Historical

Bloomsbury presents Bane of Bernicia by Matthew Harffy, read by Barnaby Edwards. Anglo-Saxon warlord Beobrand must navigate the caprices of kings as he fights for his honour and his life. The unmissable new Bernicia Chronicles novel from Matthew Harffy. Returning from a dangerous mission to Rome...

The next instalment in the Chivalry series from a master of historical fiction. The Chivalry series follows William Gold, who runs away from London to follow the Black Prince, from the killing fields of France, through life as a routier and criminal, and to redemption with the Knights of Saint...

Kent, May 1941. The towns and countryside south of London continue to take a battering from German bombers. Canterbury, with the focal point of its distinctive cathedral, is among the hardest hit. The landmark and holy site is the scene of further tragedy when Canon Walter de la Coeur is found...

In the Los Angeles suburbs, the Crawfords seem like the average American family. Leo is a rising star in advertising. His wife, Rose, is brilliant, restless, and pregnant with their second child. Their teenage daughter, Melinda, is already leaning toward rebellion. Then Rose vanishes during a family vacation. When she comes back, she’s not the same.

Cicéron avait touché le sommet du pouvoir, mais César a eu raison de lui. Le plus grand orateur de son temps est désormais contraint à l'exil, loin des sept collines de Rome.

A stranger on a mission of revenge. A hurricane on a path of destruction. The storm of the century hits Texas—with a vengeance. At the height of the Civil War, a Confederate soldier was captured and held in New York's infamous Elmira prison camp. He managed to escape during a snowstorm—after...

Jeremy, the daring pilot, flies dangerous missions across Europe and beyond, risking his life as he battles a waning and desperate empire. Beside him stands Amelie, the courageous ambulance driver dedicated to saving soldiers' lives at the front—Allied and enemy. She is equally devoted to...

Praise for Kaarina Parker: 'Compelling, relatable characters and a brilliant voice' CONN IGGULDEN 'A tale of power-play, political hope and women's inner strength' ELYSE JOHN Fulvia is now a wealthy young widow, with more than gold to her name. In the wake of her husband's death, she has...

Mike Mansfield’s cases are never easy. They’re dangerous and unpredictable, but there are patterns. Patterns in how criminals act and how they think. But this time, something is off. After a recent rescue, the emerging details seem very odd to Mansfield. Of his three culprits, one has no...

In a place built for death, one woman fought to save life. An elderly doctor stands before a room of students in a lecture hall. What unfolds is a story of courage, brutality, and survival. When Dr. Gisella Perl is deported to Auschwitz, her medical training becomes the only thing that can keep her alive. Forced into the women’s barracks under the command of Josef Mengele, she faces starvation, disease, and relentless brutality. Every day, she must make impossible choices, using her skills to save the women the camp has marked for death.

1673, Paris, rue Pastourelle : le corps d’une jeune femme, les lèvres cousues d’un fil de soie, est découvert. C’est la première victime d’une série de meurtres identiques. La Reynie, lieutenant général de police, missionne deux enquêteurs ainsi qu’un jeune artiste italien...

Wanneer Dr. Molly Whitcomb naar Colorado verhuist, verbergt ze een geheim dat de reputatie van de Sheriff op het spel zet en de rust in Timber Ridge bedreigt. Deel 2 van 3.

Philadelphia, 1778. The British are watching, the French have arrived, and freedom is still a rumor. Claire Valois-widowed, fluent, almost invisible-steps ashore with a sewing basket and a deadlier cargo: messages written in lemon ink, meant for General Washington's spies and Rochambeau's officers. Her nerve and quiet brilliance pull her through candlelit taverns, Loyalist parlors, and river crossings where one wrong glance can end a war-or a life. Shadowing her is Captain Edward Ashford, a British dragoon who prides himself on restraint and never misses a seam.

Blending fact and fiction, Midnight Patriots follows real-life friends Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin as they confront powerful enemies threatening America. It’s 1940. Europe is in flames. Germany occupies much of the continent, and the Blitz rains terror on London. Fritz Duquesne, a German spy straight from the history books, plots to kidnap Einstein and steal America’s nuclear secrets. Enraged by Chaplin’s mockery in The Great Dictator, Adolf Hitler dispatches an SS assassin to silence the man who ridiculed him.

Antes de El hedor de la verdad, hubo una historia. Una historia en la que la lucha entre el bien y el mal comenzó a tomar forma y dejó una cicatriz imposible de borrar. Es ahí donde nació la grieta en el alma de Néstor. La herida que lo empujó, paso a paso, hacia el camino de los asesinos en serie.

