Political Historical Fiction

La sua sete di giustizia non può essere placata nelle aule di un tribunale. Si trova degli alleati potenti: Marco Antonio e Lepido, con cui forma il triumvirato. Comincia a seminare un clima di terrore per le strade di Roma. Ma non è ancora abbastanza e così alimenta il clima di tensione che potrà sciogliersi solo su un campo di battaglia.

Ulli is a young woman, half English and half German, squatting in a dismal, empty Berlin apartment one year after the war has ended. She's scraping together a living as an interpreter between Berlin-based GIs and the wide-eyed local girls eager to meet them. One night Ulli meets two American soldiers: Leo, handsome and ambitious and desperate to escape his small-town upbringing, and intellectual, asthmatic Isaac, whose refugee parents had fled Russia and then Paris for New York. Winter Kept Us Warm follows Ulli, Leo, and Isaac through the next six decades of their lives - from Berlin to postwar Manhattan, 1960s Los Angeles, and Morocco.

Set in rural Western Colorado shortly after World War II, 17-year-old Gloria Knight's life is shattered when she is raped after her high school graduation dance and her fiancé is falsely charged with the crime. Her father, the most powerful man in Goodwin County, orchestrates a cover-up of the crime with the local sheriff and judge. An outraged Gloria then sets in motion a chain of events that could irreversibly end an era when one man ruled the county.

A spellbinding historical novel about a woman who befriends Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and is drawn into their world of intrigue, from the author of Margot. On June 19, 1953, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed for conspiring to commit espionage. The day Ethel was first arrested in 1950, she left her two young sons with a neighbor, and she never came home to them again. Brilliantly melding fact and fiction, Jillian Cantor reimagines the life of that neighbor and the lives of Ethel and Julius.

October 2007. Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto returns home after eight years of exile to seek political office once more. Assigned to cover her controversial arrival is TV journalist Ali Sikandar, the estranged son of a wealthy landowner from the interior region of Sindh.

In 1915, a German U-boat sank the British passenger liner Lusitania. Many Americans, including women and children, were among the 1200 dead, so the crime caused a storm of protest in America and helped plunge the US into World War I. In this gripping novel, an insurance investigator and his fiancée help a murdered longshoreman's widow who's been unjustly denied her husband's life insurance.

Layla James, a recent graduate and budding photographer, never knew anything about her father except that he named her for the iconic song by Eric Clapton. Her mother - steeped in a political activism that Layla rejects - kept their past shrouded in secrecy, and when she dies of cancer, she leaves only an enigmatic letter - the first in a series that will lead Layla through a cross-country network of '60s radicals and closer to the bombshell at the heart of her parents' past.

Au XIXe siècle, le périple d'une Française exilée en terre slave. Un destin tumultueux et aventurier marqué par un amour inconditionnel pour la Russie. "L'hiver revint avec ses troïkas, les chevaux résistant aux intempéries, frangés de glace, et soufflant des jets de fumée. Une foule massée sur les tribunes autour de cet immense champ nacré qu'était la Neva emprisonnée sous les glaces assistait aux courses de traîneaux sur patins d'acier. Sur la perspective Nevski, le collet relevé, en bonnet fourré et longue houppelande, les portiers enlevaient la glace. Ils veillaient ainsi toute la nuit."

In 1938, Hitler visits Italy. An expatriate Irish art historian is obliged to guide Mussolini and his guest around the galleries. Half fascinated, half repelled, he watches the tyrants, wrestling with the uneasy conviction that he ought to use the opportunity to "do something" about them yet lacking the zeal that might transform misgivings into action. Thirty years later, his daughter comes across a compromising clipping showing her father with the dictators.

The year is 1997, and Europe is uniting to end a long series of ruinous wars. But someone tries to shoot Foreign Minister Kiraly of Hungary, a leader of the European integration movement. His daughter, Margit, persuades Kiraly to hire Heinz Weigert, an Austrian counter-terrorism expert to advise and protect him.

Former government minister Ralph Singh is the perpetual outsider: displaced, disillusioned, and now living in exile, Ralph reflects on his earlier life and the searing effects of colonialism. Ralph's constant estrangement sees him ever attempting to fit into various communities, only to find home in more transient spaces. Born on the tropical island of Isabella, he is one of West India's many "Mimic Men".

