Résultats pour "The Moor" dans Fiction historique

Londres, 1949. Jeune homme désargenté, Dennis Knuckleyard vit et travaille dans une librairie d’occasion. Bien qu’aspirant écrivain, il mène une existence passablement ordinaire. Jusqu’au jour où sa patronne l’envoie chercher des livres rares chez un étrange bibliophile paranoïaque. Dennis comprend que l’un des livres n’existe pas : il s’agit d’un texte imaginaire figurant dans un roman, lui, bien réel. Il provient de l’autre Londres, le Grand Quand, une version de la ville située au-delà du Temps où tous les aspects de son histoire, depuis ses origines jusqu’à sa disparition, se manifestent.

The redcoat forces of King George II have defeated the Highland rebels led by Bonnie Prince Charlie. Now Government troops are free to plunder and punish the locals. To avoid court martial, Captain Shawwood is ordered to lead a band of troops and map-makers to chart the most isolated and mysterious landscape of the Highlands – the mighty Rannoch Moor. But the Moor is home to more than just bog and heather, it's a place of shadows and secrets. Before long, their expedition comes face to face with uncanny forces far greater than anything they have fought before.

The year is 1949, the city London. Amidst the smog of the capital stumbles Dennis Knuckleyard, a hapless eighteen year-old employed by a second-hand bookshop. One day, on an errand to acquire books for sale, Dennis discovers a novel that simply does not exist. It is a fictitious book, a figment from another novel. Yet it is physically there in his hands. How? Dennis has stumbled on a book from the Great When, a magical version of London beyond time and space, where reality blurs with fiction and concepts such as Crime and Poetry are incarnated as wondrous, terrible beings.

Das Münsterland nach dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg: Im Sommer des Jahres 1668 kehrt der Schausteller und Taschendieb Daniel Wagenknecht anlässlich einer Kirchweih in das Moordorf Ahlbeck zurück, in dem er als Säugling von drei Bauern lebendig begraben wurde. Daniel will die Geheimnisse von damals lüften - und sich an den Schuldigen rächen. Begleitet wird er von seinem Ziehvater Roloff.

In this sweeping romantic fantasy from bestselling author Jessica Khoury, a young witch caught in a twisted bargain with the fae must disguise herself as a governess and uncover the gateway to the realm of faerie in order to save her dying magic and escape the clutches of her controlling fae handler—even as she finds herself falling for her new employer, an enigmatic young Scottish laird and the owner of a crumbling estate brimming with secrets.

Next to the colonial town of Essenwald sits the Vorrh, a vast - perhaps endless - forest. It is a place of demons and angels, of warriors and priests. Sentient and magical, the Vorrh bends time and wipes memory. Legend has it that the Garden of Eden still exists at its heart. Now, a renegade English soldier aims to be the first human to traverse its expanse. Armed with only a strange bow, he begins his journey, but some fear the consequences of his mission, and a native marksman has been chosen to stop him.

Father Michael Dominic is called to France for an unusual assignment. A 14th-century bishop was found in a crypt buried under the burnt remnants of Notre-Dame—but he’s wearing the ring of a cardinal, and two parchment scrolls had been hidden in his garment sleeve. Who was this 700-year-old custodian of carefully guarded secrets?

Haroun became infamous throughout 12th century Europe for his skill at combat, only rivaled by his notoriety as the land's favorite killer-for-hire. Haroun's actions have gained him everything he's ever desired. But after years of killing without question, he begins to follow his conscience after meeting Gabriella. Gabriella of Mordo, daughter to a powerful ruler, was to be married to a stranger, but has shunned the life of a lady, instead studying warfare and combat with the goal to fight in the Crusades.

“The first English translation in more than fifty years of Alessandro Manzoni’s masterpiece, a work of foundational Italian literature on par with the Divine Comedy and the Decameron.”—The Wall Street Journal “An exemplary historical novel” (The New Yorker) from the father of modern...

