Historisk skönlitteratur

Praetorian

The brand new thrilling Roman adventure from the bestselling author of THE LEGION and THE GLADIATOR. The city of Rome in AD 50 is a dangerous place. Treachery lurks on every corner, and a shadowy Republican movement, 'the Liberators', has spread i...

Bravo Two Zero

Their mission: To take out the scuds. Eight went out. Five came back. Their story had been closed in secrecy. Until now. They were British Special Forces, trained to be the best. In January 1991 a squad of eight men went behind the Iraqi lines on ...

Lords of the Bow

The epic, action-packed and powerful second novel in Conn Iggulden's bestselling Conqueror series, bringing to the story of Genghis Khan brilliantly to life The gathering of the tribes of the Mongols has been a long time in coming but finally, tri...

Falling Angels

Time" magazine crowned "Girl with a Pearl Earring" "a portrait of radiance . . . a jewel."" In her "New York Times" bestselling follow-up, Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a rich and provocativ...

One Man's Bible

In the same circling, ruminative vein as his Nobel Prize-winning debut novel "Soul Mountain," Chinese expatriate Xingjian's fictionalized memoir of his youth is an attempt to capture the Kafkaesque anxieties of the Cultural Revolution.

Aztec

"Aztec" is the extraordinary story of the last and greatest native civilization of North America. Told in the words of one of the most robust and memorable characters in modern fiction, Mixtli-Dark Cloud, "Aztec "reveals the ve...

Women And Appletrees

Depicts the struggles of women to endure and overcome the harshness of life in the slums and farming villages of Sweden.

Sharpe's Rifles - Richard Sharpe and the French Invasion of Galicia, January 1809.

Richard Sharpe and the French invasion of Galicia, January 1809. In the bitter winter of 1809 the French are winning the war in Spain and Britain's forces are retreating towards Corunna, with Napoleon's victorious armies in pursuit. Lieutenant Ric...

The Road to Jerusalem

In the tradition of Bernard Cornwell comes the first installment in the international bestselling Crusades trilogy--a thrilling, epic story of fate, love, and war set in 12th-century Europe and the Holy Land.

Man from St Petersburg

Follet's sensational bestseller is set just before the outbreak of World War I, when Britain must enlist the aid of Russia. Czar Nicholas' nephew is to visit London for secret naval talks with Lord Walden, who has lived in Russia and has a Russian...

Women of the Silk

In "Women of the Silk" Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk factory from dawn to dusk. Leading the ...

Dances with Wolves

Lieutenant John Dunbar arrived at Fort Sedgewick anxious to be a good U.S. soldier. Instead, he found himself charmed by the Comanche people and, before he knew it, became one of them, loving an Indian woman and going by a new name, Dances with Wo...

King of Odessa - A Novel of Isaac Babel

Famed writer Isaac Babel returned to his colorful hometown of Odessa in the summer of 1936, pining for a daughter living abroad and hoping to pen one last homage to his past. This would be Babel's last visit to Odessa; four years later, he was arr...

Gallows Thief

This spellbinding historical drama, set in 1820s London, surrounds a former solider of the Napoleonic Wars who is drawn to Newgate Prison, where he attempts to rescue an innocent man condemned to the gallows. First in a new series.

Retrato En Sepia: Una Novela

Completing the trilogy that includes her bestselling novels "Daughter of Fortune" and "The House of the Spirits, Portrait in Sepia" is a stunning novel about memory and family secrets. Set at the end of the 19th century, it is ...

October Horse - A Novel of Caesar and Cleopatra.

Julius Caesar is in the prime of life and the height of his powers. A man beset with contradictions, he is happily married yet also the lover of the enigmatic Egyptian ruler, Cleopatra. His very greatness attracts envy and jealousy to a dangerous ...

Sepharad

From one of Spain's most celebrated writers comes an extraordinary, inspired book--at once fiction, history, and memoir--that draws on the Sephardic diaspora, the Holocaust, and Stalin's purges to tell a 20th-century story.

A Heritage of Shadows

Silk

Set in 1861, this startling, sensual, hypnotically compelling novel tells a story of adventure, sexual enthrallment, and a love so powerful that it unhinges a mans life.

Emiliano Zapata

Emiliano Zapata was one of the most popular military leaders of the Mexican Revolution. His struggle for land, social justice, and equality, made him a symbol of the resistance. His murder turned him into a legend. Famous Mexican writer Huerta-Nav...