Résultats pour "William" dans Fiction historique

À l'été 1991, une série d'incendies éclatent aux quatre coins de la ville de Malartic. Des corps d'enfants sont retrouvés à l'intérieur des résidences incendiées, mais personne ne sait comment ils se sont retrouvés dans ces maisons. Rapidement, la terreur gagne les Malarticois. Les gamins désertent les parcs et plus personne n'ose laisser son enfant sortir. Marie-Hélène et Mylène ont peur que leurs frères et soeurs soient les prochaines cibles.... Ce qu'elles ignorent, c'est que ce qui les guette est bien plus dangereux qu'un pyromane.

From the bestselling Johnstones comes a blazing new saga of the American West. The epic story of the Hamlins of Luckenbach, Texas—and their fight to build a longhorn empire . . . A LAWLESS LAND. A TEXAS DYNASTY. A NEW JOHNSTONE LEGEND. Caleb Ezekiel Hamlin arrived in Texas in 1850 with nothing...

The Hamlins of Luckenbach, Texas, ride into danger along the perilous Chisholm Trail in a roaring epic of the American West by the bestselling Johnstones. JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. WHERE THOSE WHO SURVIVE BECOME LEGENDS. Jake Hamlin has only one thing on his mind: a Chisholm Trail cattle-drive to trade...

A must-listen new western from bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone...

JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. WHERE JUSTICE NEVER FLINCHES IN A SHOWDOWN. In this action-packed adventure from bestselling Western legends William W. and J.A. Johnstone, a former scout strikes gold and trades lead with a corrupt sheriff’s band of outlaws. The once prosperous town of Bannack in...

Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish unaltered in a thousand years. For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of living. But now - just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity - the rain clouds...

Family drama and the legacy of slavery haunt this epic tale of an enigmatic stranger in Jefferson, Mississippi—from one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century. First published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is William Faulkner’s ninth novel and one of his most admired. It tells...

William Marshal’s prowess and loyalty as a knight in the English royal household has been rewarded by marriage to Isabelle de Clare, heiress to great estates in England, Normandy and Ireland. But their contentment and security is shattered when King Richard dies and is succeeded by his brother John, who takes the Marshals’ sons hostage and seizes their lands.

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time "[One morning] in the early spring, I woke up with the remembrance of a girl I'd once known, Sophie. It was a very vivid half-dream, half-revelation, and all of a sudden I realized that hers was a story I had to tell." That...

12th century, England: A penniless young knight with few prospects, William Marshal is plucked from obscurity when he saves the life of Henry II's formidable queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. In gratitude, she appoints him tutor to the heir to the throne, the volatile and fickle Prince Henry. But being a royal favorite brings its share of danger and jealousy as well as fame and reward.

Legendary bestselling western authors William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone return with the blazing new installment in their long-running series featuring Preacher, the First Mountain Man, in a classic showdown between Good and Evil, as he promises to protect two little angels from one devil...

In a land conquered by blood, sweat, and tears, two men lay down their own laws with any force necessary in this action-packed Western . . . In Arizona territory, the prosperous town of Copper Canyon owes its existence to Stinnett's Crooked S Ranch and Alistair Duncan's copper mines. The wealth...

Brought to you by Penguin. Soldier. Farmer. Felon. Writer. Father. Lover. One man, many lives. Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad lives: joyous and devastating, years of luck and unexpected loss. Moving from County Cork to London, from Waterloo to Zanzibar, Cashel seeks his...

James Spencer is hardly the typical troubled youth who ends up at Whisperwood School for Boys. Instead of hating the strict schedules and tight oversight by staff, James blossoms, quickly making friends, indulging in his love of writing, and contemplating the merits of sneaking love poems to the elusive and aloof William Esher. And, when the normally collected William stumbles in one night, shaken and ranting of ghosts, James is the only one who believes him.

In this BBC full-cast production of The Merchant of Venice, love, bigotry, greed, and justice are entwined. Shakespeare's classic play explores the eternal themes of love and hate, mercy and justice, with parallel stories centred on the moneylender, Shylock, and the lovers, Portia and Bassanio...

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...

The Sunday Times No.1 Bestseller Nothing Ventured is the first novel in the incredible and thrilling William Warwick series by Jeffrey Archer, the master storyteller and bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel. This is not a detective story, this is a story about a...

Brought to you by Penguin. BRITAIN'S MOST BELOVED STORYTELLER RETURNS WITH A TWISTING ADVENTURE OF OBSESSIVE LOVE AND ELEGANT ESPIONAGE . . . Gabriel Dax, travel writer and accidental spy, is back in the shadows. Unable to resist the allure of his MI6 handler, Faith Green, he has returned to a...

The American Revolution is throwing up a new breed of hero, Yankee privateers who dare the might of the Royal Navy to slash at British commerce. Foremost among them are the three Markham brothers, Jehu, Josiah, and Malachi, who link their destiny to that of their young nation and seek their fortune in the cannon’s mouth. 

One May evening in London, Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in town for a job interview, is feeling good about the future as he sits down for a meal at a little Italian bistro. He strikes up a conversation with a solitary diner at the next table, who leaves soon afterward. With horrifying...