Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Novela histórica

El León de Cartago nos sumerge en la cultura cartaginesa, romana y de los pueblos hispanos prerromanos, en un marco apasionante de aventuras, amor e intriga. Relata la vida de Amílcar, el padre del gran Aníbal, y la niñez de éste.

Roma, luglio 1700. È anno di Giubileo: strade e piazze sono invase da torme di pellegrini accaldati. Anche il colle più panoramico dell'Urbe è preso d'assalto: nella sua sontuosa villa il cardinal Spada, segretario di Stato pontificio, festeggia le nozze del nipote con il fior fiore di curia, nobiltà e diplomazia. Per giorni si alternano merende sull'erba e battute di caccia, commedie all'aperto e cene luculliane. Tra gli invitati Atto Melani, ex cantante castrato e agente del Re Sole, tesse la sua tela. Dietro le quinte della festa si agita infatti ben altro.

Chi è lui? Chi lo ha generato davvero? Suo padre Alois Hitler, funzionario di dogana austriaco, se lo chiederà sempre. E senza risposta, perché nemmeno sul letto di morte la madre gli svelerà il segreto della sua nascita di illegittimo. E lo stesso ci chiediamo noi di Adolf Hitler: chi è? Chi lo ha generato? Da dove viene il lupo Fenrir che, nelle mitologie nordiche, a un certo punto del Tempo spezzerà la catena per irrompere schiumando di rabbia e annunciare la fine del mondo?

A Falcon Flies is the first best-selling novel in Wilbur Smith's epic tale of Africa, The Ballantyne Novels. In search of a father they barely remember, Zouga and Dr Robyn Ballantyne board Mungo St John's magnificent clipper to speed them to Africa. But long before they sight that mighty continent, Robyn knows that she and Mungo will battle with all the fury of natural enemies - and love with all the desperation of those unable to evade the commands of fate.

La storia di un'amicizia e di una passione. L'amicizia è quella fra due scrittrici, una già affermata e idolatrata dal pubblico e l'altra geniale ma esordiente all'inizio della narrazione: Amélie Nothomb e Pétronille Fanto. Il racconto scandisce i momenti più bizzarri di questo inusuale legame che prende forma e consistenza fra libri, librerie, letteratura e indimenticabili bevute. A unire le due donne infatti, oltre alla scrittura, c'è anche la comune passione per lo champagne.

London Society is harsh for a young woman with no family connections who has to work for a living. But when Daisy Merrick is sacked from yet another job, the feisty and outspoken miss comes up with a plan that could give her a future beyond her wildest dreams. There's only one problem. Her success depends on a man, the most infuriating, impossible, immovable man she's ever met.

Una espléndida recreación de la vida del gran orador y senador, Cicerón, y de su lucha por preservar el estado de las cosas durante el ocaso de la república romana. Un apasionante audiolibro donde se cruzan las intrigas y los crímenes palaciegos.

Leo Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature. Generations of readers have been enthralled by his magnificent heroine, the unhappily married Anna Karenina, and her tragic affair with dashing Count Vronsky.

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by despatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attentions of two privateers soon become menacing. The chase that follows through the fogs and shallows of the Grand Banks is as thrilling, as tense and as unexpected in its culmination as anything Patrick O'Brian has written.

Un novelista con falta de inspiración se encuentra con la mejor trama de su vida: un diario del siglo XVIII, escondido en la mítica posada del Peine de Madrid, en el que diferentes personalidades plasmaron su desesperación a lo largo de los siglos. En 1705, el conquistador Alonso de Alvarado, desembarca en el pequeño pueblo costero de Tazones.

Shalom Sefarad es, probablemente, la mejor novela escrita sobre la historia de la expulsión de los judíos sefardíes, de la terrible equivocación que cometieron los Reyes Católicos. Un libro cargado de sabiduría y erudición, que asombrará al oyente por su ritmo, passion, y belleza.