Venezia, 1755. Giacomo Casanova è tornato in città, e il precario equilibrio su cui si regge la Repubblica, ormai prossima alla decadenza, rischia di frantumarsi e degenerare nel caos. Lo scenario politico internazionale è in una fase transitoria di delicate alleanze e il disastroso esito della Seconda guerra di Morea ha svuotato le casse della Serenissima. Il doge Francesco Loredan versa in pessime condizioni di salute, e l'inquisitore Pietro Garzoni trama alle sue spalle per ottenere il consenso all'interno del Consiglio dei Dieci e influenzare così la successione al dogado.

Una documentada e inteligente trama que traslada al lector a los tiempos del rey Carlos I. Su mala salud presagia su inminente muerte, y en la corte se desencadena una intrincada intriga política y eclesiástica, a propósito de su sucesión. Un alquimista de Praga puede acabar con el hechizo que padece el rey.

A Poder contar-ho, el periodista Marc Sendra malda per esbrinar com es va organitzar l’insòlit atracament que tingué lloc a la ciutat de València durant la primera mascletà fallera de l’any 83. Un assalt de deu minuts per a saquejar 1.500 milions de pessetes, que comença a ordir-se des del primer capítol, amb una trama plena de peripècies que mantenen el suspens fins al final inesperat de les darreres pàgines.

La insurrecta narra la emocionante vida de quien fuera la esposa de Mariano Abasolo y una de las mujeres más valientes y apasionadas de su tiempo. Una vez más, Guillermo Barba nos ofrece una estupenda novela de intrigas donde se funden la historia y el suspenso para narrar un pasaje, tan perdido como fascinante, de la historia de México: la conspiración que se gestó en el centro de la insurgencia para asesinar a Miguel Hidalgo. Valladolid, 1810. Manuela Taboada recorre impaciente de un lado a otro el zaguán de la iglesia mientras espera la prueba irrefutable que confirmará todos sus temores.

Set in Iran at the end of the 19th century in the Persian royal court of the Qajars, In the Palace of Flowers is an atmospheric historical novel about Jamila, an Abyssinian slave who stands at the funeral of a Persian nobleman, watching the rites with empty eyes. In that very moment, she realizes that her life will never be acknowledged or mourned with the same significance. The fear of being forgotten, of being irrelevant, sets her and Abimelech, a fellow Abyssinian slave and a eunuch, on a path to find meaning.

Inspired by the chaos of the French Revolution, Rafael Sabatini wrote one of the finest historical novels of the early 20th century. Scaramouche is the story of André-Louis Moreau, a lawyer brought up as an orphan in a noble household. Moreau, as a young man in his 20s, has been threading his way through a pleasant life until a close friend is brutally killed in a duel of swords by a member of the aristocracy. Because of Moreau’s vow to seek revenge, his life begins an arc toward becoming a revolutionary.

Washington, D.C., June 1863. It is the week before Gettysburg, and the nation's fate hangs in the balance. Major Russell Johns is being played by puppet-master Gerard Chantier, who hosts the city's most lavish entertainments, attended by members of Lincoln's cabinet and Washington's elite. Little do they know Gerard is coordinating an attack with Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry to take over the city, kidnap Lincoln and bring victory to the South.

For three decades, until the day he collapsed in the Brazilian surf in 1979, Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death who performed horrific experiments on the prisoners of Auschwitz, floated through South America in linen suits, keeping two steps ahead of Mossad agents, international police, and the world's journalists.

1977 : Martin Radford, jeune historien londonien dont la carrière universitaire a été brisée par un scandale, arrive sur l'île de Madère. Il y rencontre Leo Sellick, un millionnaire sud-américain, qui habite une superbe villa, naguère propriété du mystérieux Edwin Strafford, mort en 1951. Homme politique de premier ordre, promis à un brillant avenir, Edwin Strafford a été en 1908, à l'âge de 32 ans, ministre de l'intérieur du cabinet Asquith, aux côtés de Lloyd George et de Churchill, avant de démissionner brutalement en 1910 et de quitter la vie politique sans explication aucune pour disparaître dans l'anonymat.