Résultats pour "Billie" dans Fiction historique

Renowned as much for her wit and satirical social commentary as for her stories of love and romance, Jane Austen remains unfailingly relevant and one of Britain’s best loved authors. In this Audible Original collection, an all-star list of narrators (Billie Piper, Claire Foy, Emma Thompson, Florence Pugh and Gugu Mbatha-Raw) capture Austen’s pin-sharp humour and tone in these dramatisations of her six beloved novels accompanied by a full cast.

1940. It's been a month since rector's daughter Billie Harkness left her rural village to make a fresh start in the northern city of Hull. Now she has a new home and an exciting new job as one of only two female police constables in the whole city. But Hull still feels like a foreign country, and some people are less than impressed by the idea of a woman doing a "man's job". But determined to do her bit for the war effort, Billie throws herself into her work. The chance to prove her worth comes during a search for a missing air raid shelter inspector, when Billie makes a shocking discovery.

1940. Britain is at war. Rector’s daughter Wilhelmina Harkness longs to do her duty for her country, but when her strict mother forbids her to enlist, their bitter argument has devasting consequences. Unable to stay in the village she loves, Wilhelmina—reinventing herself as Billie—spends everything she has on a one-way ticket up north. Hull is a distant, dangerous city, but Billie is determined to leave her painful memories behind and start afresh, whatever the cost.

Bellflower, Nevada For fifty-one weeks a year, it's just another sun-baked desert town with dusty roads, half-empty bars, cheap motels, bored locals, and the long shadow of Area 51 hanging over everything. Then August comes, and Bellflower changes. The UFO Festival brings them in by the carload...

Connecticut, 1833. A year after Chester Cranberry’s unsolved murder, the town that he founded continues to suspect that his wife, Elcira, ended his life. With insufficient evidence to bring her to trial, and little effort to find another suspect, the town gossip labels her “The Widow Murderess.” But Elcira has seven children to feed, ranging in age from three to nine, and her nanny, Deborah, a freed slave, is pregnant with her husband’s illegitimate child. All eyes are on these two women, expecting them to fail to keep the farm and the family together.

The life and adventures of Honorable William F. Cody - Buffalo Bill - as told by himself, make up a narrative which reads more like romance than reality, and which in many respects will prove a valuable contribution to the records of our Western frontier history. While no literary excellence is claimed for the narrative, it has the greater merit of being truthful, and is verified in such a manner that no one can doubt its veracity.

William "Bill" Stewart left Missouri to seek his fortune. Along the way he worked as a cow puncher, range detective, town marshal, sheriff, and U.S. marshal. In each job, he is forced into conflicts with the Indian. Finally his skills as an Indian fighter caught the attention of the U.S. Army and he was given a commission. He soon discovered that his greatest challenge was in following orders while retaining his humanity.

A thrilling tale of courage and secrets set in postwar London and Paris, in which a search for a missing husband puts investigator and former war reporter Billie Walker on a collision course with an underground network of Nazi criminals It’s 1947. The world continues to grapple with the...

France, August 1944. In this alternate history WW2 adventure, American and British forces struggle to trap and destroy the still-potent German armies defending Normandy. But the Allies face another formidable obstacle of their own making: a seething rivalry between generals leads to a high-level...

In Book 1 of The Deception Series, an alluring Secret Service Agent must apprehend a counterfeiter code-named Hundred Dollar Bill. He's a crooked cop with blue eyes deeper than the devil. She crosses a line and is framed for murder. With no means of proving her innocence, she goes on the lam. The agent tasked to apprehend her has a problem. He's crazy in love with this dame.

Jeff Baker survives the Civil War and becomes a U.S. Marshal in the Indian Territory. He tires of hunting and killing men in order to keep the peace and resigns. After settling at Bitter Creek, in Hardin County, Texas, he gathers cattle and sells them in Galveston. He saves the life of a Negro boy and acts as his guardian. Jeff finds that he can’t hide from his responsibilities and becomes a U.S. Marshal in Houston, Texas. The Clancy brothers are rustling cattle and mixing them in with their herd. Three men rob the Wells Fargo office and head out toward Beaumont.

From Martha Waters, the author of the “enchanting” (Entertainment Weekly) Regency Vows series, a new historical romance set in 1930s England with a murder mystery twist. In a quaint village in the Cotswolds, Georgiana Radcliffe has accidentally become an amateur detective after helping solve...

"Blood and Gold: The Spirits' Revenge" is a supernatural horror novel set during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. The story follows Hernán, a ruthless Conquistador, and his band of soldiers as they invade the sacred land of Tenochtitlan, driven by greed and hunger for gold.

In this “thrilling” love story (Lily King, author of Writers & Lovers and Five Tuesdays in Winter), a teenage girl with a checkered past finds instant chemistry with a mysterious stranger.​ When sixteen-year-old Cindra Zoeller is sent to a reform camp in Montana after being involved in an...

A grunt level view of Charlie Wilson’s war - a Cold War adventure that peers inside the exploits of Senator Charlie Wilson and CIA’s Task Force Chief Gust Avrakotos. Strange bedfellows they were. Their alliance proved to be one of the most successful partnerships in the history of the CIA. Stinger: Operation Cyclone centers on the results of these efforts. The adventure begins with the election of Ronald Regan in 1979. This was the same year that the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.

WINNER OF THE BEST UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT OF THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE 'Essential reading for all adventure fans. Honour and courage in the wild and unpredictable Outback.' Wilbur Smith 1853, Victoria, Australia. Five bushrangers led by the murderous outlaw Warrigal Anderson raid...

Detectives Thane and Moss embark on a manhunt, and a gripping game of cat and mouse unfolds in a dual narrative that plunges listeners into the heart of a bygone era in Scottish crime, with every twist leading the detectives towards a pulse-pounding showdown with a criminal who has nothing left to lose.

Horace Manning, scientist, recluse and 'closed book' even to his friends, is found dead in his study at 4a.m., following a dinner in honour of his daughter's engagement. An ivory-handled carving knife rests between his shoulder blades as the houseguests gather round to witness the awful crime. The telephone line has been sabotaged - a calculated murder has been committed. Rewinding twelve hours, the events of the afternoon and evening unfold, revealing a multitude of clues and motives from a closed cast of suspects.

Yorkshire, 1878. Young, ambitious and in love, Albert Cowgill’s life is finally beginning in earnest. At just 23, he has already been made partner at Haigh, Ackroyd & Cowgill – the best wool business in the city. He’s also just laid eyes on the prettiest girl he ever saw, Hannah Ackroyd. Romance soon blossoms for Albert and Hannah, and they marry and set up home in Scarborough. But before long, clouds gather over Number 1, Byland Crescent. Within a year, Albert’s family begins to disintegrate.

Yorkshire, 1946. At last, Sonny and Rachel Cowgill hear the news they’ve been so desperate for. Their son Mark, who was injured in the very last days of the fighting, will make it home in time for Christmas. But their youngest son Billy has not been so lucky. He was declared missing in action in Crete and is presumed dead. Sonny and Rachel are learning to give up hope of seeing him again. Meanwhile, in Australia, Luke Fisher returns from the German prisoner of war camp where he was interned. His beloved fiancée Isabella Finnegan is waiting for him. But all is not well.