Résultats Éditeur "Author's Republic" dans Historique

On opening night of the stage play, Perkins’ Ghost, at the Astor Theatre, a shocking murder had occurred, leaving many residents of the sleepy hollow to suspect that the murderer might have been that of the ghost of Simeon Perkins.

In 1863, General James A. Longstreet asks his trouble shooter, Captain William Wallace, to investigate a murder. The investigation leads Captain Wallace across the south in the search of an apparent serial killer.

In the cold winter of 1875, two rebellious spirits leave England for the raw heat of Australia: Harriet Rowell - at 22, a champion swimmer in a time when women didn’t go into the sea - and Alice Moon - at 18, a budding scientist and writer. In a time when men coerced women to believe that if they didn’t bind their bodies in whalebone corsets they would collapse and ruin their childbearing purpose, they were athletic and strong. In a time when many women loved each other but held such love secretly for fear of retribution, they openly declared their love.

Scraps of Heaven is a new recording of Arnold Zable’s classic novel set in the post-war immigrant, working-class Melbourne suburb of Carlton. Evoking parallels with the vibrant immigrant neighbourhoods of New York’s Lower East side, and London’s East End, Scraps of Heaven records the travails and hopes of an immigrant Jewish family, interwoven with a multiplicity of characters from many cultures and walks of life.

Cut-Throat Gulliver was a real pirate plundering ships and settlements in and along Nova Scotia's Bay of Fundy in the late 1600 and early 1700s.  

The Dowager deals with poor, failing heath, and preparing for a ball in Prague to be held by Prince Kurrigan, her younger admirer from years ago. On this festive New Year's Eve, Lady Grantham finds herself avoiding grandchildren, but reunites with Isobel Merton (Crawley) to attempt to once again take control of the Yorkshire County Hospital from Cora Crawley.

Dali-like melting clocks and plans to build a statue and gain a damehood are intermingled in a plot which explores difference, persistence, and diversity. It has a humorous tone whilst touching on serious subjects. It is enhanced with vivid sound effects.

The Swaggie on the Hill tells the story of a young girl who is puzzled by the adult life around her. This comes to a head when she and her classmates at a small primary school are shut in the school house by their teachers while a threatening man looms in the school grounds, causing simultaneous nose bleeds in two of the boys. And there is the matter of the witch-like woman who lives nearby. She frightens the children as they rush past her place in their billycarts. The story is set in mid 1960s Melbourne and is enhanced with sound effects.

The Hidden Link tells the story of important missing war medals and the journey to uncover them. It portrays the survival journey of a Pol Pot refugee, the struggle of a British war veteran, and the story of a young woman living as an outsider in rural Thailand.

Written and performed by Peter Gill, this made for radio audio recording of the play Meet Tommy Atkins takes the audience not just through Tommy's war, but also his life back home in Britain post war. We learn of his experiences in the trenches - fighting on the Somme, at Passchendaele and Loos; and also of the boredom, the loss, and indeed the comradeship. Returning to Britain, Tommy shows us how a generation of returning men were maltreated but how ultimately it was his generation that forced through the foundations of the Welfare State.

This is the true story of Hans Schroeder, a young German mesmerized by the Hitler Youth aura who finds himself with a SS Panzer division on the Russian front where he is captured and taken prisoner. Years later, he is released from a Siberian prisoner-of-war camp and returns to Wiesbaden, his beautiful German hometown. Those were years of great hardship in postwar Germany. Hans is lucky to find a job in Hans Wiegel's toy shop, falls in love with Eva, and eventually decides to emigrate to the USA.

Clara, 37, has been living with her brood of children at a Nob Hill mansion with her best friend, Ah Toy, 58, now an affluent art dealer. At a Rosicrucian gathering, Clara meets Adeline Quantrill, a distressed young woman who can hear thoughts from the living and the dead. She's a disciple of Rosicrucian Dr. Paschal Beverly Randolph, another historical figure, who wrote a banned book on sexual magic.

One more step, and the watchtower will send Cregann to a world where he has only seen battlefields and despair. Ella and his fellow Guardians will be at his side on this journey through Terthian. But is the world of humans and its inhabitants truly as corrupt as he remembers? After facing a devastating betrayal in their own midst, the company needs to fight against the devious plans of the mages. But not only Blake stands in their way; an even crueler force emerges from the Dark Realms.

Romance, revenge, reckoning in this mid 19c Australian Historical fiction novel. John Leary boards ship in Ireland in 1850, a young carpenter ambitious for a new life in Australia. He sails with revenge in his heart - his beloved sister has been raped by her landlord, William Baxterhouse, who escapes on another ship with even grander plans for success in New South Wales.

Legend of the Shaman is the third book in the Wyakin Trilogy. It continues with the tale of Cortez Modrables, as he continues his life as shaman/healer to a non-treaty band of Nez Perce Native Americans during their tragic conflicts with the US government over the lands of the Northwest in the 1870s. Cortez was intimately involved with the famed trek of the Nez Perce from Idaho Territory to British North America (Canada).

When blitzkrieg begins with an attack on Fort Eben Emael, the phony war is over. Amid the confusion, Radio Belgium informs the nation that a new Belgian army will form in the west and the young men are ordered to evacuate westward, ahead of the Panzer army. So, Jacques Schuermans leaves home and family to join the westbound refugee stream and an uncertain future. As the Wehrmacht rolls across Belgium, he can only head further west, all the way to London and the blitz.

A young woman is found, emaciated and unconscious, in the mountains surrounding a village in Transylvania. When the villagers discover she is of the same ethnic group that was driven out of the region years before, they are reminded of their part in the bloodshed, and old wounds reopen. While the story unfolds in the microcosm of small village in the past, its themes are universal and timeless: the fear of the outsider, the supernatural versus the natural, and the force of desire between a man and a woman.

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was a radio show which aired in the USA from 1939-1950, most famously starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson.

In this classic coming-of-age story, Carter Barnwell is thrust into an early manhood as he faces the challenges of living off the land, caring for his ailing grandmother, wrestling with his budding sexuality, and wrangling with his awakening conscience. When he meets an abolitionist missionary from the north – who happens to be a beautiful young girl – Carter begins to see his world through new and critical eyes, even as he maintains fierce loyalty to the people and homeland he loves.

In Vietnamese: The story is about the character Mr. Hai, a farmer who is very fond of his Cho Dau village. Due to the war and family circumstances, he had to evacuate with his family. At the place of evacuation, he always remembers about the village, and wherever he goes, he shows off to his village. He was extremely happy to hear that the enemy had suffered a heavy defeat. Not happy for a long time, when he heard that his village of Dau market was in the West, he was extremely miserable, humiliated, and agitated.