Resultados para "The Confession" en Novela histórica

Ivy Malone, the New-York Historical Society's librarian, is dedicated to preserving Manhattan's rich history, but when society grand dame Adeline King anonymously reveals her shocking life story, Ivy finds herself holding a highly coveted secret. Burdened with the responsibility of keeping Adeline's identity hidden, Ivy finds the matter increasingly complicated when two men claim ties to the elderly woman—one of them accusing Adeline of involvement in a crime.

The year is 1887, and in the quaint Pennsylvania town of Temple, Isabella Strohmeyer stumbles upon a gruesome scene: her father and stepmother brutally hacked to death. As the police investigation unfolds, gossip and rumors swirl through the tight-knit community. The Strohmeyer household, always steeped in simmering tension, harbors secrets that echo within its halls.

Con el trasfondo histórico del reinado de Fernando VII, Jorge Ordaz nos vuelve a presentar una de sus tramas llenas de delicadez y buen hacer, esta vez en la piel de un bibliófago, un personaje que no posee libros, sino que se ve poseído por ellos, un esclavo del ansia de amasar más y más libros que articula un discurso tan lúcido como descarnado sobre la naturaleza de la imaginación.

With the enemy growing bolder and Lady Maureen Huxley contemplating marriage to another man, Henry Thorpe, known to society as the affable Earl of Dunston, is caught in the crossfire between his mission to catch his father's murderer and his heart. Any move could exact a devastating cost. But losing the woman he loves is one price he refuses to pay.

Alfred de Musset, una delle figure emblematiche del romanticismo letterario, nacque a Parigi nel 1810 e morì a 47anni per una malattia cardiaca aggravata dall’alcolismo e dalla sua dedizione all’assenzio. In questa sua opera autobiografica, scritta a 26 anni, narra il suo amore con la scrittrice George Sand. Cornice musicale: Notturno Op 37 No 2 di Chopin. Please note: This audiobook is in Italian.

Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2019. Tobi and Ella's childhood in East Berlin is shrouded in mystery. Now adults living in London, their past isn full of unanswered questions. Both remember their family's daring and terrifying attempt to escape, which ended in tragedy; but the fall-out...

Marcus Cassianus Varro has spent his life enforcing Rome’s peace with an iron hand. But Jerusalem during Passover is a tinderbox—and the arrival of a Galilean teacher known as Jesus strikes the match. Crowds roar His name. Priests whisper of blasphemy. Rome senses rebellion. And Marcus, ordered to hold the city together, finds himself watching a Man who defies every category he knows. Jesus speaks with quiet authority, moves with compassion, and carries a grief Marcus cannot explain.

La storia di un amore fascista vissuto e stroncato da inevitabili sensi di colpa, tra follia, adesione indefessa ai dogmi mussoliniani, autoassoluzioni e condanne morali costituisce il fulcro del nuovo romanzo di Valerio Di Stefano, ambientato nell'immediata vigilia dello scoppio della Seconda Guerra Mondiale in una dimenticata provincia piemontese.

En 1833 Musset rencontre George Sand, avec qui il entretiendra une relation passionnelle et tumultueuse, source d'une grande inspiration créatrice. De fait, la douleur est au centre de la créativité de l'auteur, et la souffrance vive qu'il ressent pendant sa relation avec Sand et à la suite de leur séparation lui inspirera plusieurs chefs-d'œuvre.

Overstrand 1895. Lawrence Harpham and Violet Smith are witnesses to suicide while on holiday. Beneath the body, lies a bible belonging to a murdered man. Clues lead to the violent death of a bookseller and a chilling confession from the past. From Norfolk to Liverpool, investigations point to...

Inexperienced in courtship and love, Jemma turns to her best friend, Miles, for guidance on how to win a man’s heart—not knowing that Miles has secretly loved her for years. Brookeside, England, 1822 Jemma fielding has always considered herself an independent woman, but to honor her beloved...

When sweet-talking Mick Brogan dies, his young wife Cathleen struggles to bring up their daughters in their rented rooms in 1960s North London. She is comforted by Father Jerry, her husband's cousin, and a priest generally acknowledged by the Irish community to be both a saint and the spit of Gregory Peck.

La storia di un amore fascista vissuto e stroncato da inevitabili sensi di colpa, tra follia, adesione indefessa ai dogmi mussoliniani, autoassoluzioni e condanne morali costituisce il fulcro del nuovo romanzo di Valerio Di Stefano, ambientato nell'immediata vigilia dello scoppio della Seconda Guerra Mondiale in una dimenticata provincia piemontese. A metà tra il divertissement e la conservazione della memoria, la narrazione si sviluppa diluendosi con l'apparato iconografico che ne costituisce parte integrante.

“One of the best historical series being written today.” —Washington Post “Todd once and for all establishes the shell-shocked Rutledge as the genre’s most complex and fascinating detective.” —Entertainment Weekly The Confession is historical crime fiction at its finest, continuing...

When 12-year-old Katherine Howard comes to live in the Duchess of Norfolk's household, poor relation Cat Tilney is deeply suspicious of her. The two girls couldn't be more different: Cat, watchful and ambitious; Katherine, interested only in clothes and boys. Their companions are in thrall to Katherine, but it's Cat in whom Katherine confides. Summoned to court at 17, Katherine leaves Cat in the company of her ex-lover, Francis, and the two begin their own, much more serious love affair.

Majorca, 1455. Every chart is a confession. Siona Cresques inherits her father's workshop and the private notation system that has made his chartsthe most accurate in the Mediterranean. The cipher encodes more than coordinates. It carries the oralnavigation traditions of Jewish, Muslim, and Catalan sailors, gathered across three generations of aconverso family that kept its knowledge alive by never writing it down plainly. The Portuguese crown wants her charts for its southern voyages. The Aragonese tribunal's notary wantsto know why her father's maps carry Arabic place names.

Англичанка Эдит Парджетер не была историком по образованию, однако под псевдонимом Эллис Питерс она создала одну из самых популярных детективных серий, действие которой плотно увязано с важными историческими событиями, сотрясавшими в 12 веке Англию и Уэльс, откуда были родом предки Парджетер.

**Buy The Raven Scholar now - a masterfully woven tale of imperial intrigue from Sunday Times bestselling Antonia Hodgson** 'A historical crime series that gets better with every book' Andrew Taylor 'Intelligent and engrossing read' Sunday Times 'Historical fiction just doesn't get any better...

An elderly monk is ordered by his abbot to confess the terrible sin he committed as a child. But where to begin? One loose stitch unravels another. A lifetime has passed since he found himself standing alone, a little boy in the snow outside an early, primitive monastery sited at the edge of a dangerous, still-pagan world. He remembers the plagues he survived. He remembers the wars. He remembers the friends who survived neither. He remembers struggling to understand a world inhabited by monks, grave men who, for the most part, used their voices only to sing at the Holy Office.

The new novel from the author of the Sunday Timesbestseller, The Silversmith's Wife. Stunning historical fiction, perfect for fans of Tracy Chevalier. Broadstairs, Kent, 1851. Once a sleepy fishing village, now a select sea-bathing resort, this is a place where people come to take the air, and...