It was one of the greatest human experiments ever undertaken: to populate an unknown land with the criminal, the unloved and the unwanted of English society.
Historical Fiction
- Author:MCCULLOUGH, ColleenSummary:
- Author:ROBERTS, Ann VictoriaSummary:
One long hot summer in the 1880s, Bram Stoker escaped to Whitby from the pressures of theatre life in London. These months are unaccounted for in the life of the future author of Dracula, and round them Ann Roberts has woven a...
- Author:Quinn, KateSummary:
A vivid, richly imagined saga of ancient Rome from a masterful new voice in historical fiction.
- Author:COULTER, CatherineSummary:
Not many girls born with brains and beauty would try to cover up the fact. But for Frances Kilbracken, it was the only defence against marriage to the playboy Hawk, Earl of Rothermere - or so she thought.
- Author:GREGORY, PhilippaSummary:
This book, the final part of the trilogy begun in "Wideacre" and "The Favoured Child", is set in the savage contrasts of Georgian England and tells of a young woman's struggle to save herself from poverty and...
- Author:Hoffman, AliceSummary:
In an unforgettable novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source, beloved author Alice Hoffman unveils the story of Maria Owens, accused of witchcraft in Salem, and matriarch of a line of the amazing Owens women and men...
- Author:Frantz, LauraSummary:
Ellie Ballantyne quitte le pensionnat pour jeunes filles et retourne à la demeure familiale de Pittsburgh, où elle découvre que ses parents sont partis pour un long voyage et que ses frères et soeurs ne semblent pas réjouis par son...
- Author:Gardner, AshleySummary:
Londres, 1816 De retour des guerres napoléoniennes, le capitaine de cavalerie Gabriel Lacey rentre à Londres, à l’époque de la Régence, exténué. À présent sans emploi, il lutte contre la dépression. Mais la disparition d’une jeune fille...
- Author:CARTLAND, BarbaraSummary:
Forced to accompany her uncle on a voyage to Calcutta, Sita attempts to throw herself overboard. She is saved by a mysterious stranger. They meet again when he rescues her from kidnappers and together they save the Nazim's life...
- Author:LIGHTFOOT, FredaSummary:
Historical romance set against the Tuscan countryside.
- Author:ROBERTS, Ann VictoriaSummary:
In the shadows of the City of York illegitimate cousins Louisa and Edward Elliott are bound by the past, until dashing Irish officer Robert Duncannon appears. Louisa follows her love to Dublin only to encounter hostility and the...
- Author:TRANTER, NigelSummary:
A weak monarch was a disaster for any nation, but no country needed a firm hand more than Scotland, with its feuding clans and the ever-present threat of an English invasion.
- Author:C. S. ForesterSummary:
As his naval battles with Napoleon conclude, Horatio Hornblower must rescue a man he knows to be a tyrant from the mutiny of his crew.
- Author:BRINDLEY, LouiseSummary:
Yorkshire, 1920. William Chalmers was determined to make his own way in life. His decision took him to Parker Street where he found lodgings. Little did he realise that this inauspicious, ordinary-looking street contained the woman to...
- Author:ANDREWS, LynSummary:
Set in bomb-torn Liverpool where Katie Deegan fights to protect her family from the heartless ambition of not only Adolph Hitler, but of Georgie Deegan, the man born her brother.
- Author:JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
Rachel Smedling is not like other women in her isolated Pennine village: she is taller, stronger and weaves cloth like a man. Without her, the household would fall apart, for her mother is ailing and her vicious drunkard father seems...
- Author:Talley, RobinSummary:
In 1959 Virginia, the lives of two girls on opposite sides of the battle for civil rights will be changed forever
Sarah Dunbar is one of the first black students to attend the previously all-white Jefferson High School. An...
- Author:Sauriol, Louise-Michelle, Therrien, JoanneSummary:
La taille d’Édouard Beaupré impressionne. Un véritable géant! Conscient de l’extraordinaire de sa condition, Édouard s’engage dans différents cirques. Une histoire aussi géante que son héros, qui retrace la vie et la carrière du célèbre...
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La naissance et l'évolution d'un genre littéraire : le roman historique, en Europe et ailleurs. Cet essai dégage les formes premières des romans historiques, autour des nouvelles et des romans mémoires de l'âge classique, montre comment...
- Author:Benlabed, SalahSummary:
Dans ce roman, Salah Benlabed visite à sa façon une page méconnue de l’histoire en faisant se côtoyer des personnages aussi bien fictifs que réels. Nous sommes au milieu du XIXe siècle, les armées françaises envahissent l’Algérie et se...