Titres dans Historique

"La ragazza oltre le mura" vi farà immergere nell'ascolto entrando in scena con l'immaginazione e con coinvolgimento sensoriale ed emotivo. Il contesto spazio temporale, gli oggetti, le persone, lo sfondo, le emozioni, le sensazioni dei personaggi, le azioni, gli eventi, tutto in una successione armonica avvincente, da ascoltare tutto d'un fiato. Un noir con dei tratti introspettivi e psicologici da cui ognuno può trarre spunti per la propria vita. Inverno 1889. Una bambina viene abbandonata davanti al portone di un piccolo convento francescano, nel viterbese.

Révélation ou apocalypse ? Depuis l'aube de l'humanité, la Citadelle, fort du nord de la Turquie, abrite des communautés de moines, dont l'ordre des Sancti, les " soutanes vertes ". Après avoir été initié à leurs mystérieux sacrements, un jeune moine s'échappe du monastère pour se jeter du haut de la montagne. La scène est filmée par un touriste et projetée sur les chaînes de télévision du monde entier. C'est le début d'une lutte à mort entre la communauté des Sancti et celle des Mala, pour qui l'heure de la prophétie a sonné.

The throne is never safe...especially in Rome AD 60. Rome stands at the height of its power – glittering with wealth, drowning in intrigue. On Palatine Hill, Nero Claudius Caesar rules as Emperor, a young man adored for his beauty and brilliance, feared for his temper, intoxicated by his own...

Praise for Kaarina Parker: 'Compelling, relatable characters and a brilliant voice' CONN IGGULDEN 'A tale of power-play, political hope and women's inner strength' ELYSE JOHN Fulvia is now a wealthy young widow, with more than gold to her name. In the wake of her husband's death, she has...

Summer, 1943. Daniel Berkåk works as a courier for the Press and Military Office in Stockholm. On his last cross-border mission to Norway, he carries a rucksack full of coded documents and newspapers, but before he has a chance to deliver anything he is shot and killed and the contents of his rucksack are missing. The Norwegian government, currently exiled in London, wants to know what happened, and the job goes to writer Jomar Kraby, whose first suspect is a Norwegian refugee living in Sweden, whose past that is as horrifying as the events still to come.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Calamity of Souls comes a novel set in 1940s London about a bereaved bookshop owner and two teenagers scarred by the Second World War, and the healing and hope they find in one another. "A masterpiece of a historical thriller." —Lisa...

Houston, 1975. A new Apollo mission launches into orbit, on course to dock with a Russian Soyuz craft: three NASA astronauts and three cosmonauts, joining to celebrate a new dawn of Soviet-American cooperation. But as NASA Flight Controller Kaz Zemeckis listens in from Earth, a deadly accident...

WAS WÄRE, WENN DIE TITANIC NIE EINEN EISBERG GERAMMT HÄTTE? Am 15. April 1912 ging die "unsinkbare" Titanic unter und riss 1.500 Menschen mit sich. Was aber, wenn dieser Untergang kein Unfall war? Schnitt in die Gegenwart: Senator Everett Van Wick überlebt dank eines Arztes aus einer Kleinstadt ein Attentat. Doch nun weiß der Arzt zu viel und wird selbst zur Zielscheibe. Stichwort EDEN BLACK. Was als einfache Rettungsaktion beginnt, wird bald zu einer Verschwörung mit hohem Risiko, die vom zurückgezogenen Vater des Senators angeführt wird.

New York City, 1972–A dabbler in mathematics and chess, Catherine Velis is also a computer expert for a Big Eight accounting firm. Before heading off to a new assignment in Algeria, Cat has her palm read by a fortune-teller. The woman warns Cat of danger. Then an antiques dealer approaches Cat...

Tras el éxito de El asesinato de Sócrates (Finalista Premio Planeta 2016), Marcos Chicot regresa con una extraordinaria novela que nos traslada a los años más apasionantes de la Grecia Clásica. La ateniense Altea, una de las más brillantes discípulas de Platón, no sabe que tiene a su...

In the Los Angeles suburbs, the Crawfords seem like the average American family. Leo is a rising star in advertising. His wife, Rose, is brilliant, restless, and pregnant with their second child. Their teenage daughter, Melinda, is already leaning toward rebellion. Then Rose vanishes during a family vacation. When she comes back, she’s not the same.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE From the #1 internationally bestselling author of Conclave and Dictator, a gripping tale of ancient Rome’s descent into dictatorship “Thrilling. . . . Agrippa is a swift-paced romp. . . . Politics may be ‘a filthy business,’ as Agrippa...

It's 1920 and Christmas is coming. Major Lennox finds a body on his doorstep — why on his doorstep? Was it to do with the Countess? Was it about the ruby necklace? Lennox goes to Melrose Court, home to his uncle, Lord Melrose, to uncover the mystery. But then the murders begin and it snows and it all becomes very complicated....

*Longlisted for The HWA Gold Crown and The Saltire Fiction Book of the Year 2026* 'Chilling, atmospheric' Sunday Times 'Vivid and haunting' Emilia Hart 'Blisteringly brilliant’ Anna Mazzola Will she be damned by flame… or cursed by magic? Innsbruck 1485 Helena should be doing what every...

In the autumn of 1940, Russian émigré journalist I. A. Serebin is recruited in Istanbul by an agent of the British secret services for a clandestine operation to stop German importation of Romanian oil—a last desperate attempt to block Hitler’s conquest of Europe. Serebin’s race against...

Scotland, 1924: When Lady Poppy Proudfoot travels to the Highlands for a midsummer party, the last thing she and her fellow guests expect is for a body to wash up beside the loch. Despite protests that it could have been an accident, Poppy is convinced it’s murder and decides to dust off her law degree and hunt for clues. But when the police arrive, the grumpy Inspector MacKenzie dismisses her evidence, insisting a crime scene is no place for a Lady. The nerve!

Britannia 43AD. The last unconquered stronghold of the Celts and a land of gold and slaves. A dangerous place of men without fear, led by mystical Druid warriors, yet still to face the might of Rome in the unrelenting expansion of the empire. Four Roman legions have assembled in Gaul undertaking final preparations for the invasion of Britannia. Two young men are posted to a training cohort under the sadistic tutorage of a battle scarred veteran, Remus. The training is brutal, but eventually the trainees find themselves involved in their first campaign. The invasion of Britannia.

War crimes investigator and ex-CIA officer Joe Johnson is more than intrigued when he learns of a link between the financing for the presidential candidate's 2012 campaign, the Nazi train, and a ruthless blackmail plot. But the investigation becomes bigger and more deeply personal than Johnson expects when it turns out the SS Holocaust killer escaped his net years earlier. Soon, there are high-level intelligence agencies and criminal networks combining across three continents against Johnson and his two female colleagues.

Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize 2017 County Kerry, Ireland, 1825. Nóra, bereft after the sudden death of her beloved husband, finds herself alone and caring for her young grandson Micheál. Micheál cannot speak and cannot walk and Nóra is desperate to know what is wrong with him. What...

Grand Master Elmore Leonard is justifiably acknowledged as “the best writer of crime fiction alive” (Newsweek)—and, in fact, one of the very best ever, alongside other all-time greats like John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Robert Parker. But he has also many acclaimed...