Résultats pour "The Cinema" dans Fiction historique

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026 A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2025 A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 A Telegraph Book of the Year 2025 A Guardian Book of the Year 2025 An Observer Book of the year 2025 'Supple, horrifying and mordantly droll' New York Times...

Film location manager Claire Montgomery never imagined that Starlight Creek's timeless beauty would capture both her professional ambition and her heart. Battling in an industry still dominated by men, she faces her toughest challenge yet: securing access to a historically significant art deco theatre. It's fiercely protected by its reclusive owner Hattie Fitzpatrick and her enigmatic great-nephew Luke Jackson.

Brought to you by Penguin. In the Burning Ghats of Calcutta where the dead are laid to rest, a man is found murdered, his throat cut from ear to ear. The body is that of a popular patron of the arts, a man who was, by all accounts, beloved by all: so what was the motive for his murder? Despite...

La signora delle camelie di Alexandre Dumas racconta l'appassionata vicenda di Margherita Gautier, bellissima, elegante e sofisticata cortigiana, e Armando Duval, giovane rampollo di una stimata famiglia nella Parigi di metà ‘800. L'amore, inarrestabile, travolge i protagonisti conducendoli, dall'effimera vita cittadina, a Bougival, un romantico paesello della campagna francese in cui vivere un ideale sogno d'amore. Ma la felicità non è concessa alle cortigiane e il destino avverso si abbatte sulla coppia d'innamorati.

An extraordinary debut novel—dark, fast-paced, thrilling—set in contemporary and nineteenth-century Europe, the United States, and Scotland, involving the true inventor of moving pictures; his lost film made in Edinburgh in 1888; and a shocking series of crimes terrorizing the city in...

Called the most promising artist of his generation, handsome, modest, and affectionate, Richard Dadd rubbed shoulders with the great luminaries of the Victorian Age. He grew up along the Medway with Charles Dickens and studied at the Royal Academy Schools under the brilliant and eccentric J. M. W. Turner. Based on Dadd’s tragic true story, Mad Richard follows the young artist as he develops his craft, contemplates the nature of art and fame - as he watches Dickens navigate those tricky waters - and ultimately finds himself imprisoned in Bedlam for murder, committed as criminally insane.