Political Historical Fiction

When research zoologist Dr Amelia Blackburn ventures north to investigate the ravages of the Chernobyl reactor meltdown, she stumbles on the evidence of another sinister disaster on the Norway-Russia border - one that appears far from innocent. Mother Russia will stop at nothing to prevent this information from being revealed, putting Amelia and her team in grave danger from the moment they leave the site. When the news reaches London, the eyes of British intelligence turn to the one man with the knowledge and skills to bring her back to safety.

García Márquez construyó, en El otoño del patriarca, una maquinaria narrativa perfecta que desgrana una historia universal -la agonía y muerte de un dictador- en forma cíclica, experimental y real al mismo tiempo, en seis bloques narrativos sin diálogos, sin puntos y aparte, repitiendo una anécdota siempre igual y siempre distinta, acumulando hechos y descripciones deslumbrantes.

"Longtemps j'ai cru incarner une nation et mettre les puissants de ce monde à genoux. J'étais la légende faite homme. Les idoles et les poètes me mangeaient dans la main. Aujourd'hui, je n'ai à léguer à mes héritiers que ce livre qui relate les dernières heures de ma fabuleuse existence. Lequel, du visionnaire tyrannique ou du Bédouin indomptable, l'Histoire retiendra-t-elle ? Pour moi, la question ne se pose même pas puisque l'on n'est que ce que les autres voudraient que l'on soit."

While America struggles to define its destiny, beautiful and ambitious Caroline Sanford fights to control her own fate. One of Vidal’s most inspired creations, she is an embodiment of the complex, vigorous young nation. From the back offices of her Washington newspaper, Caroline confronts the two men who threaten to thwart her ambition: William Randolph Hearst and his protégé, Blaise Sanford, Caroline’s half brother.

Audiolibro dramatizado en español basado en la historia original de Víctor Hugo. Catalogada como la primera novela social de su época, Los Miserables, es una de obras literarias las más famosas de todos los tiempos. Es la historia de Jean Valjean, un convicto que estuvo injustamente encarcelado por 19 años por haberse robado una rebanada de pan. Al ser liberado de su injusta condena, Valjean trata de escapar de su pasado, lleno de maldad y depravación, para vivir una vida digna y honesta.

A young silk heiress is caught in the dangerous tide of French history during the reign of the evil Queen Mother, Catherine de Medici. Uncovering a diabolical plot, Rachelle joins forces with the handsome rebel Marquis Fabien de Vendome - but will they be in time?

A nation will fight for its freedom.The first novel in a major new series as Robert Low moves from the Vikings to the making of Scotland.In the dying days of the 13th century, Scotland is in turmoil. The death of Alexander III has plunged the country into war, both with itself and with Edward I of England. Determined to bring the north under his control, Edward instead unleashes a Scottish rebellion which unites the many warring factions against him - though the old hatreds are not easily put aside.

Though he is one of England's most acclaimed intellectuals, John Gower is no stranger to London's wretched slums and dark corners, and he knows how to trade on the secrets of the kingdom's most powerful men. When the bodies of 16 unknown men are found in a privy, the sheriff of London seeks Gower's help. The men's wounds - ragged holes created by an unknown object - are unlike anything the sheriff's men have ever seen. Tossed into the sewer, the bodies were meant to be found.

En la Florencia del siglo XV, la de Botticelli y Leonardo, se está preparando una conspiración política y religiosa que podría cambiar la Historia del Renacimiento italiano: la que instigaron los Pazzi y el papa Sixto IV contra el poder de los Médicis. Sólo asesinando a Lorenzo el Magnífico se podría dominar la economía de todo el orbe cristiano. En la Florencia del siglo XXI, una estudiante prepara su tesis sobre un pintor de turbio pasado.

La Russia è "la macchina degli incubi dell'Occidente" e questo romanzo, che è un viaggio alla scoperta della mente genialmente tortuosa di uno stratega del Cremlino, ci porta al cuore di quella macchina e di quegli incubi. Nel corso di una lunga notte, Vadim Baranov, l'uomo conosciuto come "il mago del Cremlino", racconta gli uomini e le vicende che hanno accompagnato la trasformazione di un anonimo funzionario del Kgb nell'inesorabile Zar di oggi.

