Historical

Prithvi, a twenty-one-year-old, is searching for a mysterious middle-aged aghori (Shiva devotee), Om Shastri, who was traced more than 200 years ago before he was captured and transported to a high-tech facility on an isolated Indian island....

लेकिन आदर्शवाद की एक कीमत होती है. उसे वह कीमत चुकानी पड़ी....

India, 1025 AD. Repeated attacks by Mahmud of Ghazni and his barbaric Turkic hordes have weakened India’s northern regions. The invaders lay waste to vast swathes of the subcontinent—plundering, killing, raping, pillaging....

2017, Delhi – Vidyut’s dying ancestor summons him to Banaras. The old Brahmin chieftain of the Dev-Raakshasa Matth, or the God-Demon Clan, bears a chilling secret. Their bloodline carries an ancient curse that will plague mankind - towards its own violent extinction....

India, 3400 BCE. A land in tumult, poverty and chaos. Most people suffer quietly. A few rebel. Some fight for a better world. Some for themselves. Some don't give a damn. Raavan. Fathered by one of the most illustrious sages of the time....

The story of Ravana and his people has been told innumerable times. This is the Hindi translation of the number one national best seller. This saga is of victory and defeat - a story that has been tainted by India's oppressed and exploited caste for 3,000 years....

After the War of the Gods, the demons were cast out and fell to the world. Mankind was nearly eradicated by the seemingly unstoppable beasts....

A onetime Crusader turned Benedictine monk, Brother Cadfael is a most unusual detective....

The beautiful bronzed body of Arlena Stuart lay face down on the beach. But strangely, there was no sun and Arlena was not sunbathing - she had been strangled....

Ponniyin Selvan is a historical novel by Kalki Krishnamurthy, written in Tamil. In five volumes, it tells the story of early days of Arulmozhivarman, who later became the great Chola emperor Rajaraja Chola I....

It begins to dawn on the nine-year-old Sambhaji that his father has fled from the clutches of the Mughal badshah Aurangzeb and left him behind. He must now find his way back home with the help of strangers....

1699 BCE, the Marshes of Aryavarta – As the titanic waves of pralay swallow city after city, a final battle for the Ark and the Earth begins. A ruthless barbarian-king threatens the very existence of mankind, heralding Kaliyuga - the eon of Kali....

Thiruvarangan Ula is a novel written by Sri Venugopalan based on the historical fact that the forces of Delhi Sultan Mohammad bin Tughlaq led by Malik Kapoor looted Thiruvarangan....

The Catenan Republic—the Hierarchy—may rule the world now, but they do not know everything. I tell them my name is Vis Telimus. I tell them I was orphaned after a tragic accident three years ago, and that good fortune alone has led to my acceptance into their most prestigious school....

The second book in the Ajaya series, Kali ka Uday tells the story of the vanquished in the epic war Mahabharata. The book narrates the story from the point of view of the Kauravas. The story starts with the Kaurava prince Duryodhana challenging Krishna.....

Born into poverty, then trapped in the shackles of charity and gratitude, Mr. Biswas longs for a house he can call his own....

“I am Johannes Verne, and I am not afraid.” This was the boy’s mantra as he plodded through the desert alone, left to die by his vengeful grandfather....

Bled dry by violent confrontations with the Magadhan Empire, the Mathuran Republic simmers on the brink of oblivion. Senator Krishna and his third wife Satyabhama have put their plans in motion, both within and beyond the Republic’s blood-soaked borders, to protect it from total annihilation....

It is 1667, and the war between the Dutch and the English continues apace....

Ponniyin Selvan is a historical novel by Kalki Krishnamurthy, written in Tamil. In five volumes, it tells the story of early days of Arulmozhivarman, who later became the great Chola emperor Rajaraja Chola I....

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds two people's lives together for more than half a century....

2017, Delhi - Vidyut’s dying ancestor summons him to Banaras. The old Brahmin chieftain of the Dev-Raakshasa Matth, or the God-Demon Clan, bears a chilling secret. Their bloodline carries an ancient curse that will plague mankind - towards its own violent extinction....

