En 1327, quatre enfants sont les témoins d'une poursuite meurtriere dans les bois: un chevalier tue deux soldats au service de la reine, avant d'enfouir dans le sol une lettre, dont le secret pourrait bien mettre en danger la couronne d'Angleterre.
Winter of the World is the second novel in Ken Follett's uniquely ambitious and deeply satisfying Century trilogy. On its own or read in sequence with Fall of Giants and Edge of Eternity, this is a magnificent, spellbinding epic of global conflict and pe
1933, and at Cambridge, Lloyd Williams is drawn to irresistible socialite Daisy , who represents everything that his left-wing family despise, but Daisy is more interested in aristocratic Boy Fitzherbert, a leading light of the British Union of Fascists.
'World Without End' takes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic cathedral that was at the heart of The Pillars of the Earth.
World Without End takes readers back to medieval Kingsbridge as the men, women and children of the city once again grapple with the devastating sweep of historical change.
The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known . . . of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect - a man divided in his soul . . .
1913, unweit von Bagdad. Der Archäologe Robert Koldewey leidet ohnehin schon genug unter den Ansichten seines Assistenten Buddensieg, nun quält ihn auch noch eine Blinddarmentzündung.
Despite their differences, sisters Viann and Isabelle have always been close. Younger, bolder Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann is content with life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter.
Vor dem Hintergrund der russisch-napoleonischen Kriege erzählt Krieg und Frieden in wahrhaft meisterlicher Manier die Geschichte dreier Familein, deren Schicksale eng miteinander vewoben sind.
During World War I, a Romanian from Transylvania enrolls in the Austrian-Hungarian army to impress the woman he loves. As Romania enters the war on the opposing side, his conscience is tormented by the prospect of fighting against his ethnic kin.
Drei Leben. Zwei Welten. Ein Neuanfang. Es ist das Jahr 1913, und eine Schiffsreise nach Buenos Aires verheißt eine zweite Chance für drei junge Menschen:
From the Sunday Times number one bestselling author Lucinda Riley, The Missing Sister is the seventh instalment in the multimillion-copy epic series The Seven Sisters.