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Luglio 1660. Due uomini dalle barbe incolte e i vestiti ricoperti di salsedine approdano sulle sponde del Massachusetts. Si tratta del colonnello Edward Whalley e di suo genero, il colonnello William Goffe. Sono in fuga, ricercati per l'omicidio di re Carlo I, un'esecuzione clamorosa che ha segnato il culmine della guerra civile inglese, durante la quale le truppe parlamentari hanno combattuto con successo contro i realisti per il controllo del paese. Ma ora, dieci anni dopo la decapitazione di Carlo, i realisti sono tornati al potere.

Stedet er Rom, og tiden er cirka år 60 f.Kr. Forskellige magtfulde maend kaemper om magten i republikken. Dette er historien om virkelige historiske personer, deres alliancer og forraederi, deres grusomheder og forbrydelser. I en alder af 48 sidder Cicero, politiker, konsul og sin tids største taler, i eksil. Ved at love at støtte Caesar - hans unge, ubarmhjertige rival - får han lov til at vende tilbage til Rom. Derfra kaemper han sig vej tilbage til indflydelse; først i retssalene, så i Senatet og siden i sine magtfulde skriverier, indtil han for en kort, men glorvaerdig stund er den mest fremtraedende statsmand i byen.

'Harris is a master of pace and entertainment' Observer 'Could scarcely be more of the moment' The Times Nothing spreads like fear . . . In the secretive inner circle of the ultra-rich, Alex Hoffmann is a legend. He has developed an algorithm for playing the financial markets that generates...

Spændingsroman om englændernes arbejde i 1943 med at bryde den kode tyskerne anvender i u-bådskommunikationen. Menneskeliv er på spil, arbejdet foregår under tidspres og de involverede har mange hemmeligheder.

In his final novel, Sick Heart River, John Buchan predicted that with the outbreak of a second world war Richard Hannay and all his companions of old would be going back into action. In The Thirty-One Kings, the tale of their adventures is finally told. June 1940. As German troops pour across France, the veteran soldier and adventurer Richard Hannay is called back into service. In Paris an agent, codenamed 'Roland', has disappeared and is assumed to be in the hands of the Nazis.

The greatest story never told, this formidable and gorgeously written biography documents the amazing and controversial short life of Calixa Lavallée--the composer of "O Canada"--and the tumult of 19th-century North America. The story of "O Canada" is one of the great unknowns of our collective...

England ist nach einer lange zurückliegenden Katastrophe in einem erbärmlichen Zustand. Der junge Priester Fairfax wird vom Bischof in ein Dorf entsandt, um dort die Beisetzung des mysteriös verstorbenen Pfarrers zu regeln. In der Umgebung finden sich besonders häufig jene verbotenen Artefakte aus vergangener Zeit - Münzen, Scherben, Plastikspielzeug -, die der Pfarrer akribisch gesammelt hat. Hat diese ketzerische Leidenschaft zu seinem Tod geführt?

Novembre 1944. L'ingegnere tedesco Rudi Graf si trova in una cupa cittadina sulla costa olandese occupata dai nazisti per sovrintendere al lancio dei missili V2 su Londra. Nessuno meglio di lui conosce quelle macchine mortali. Fin da bambino ha sognato di inviare un razzo sulla luna. Invece, con il suo amico Wernher von Braun, ha contribuito alla creazione di quest'arma sofisticatissima, capace con la sua testata da una tonnellata di viaggiare a tre volte la velocità del suono.

Stedet er Rom og tiden er år 63 f.Kr. Syv maend kaemper om magten i republikken: Cicero er konsul, Caesar hans ubarmhjertige unge rival, Pompey er republikkens maegtigste general, Crassus dens rigeste mand, Cato er politisk fanatiker, Catilina psykopaten og Clodius en ambitiøs playboy. Historierne om disse virkelige historiske figurer - deres alliancer og forraederi, deres grusomheder og forførelser, deres storslåethed og deres forbrydelser - det hele flettes sammen i denne farverige roman.

"Da jeg hørte, hvordan McAra var død, skulle jeg være taget af sted. Det indser jeg nu." Fortælleren i Robert Harris' fængslende roman er professionel ghostwriter - kynisk og beregnende. Han er vant til at skrive om afdankede rockstjerner og de halvkendte og griber derfor chancen med kyshånd, da han bliver bedt om at ghostskrive Englands tidligere premierministers erindringer.

England ist nach einer lange zurückliegenden Katastrophe in einem erbärmlichen Zustand. Der junge Priester Fairfax wird vom Bischof in ein Dorf entsandt, um dort die Beisetzung des mysteriös verstorbenen Pfarrers zu regeln. In der Umgebung finden sich besonders häufig jene verbotenen Artefakte aus vergangener Zeit - Münzen, Scherben, Plastikspielzeug -, die der Pfarrer akribisch gesammelt hat. Hat diese ketzerische Leidenschaft zu seinem Tod geführt.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Selling Hitler by Robert Harris, read by David Rintoul. Spring 1983: it seemed that one of the most startling discoveries of the century had been made, and that one of the world's most sought after documents had finally come to light - the private...

Brought to you by Penguin. During a sweltering week in late August, as Rome's richest citizens relax in their villas around Pompeii and Herculaneum, there are ominous warnings that something is going wrong. Wells and springs are failing, a man has disappeared, and now the greatest aqueduct in...

When historian Fluke Kelso learns of the existence of a secret notebook belonging to Josef Stalin he is determined to track it down, whatever the consequences. From the violent political intrigue and decadence of modern Moscow he heads north - to the vast forests surrounding the White Sea port...

Brought to you by Penguin. Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near...

IN THE HUNT FOR A SPY, HE EXPOSED A CONSPIRACY 'Seriously riveting . . . a testament to Robert Harris's storytelling power' The Times 'Taut and exciting' Guardian Paris, 1895: an army officer, Georges Picquart, watches a convicted spy, Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of a...

'Harris is a master of pace and entertainment' Observer 'Could scarcely be more of the moment' The Times Nothing spreads like fear . . . In the secretive inner circle of the ultra-rich, Alex Hoffmann is a legend. He has developed an algorithm for playing the financial markets that generates...

When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the most famous courtroom dramas in history.

Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair told as a chillingly dark, hard-edged novel of conspiracy and espionage. Paris in 1895. Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted...

From the bestselling author of Fatherland and Imperium comes The Ghost Writer, an extraordinarily auspicious thriller of power, politics, corruption, and murder—now a major motion picture starring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan. The role of a ghostwriter is to make his client look good, not...