Saleem Sinai is born on the stroke of midnight on 14th-15th August 1947, at the exact moment that India and Pakistan become separate, independent nations....

"The Ravenscrofts didn't seem that kind of person. They seemed well balanced and placid..." And yet, twelve years earlier, the husband had shot the wife, and then himself....

In the seventh century the Cholas are vassals of the Pallavas. Parthiban conveys his dream of the Chola dynasty regaining its glory - which he believes is lost since they are no longer the independent rulers - to his young son Vikraman....

Marie Benedict widmet sich einer weiteren klugen Frau, die die Weltgeschichte entscheidend geprägt hat und deren Namen wir dennoch nicht kennen. Rosalind Franklin fand nach jahrelanger Forschung die Doppelhelixstruktur unserer DNA, doch für diesen Coup geehrt wurden fälschlicherweise drei Männer... Rosalind Franklin war schon immer eine Außenseiterin - brillant, aber anders. Sie fühlt sich der Wissenschaft am nächsten, den unveränderlichen Gesetzen der Physik und Chemie, die ihre Experimente leiten. Sie wird beauftragt, das Geheimnis unserer DNA zu entschlüsseln.

Der fulminante Abschluss der Bestseller-Trilogie endlich im Taschenbuch. Henny Unger feiert Geburtstag, siebzig Jahre ist sie geworden. So alt wie das Jahrhundert. Beim Gartenfest an ihrer Seite: die Freundinnen Käthe, Lina und Ida. Doch längst hat sich der Kreis der Gratulanten erweitert. Aus den vier Freundinnen sind Mütter und Großmütter geworden. Hennys Enkelin Katja träumt davon, als Fotoreporterin um die Welt zu reisen, Idas Tochter Florentine kehrt mit einer Überraschung nach Hamburg zurück. Und auch Ruth, die Adoptivtochter von Käthe, ist fester Teil des Freundschaftsbunds.

Ein Blitz zerstört die vorweihnachtliche Ruhe auf der Chiemseeinsel: In der gespaltenen Klostereiche wird eine mumifizierte Frauenleiche aus der Zeit der Hexenverfolgung entdeckt. Kurz darauf wird eine junge Novizin ermordet aufgefunden, gefesselt wie für eine Hexenprobe. Schwester Althea macht sich auf der Insel und im Klosterarchiv auf Spurensuche, ahnt aber bald, dass keineswegs düstere Mächte am Werk sind. Im Gegenteil: Der Täter ist durchaus irdisch - und für neugierige Nonnen höchst gefährlich.

Vier Frauen, Zwei Weltkriege, Hundert Jahre Deutschland. Einer neuen – einer friedlichen – Generation auf die Welt helfen, das ist Henny Godhusens Plan, als sie im Frühjahr 1919 die Hebammenausbildung an der Hamburger Frauenklinik Finkenau beginnt. Gerade einmal neunzehn Jahre ist sie alt, doch hinter ihr liegt bereits ein Weltkrieg. Jetzt herrscht endlich Frieden, und Henny verspürt eine große Sehnsucht nach Leben. Drei Frauen begleiten sie auf ihrem Weg: Ida wohnt in einem der herrschaftlichen Häuser am Hofweg und weiß nicht viel von der Welt jenseits der Beletage.

各都道府県で一人、武将を取り上げて掌編小説に！　直木賞作家・今村翔吾が挑む“驚天動地”の衝撃作。秀吉に、毛利、長宗我部、島津、さらには黒田官兵衛、立花宗茂……。西の空に漢たちが舞う！

Written in a hospital tent to the sound of gunfire and shells falling, Cicely Hamilton drew on her experiences working in France during WW1 to tell the story of William Tully and his new bride Griselda, who are wrenched away from their all-consuming interests – socialism and votes for women – and plunged into the almost dream-like horror of war. As brutal tragedy strikes, their attitude to both pacifism and patriotism is altered and their lives are changed forever.

