight, embarks on a series of adventures to prove himself worthy of the princess Rowena, fighting the Normans and the Templars?and allied with such figures as Robin Hood and Richard the Lionheart.

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Stefan Zweig: Die Welt von Gestern

FISCHER TASCHENBUCH VERLAG, 2007

Erinnerungen an die Welt von Gestern, an die bürgeliche Welt, die in zwei Weltkriegen unterging.

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Stefan Zweig: Die Welt von gestern - Erinnerungen eines Europäers

ANACONDA VERLAG GMBH, 2013

Die Welt von Gestern das war aus Sicht Stefan Zweigs die bürgerliche Welt im habsburgischen Österreich, die in zwei Weltkriegen unterging. Zweig schildert das alte Wien, das Leben seiner Generation und seine eigene Biografie.

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Steve Berry: The Lincoln Myth: Book 9

HODDER & STOUGHTON, 2015

International bestseller Steve Berry returns with another brilliant Cotton Malone thriller involving a mystery about Abraham Lincoln and a political issue that's as explosive as it is timely - not only in Malone's world, but in ours.

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Susan Meissner: The Last Year of the War

BERKLEY, 2019

From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and As Bright as Heaven comes a novel about a German American teenager whose life changes forever when her immigrant family is sent to an internment camp during World War II.

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Susan Stokes-Chapman: Pandora

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2023

London, 1799. Dora Blake lives with her uncle in what used to be her parents' famed shop of antiquities.

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Susanne Röckel: Der Vogelgott

JUNG UND JUNG VERLAG, 2018

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Svetlana Alexiévich: La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer

DEBOLSILLO, 2017

La Premio Nobel de Literatura 2015 Svetlana Alexiévich, «la voz de los sin voz», muestra en esta obra maestra una perspectiva de la guerra ignorada hasta el momento: la de las mujeres que combatieron en la segunda guerra mundial.

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Svetlana Alexiévich: Los muchachos de zinc: Voces soviéticas de la guerra de Afganistán

DEBOLSILLO, 2019

Una obra maestra con una perspectiva única y desgarradora sobre la guerra de Afganistán, de la Premio Nobel de Literatura 2015, Svetlana Alexiévich, «la voz de los sin voz».

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Svetlana Alexiévich: Últimos testigos

DEBOLSILLO, 2017

La Segunda Guerra Mundial dejó casi trece millones de ninos muertos y, en 1945, solo en Bielorrusia, vivían en los orfanatos unos veintisiete mil huérfanos, resultado de la devastación producida por la guerra en la población de ese país.

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Svetlana Alexiévich: Voces de Chernóbil: Crónica del futuro

DEBOLSILLO, 2019

La escritora bielorrusa Premio Nobel de Literatura 2015 da voz a aquellas personas que sobrevivieron al desastre de Chernóbil y que fueron silenciadas y olvidadas por su propio gobierno. Este libro les da la oportunidad de contar su historia.

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Swetlana Alexijewitsch: Secondhand-Zeit: Leben auf den Trümmern des Sozialismus

SUHRKAMP VERLAG, 2015

Gut zwanzig Jahre sind vergangen seit dem Zusammenbruch des Sowjetimperiums, die Russen entdeckten die Welt, und die Welt entdeckte die Russen.

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Thornton Wilder: The Ides of March - A Novel

HARPER PERENNIAL, 2003

The Ides of March, first published in 1948, is a brilliant epistolary novel set in Julius Caesar's Rome. Thornton Wilder called it "a fantasia on certain events and persons of the last days of the Roman republic."

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Vanessa Chan: The Storm We Made

HODDER & STOUGHTON, 2024

Her decision changed history.Now her family must survive it.

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Victoria Atamian Waterman: Who She Left Behind

HISTORIUM PRESS, 2023

Set in various time periods, from the declining days of the Ottoman Empire in Turkey to Armenian communities in Rhode Island and Massachusetts during the 1990s, the book provides a deep immersion into a lesser-known era.

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Yan Mo:Red Sorghum

ARROW BOOKS, 2003

Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty as the Chinese battle ...

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Yasmina Khadra: Ce que le jour doit a la nuit

POCKET, 2009

Yasmina Khadra, de son vrai nom Mohammed Moulessehoul, est né en 1955 dans le Sahara algérien. Il est aujourd'hui connu et salué dans le monde entier ou ses romans sont traduits dans 32 pays.

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Yu Hua: Brothers

ANCHOR BOOKS, 2010

A bestseller in China, Brothers is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok.

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