President William Darcy has it all: wealth, intelligence, and the most powerful job in the country. Despite what his friends say, he is not lonely in the White House. He’s not. And he has vowed not to date while he’s in office. Nor is he interested in Elizabeth Bennet. She might be pretty and funny and smart, but her family is nouveau riche and unbearable. Unfortunately, he encounters her everywhere in Washington, DC - making her harder and harder to ignore.

One starless night Janie's childhood was swept away by the terrors of the Khmer Rouge. Exiled from Phnom Penh, Janie and her family were forced to live out in the open: cold, hungry, and under constant surveillance. Caught up in a political storm that brought starvation to millions, tore families apart, and changed the world forever, Janie lost everyone she loved. Now, three decades later, Janie's life in Montreal is unraveling.

Five homeless people take over a radio station, turn the music programming over to a ballot system that everyone can participate in, and start a political avalanche changing America more into a democracy with an amendment to the Constitution initiated by a states' national constitutional convention. Historical fiction based on Radio Free Hawaii, Honolulu.

Gideon Zadok arrives in Israel with every intention to research a new book, mend a broken marriage, and improve his dysfunctional family. But as political tensions escalate and his family is evacuated, Zadok asks to follow Israeli paratroopers to secure Mitla Pass and finds himself in the midst of one of the largest global crises of the twentieth century. A sweeping novel of love, passion, and freedom, Mitla Pass stands as an epic look at modern Middle Eastern history and is quite possibly Uris’s most autobiographical work.

In 1721, when the most notorious pirates are either dead or on the run, Jimmy Kavanagh, who sailed with Blackbeard, decides to pull together a "Company of Gentleman of Fortune" for one last "Adventuring Cruise" that will set them all up for life. All begins well: the pirates sail across the Atlantic and sack Cape Coast Castle, looting it of chests of gold ill-gotten from the slave trade. But before Kavanagh can lead them on, he sickens, unleashing a drastic series of power struggles among the company.

1660. Aramis est évêque de Vannes. Il est un des rares à connaître l'existence du frère jumeau de Louis XIV, retenu prisonnier sous un masque de fer. Il entend bien se servir de ce secret pour asseoir son pouvoir, placer ce mystérieux frère sur le trône et devenir son Premier ministre. Mais il se heurtera au fidèle d'Artagnan, bien décidé à tout faire pour défendre le véritable Roi.

Helsinki, 1947. Finland teeters between the Soviet Union and the West. Everyone is being watched. A wrong look or a wrong word could end in catastrophe. Natalya Bobrova, from Russia, and Louise Koski, from the United States, are young wives of their country’s military attachés. When they meet at an embassy party, their husbands, Arnie and Mikhail, both world-class skiers, drunkenly challenge each other to a friendly—but secret—cross-country wilderness race.

On the lam for an act of violence against the American government, 25-year-old Jenny Shimada agrees to care for three younger fugitives whom a shadowy figure from her former radical life has spirited out of California. One of them, the kidnapped granddaughter of a wealthy newspaper magnate in San Francisco, has become a national celebrity for embracing her captors' ideology and joining their revolutionary cell.

Set largely in the culture-blending Vieux Port of Marseille at the height of the Jazz Age, the novel takes flight along with Lafala, an acutely disabled but abruptly wealthy West African sailor. While stowing away on a transatlantic freighter, Lafala is discovered and locked in a frigid closet. Badly frostbitten by the time the boat docks, the once-nimble dancer loses both of his lower legs, emerging from life-saving surgery as what he terms "an amputated man." Thanks to an improbably successful lawsuit against the shipping line, however, Lafala scores big in the litigious United States.

En janvier 1942, Los Angeles est encore sous le choc de l'attaque de Pearl Harbor. Les Américains d'origine japonaise sont massivement arrêtés tandis que des pluies torrentielles s'abattent sur la ville. Un corps est découvert dans Griffith Park à la faveur d'un glissement de terrain.