Saga World

Fiction to coincide with a three-part historical Emmerdale spin-off show airing on ITV this autumn. The show is billed as a captivating 8 p.m. series in which cast members mark 100 years since the end of the Great War by uncovering the hidden stories of their WW1 counterparts, embarking on an immersive journey to experience a Yorkshire village at war and creating a special Armistice celebration.

Gundagai, 1852. The powerful Murrumbidgee River surges through town leaving death and destruction in its wake. It is a stark reminder that while the river can give life, it can just as easily take it away. Wagadhaany is one of the lucky ones. She survives. But is her life now better than the fate she escaped? Forced to move away from her miyagan, she walks through each day with no trace of dance in her step, her broken heart forever calling her back home to Gundagai.

In Secrets at Bletchley Park by Margaret Dickinson, two young women from very different backgrounds meet in the Second World War and are plunged into a life where security and discretion are paramount. But both have secrets of their own to hide.

Le Kâmasûtra est un livre indien écrit entre le IVe siècle et le VIIe siècle de notre ère, attribué à Vâtsyâyana.

L'homme au masque de fer est l'un des prisonniers les plus fameux de l'histoire française. Le mystère entourant son existence, ainsi que les différents films et romans dont il a fait l'objet, n'ont cessé d'exciter les imaginations.

Le 16 octobre 1984, le capitaine de gendarmerie Étienne Sesmat était sur les bords de la Vologne, dans les Vosges, au moment où on retirait des eaux le corps du petit Grégory. Il ne se doutait pas, en cet instant, que cette affaire allait bouleverser sa vie et sa carrière... Un document inédit. Le fait divers qui a inspiré les documentaires "Qui a tué le petit Grégory?" (Netflix, 2019) et "Une affaire française" (TFI, 2021). Né en 1954, Étienne Sesmat est originaire de Meurthe-et-Moselle.

Liverpool, 1939. Bella Rogers thought her life was just starting; she can’t wait to get married to her childhood sweetheart, Bobby. But when war is declared and Bobby is called up, his letters stop, leaving Bella heartbroken and alone. Then her family is torn apart by tragedy when her angelic 5-year-old sister dies from a terrible illness. They can barely afford a funeral, but the church is packed with the entire community, devastated for their loss. Grieving for her sister and lost love, Bella finds a job at the Bryant and May factory, making matches.

Renowned as FDR's favorite warship, the cruiser USS Houston was a prize target trapped in the far Pacific after Pearl Harbor. Without hope of reinforcement, her crew faced a superior Japanese force ruthlessly committed to total conquest. But the men of the Houston fought back with dignity, ingenuity, sabotage, willpower, and the undying faith that their country would prevail.

When the communist-backed army from the north invades her home, 16-year-old Haemi Lee, along with her widowed mother and ailing brother, is forced to flee to a refugee camp along the coast. For a few hours each night, she escapes her family’s makeshift home and tragic circumstances with her childhood friend, Kyunghwan. Focused on finishing school, Kyunghwan doesn’t realize his older and wealthier cousin, Jisoo, has his sights set on the beautiful and spirited Haemi - and is determined to marry her before joining the fight.

Beth Cohen wants to make the most of the months she has left with her elderly father, Max. His only request of his daughter is to go through the long-forgotten box of memorabilia from his days as a medic on the western front. Then, among his wartime souvenirs, Beth finds a photograph of her father with an adoring and beautiful stranger - a photograph worth a thousand questions.

New York, present day: On a whim, Juno Lambert buys a 1931 Underwood typewriter that once belonged to celebrated journalist Cordelia Capel. Within its case she discovers an unfinished novel, igniting a transatlantic journey to fill the gaps in the story of Cordelia and her sister and the secret that lies between them. Europe, 1936: Cordelia's socialite sister Irene marries a German industrialist who whisks her away to Berlin. Cordelia, feistier and more intellectual than Irene, gets a job at a newspaper in Paris, pursuing the journalism career she cherishes.

The brilliants changed everything.

Since 1980, 1% of the world has been born with gifts we'd only dreamed of. The ability to sense a person's most intimate secrets, or predict the stock market, or move virtually unseen. For thirty years the world has struggled with a growing divide between the exceptional...and the rest of us.

"Onuphrius ou les vexations fantastiques d'un admirateur d'Hoffmann" est une nouvelle fantastique de Théophile Gautier.

Die Saga der Germanen wird fortgesetzt. Die Germanen werden von zwei Seiten bedroht: Nicht nur die Römer lauern auf sie, sondern auch die übermächtigen Truppen des Markomannenkönigs Marbod. Außerdem stehen nicht mehr alle Cherusker den Germanen Arminius und Thorag im Kampf bei und ihre einstige Einheit ist zerschlagen. Doch eine weitere Bedrohung bahnt sich an: Die mysteriöse Jägerin Canis ist mit in das Gefecht gezogen, um Rache zu üben.

As the Ice Age ends and the glaciers release their hold on North America, a brave band of people make their way into the new continent. The climate is changing and the game is scarce. A hostile tribe pursues them, driving them ever southward. In their midst rises a young shaman, who receives a Dream from the spirit of the Wolf, a vision of paradise on the other side of the impenetrable ice. An older, more powerful Dreamer teaches the young man how to find the path to the new land, but they both realize that a shadowy menace looms on the horizon, a cosmic battle between good and evil.

Leeds, 1918. When Amy visits her husband, Jude, at Beckett's Park Hospital, he doesn't recognise her. Broken after serving four devastating years in the First World War, Jude is a shadow of the man he once was. Can he ever again be the man Amy knew and loved? Barnsborough, 1912. The first time Jude and Amy meet, the connection between them is instant and electric. While a librarian's assistant and a collier might not be the most conventional pair, the two come together over a love of books that quickly turns into more.

When conflict photographer Jackson Swann dies, he leaves behind a conflict of his own making when his three daughters, each born to a different mother, discover that they’re now responsible for the family’s Oregon vineyard - and for a family they didn’t ask for.

Henri Beyle, plus connu sous le pseudonyme de Stendhal est un écrivain français, connu en particulier pour ses romans L"e Rouge et le Noir" et "La Chartreuse de Parme". Stendhal aurait voulu consacrer sa vie à la rêverie, à la "chasse au bonheur", aux arts et à l'amour ; bien malgré lui, il a eu une vie mouvementée. Ses romans "Le Rouge et le Noir" (1830), "La Chartreuse de Parme" (1839) et "Lucien Leuwen" (inachevé) ont fait de lui, aux côtés de Balzac, Hugo, Flaubert ou Zola, un des grands représentants du roman français au XIXème siècle.

Jean Racine est un dramaturge et poète français, considéré comme l'un des plus grands auteurs de tragédies de la période classique en France. Le succès d'"Andromaque" en 1667 ouvre une décennie de grande création où l'on trouve à côté d'une unique comédie ("Les plaideurs" en 1668) six grandes tragédies : "Britannicus" (1669), "Bérénice" (1670), "Bajazet" (1672), "Mithridate" (1673), "Iphigénie" (1674) et "Phèdre" (1677).

Comment réagir à l'apparition d'un jeune dieu comme Mozart quand on est compositeur viennois déjà établi, son aîné, et son maître ? Alexandre Pouchkine met en scène fascination, rancœur et désespoir dans cette œuvre de fiction, Mozart et Salieri, écrite en 1830. Le jeune Mozart est détenteur d'un génie inexplicable, hors de proportion avec sa personnalité immature et tête en l'air.