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Brought to you by Penguin. THE TOP RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK FOR SUMMER 2021 ___________________________ 'Immersive' Guardian 'Stunning' Daily Express 'Riveting' Telegraph ___________________________ Victory is close. Vengeance is closer. Rudi Graf used to dream of sending a rocket to the...

IF YOU DON'T KNOW SIMON SCARROW, YOU DON'T KNOW ROME! THE EAGLE'S PROPHECY is the powerful sixth novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Eagles of the Empire seires. Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell. Praise for Simon Scarrow's gripping novels: 'Ferocious and compelling' Daily Express The...

From the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel, THE ALICE NETWORK, comes another fascinating historical novel about a battle-haunted English journalist and a Russian female bomber pilot who join forces to track the Huntress, a Nazi war criminal gone to ground in America...

È il 1327. Il giorno di Ognissanti quattro bambini si allontanano di nascosto dal priorato di Kingsbridge e assistono per caso nella foresta all'omicidio di due uomini. Da allora le vite di questi ragazzi saranno indissolubilmente legate tra loro e, una volta adulti, conosceranno amore, avidità, ambizione e vendetta. Vivranno momenti di prosperità e carestia, malattia e g uerra. Ma su ciascuno resterà l'ombra di quell'inspiegabile delitto di cui furono testimoni in quel fatidico giorno della loro infanzia.

The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller IN THE FINAL RECKONING, CHOOSE YOUR SIDE CAREFULLY… The epic conclusion to the globally bestselling historical series. After years fighting to reclaim his rightful home, Uhtred of Bebbanburg has returned to Northumbria. With his loyal band of warriors and a new...

Deutschland im Jahr 1925: Die mittellose Sekretärin Anna beobachtet, wie nachts in Berlin ein Mann auf der Straße angeschossen wird. Sie rettet Maxim Rose das Leben und wird als Dank von seiner Familie eingeladen - nach Kiel, wo die wohlhabende Familie eine Reederei besitzt. Anna nimmt das Angebot an; sie begreift, dass Maxim in politische Intrigen verwickelt zu sein scheint, doch sie steht ihm weiter bei - auch weil sie sich in dessen Freund, den eigenwilligen Kapitän Brands, verliebt hat. Doch das Glück der beiden ist von kurzer Dauer.

As the Nazis bring Denmark to its knees, a resistance forms – and make a discovery that could turn the tide of war. From the master storyteller Ken Follett, Hornet Flight is a startling thriller set amidst the Danish Resistance of the Second World War. Europe in Darkness 1941. The Nazis have...

Am 21. Januar 1968 stürzt nahe der Thule-Air-Base der US-Luftwaffe an der Nordwestküste Grönlands ein B-52 Bomber ab. An Bord: vier scharfe Wasserstoffbomben. Es kommt zu Explosionen, aber das Schlimmste bleibt der Welt erspart: zur nuklearen Kettenreaktion kommt es nicht. Doch Schnee und Eis werden in großem Umkreis atomar verseucht. Man schafft Hunderte dänische Arbeiter heran, die ohne ausreichende Schutzkleidung das strahlende Eis beseitigen sollen. Viele erkranken anschließend. Ob alle Bomben vollständig geborgen werden konnten, ist bis heute nicht hundertprozentig sicher.

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Galveston, 1900. Beatrice Whitmore knows her husband's secrets: his gambling debts, his mistress, his lies. When she threatens to expose him, he silences her forever. Hours later, the deadliest hurricane in American history erases all evidence of his crime. Galveston, present day. Doctoral student Julia Lynn moves into the historic Whitmore house, expecting to research the Great Storm. Instead, she encounters a ghost desperate to be heard, a woman with bruises on her throat and a story that refuses to stay buried.

1942-1944 Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial la estación internacional de Canfranc, en Huesca, se convirtió en un enclave de vital importancia para los aliados. Por allí cruzaron miles de judíos e información trascendental para el devenir de la contienda a través del cura del pueblo, la...

When Yvette Dubois's husband inherits a remote chateau, she reluctantly leaves Lyon behind – only for Armand to abandon her there to manage the vineyard alone. Everything changes the day she hears a mysterious knocking in the library. Behind a tapestry, she discovers a hidden tunnel – along with two frightened orphans. Yvette vows to continue the important work, wanting to honour the legacy. But Armand insists their safety depends on appeasing the occupiers.

Along this treacherous Yorkshire coastline, the cutthroat industry of smuggling thrives, and two rival gangs rule the night… the Stringers of Bay Town and the Lambs of Ravenscar. After a lifetime of violence and bloodshed, Jim Hood returns to his hometown of Whitby with his friend Samuel Comus, their pockets heavy with prize money from their exploits along the African coast. When tragedy strikes, and Jim's well-laid plans turn to ash, Jim is forced to return to the brutal world he'd sworn to leave behind.

After a month of various people clearing up various messes, Felicity Jardine is finally cleared to go back to her little village cottage. But when a celebratory cream tea with her new and well-connected friend Percy is interrupted by a sniper's bullet, she's off again, to a safe house in Notting...

Noirceur et magie côtoient médecine et enquête scientifique dans ce polar historique, où l'on croise le Roi Soleil et Mme de Montespan. Septembre 1677. Des « sorcières » violées, retrouvées crucifiées la tête en bas. Des médecins étouffés, pendus eux aussi la tête en bas... C'est...

The darkly atmospheric and gruesome tale of Jack the Ripper unfolds against the backdrop of a Victorian London reform school, as a young inmate sets out to find the identity of the elusive serial killer in a riveting new book perfect for fans of The Woman in the Window and Enola Holmes. London...

In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947 are brought together in a mesmerizing story...

Côte d'Azur, 1956: Bernie Gunther arbeitet noch immer als Concierge im Grand Hôtel Cap Ferrat. Dort bekommt er unverhofft Besuch von Erich Mielke, dem künftigen Minister für Staatssicherheit in der DDR, der einen Auftrag für Bernie hat. Er soll nach London reisen, um eine englische Agentin aus dem Weg zu räumen - eine alte Bekannte von Bernie. Obwohl er selbst von der Dame betrogen wurde, hat Bernie keinen Augenblick vor, diesen Auftrag tatsächlich auszuführen. Stattdessen flieht er quer durch Europa. Immer auf seinen Fersen: Friedrich Korsch, ein Stasi-Agent.

Code to Zero is a fast-paced thriller about the satellite space race in the Cold War, from the master of suspense and author of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett. A Man with No Memory A man wakes up to find himself lying on the ground in a railway station, his mind stripped bare of all...

In The Mauritius Command, Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half-pay without a command until his friend, occasional intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a Commodore's pennant. But the difficulties of carrying out his orders are compounded by two of his own captains: one a pleasure-seeking dilettante, the other liable to provoke the crew to mutiny. Based on an actual campaign of 1810 in the Indian Ocean.