Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Novela histórica

Casada, por orden del emperador Maximiliano I, con Christian II "el sanguinario," la breve vida de Isabel de Habsburgo, una mujer valiente y abnegada, estará llena de sinsabores. Con catorce años, en un barco rumbo a Dinamarca, rumbo a su boda con un hombre 20 años mayor que ella, al que no conoce y al que no entiende porque no hablan el mismo idioma, Isabel de Habsburgo, hermana del emperador Carlos V e hija de Juana la Loca y Felipe el Hermoso, comienza un diario.

Hidden away in rural Devonshire, Phyllida Satterthwaite has always been considered more odd than beautiful. But in London, her oddity has made her a sensation. Far worse, it’s caught the eye of the sinister Duke of Moreland - a notorious art collector obsessed with acquiring one-of-a-kind treasures. To escape the duke’s clutches, she’s going to need a little help. Captain Arthur Heywood’s days of heroism are long past. Grievously injured in the Peninsular War, he can no longer walk unaided, let alone shoot a pistol. What use can he possibly be to a damsel in distress?

Cassandra DeWitt has seen her husband only once - on their wedding day two years earlier - and this arrangement suits her perfectly. She has no interest in the rude, badly behaved man she married only to secure her inheritance. She certainly has no interest in his ban on her going to London. Why, he’ll never even know she is there. Until he shows up in London too, and Cassandra finds herself sharing a house with the most infuriating man in England. Joshua DeWitt has his life exactly how he wants it. He has no need of a wife disrupting everything.

Un duque solemne. Un libertino infame. Movilizado por la pena, obliga a la hija de su enemigo a casarse por venganza. Y ahora está a punto de perder el corazón. Cegado por la venganza, Preston Seaton, el duque de Grandhampton quiere destruir al hombre que asesinó a su hermano cueste lo que cueste. Por eso, cuando lord Neville Beckett subasta la mano de su hija en matrimonio para pagar sus deudas, Preston le hace una oferta que no puede rechazar: la prueba de asesinato.

From Boston's social underworld emerges Verena Tarrant, a girl with extraordinary oratorical gifts, which she deploys in tawdry meeting-houses on behalf of "the sisterhood of women". She acquires two admirers of a very different stamp: Olive Chancellor, devotee of radical causes, and marked out for tragedy; and Basil Ransom, veteran of the Civil War, with rigid views concerning society and women's place therein. Is the lovely, lighthearted Verena made for public movements or private passions?

Suecia, 1855. El ministro de Justicia recibe un mensaje aterrador: ha habido una masacre en una montaña de Laponia. Uno de los nómadas sami, los nativos de la región, aparentemente ha asesinado a sangre fría a un sacerdote, a un oficial, y a un colono en la rectoría. El ministro envía a la zona a Magnus, un geólogo, con la tarea de investigar lo acontecido. Pero hay otros motivos por los cuales visitar Blackåsen, un lugar que esconde demasiados secretos. Magnus no viajará solo.

Un libertino ribelle. Un duca corrucciato. Per sfuggire a un matrimonio combinato, compra una moglie che non intende amare… ma perde la testa. Quando il suo spregevole marito la vende all'asta, Lady Emma Bardsley viene comprata dal duca di Loxchester, noto libertino. Per Sebastian, comprare la moglie di un allevatore di maiali è il modo perfetto per evitare un fidanzamento combinato, nonostante lo scandalo. Ma Emma ha un segreto — in realtà è una nobildonna.

Londra, periodo natalizio. Rafe Bowman è arrivato dall'America per incontrare Natalie Blandford, la bellissima figlia di lady e lord Blandford. Ma prima deve superare l'arduo esame della cugina di lei, Hannah, che seppure affascinata dai lineamenti ben definiti e dal fisico imponente ritiene i suoi rozzi modi tipicamente americani e la sua reputazione di libertino non adeguati a una giovane come Natalie, rispettabile e di buona famiglia. Per assicurarsi la sua mano, Rafe dovrà imparare le regole della società londinese.

Claude Dufour, explorador francés, recibe atónito la carta de su amigo, Julien de Marivaux, muerto trece años antes, en 1724, tras la expedición a Canarias que situó el Meridiano de Origen y que midió por primera vez el Teide, así se despertaron todos los secretos que les unió a Emilia, la joven canaria que centró los desvelos de ambos jóvenes.

