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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.

एक मोहब्बतनामा, एक तहज़ीबनामा, एक दिल्लीनामा।कई चाँद थे सर-ए-आसमान सिर्फ एक उपन्यास नहीं, बल्कि 18वीं-19वीं सदी के...

The National Book Award–winning author of At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Peter Matthiessen is a master of both fiction and nonfiction. Killing Mister Watson is his bestselling, fact-based novel that pieces together the life and death of Edgar J. Watson. At the beginning of the 20th century...

'[Lemon] is a poet with knives for teeth' —Roshani Chokshi 'Reads like a grimoire for overcoming' —Hannah Whitten 'A gorgeously gothic fairy tale' —Ava Reid I must warn you first: This tale is not a romance. Ever since she was a child, Salomé has been plagued by visions of spirits and...

The best historical thriller I’ve read since The Da Vinci Code' AMISH TRIPATHI A LEGENDARY PORT AD 72: Jayesh, a trader from the fabled city of Muziris, carefully conceals a relic that caused widespread devastation upon its arrival in India. He prays that it will never be found again. A...

A Chinese woman moves from Beijing to London for a doctoral program - and to begin a new life - just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch. Isolated and lonely in a Britain increasingly hostile to foreigners, she meets a landscape architect and the two begin to build a life together.

This bundle includes The Thief of Blackfriars Lane, The Bride of Blackfriars Lane, and The Sleuth of Blackfriars Lane.

Best Indie Historical Fiction 2025, one of six chosen by Kirkus Reviews Silver Medal 2025 CIPA EVVY Awards, Historical Fiction Foreword Indies 2023 Book Awards Bronze Winner, War and Military. Finalist: 2024 Eric Hoffer Awards, Historical Fiction, Debut Novel. Finalist: 2024 International Book...

There's a name for what he is. He prefers not to use it… Stutley Tillinghast lives a solitary life, ostensibly as the minister of a remote rural parish in Rhode Island. For many decades now, what little human contact he allows himself has been brief, frenzied and bloody, and always ends in a...

El arte y el amor se enfrentan bajo el peso de una catedral y el eco de la guerra El maestro Mateo, gran arquitecto medieval responsable de la última fase de construcción de la catedral de Santiago de Compostela, acomete el proyecto más ambicioso del arte románico europeo. Pero su obsesión...

في زمنٍ كانت فيه مصر تمشي على حبلٍ مشدود بين الأمل والخطر، تروي هذه الرواية سيرة عباس حلمي الثاني وصراعه الطويل مع الاحتلال البريطاني، في رحلة تمتد عبر خمسين عامًا من اليقظة الوطنية حتى عام 1945. تكشف الرواية جانبًا إنسانيًا وتاريخيًا من حياة الخديوي؛ كيف حاول أن يدعم الحركة الوطنية، ويشجع قيام الأحزاب السياسية، ويسهم في نهضة مصر الثقافية والعلمية، ومنها تأسيس الجامعة المصرية، في وقتٍ كانت فيه البلاد تواجه نفوذ الاحتلال وتحدياته المتواصلة.

Siglo XVI. Una nueva desaparición. Dos gremios enfrentados. Unas mujeres dispuestas a imponer la única ley posible, la ley del valle. Una lluviosa noche de 1577, el carbonero Domingo Harria sale de su caserío hacia la ferrería de Mirandaola, donde sus dueños, los Plazaola, lo están...

Juste avant la révolution d'Octobre, Dimitri Radzanov et Horowitz s'affrontent en duel au piano au conservatoire de Kiev. Chassés par les Bolcheviks, les deux jeunes gens doivent fuir l'Ukraine. Horowitz émigre aux États-Unis où il rencontre vite fortune et gloire. Radzanov, quant à lui, après avoir servi dans la garde blanche, échoue en banlieue parisienne avec sa mère. Il entre comme chimiste aux usines Pathé Marconi à Chatou où, ironie du sort, il va fabriquer des disques pour son vieux rival Horowitz qui fait vibrer les foules outre-Atlantique.

Lily Mae Dodge flees Wyoming by night to find her mother, who sent her west on an orphan train ten years ago. After she's arrested in Chicago, help comes from a man with a rare vision impairment whom she only just met on a train. Francis Basnett is a roustabout for the famous Hagenbeck-Wallace circus, where he helps Lily gain employment. Their friendship grows into more, and it seems Lily is closer than ever to finding her mother. . .until the night a rogue troop train slams into the stalled circus train, killing dozens and splintering hope.

And now, her uncle wants to marry her off to the fallen son of her arch-enemy. But Jael is a battle-hardened warrior, trained to kill since she was 10-years-old. She doesn’t plan on being anyone’s wife. Eadmund Skalleson is drunk. His father is threatening him with a wife again. And this time he’s given him an ultimatum. Marry Jael Furyck or your brother returns from exile. But if Eadmund was ever going to choose a wife, it wouldn’t be Jael Furyck. Not her. Not ever.

L'été 1966 restera bien ancré dans la mémoire des Thibault. À cause, certes, des nombreuses journées passées en famille à la plage de Shipshaw et des pêches miraculeuses de Pascal, le père, sur la rivière SainteMarguerite. Mais, surtout, à cause de l'annonce du divorce de Rémi, son jeune frère. Depuis que leur mère a appris la mauvaise nouvelle, non seulement elle ne parle que de ça, mais elle a continuellement la larme à l'oeil.

After years of wild adventures overseas, Miss Sophie Everton is in no hurry to return home to the boring strictures of the ton. But she's determined to reclaim her family's fortune - even if she has to become a spy for the Prince Regent to do it. Before she can get her first assignment, she lands right in the lap of the dark and dashing Duke of Rockeforte. She's faced hungry tigers that didn't look nearly as predatory.

Jorah Mallon-Garth, medieval warrior and alpha of the Varkash wolf pack, seeks a human bride who will do his bidding.... Lady Isolde Merrell is pretty but altogether too plump to be noticed when her beautiful younger sister is around. In desperation she douses herself with a lust potion to snare the attentions of returning warrior Jorah Mallon-Garth, who has just completed three years soldiering for the Crown. Suddenly she finds herself wedded and bedded by the alpha male of the Varkash pack and bound for the Winterlands!

The next instalment in the Chivalry series from a master of historical fiction. The Chivalry series follows William Gold, who runs away from London to follow the Black Prince, from the killing fields of France, through life as a routier and criminal, and to redemption with the Knights of Saint...

De la autora superventas de La red de Alice y El código Rosa. La Cazadora es una novela épica y arrolladora acerca de la Segunda Guerra Mundial que arroja luz sobre un oscuro rincón de la historia, de la mano de la autora de los best Sellers de The New York Times La red de Alice y El código...