Résultats pour "Penelope" dans Fiction historique

Au-delà des rivages d'Ithaque, les caprices des dieux dictent les guerres des hommes. Mais sur l'île, ce sont les choix des femmes abandonnées - et de leurs déesses - qui changeront le cours du monde. Le roi Ulysse est parti depuis de nombreuses années en guerre contre Troie, emmenant tous...

The final book in multi-award-winning author Claire North's Songs of Penelope Trilogy, a daring reimagining that breathes life into ancient myth and gives voice to the women who stand defiant in a world ruled by ruthless men. Perfect for fans of The Odyssey and Circe. "North brings a powerful...

Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying. But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world . . . and in the process, my own'. And it is her story from a childhood just after the First World War through the Second and beyond. But...

England, 1905 At Ashmore Castle, scandal is never far away... When a train crash rocks Ashmore, unlikely heroes emerge - and old secrets begin to stir. Kitty is still finding her feet at the castle, though her sharp-tongued mother-in-law and the old earl's dark secret threaten her newfound...

'CLAIRE NORTH BRINGS A POWERFUL, FRESH AND UNFLINCHING VOICE TO ANCIENT MYTH' Jennifer Saint, author of Sunday Times bestseller Ariadne Following the critically acclaimed Ithaca and House of Odysseus comes the final novel in Claire North's Songs of Penelope trilogy - an exquisite, gripping tale...

The second book in the Bevelstoke series: witty, irresistibly romantic and by the bestselling author of the global phenomenon Bridgerton Rumours and gossip are the lifeblood of London . . . Olivia Bevelstoke, the only daughter of the Earl of Rudland, is beautiful, wealthy, twenty-one and...

He’s one of my father’s guards at the castle. Goes by the name Mastodon. There’s something about him I don’t like. He takes me into a cavern, and we descend deep underground - to the Bottom of the Cliffs. When I leave for the Capital, Mastodon escorts me. And just as I feared, he kills my guards and captures me. Then he tells me why he’s doing this. Because my family took everything from him - and now he’s about to do the same.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'One of the best books I've ever read' Richard Osman A damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the quiet village church of Oxgodby where he is to spend the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall-painting. Immersed in the peace and beauty of...

Paleontologist Howard Beamish is flying to Nairobi on a professional mission when his plane is forced to land in the imaginary country of Callimbia. Journalist Lucy Faulkner, on assignment to write a travel piece for a Sunday magazine, is on the same flight. What happens to Howard and Lucy in...

Penelope Hartson is tired of London life. The gentlemen are a nuisance, the parties are boring, and she is tired of getting her feet trampled on. All she really wants to do is read her romance novels and be left alone. When she meets Harrison Gimbly, a scholar from the Royal Society, she realizes that perhaps she has suffered to have that one singular moment with someone who understands. James Barstow, Duke of Embry, has everything. He's wealthy, powerful, and there is no shortage of women that vie for his attention. Men want to be him and women want to be with him.

In this elegant comedy of manners, Penelope O'Farrell discovers that her husband has been having an affair with an attractive married woman. Instead of lapsing into despair, she decides to employ some cunning strategies to save her marriage.

Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill Flett drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood, and old age, bewildered by her inability to understand her own...

Protagonista di Penelope alla guerra, primo romanzo di Oriana Fallaci, è Giovanna detta Giò, promettente autrice di sceneggiature, inviata a New York da un produttore cinematografico alla fine degli anni Cinquanta. Mentre è in cerca di ispirazione per il soggetto di un film, Giò ritrova Richard, un americano conosciuto durante la guerra in Italia. Dopo il loro incontro, tra i due nasce una relazione complicata, sfuggente, resa ancora più difficile dal complesso rapporto di Richard con l'amico, che forse è qualcosa di più, Bill, da cui Giò è inconsapevolmente attratta.

She was the overlooked daughter and cousin, dark and small when her cousins were tall and golden. A princess, she would be sacrificed in marriage to buy peace for her uncle's kingdom. A visionary, she glimpsed the future and events half a world away in her dreams. Her heart longed for the old ways, when the one Goddess was worshipped in peace, rather than the new, brutal male gods. He was the cunning trickster king, lying as easily as other men breathed. He trusted no one, or so the heroes and warriors of Achaia believed.

Kind-hearted Miss Hannah Pym is off to Portsmouth in the company of the beautiful but practical Miss Penelope Wilkins. Miss Pym quickly realises that Penelope needs someone to enliven her sheltered life, someone perhaps like their handsome travelling companion, Lord Augustus Railton. Penelope, however, thinks Lord Augustus is a ne'er-do-well...Hannah's hopes for adventure, on the other hand, are fulfilled when the coach happens upon a footman who faces hanging for a crime he didn't commit.

From multi-award-winning author Claire North comes a daring reimagining of the story of Penelope, famed wife of Odysseus, that breathes life into ancient myth and gives voice to the women who stand defiant in a world ruled by ruthless men. Perfect for fans of The Odyssey and Circe. "North brings...

Brought to you by Penguin. Don't miss the unforgettable new story of one woman's grit and perseverance from Sunday Times bestselling author, Val Wood. In 1860’s Yorkshire, a woman’s fortune belongs to her husband – regardless of a so-called-gentleman’s character… When Lydia Mercer’s...

Wer ist Lady Whistledown? London, 1824: Seit langem ist Penelope heimlich in den umschwärmten Colin Bridgerton verliebt – hoffnungslos, da der begehrte Junggeselle sie, ein unscheinbares Mauerblümchen, bis jetzt gar nicht wahrgenommen hat. Doch dann begegnet sie ihm im Haus seiner Schwester...

Leaving behind the rural charms of Finnshire, Miss Penelope Fairweather arrives in London with hope in her heart and a dream in her eye. The dowager, no less, has invited her for a season in London, where she will attempt to catch a husband. Thus begins our heroine’s tale as she attempts to tackle the London season with all her rustic finesse. Unfortunately her rustic finesse turns out to be as delicate as a fat bear trying to rip apart a honeycomb infested with buzzing bees.

Träume und Hoffnungen begleiten die junge Miss Penelope Fairweather, als sie aus dem ländlich schönen Finnshire nach London kommt. Die Witwe des alten Dukes hatte sie eingeladen, um ihr die Möglichkeit zu geben, sich in der Londoner Ballsaison einen Ehemann zu angeln. So beginnt die Geschichte unserer Heldin, die sich mit ihrem ländlichen Charme und gewitzten Wesen in der Saison zu behaupten versucht. Doch in der feinen Gesellschaft erweist sich Miss Penelope eher als tapsiger Bär und stolpert von einer heiklen Situation in die nächste.