Résultats pour "Helena" dans Fiction historique

1924, Hébertville-Station. Helena rayonne : depuis qu’elle a épousé François Bouchard, deux enfants sont nés, et elle mène une vie bien remplie dans un village paisible, entourée de ses belles-sœurs. Un peu plus et elle pourrait se croire née sous une bonne étoile… Les enfants vieillissent, la famille s’agrandit. Entre les tâches quotidiennes, les visites du curé puis les petites joies et les grands malheurs, Helena tient bon, bien que ses responsabilités de mère lui pèsent parfois.

Woman. Wife. Smuggler. Spy . . . A thrilling and heart-wrenching novel inspired by the astonishing real life story of Nancy Wake. Perfect for fans of Suzanne Goldring's MY NAME IS EVA, Kate Quinn's THE ALICE NETWORK and Imogen Kealey's LIBERATION, soon to be a blockbuster movie. 'Lawhon breathes...

Au tournant du vingtième siècle, Héléna Pelletier, une jeune femme originaire de La Plaine, cherche le bonheur dans son petit patelin du trécarré. Éblouie par la vision d'un amour parfait, elle n'arrive pas à trouver un homme en harmonie avec les élans de son cœur. Elle s'aventure ainsi sur un chemin de sacrifices et de persévérance pour aller au bout de son rêve, car, pour elle comme pour d'autres, le mariage apparaît comme une planche de salut.

Vergötterung, Flucht, Liebe, Entführung, Vergewaltigung. "Bin ich noch Helena?", fragt sich die schöne Prinzessin aus Sparta, nachdem sie von Paris verschleppt und geschändet wurde. Schönheit verspricht in Mahlknechts Neuerzählung der griechischen Sage kein Glück. Um dem Werben der Freier zu entkommen, entflieht Helena mit Theseus nach Aphidnai. Doch nach diesem freiwilligen Akt muss sie sich Zwängen unterwerfen, die von Männern bestimmt werden: Von den Lakoniern wieder nach Hause geholt, wählt sie unter den Werbern Menelaos, den Prinzen von Mykene, weil eine Entscheidung getroffen werden muss.

Eigentlich ist Evelyn Waugh bekannt für seine bissigen Satiren auf die aristokratischen Kreise seiner Zeit. Doch das ungewöhnliche Leben der Kaiserin Helena, Mutter Konstantins des Großen, die enormen Konflikte dieser Zeit, ihre Pilgerreise nach Palästina und die politischen Intrigen des imperialistischen Roms inspirierten ihn zu einem fesselnden Geschichtsroman. Waugh war erst Maler, dann Lehrer, Reporter und Kunsttischler, bis er in der Literatur seine Berufung fand. Seinen historischen wie geistreichen Abstecher in die Frühzeit des Christentums liest Walter Hilsbecher.

London, 1941. Miss Jane Treen is faced with another mysterious disappearance within her Secret Detective Agency’s team. Tabitha Moore, a government typist, was on her way to meet Jane with vital information about some secret codes. But she didn’t turn up for work and has seemingly vanished without trace. Then Jane and her colleague, handsome codebreaker Arthur Cilento, receive a call: a body has been found, and it matches Tabitha’s description…

Helene's War is a tense historical romance about a girl's difficult choice between love or duty in World War II Shy Helene dreams of studying at university, finding love and getting married. A chance encounter leads her down a dangerous path with increasingly desperate choices to make in order...

England, 1941. When Jane Treen is summoned to her boss’s office at the end of a long day, she smooths down her tweed skirt and makes them both another strong pot of coffee. Brigadier Remmington-Blythe slides a folded copy of the evening newspaper towards her, with one small article circled in red ink. A body has been found on an English beach in the little seaside town where she grew up, and he wants her to investigate. Jane is used to managing secret agents and spies, but she is now part of The Secret Detective Agency, England’s answer to solving the most mysterious murders.

The Holiday meets Lost in Austen, with a sprinkling of Bridgerton steam… 'A fun, fresh take on a Regency romcom that had me alternately cackling and swooning from the first page right up to the last' VIRGINIA HEATH 'If, like me, you're desperately searching for something to scratch that...

Winter, 1936. Kitty receives an unexpected telegram just before Christmas saying that her father in New York is seriously ill. She and her husband Matt swiftly set out for America and, after a fraught ocean crossing, they arrive to discover he is much improved. Kitty decides to make the most of her visit by taking in the sights and attending a costume party thrown by her father’s friend, Mrs Dangerfield.

