Political Historical Fiction

In 1938, Hitler visits Italy. An expatriate Irish art historian is obliged to guide Mussolini and his guest around the galleries. Half fascinated, half repelled, he watches the tyrants, wrestling with the uneasy conviction that he ought to use the opportunity to "do something" about them yet lacking the zeal that might transform misgivings into action. Thirty years later, his daughter comes across a compromising clipping showing her father with the dictators.

The year is 1997, and Europe is uniting to end a long series of ruinous wars. But someone tries to shoot Foreign Minister Kiraly of Hungary, a leader of the European integration movement. His daughter, Margit, persuades Kiraly to hire Heinz Weigert, an Austrian counter-terrorism expert to advise and protect him.

Venezia, 1755. Giacomo Casanova è tornato in città, e il precario equilibrio su cui si regge la Repubblica, ormai prossima alla decadenza, rischia di frantumarsi e degenerare nel caos. Lo scenario politico internazionale è in una fase transitoria di delicate alleanze e il disastroso esito della Seconda guerra di Morea ha svuotato le casse della Serenissima. Il doge Francesco Loredan versa in pessime condizioni di salute, e l'inquisitore Pietro Garzoni trama alle sue spalle per ottenere il consenso all'interno del Consiglio dei Dieci e influenzare così la successione al dogado.

Una documentada e inteligente trama que traslada al lector a los tiempos del rey Carlos I. Su mala salud presagia su inminente muerte, y en la corte se desencadena una intrincada intriga política y eclesiástica, a propósito de su sucesión. Un alquimista de Praga puede acabar con el hechizo que padece el rey.

La insurrecta narra la emocionante vida de quien fuera la esposa de Mariano Abasolo y una de las mujeres más valientes y apasionadas de su tiempo. Una vez más, Guillermo Barba nos ofrece una estupenda novela de intrigas donde se funden la historia y el suspenso para narrar un pasaje, tan perdido como fascinante, de la historia de México: la conspiración que se gestó en el centro de la insurgencia para asesinar a Miguel Hidalgo. Valladolid, 1810. Manuela Taboada recorre impaciente de un lado a otro el zaguán de la iglesia mientras espera la prueba irrefutable que confirmará todos sus temores.

Akhulgo, 1838: Jamalludin wächst als Sohn eines mächtigen Imams im Kaukasus auf. Als Zar Nikolaus I. die Region mit Krieg überzieht, verlangt er den Jungen als Unterpfand. So gelangt der kleine Junge nach Sankt Petersburg, an den prächtigen Zarenhof. Der Zar will den Sohn seines Widersachers als Russen erziehen, um ihn später als Verbündeten zurück in den Kaukasus zu schicken. Jamalludin ist hin- und hergerissen zwischen der Sehnsucht nach seinem Elternhaus und den Möglichkeiten, die sich ihm in Petersburg bieten.

1964. Ceylon is on the brink of change. But Kairo is at a loose end. School is closed, the government is in disarray, the press is under threat and the religious right are flexing their muscles. Kairo’s hard-working mother blows off steam at her cha-cha-cha classes; his Trotskyite father grumbles over the state of the nation between his secret flutters on horseraces in faraway England. All Kairo wants to do is hide in his room and flick over second-hand Westerns and superhero comics, or escape on his bicycle and daydream.

July 1540: the shocking news of Cromwell's fall reaches the court of Margaret of Navarre, sister of Francis I of France and arguably the most cultured woman north of the Alps. She sends her courtier and poet, Nicolas Bourbon, an avid reformer with many friends in English court circles, to find out what is happening. What Bourbon discovers from members of Cromwell's family, his proteges and his enemies sets him on what becomes a hazardous quest for the real man behind all the competing versions on offer.

Washington, D.C., June 1863. It is the week before Gettysburg, and the nation's fate hangs in the balance. Major Russell Johns is being played by puppet-master Gerard Chantier, who hosts the city's most lavish entertainments, attended by members of Lincoln's cabinet and Washington's elite. Little do they know Gerard is coordinating an attack with Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry to take over the city, kidnap Lincoln and bring victory to the South.

Al humilde cabo Juan Castro le importa más encontrar a su mula preferida que ganar la guerra. Por eso sale tras ella y, poco después de atravesar la línea de frente, se ve envuelto en un episodio tan peligroso como hilarante que, contra su voluntad, lo va a convertir en un héroe de guerra. La mula es una atrevida desmitificación de la guerra civil. Un personaje pícaro y tierno para desmitificar la guerra.

It is the mid-'80s, two decades into the kleptocratic, brutal rule of Ferdinand Marcos. The Philippine economy is in deep recession, and civil unrest is growing by the day. But Primi Peregrino has her own priorities: tracking down books and pursuing romantic connections with their authors.

1919 год. Скандал в индийской Калькутте – высокопоставленный британский чиновник найден мертвым неподалеку от борделя, а во рту у него смятая записка, в которой местные террористы угрожают утопить англичан в собственной крови. С виду – явно политическое убийство, но новоиспеченный капитан городской полиции Сэм Уидем, приехавший в Индию совсем недавно, не может отделаться от подозрений, что все гораздо сложнее, чем кажется. Колониальная Калькутта от опиумных притонов до роскошных ресторанов для белой публики – экзотический лабиринт, в котором причудливым узором переплетаются разные культуры и человеческие мотивы.

In August 1980, a diabolical plot was hatched in the Swat valley, named 'Operation Junoon'. Its aim: to find the final solution for Indian Kashmir.

A life of peace and seclusion as the unknown Miss Denison. It's what Grace longed for even before her father banished her from Washington, DC. She just may have found it in Lordsburg, New Mexico - the small railroad town where people hide until the world stops looking. A place to send black sheep, skeletons in the closet, rebellious sons...and wayward daughters whose secrets could ruin a father's precious political career.

Una red de espionaje, tejida alrededor de México, solo busca el momento oportuno para iniciar una guerra. Por otro lado, Venustiano Carranza tiene en sus manos la posibilidad de recuperar el territorio perdido por las perversas traiciones de Antonio López de Santa Anna. El presidente, al recibir el Telegrama Zimmermann, no sabe que México será el detonador del estallido de la Primera Guerra Mundial.

康有为、杨度、刘师培、周作人、冯友兰，这五位历史人物，他们在乱世面前，在无路可走或“歧路纷出”面前，陷入了极度的精神困境……康有為、楊度、劉師培、周作人、馮友蘭，這五位歷史人物，他們在亂世面前，在無路可走或「歧路紛出」面前，陷入了極度的精神困境……

In the 1980s, a man is pulled up out of the Indian Ocean in Port Pallid, South Africa, claiming to have been kidnapped as a baby. So begins the odyssey of Jimfish, who defies the usual classification of race that defines the rainbow nation. His journey through the last years of Apartheid will extend beyond South Africa to the wider world, where he will be an unlikely witness to the dying days of the 20th century.

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