Rome, 1492. The Holy City is drenched with blood and teeming with secrets. A pope lies dying and the throne of God is left vacant, a prize awarded only to the most virtuous--or the most ruthless. The Borgia family begins its legendary...
Historical Fiction
- Auteur:Quinn, KateSommaire:
- Auteur:HOWARD, AudreySommaire:
Clare Hanrahan has nothing left to lose the day she stumbles into the arms of Lew Earnshaw. By the time Lew and his kindly neighbour Nelly Bradbury have nursed Clare back to health, he is hopelessly in love with the frail Irish girl....
- Auteur:HENRICKSON, EmilySommaire:
Lovely Katherine Penn longs to have her play performed, a near impossibility in the stuff environs of Cambridge. Playwrights are considered rogues, but she's quite proper...isn't she?
- Auteur:PRICHARD, Katharine SusannahSommaire:
This is a story of the goldfields of Western Australia. Not only of the gold industry as it was, but also the lives of many of the people involved.
- Auteur:childers, ErskineSommaire:
One of the first spy novels ever written, The Riddle of the Sands had an enormous impact upon its publication in 1903. Author Erskine Childers-a Boer War veteran and expert yachtsman-crafted a riveting tale of two men who sail close to...
- Auteur:Robertson, DavidSommaire:
For Tyrese, history class is the lowest point of his school day. This is, until his friend Levi reveals a secret - a secret that brings history alive, in the form of one Gabriel Dumont. Through Dumont, a great Metis leader of the...
- Auteur:Twain, MarkSommaire:
he Prince and the Pauper (1882) represents Mark Twain
- Auteur:EVANS, JohnSommaire:
When Spanish power declined in the West Indies, France and Britain schemed to fill the vacuum. A young English officer is sent to stir rebellion against France in her islands.
- Auteur:AUEL, Jean MSommaire:
This, the fourth novel in the "Earth's Children" series, tells of Ayla and Jondalar's epic journey across the windswept grasslands of Ice-Age Europe. Together they encounter savage enemies and brave friends and finally reach a place...
- Auteur:MASON, DanielSommaire:
In 1886 piano tuner Edgar Drake leaves his wife and quiet business in London for the jungles of Burma. He has been asked to repair a rare grand piano belonging to a controversial British army officer who uses the piano and music to help...
- Auteur:Robertson, DavidSommaire:
When Cole's teacher catches him drawing rather than listening in class, he gives Cole a special assignment: an oral presentation on an important Aboriginal figure. Cole will do almost anything to avoid speaking in public -- even...
- Auteur:STUART, Vivian or LONG, William StuartSommaire:
This is a continuation of the novelised series of early Australian history. Finely drawn characters and authentic events. Book 8 of the series "The Australians".
- Auteur:Gray, ClaudiaSommaire:
A summer house party turns into a thrilling whodunit when Jane Austen's Mr. Wickham--one of literature's most notorious villains--meets a sudden and suspicious end in this brilliantly imagined mystery featuring Austen's...
- Auteur:BARCLAY, TessaSommaire:
Novel set in the 1920s, following the fortunes of Ruth Barnett, a love-child brought up by grandparents after the death of her `flighty' mother.
- Auteur:COOKSON, CatherineSommaire:
This powerful and enthralling novel spans more than three decades, from the 1880's to the First World War, and tells the story of Ward Gibson, his family, and those whose destiny is influenced by his marriage to Stephanie McQueen...
- Auteur:COOKSON, CatherineSommaire:
Even as a child Barbara was beautiful, but as her beauty grew so did the affliction which shadowed it. She was becoming totally deaf.
- Auteur:CARTLAND, BarbaraSommaire:
Bettina, unwanted by her mother, is sent to a missionary aunt. There the dangers she faces are overcome with the help of a tall dark stranger.
- Auteur:Bengtsson, Frans G.Sommaire:
Bengtsson's hero, Red Orm-canny, courageous, and above all lucky-is only a boy when he is abducted from his Danish home by the Vikings and made to take his place at the oars of their dragon-prowed ships. Orm is then captured by the...
- Auteur:MORRISSEY, DiSommaire:
From turn of the century India to contemporary Sydney. This is a spellbinding saga of love...of two women connected across the decades by the men who love them... and the magic of Zanana.
- Auteur:Barbara CleverlySommaire:
India 1922. The wives of officers in the Bengal Greys have been dying violently, one every year and always in March. The only link between the deaths is the small red roses that mysteriously appear on the women's graves on the...