Civil War hero and adventurer Thomas Scoundrel is working as an investigative journalist in San Francisco, where he pens an exposé of a powerful businessman and is marked for death. He stows away on a warship bound for Hawai'i, wins a sugar plantation in a poker hand, and battles missionary bankers, loan-collecting Tahitian warriors, Irish gang leaders, a ruthless assassin and the most powerful figures in the world of fine art.

Countess Rosseline arrives upon wild and windswept Dartmoor with a plan: marry the young man who has inherited her dead husband's estate and all she holds dear. However, an obstacle stands in her path.

Six award-winning authors have contributed brand new stories to A Timeless Romance Anthology: Winter Collection. A collection unlike any other, listeners will love this compilation of six sweet historical romance novellas, set in varying eras, yet all with one thing in common: Romance.

James Blackwood was born into privilege, but fate had other plans. Cast out and forced to be a notorious highwayman, he has become the Shadow of the Moor. His pistol is swift, his blade is sure, and his heart is another matter entirely. When Thomas Hopkins, a restless scholar, stumbles into his path, their fates entwine in ways neither could have foreseen. What begins as a dangerous encounter soon sparks an undeniable connection. As secrets unfold and betrayals loom, the lines between hero and villain blur. James must decide whether to risk it all for the one man who sees beyond the mask.

What happens when a love story turns into a political nightmare? From the moment Amalia enters his shop, the immigrant shoemaker Erasmo imagines she will fulfill his dream of America. And their story begins in promise. The lovers are passionate for life and each other, but they both come to see the truth beneath the surface. Amalia has opened Erasmo's eyes to inequality and the exploitation of the poor. Against the backdrop of the WWI Red Scare, while the Spanish Flu rages, Erasmo becomes embroiled in the battle between Italian anarchists and the federal government.

Moor ist dunkel, unheimlich und gefährlich? Nicht für Franz. In heißen Moorbädern seiner Kurklinik kommt es nicht nur zu körperlicher Entspannung, sondern weckt auch seine Erinnerung. Tief vergrabene Lebensgeschichten kommen wieder an die Oberfläche. Zunächst überfordert von der Intensität der Erinnerungen, findet er Unterstützung in seinem neuen Tischnachbarn Lothar, dem Musiker aus Berlin.

From the brilliant author of the Fox Family saga: a spinoff novel, following Bertie's journey to become a pilot as she takes to the skies in Cornwall. Set against the dramatic Cornish coastline, this absorbing tale of friends and secrets will delight fans of Rosie Goodwin and Evie Grace.

Wir schreiben das Jahr 1535. Der Bischof von Münster hat die Stadt von den Wiedertäufern zurückerobert, und auch das Moordorf Ahlbeck, wo der Bauernsohn Ambros Vortkamp mit seinem Vater lebt, ist von dem Aufruhr nicht unberührt geblieben. Ein verwundeter Müller erscheint im Dorf und will die Wassermühle wieder aufbauen, die vor Jahren durch ein Feuer zerstört wurde.

Karwoche 1814. In Europa toben die Befreiungskriege gegen Napoleon, die Welt ist in Aufruhr. Auch das Leben des westfälischen Bauernsohns Jeremias Vogelsang, der sich mit anderen geduldeten Deserteuren in seiner Heimat aufhält, gerät aus den Fugen. Vorgeblich, weil Jeremias desertiert ist, in Wahrheit jedoch, um sich des unerwünschten Liebhabers seiner Tochter zu entledigen, ruft Amtmann Boomkamp zur Hatz auf den "Verräter" auf.

Ein außergewöhnlicher Generationenroman über drei Frauen am Stettiner Haff, die gegen Unrecht aufbegehren 1936 wird die 14-jährige Gine zum Landjahr ans Stettiner Haff geschickt, wo endlose Weite Hoffnung verspricht und salzige Böden die Geheimnisse der Menschen hüten. Als sich dort ein Mann an Gine vergeht, schwört das Mädchen Rache und ahnt nicht, wie sehr es damit den Lauf der Zeit beeinflussen wird.

In this collection of romantic Highlanders, you'll meet Morey, Finlay, and Hamish. Two of them are heroes to the bone. One is the actual enemy!