1823: Jahrelang glaubte Lene, ihre Mutter sei verstorben. Nach einem Streit mit dem Vater erfährt sie jedoch, dass ihre Mutter den grausamen Mann verlassen und ein neues Leben in Griechenland begonnen hat. Die geliebte Tochter durfte sie nie wieder sehen. Lene fühlt sich vom Vater verraten und versteht endlich, warum der Unabhängigkeitskampf der Griechen ihr so am Herzen liegt. Also reißt Lene von zu Hause aus und macht sich verkleidet als junger Mann auf den Weg zu ihrer Mutter. Sie schließt sich einer Gruppe an, die auf der Seite der Griechen kämpfen möchte.

Under the Mediterranean sun, a drama begins in a café in Málaga. For Ian Ferrier, an employee of the United States Space Agency on holiday to visit his old friend Jeff Reid, it means the startling discovery that Reid is not just a wine exporter, but rather engaged in smuggling communist defectors to the West. Events take a turn for the worse when Ferrier, a stranger to the deadly world of espionage, must take sole charge of a high-ranking KGB agent. Alone in an frighteningly alien landscape, he can afford no mistakes when choosing whom to trust …

A book of unparalleled scope and vision, Your Name Here is a spectacular honeycomb of books-within-books. In this death-defying feat of ambition, collaborators Helen Dewitt and Ilya Gridneff weave together America’s “War on Terror,” countless years of literary history, authorial sleight of hand, Scientology, dream analysis, multiple languages, emails, images, graphs, into something wondrous and unique.

Late spring, 1936. As Kitty Underhay steps onto the sun-drenched station platform in Nice, on orders from Whitehall to track down a missing man, she hopes there will still be time to lie by the pool, preferably with a cocktail in hand. But when she and her husband Matt take a brief evening stroll, instead of finding a perfect croissant, they stumble across a body. Kitty and Matt quickly realise it is Fred Bennett, the man from Whitehall they were hoping to find. Had he simply drunk too much fabulous French wine, or is something fishy going on in this seaside city?

Helena Sandstrom has been working as the governess for Rupert and Tommy Edgerton for several months now, finding the routine a safe place to hide from the troubles of her past. She's accepted that her life will be different from how she always imagined it - not every dream is meant to come true. Caleb Edgerton is nearly worn out after two years of being the sole caretaker for his aging mother. Her health has taken a turn, and he can no longer manage her care alone. Coming to his brother for help, he finds a source of comfort in the most unexpected place - the schoolroom.

Eine packende Geschichte über den Zweiten Weltkrieg der Bestsellerautorin von »Der gefrorene Fluss« Im Jahr 1936 wird die Auslandskorrespondentin Nancy Wake in Paris Zeugin des Schreckens von Hitlers Aufstieg in Europa. Kaum hat Nancy den französischen Industriellen Henri Fiocca...

June 1933. Independent, young Kitty Underhay has been left in charge of her family’s hotel, The Dolphin, on the tranquil English coast. But when several rooms are broken into and searched, including Kitty’s own, she quickly realizes that something out of the ordinary is afoot at the hotel. Soon, rumors are flying in the cozy town that someone is on the hunt for a stolen ruby. A ruby that Kitty’s mother may well have possessed when she herself went missing during the Great War.

Late summer 1933. After a quarrel with too-plucky-for-her-own-good amateur sleuth Kitty Underhay, dashing ex-army captain Matthew Bryant is nursing his wounds, and a tumbler of brandy, when there’s a heavy knock at the door and he finds himself arrested for murder. The body of aspiring actress Pearl Bright has been found, strangled with one of Matt’s own bootlaces, and the evidence seems to be stacked against him. The local constabulary might have locked Matt up, but before they can throw away the key, Kitty hears the news and hies to his aid, determined to prove his innocence.

Berlin, 1931. In unruhiger werdenden Zeiten suchen die Töchter der Ärztin Halt in ihren Familien. Toni hat sich für den Mann ihres Lebens entschieden, ein Kind soll das Glück vollkommen machen. Doch während die junge Ärztin dafür bekannt ist, dass ihr bei den Patientinnen das scheinbar Unmögliche gelingt, scheitert sie bei sich selbst. Weiß ihre Mutter aufgrund ihrer großen Erfahrung Rat? Doch Ricarda hat eigene Sorgen: Ihr Mann Siegfried ist erkrankt. Hilfe bietet ausgerechnet eine einstige Gegenspielerin an. Währenddessen überschlagen sich in Freystetten die Ereignisse.

Helena nunca esqueceu o verão que passou na mágica Pandora, a casa de seu padrinho no Chipre, onde, cercada por oliveiras e pelo verde-esmeralda do Mediterrâneo, ela se apaixonou pela primeira vez, aos 15 anos. Mais de duas décadas depois, tendo herdado a antiga propriedade, ela retorna a Pandora para mais um verão, dessa vez em companhia do marido e dos filhos. No entanto, Helena sabe que voltar àquele lugar pode trazer à tona segredos que ela preferia esconder.