Un libertino sobreprotector. Una osada marisabidilla. Un matrimonio por conveniencia entre dos opuestos... que se enamoran perdidamente.

Shy and stammering Meg Burton-Smythe has spent the whole of her life living on the fringes of local society. She’s more comfortable with her daydreams than she is with people. But when a dashing, golden-haired hero rides to her rescue one morning, she dares to hope that her dreams might finally come true. There’s only one problem: her handsome rescuer is the son of her father’s sworn enemy.

In this vast and gorgeous tapestry of a novel, serf and master, Cossack and tsar, priest and Jew are brought together in a family saga which unrolls through centuries of history to reveal that most impenetrable and mysterious of lands - Russia. Through the life of a little town east of Moscow in the Russian heartland, Edward Rutherfurd creates a sweeping family saga from the baffling contradictions of Russia's culture and her peoples - bleak yet exotic, brutal but romantic, land of ritual yet riddled with superstitious fears.

Son los años cincuenta, Raquel y Alejo se aman a escondidas: los prejuicios del padre de Raquel les impiden verse libremente. Sin embargo, las precauciones para no ser encontrados fallan y una noche los protagonistas son sorprendidos. El castigo es la separación, la que llevará a Raquel a París y a Alejo, a la Amazonía peruana.

Cuatro mujeres de diferentes clases sociales y una amistad rotunda para descubrir el paso de la tradición a la modernidad en el Beirut de nuestros días. Mouna Al-Husseini es la propietaria del Cleopatra, un salón de belleza algo decadente en un barrio de Beirut. Mouna es una mujer atrevida y liberal, que lucha por desmarcarse de la tradición rígida, a pesar de que a sus 37 años su madre todavía le recuerda día a día lo mal que ha encaminado su vida.

“Dona Bárbara” foi escrito em 1929 e tem como cenário uma Venezuela rural, com enredo que foca no conflito entre diferentes famílias ao longo de gerações e a chegada de uma mulher que, por sua beleza e inteligência, corrompe a todos com o objetivo de enriquecer e tomar o poder da região. Para além do protagonismo feminino, a obra chama a atenção por trazer questões que ainda são bastante atuais na América Latina.

Zarautz, 1916. La joven Isabel acompaña a su abuela durante sus últimas horas de vida. Sus padres murieron siendo ella un bebé y sus abuelos fueron su única familia. Pese a la pérdida, ellos la criaron rodeada de amor y bienestar, entre Madrid y San Sebastián, carreras de caballos y un prestigioso internado inglés.

In this satirical faux autobiography, Moll Flanders, abandoned at birth, sets her rebellious heart on a life of independence in late 17th-century England. A strong-willed woman, she is determined to make a better life for herself, no matter what it takes: thievery, prostitution, seductions, marriages, or illicit liaisons. Born to a convicted felon in Newgate prison Moll learns to live off her wits, refusing to be a helpless victim and defying most traditional depictions of women of the era.

Anno Domini 1076. Sopravvissuta alla strage della sua famiglia, Doralice di Lacus trova ospitalità a Canossa, dove la grancontessa Matilda la accoglie come una figlia. Quando l'orrore per l'assassinio dei suoi genitori sembra aver lasciato posto a una tranquilla quotidianità, i piani di conquista di Enrico IV sconvolgono il suo mondo. Tristan di Holstein, indomito guerriero forgiato da mille battaglie, ha un'ultima missione prima di riconquistare la libertà: deve colpire al cuore Matilda, strappandole quanto ha di più prezioso.

'Truth is the Daughter of Time' is an old proverb. And The Daughter of Time is Josephine Tey's search for the truth about the murder of the Princes in the Tower. Was the hunchback, Richard III, the monster that Shakespeare and the history books have made him out to be?

Exclusively from Audible. 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.' So begins Charles Dickens' most famous historical drama: a gripping tale of war, social injustice and the choice between darkness and light. After being unjustly imprisoned for 18 years, French doctor Manette is released from the Bastille jail in Paris and embarks upon a journey to London in the hope of finding the daughter he never met.