Emily rents a room in a boarding house in London where she makes a modest living as an assistant to aristocratic ladies. One summer, Lady Maria Bayne asks Emily to her country estate and it’s there that Emily receives a very surprising offer of marriage from a wealthy widower in need of a wife. But Emily’s new life is not without its own obstacles and challenges.

Isle of Iona, 1927 Cast away on a remote locale, Jane's latest assignment depends on concealing her identity and blending in at an occult gathering. Not even her fiancé, Redvers, can be too close as she uncovers the truth about Robert Nightingale, enigmatic leader of the Order of the Golden Dawn--a group made up of supernatural ceremonies, influential people, and an undefinable darkness

1948: Die Frau im Bonner Johannes-Hospital weiß, dass sie nur noch wenige Tage zu leben hat. Auf dem Sterbebett ziehen Szenen ihres Lebens an ihr vorbei. Gussie ist 24, als sie den 19 Jahre älteren Witwer Konrad Adenauer heiratet. Aufgewachsen in einem liberalen und protestantischen rheinischen Elternhaus, wird sie die Ehefrau eines preußischen Katholiken und damit Stiefmutter seiner drei Kinder. Sie schenkt fünf Kindern das Leben.

The horrors have only just begun... When Lady Violet Thorn's unbearable Aunt Igitha unexpectedly arrives at her doorstep and disrupts her peaceful existence, it sets off unsettling events eerily reminiscent of the infamous Montford Maniac’s reign. Violet must unravel the connection between her unwelcome guest and the brutal incidents – from savage beasts at her doorstep to horrifying public executions.

Paris, 1866. When Baroness Sylvie Devereux receives a house-call from Charlotte Mothe, the sister she disowned, she fears her shady past as a spirit medium has caught up with her. But with their father ill and Charlotte unable to pay his bills, Sylvie is persuaded into one last con. Their marks are the de Jacquinots: dysfunctional aristocrats who believe they are haunted by their great aunt, brutally murdered during the French Revolution. Sylvie and Charlotte will need to deploy every trick to terrify the family out of their gold – until they experience inexplicable horrors themselves.

Meirionydd, 1783. Henry Talbot has been dismissed from his post at a prestigious London hospital. The only job he can find is as a physician in the backwaters of Wales where he can't speak the language, belief in myth and magic is rife, and the villagers treat him with bewildering suspicion. When Henry discovers his predecessor died under mysterious circumstances, he is determined to find answers.

A última coisa que o capitão Maximus Harcourt, duque de Alderidge, esperava encontrar ao voltar para casa depois de anos no mar era um homem amarrado à cama de sua irmã inocente, Beatrice Harcourt. Um homem conhecido como o Conde da Devassidão. Que estava nu. E morto. Sem saber navegar pela sociedade londrina, e desesperado porque, além de tudo, a irmã está desaparecida, Max agora está à mercê da deslumbrante srta. Moore, da D'Aqueus & Associados, "reparadora de problemas irreparáveis".

Malesia, 1945. La famiglia di Cecily Alcantara è in pericolo: il figlio quindicenne, Abel, è scomparso e la figlia minore, Jasmin, è confinata in uno scantinato per evitare il terribile destino di essere costretta a prestare servizio nei "campi di piacere". Nel frattempo, la figlia maggiore Jujube lavora in una casa da tè frequentata da soldati giapponesi ubriachi, e ogni giorno è sempre più arrabbiata e frustrata.

Roma, 1567. Vittoria Colonna, poetessa, vedova di Ferrante d'Avalos, marchesa di Pescara e consigliera di due Papi, è morta ormai da alcuni anni. Ed è solo a distanza di tempo che la sua dama di compagnia, colei che le è stata accanto dal primo giorno, decide di aprire le carte che ha conservato e nascosto fino alla fine: gli amici di Vittoria sono morti ormai e nessuno corre più il pericolo di essere condannato per eresia e tradimento.