Títulos en Histórico

Il tempo per alcuni è una corsa incessante, per altri un passo lento e incerto. Per qualcuno, invece, si è arrestato per sempre. E la storia d’Italia è un filo spezzato: un orologio fermo alla stagione del piombo e del sangue. In questo silenzio immobile sono immersi Vera Coen e Andrea...

Un crit ofegat de terror. Una novícia morta violentament penja d’una corda al pou del Monestir de Santa Maria de Pedralbes. La jove Alamanda guarda gelosament una carta que amaga un secret decisiu per al futur de Catalunya. Són els anys següents a la Revolta dels Segadors i els nobles i burgesos pateixen les conseqüències econòmiques de la guerra contra Castella. Què explica aquesta carta de la qual depèn el poble català? El monestir de Pedralbes i la Barcelona del segle XVII són l’escenari d'El monestir de les ombres, una història d’intriga i amor com no l’havíem vist mai abans. dels seus protagonistes.

Medio Oriente, 1981. Tra i monti dell'Afghanistan si trova la Valle dei Cinque Leoni, un luogo di antiche leggende ora rifugio di Masud e dei suoi guerriglieri che combattono gli invasori sovietici. È qui che trovano compimento i destini incrociati di tre personaggi: un americano e un francese che al tempo della Guerra fredda hanno combattuto su opposti fronti, e Jane, la donna che li unisce e li divide.

Mentre l'architetto Deotisalvi inizia a costruire la Torre di Pisa, viene rubato l'oro che anticamente rivestiva l'antico arco di trionfo della città: la porta Aurea. Inoltre la città è funestata da una serie di strani omicidi, su cui è chiamato a indagare il giovane perito legale Lanfranco, pupillo di Deotisalvi. Giorni nostri. Yasser Martani, autore di saggi storici, è convinto, grazie a una serie di ricerche, che il ladro che sottrasse l'oro fosse un notabile di Pisa e che quell'immensa fortuna sia ancora nascosta in città.

La racine du capuchon du moine est le nom d'un onguent merveilleux pour le traitement des rhumatismes. C'est aussi un poison très dangereux si on l'avale. Et il en faut très peu pour tuer son homme : Maître Bonnel vient d'en faire les frais. Peu après avoir légué ses terres à l'abbaye de Shrewsbury en échange d'une retraite chez les frères, on l'a retrouvé mort.

Ireland, 1805. A country on the brink of rebellion.American widow Marian Devlin arrives in the west of Ireland to restore the crumbling estate left by her late husband. But the land is failing, the tenants are starving, and resentment against the ruling classes is turning violent.When a...

Late Victorian London. When James Miller, the most respectable of Scottish businessmen, is pulled, dead, from the Thames, his daughter is drawn into an investigation which reveals a whole world of secrets and corruption. Alongside local detective Culley, Catriona’s search for her father’s killer leads all the way to the tragic truth behind the ghostly legend of The Darkwater Bride and the power of her deadly kiss. The Darkwater Bride combines the genres of the Victorian mystery thriller with the equally classic Victorian mode of the ghostly tale.

1914: A Alemanha se prepara para a guerra e os Aliados começam a construir suas defesas. Ambos os lados precisam da Rússia, que enfrenta graves problemas internos e vive na iminência de uma revolução. Na Inglaterra, Winston Churchill arquiteta uma negociação secreta com o príncipe Aleksei Orlov, visando a um acordo com os russos. No entanto, o anarquista Feliks Kschessinsky, um homem sem nada a perder, está disposto a tudo para impedir que seu país envie milhões de rapazes para os campos de batalha de uma guerra que nem sequer compreendem.

Múnich, 1931. Falta poco para que unas históricas elecciones otorguen el poder a los nazis. Los comisarios Siegfried Sauer y Mutti Forster se enfrentan al aburrido turno del sábado cuando el director de la policía criminal les avisa de un suceso en el número 16 de Prinzregentenplatz, la vivienda de Adolf Hitler.

SOLA Jennifer Lavender fue una niña solitaria. Siempre se sintió en segundo lugar y ansiaba desesperadamente el amor de sus padres. Cuando se entera de que fue adoptada, todo encaja. Pero su sueño de encontrar a su verdadera familia nunca podrá cumplirse: su madre murió sola al dar a luz...

From the bestselling author Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning is a historical epic that ends where The Pillars of the Earth begins. 'Another historical thriller of mighty proportions' – The Times A Time of Conflict It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. The king’s grip on the country...

Madrid. Año 1940. El paso de la guerra ha dejado la capital en un estado desolador. Aunque ya se trabaja en reconstruir los desperfectos, hay asuntos más importantes que hacen que la supervivencia sea todo un reto. El hambre, las enfermedades, el miedo y la represión campan a sus anchas sin que nadie pueda hacer nada. En medio de todo esto, Juan, un joven republicano se ve obligado a emigrar allí. Atrás deja un oscuro secreto que podría traerle la peor de las desgracias tanto a él como a su familia.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom is an account written by T.E. Lawrence, or Lawrence of Arabia as he became known, regarding the Arab revolt against the Turks and his own part in those events, transcribed from extensive notes which he kept at the time. Like Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves, Lawrence is a...

The first in Ken Follett's breathtaking Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants is a captivating tale that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women. A World in Chaos 1911, a thirteen-year-old boy, Billy...

The first book in the bestselling Conqueror series featuring Genghis Khan and his descendants. 'I am the land and the bones of the hills. I am the winter.' Temujin, the second son of the khan of the Wolves tribe, was only eleven when his father died in an ambush.His family were thrown out of the...

Somewhere in shadowy post-war Vienna, where everyone has something to sell on the black market, lurks "the third man", who witnessed the murder of Harry Lime. The police don't care to investigate, but novelist Holly Martins is haunted by the death of his friend, and his search for the killer makes for electrifying drama.

The second book in Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling series on the American Civil War. Nathanial Starbuck is a Copperhead: a northerner fighting for the rebel South in America’s Civil War. Expelled from the Faulconer Legion, Starbuck must travel a hard road before he can rejoin his comrades. He...

The year is 1703, and Matthew Corbett, professional "problem solver", is missing. Last seen by his friends in New York before he departed on a lucrative, seemingly straightforward mission for the Herrald Agency in Charles Town, he's been too long absent. His comrade-in-arms Hudson Greathouse has an increasing sense the young friend he thinks of as a son must have met with some unexpected peril.

From the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel, THE ALICE NETWORK, comes another fascinating historical novel about a battle-haunted English journalist and a Russian female bomber pilot who join forces to track the Huntress, a Nazi war criminal gone to ground in America...

An epic, spellbinding tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth is Ken Follett's historical masterpiece. A Mason with a Dream It is 1135 and civil war, famine and religious strife abound. With his...