Shifting seamlessly from the past to the present and following the routes of escape across countries and continents, Muoz Molina evokes people real and imagined who come together in a richly allusive pattern - from Eugenia Ginsburg to Grete Buber-Neumann, the one on a train to the gulag, the other heading toward - a Nazi concentration camp; from a shoemaker and a nun who become lovers in a small Spanish town to Primo Levi bound for Auschwitz.

Barney Panofsky - Canadian expat, wily lover of women, writer, television producer, raconteur - is finally putting pen to paper so he can rebut the charges about him made in his rival’s autobiography. Whether it’s ranting about his bohemian misadventures during the 1950s in Paris, his tumultuous three marriages, or his successful trashy TV company, Totally Unnecessary Productions, he quickly proves that his memory may be slipping, but his bile isn’t.

In Age of Myth, fantasy master Michael J. Sullivan launched audiences on an epic journey of magic and adventure, heroism and betrayal, love and loss. Now the thrilling saga continues as the human uprising is threatened by powerful enemies from without—and bitter rivalries from within. Raithe, the God Killer, may have started the rebellion by killing a Fhrey, but long-standing enmities dividing the Rhunes make it all but impossible to unite against the common foe. And even if the clans can join forces, how will they defeat an enemy whose magical prowess renders them indistinguishable from gods?

O romance conta a história de Don Alfonso Pereira e dos indígenas huasipungos de sua fazenda. Endividado, ele se vê obrigado a sair da capital (Quito) para trabalhar na fictícia cidade de Tomachi, onde se encontram seus empreendimentos rurais. Seu tio, Júlio Pereira, que é também um de seus credores, propõe um negócio que pode salvá-lo: reorganizar a fazenda de modo a torná-la apta à exploração do petróleo.

Krakau im Jahre 1486: Peter Bernward hat sich mit seiner Lebensgefährtin Jana Dlugosz in deren Heimatstadt niedergelassen und dort ein ruhiges Familienleben gefunden. Doch die Ruhe währt nicht lange: Als Peter versucht, einem befreundeten jüdischen Bankier zu helfen, sticht er in ein Wespennest. Die antijüdische Stimmung in Krakau beginnt sich aufzuheizen und es kommt zu Ausschreitungen.

Venedig 1478: Aus den trüben Wassern der Lagune wird vor den Augen des deutschen Händlers Peter Bernward die Leiche eines Kindes geborgen. Bald darauf kommen zwei weitere Kinder ums Leben - Gassenjungen, die als Zeugen gesucht wurden. Wussten sie zu viel? Bernward beschließt, den wenigen Hinweisen nachzugehen. Dabei dringt er tief in das Räderwerk der Macht vor, mit der Venedig seit 400 Jahren den Handel in Europa kontrolliert - und gerät in ein Netz aus Verbrechen und Intrigen, das die dunkle Seite der Stadt offenbart.

Augsburg, 1478. Ein skrupelloser Mörder versetzt die Stadt in Angst und Schrecken. Oder ist es gar kein Mensch, der die Opfer auf dem Gewissen hat? Als Peter Bernward in seine ehemalige Heimatstadt zurückkehrt, fordern ihn dort weit mächtigere Gegner heraus, als nur die Gespenster der Vergangenheit.

La profecía del Coyote hambriento lo decía: habría de salvar al pueblo chichimeca del tirano Tezozómoc, aquel que juró en su juventud recuperar la grandeza del señorío de Azcapotzalco; aquel que logró unir las voluntades de varios pueblos y alzar los cimientos de una civilización que se convirtió en imperio; aquel que sería el primer gran ejemplo de la política brutal y sanguinaria que dominaría el Valle de México por más de un siglo.

Un importante, pero macabro hallazgo arqueológico desentierra un misterio que ha sido celosamente guardado por la iglesia: en una mazmorra, construida en los tiempos de la conquista, son encontrados los cadáveres de siete frailes quienes fueron abandonados y torturados a muerte.