Titres dans Historique

The next witty, must-listen audiobook in the Flavia Albia series. An unpaid bar bill leads Flavia Albia to her most bitter and complex case yet. Decades earlier Appius Tranquillus Surus wrote his will: it freed his slaves and bequeathed his businesses to them. He left an orchard to the Prisci, a...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Disorderly Knights by Dorothy Dunnett, read by David Monteath. Summer, 1551, and Francis Crawford of Lymond is in Malta to assist the Knights of St John defend the island from an invading Turkish fleet. But under a weak leader there is dissension in the...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Wars of the Roses: Bloodline, the third instalment in Conn Iggulden's thrilling Wars of the Roses trilogy. Winter 1461 - Richard Duke of York is dead, his ambitions in ruins, his head spiked on the walls of York city. King Henry VI is still held prisoner. His Lancastrian queen rides south with an army of northerners, accompanied by warriors from the Scottish Highlands. Margaret and her army seem unstoppable.

April 1944. Vor der schottischen Küste wartet ein deutsches U-Boot auf einen Spion. Man nennt ihn "Die Nadel". Er hat bereits viermal getötet. Zwischen ihm und seinem Erfolg steht nur noch Rose, eine junge Engländerin. Doch wie soll eine junge Frau, hin- und hergerissen zwischen Pflicht und lang verdrängter Leidenschaft, einem Mann widerstehen, der zu allem bereit ist, um sein Ziel zu erreichen?

Flavia de Luce - "part Harriet the Spy, part Violet Baudelaire from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" (The New York Times Book Review) - takes her remarkable sleuthing prowess to the unexpectedly unsavory world of Canadian boarding schools in the captivating new mystery from New York Times best-selling author Alan Bradley.

A wall to divide a country and spur it on to war! Felix Appius Julianus is brought to Britain in the wake of the disastrous loss of the Ninth Legion Hispana, to command its replacement, the Sixth Legion Victrix. Centurion Valerius Silvanus, posted to the doomed Ninth and arriving only in time to...

Augsburg, 1463: Endlich verstummt das Geläut der Totenglocken. Die Pest ist überstanden und die Wohlhabenden kehren in die Stadt zurück. Lina und ihr Gemahl Ulrich wollen die Schatten der Vergangenheit hinter sich lassen und ein ruhiges Leben führen.

In 1905, Father Bellarma discovers ancient Gnostic manuscripts hidden in a remote desert cave. The early Church had tried to destroy them but Bellarma brings them to the cult of Abyssos in New York City. As ritual murders begin to plague the Manhattan streets, Lieutenant Peter Doolan, NYPD, comes face to face with an evil that defies rational explanation. With an enigmatic Ethiopean monk as his ally, Doolan uncovers a desecrated chapel hidden under a consecrated church and confronts the horror of Abyssos.

Everyone is gripped by Stephen Ronson: 'A brilliant noir thriller set in the darkest days of the Second World War' Stephen Leather 'A gripping World War Two thriller . . . Every shadow hides a potential threat and the tension never lets up. A must read' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Ronson...

Blut verlangt nach Blut. Und Rache kennt kein Gesetz. Britannien, 46 n. Chr. Eine Gruppe Rebellen treibt ihr Unwesen im Nordosten des Landes und überfällt die römischen Nachschublinien. Maximus und Brutus sollen dem ein Ende setzen, doch die Jagd fordert einen unvorstellbar hohen Preis. Ein grausamer Schlag trifft die Legion ins Herz und verwandelt ihren besten Krieger in eine Bestie.

Instant New York Times Bestseller “Small Mercies is thought provoking, engaging, enraging, and can’t-put-it-down entertainment.” — Stephen King The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River—an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love...

It is the summer of 1961, and the brutal Cold War between East and West is becoming ever more perilous. Two young prodigies from either side of the Iron Curtain, Yulia and Michael, meet at a chess tournament in London. They don't know it, but they are about to compete in the deadliest game ever played. Shadowing them is Greta, a ruthless resistance fighter who grew up the hard way in the forests of Lithuania, but who is now hunting down some of the most dangerous men in the world.

“It is just not possible to stop turning the pages” (The Washington Post) of this bestselling classic tale—an epic fantasy as only #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King could envision it. Once, in a kingdom called Delain, there was a king with two sons… ​Thus begins one of...

Frère Cadfael fait partie d'une délégation religieuse qui se rend au Pays de Galles pour ramener à l'abbaye bénédictine de Shrewsbury les reliques de Sainte Winifred. Les tractations avec les Gallois sont difficiles. Pendant le séjour, Rhisiard , leader de l'opposition au transfert, est assassiné. Immédiatement son pauvre serviteur, anglais et amoureux transi de sa fille, est désigné coupable. Ce n'est pas l'avis de frère Cadfael qui va apporter son aide à cet homme malheureux que le destin accable.

Apprentice Sarah Fisher is helping to fund Dr Will Raven's emerging medical practice in exchange for being secretly trained as a medic, should the rules barring women ever change. Sarah needs no instruction in the inequalities that beset her gender, but even she has her eyes opened to a darker reality when a relative seeks her help in searching for her missing daughter. Annabel Banks was promised a situation in a prestigious household, but there has been no word from her since she left home, and the agency that arranged her position says she never appeared.

Er lauert in der Dunkelheit … Der packende Historienroman Der Teufel von Straßburg von Bestseller-Autorin Heidrun Hurst jetzt als Hörbuch bei dotbooks. Seine Opfer sind jung, wehrlos und vollkommen allein ... Straßburg, 1348: Ein grausamer Mörder treibt in der Stadt sein Unwesen, aber niemand schert sich darum, denn er tötet nur namenlose Kinder der Gasse. Als die Klosterschülerin Adelheid von den Morden erfährt, beschließt sie, auf eigene Faust zu handeln – einem Leben in Armut und Elend ist sie selbst nur knapp entronnen.

This dramatic audiobook is not only narrated by the author but performed, with remarkable character voices, in a production exceeding 20 hours length. An investigation into a series of unexplained deaths of former Israeli intelligence agents uncovers startling revelations from the past, which expose a current threat, not only to Israel, but the world. Investigators discover Hitler’s astonishing plans, in the closing stages of the Second World War, to use an atomic weapon.

Multi-award-winning historical thriller writer S. G. MacLean returns to her 17th century heartland. Charles II has been restored to the throne. A list of men who supported Cromwell must be hunted down to face a terrible traitor's death. On that list is the name of Damian Seeker. By the summer of...

Charlotte is a British expatriate who has recently settled in the nation’s capital with her second husband, a man who looks intriguingly like Clark Gable, but her enviable dinner parties and soirées aren’t the only things she is planning. Meanwhile, Charlie Leigh-Hunt has been posted to Washington as a replacement for Guy Burgess, last seen disappearing around the corner and into the Soviet Union. Charlie is soon shocked to cross paths with Charlotte, an old flame of his, who, thanks to all her gossipy parties, has a packed pocketbook full of secrets she is eager to share.

Brought to you by Penguin. ONLY SHE KNOWS THE TRUTH. ONLY HE CAN TELL THE WORLD. VIENNA, 1946 A brilliant German scientist spirited out of the ruins Nazi Europe in search of a new life MOSCOW, 1964 A rising star of the British diplomatic service whose job is not what it seems LONDON, THE PRESENT...