Da Tyskland invaderer Polen i 1939, befinder Marta og hendes spejdertrop sig på et meget prekært sted, tæt på grænsen, og det eneste hendes far kan finde på, er at sørge for at hun straks bliver bragt i sikkerhed i et kloster langt fra Warszawa. Hvad faderen naturligvis ikke havde drømt om, er, at intet sted i Polen er sikkert, og da slet ikke for datteren af en officer. Der går ikke mange måneder, før Hitlers nye "ven", Stalin, begynder at sende potentielle modstandere i arbejdslejr, og kan man ikke få fat i officeren, må man nøjes med datteren.

John le Carré meets Robert Harris, with this business-and-moral-dilemma dimension of a corporate geopolitical thriller. ★★★★★ “An exciting novel that feels like a genre of its own – entertaining, thought-provoking, and beautifully written. I was hooked from page one.” August...

Desoto, Georgia is a quiet, out of-the-way place — a town where nothing of real significance ever seems to happen. At least not until a local farm boy has an unlikely encounter with a Russian spy. With the Cuban Missile Crisis looming, seventeen-year-old Haskell Hand is going through a rough patch. He’s grieving the death of his mother and contending with his father’s ever-worsening alcohol addiction. And if that weren’t enough, he’s embroiled in a feud with his twin brother, a disabled recluse known for his caustic personality and uncanny intellect.

Set in the late nineteenth century, A High Wind in Jamaica recounts the perilous fate of seven children, as they board a ship which soon becomes captured by pirates. The Bas-Thornton siblings, raised on a plantation in Jamaica, are sent home to England after a high wind obliterates their family house. But once the pirates seize their ship, the Captain flees the scene, abandoning the children to fend for themselves. As gripping as it is brutal, A High Wind in Jamaica is a poignant tale of survival, adventure and having to grow up long before one's own time.

On the wild west coast of Ireland, a neolithic burial chamber is uncovered. Inside, and perfectly preserved, is the image of a fabled Nemean lion and its cub drinking from a bubbling fountain of pure fire. The image matched the one found on an ancient scroll that warned of a Celtic Prophecy. It foretold of an approaching disaster of unimaginable scale hurtling toward the modern world… Sam Reilly needs to solve the Celtic Prophecy and find the fabled Nemean Lions, whose secret may be the only thing that can save his life.

They built something the world had never seen. Then the world came for them. Hold on for Dear Life is the story about three friends who set out to fix the global financial system and nearly destroyed themselves in the process. Set in 2017, it details the peak of the ICO crypto world. HODL is the crypto world's term for holding on through the crash. It is a novel about idealism tested by success, about the specific cost of visibility, and about what you choose to hold when everything else falls away.

Le commissaire impérial Antoine de Barjac et l'illusionniste Louis Comte sont envoyés dans les Combrailles pour enquêter sur la mystérieuse disparition de nombreux conscrits, sur fond de légendes locales terrifiantes. Au cœur de cette région reculée, ils devront affronter des forces maléfiques et une menace invisible susceptible d'ébranler les fondements de l'Empire.

Klim Rogov, a celebrated radio anchorman, never imagined he’d be treated like royalty in the Soviet Union when he arrived in 1927. But his assignment as a United Press correspondent in Moscow gives him access to the country’s most dangerous and powerful circles. Klim isn’t here for the champagne and privilege that ordinary Russians can only dream of. He’s here for Nina, his wife, who was kidnapped by Bolshevik agents. Every day in Moscow is a tightrope walk: one wrong word, one wrong look, and he could be branded a spy, condemned in a show trial, and lose Nina forever.

Two action-packed archaeological adventures filled with deadly secrets, relentless danger, and pulse-pounding thrills. If you love fast-paced, globetrotting romps with amazing characters, then you'll love Charlee's story! Charlee Flynn discovers that her parents aren't really antiquities experts, they're "black market acquisitions specialists." They're thieves! And now, after an old enemy forces them to flee their Costa Rican home, Charlee must become one too.

Fl. 1700The tides of fate demand blood. Sybil's entire life was spent scraping the bottom of the barrel, sneaking scraps, and making do with what little money her brother Walter could smuggle back to London from Nassau. But as time passes and the last delivery from her brother becomes more distant, she soon realizes that she might finally be on her own. With nowhere left to go she ventures out across the ocean, desperately hoping to retrace her brother's footsteps.