Historická beletrie, Strana 3

1670. The Golden Bough runs fearlessly south from Ethiopia to Zanzibar. Captain Hal Courtney surveys the black horizon with the sharp eyes of a man who does not trust these...

Spring, 1941. German submarines are prowling the North Atlantic, sinking ships filled with the food, fuel and weapons that Britain needs to survive. With the Royal Navy losing...

The year is 1342. The English, led by Edward III, are laying waste to the French countryside. The army may be led by the King, but it is the archers, the common men, who are...

Liverpool, 1939 As winter descends on Tuppenny Corner and rumours of war float across the canals, fifteen-year-old Rosie O'Leary must come to terms with her own dramatic...

A historical fiction that presents the life and loves of Jacqueline of Hainaut, thrice married, thrice imprisoned and ransomed; the extraordinary 15th-century life of a women...

A family divided. Will war bring them together? Edith and Ada run a home for unmarried mothers in London's East End. It's here that Edith, a doctor, offers free medical help to...

In 1933, Bella Stuart leaves her quiet London life to move to Italy to tutor the child of a beautiful Jewish heiress and an elderly Italian aristocrat. Living at the family's...

One of the great Classics of Western Literature, Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters...

What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take...

After lying undiscovered for over 700 years, a manuscript holding the answers to a city's final questions is unearthed. Centuries before, on the eve of the invasion of Accra,...

Paris, 1917. The notorious dancer Mata Hari sits in a cold cell awaiting freedom...or death. Alone and despondent, she is as confused as the rest of the world about the charges...

She dreamed of riches, but lived in the slums Born into poverty and living under the roof of her violent and abusive brother-in-law, young Kitty Cox dreams of working in a...