Im Herbst 1888 kommen zwei junge Menschen ins Londoner East End, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Die verarmte Celia Brooks versucht verzweifelt, ihren Vater zu finden. Der Hotelierssohn Rupert Ingram will hingegen seine Pflichten im sündigen Treiben vergessen. Doch im East End hat alles seinen Preis, Antworten ebenso wie das Vergessen. Und während die Huren ihre Dienste feilbieten und ein Mörder namens Jack the Ripper in den Schatten lauert, stoßen Celia und Rupert auf Geheimnisse, die ihr Leben für immer verändern ...Über den AutorTom Finnek, 1965 in Westfalen geboren, lebt als Filmjournalist und Schriftsteller in Berlin. Als Autor beschäftigt er sich schon länger mit historischen Stoffen. Für ihn ist gerade London mit seiner langen, wechselhaften Geschichte besonders faszinierend, und dem trägt er in seinen Romanen UNTER DER ASCHE, GEGEN ALLE ZEIT und VOR DEM ABGRUND Rechnung: Sie spielen alle in London, aber in unterschiedlichen Jahrhunderten. Tom Finnek ist verheiratet und stolzer Vater von zwei Söhnen.

Fleeing Stalin’s advance into Lithuania, shaken by communism and war, four refugees end up in Toronto in 1949. Vytas, a young doctor who gets into medical school by saving a child’s life, is haunted by a lost love. Maryte, a seamstress whose affair with a German officer saved her half-witted brother, struggles to take care of him. Justine, a concert pianist raped during the war, strives to regain her ability to make music. Father Geras, an illegitimate child steered into the priesthood by family, finds purpose in guiding his exiled people. Trying to resume normal lives, longing for their country’s freedom, they wait to go home.

Berlin, 07.06.1942. Auf einer Parkbank in der Nähe der Siegessäule wird eine Leiche entdeckt. Zunächst deutet alles auf Selbstmord hin, doch Kommissar Tom Sydow will nicht so recht daran glauben. Zumal es sich bei dem Toten um ein "hohes Tier" der Gestapo handelt. In seiner Obhut befanden sich brisante Akten des gefürchteten Geheimdienstchefs Reinhard Heydrich, um deren Besitz ein gnadenloser Wettlauf beginnt ...

Internationally acclaimed and profoundly moving, Richard Flanagan’s Wanting is a stunning tale of colonialism, ambition, and the lusts and longings that make us human. Now in paperback, it links two icons of Western civilization through a legendarily disastrous arctic exploration, and one of the most infamous episodes in human history: the colonization of Tasmania.In 1841, Sir John Franklin and his wife, Lady Jane, move to the remote penal colony of Van Diemen’s Land, now Tasmania. There Lady Jane falls in love with a lively aboriginal girl, Mathinna, whom she adopts and makes the subject of a grand experiment in civilization—one that will determine whether science, Christianity, and reason can be imposed in the place of savagery, impulse, and desire.A quarter of a century passes. Sir John Franklin disappears in the Arctic with his crew and two ships on an expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage. England is horrified by reports of cannibalism filtering back from search parties, no one more so than the most celebrated novelist of the day, Charles Dickens. As Franklin’s story becomes a means to plumb the frozen depths of his own life, Dickens finds a young actress thawing his heart.

Internationally acclaimed and profoundly moving, Richard Flanagan’s Wanting is a stunning tale of colonialism, ambition, and the lusts and longings that make us human. Now in paperback, it links two icons of Western civilization through a legendarily disastrous arctic exploration, and one of the most infamous episodes in human history: the colonization of Tasmania.In 1841, Sir John Franklin and his wife, Lady Jane, move to the remote penal colony of Van Diemen’s Land, now Tasmania. There Lady Jane falls in love with a lively aboriginal girl, Mathinna, whom she adopts and makes the subject of a grand experiment in civilization—one that will determine whether science, Christianity, and reason can be imposed in the place of savagery, impulse, and desire.A quarter of a century passes. Sir John Franklin disappears in the Arctic with his crew and two ships on an expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage. England is horrified by reports of cannibalism filtering back from search parties, no one more so than the most celebrated novelist of the day, Charles Dickens. As Franklin’s story becomes a means to plumb the frozen depths of his own life, Dickens finds a young actress thawing his heart.

‘White-knuckle tension as the two most dangerous snipers in Europe hunt each other through the hell of Stalingrad. Immensely exciting and terribly authentic’ Frederick ForsythStalingrad in 1942 is a city in ruins, its Russian defenders fighting to the last man to repel the invading German army. One of their most potent weapons is the crack sniper school developed by Vasily Zaitsev. Its members can pick off the enemy at long range, and their daring tactics—hiding for hours in no man’s land until a brief opportunity presents itself—mean that no German, and particularly no German officer, can ever feel safe. This part of the battle is as much psychological as anything, and to counter the continuing threat to German morale, the Nazi command bring to the city their own top marksman, Heinz Thorvald. His mission is simple: to identify, and kill, Zaitsev.Based on a true story, THE WAR OF THE RATS is a brilliantly compelling thriller which brings vividly to life probably the most harrowing battlefront of the Second World War.

Fresh from school in June 1916, Lieutenant Oliver Paxton’s first solo flight is to lead a formation of biplanes across the Channel to join Hornet Squadron in France.

Five days later, he crash-lands at his destination, having lost his map, his ballast and every single plane in his charge. To his C.O. he’s an idiot, to everyone else—especially the tormenting Australian who shares his billet—a pompous bastard.

This is 1916, the year of the Somme, giving Paxton precious little time to grow from innocent to veteran.

Publishers Weekly — "Odrach's delightfully sardonic novel about Stalinist occupation… is rich with history, horror and comedy."This panoramic novel hidden from the English-speaking world for more than 50 years begins with the Red Army invasion of Belarus in 1939. Ivan Kulik has just become Headmaster of school number 7 in Hlaby, a rural village in the Pinsk Marshes. Through his eyes we witness the tragedy of Stalinist domination where people are randomly deported to labour camps or tortured in Zovty Prison in Pinsk. The author's individual gift that sets him apart from his contemporaries is the range of his sympathies and his unromantic, unsentimental approach to the sensual lives of females. His debt to Chekhov is obvious in his ability to capture the internal drama of his characters with psychological concision.

Wir schreiben das Jahr 355 nach Christus. Das römische Reich hat längst den Höhepunkt seiner Macht überschritten. In einer Welt ehrgeiziger Beamter und machthungriger Priester ist Drusus, der immer noch an die alten Götter glaubt, in Ungnade gefallen. Gemeinsam mit seinem Freund Marcellus nimmt er den Kampf gegen den korrupten Staat auf. Ihr einziger Verbündeter ist der junge Julian - Philosoph, Statthalter in Germanien und Neffe des blutrünstigen Kaisers Constantius. Mit einem Heer treuer Verbündeter plant er die Rebellion.Über den Autor:Paul Waters ist in England geboren und riss mit siebzehn von zu Hause aus, um zur See zu fahren. Irgendwo auf dem Indischen Ozean fiel ihm ein Exemplar von Herodots Historien in die Hände, was seine Faszination für die Antike weckte. Später studierte er Latein und Griechisch am University College London. Danach lebte und lehrte er in Frankreich, Griechenland, Amerika und im südlichen Afrika. Er wohnt heute in Cambridge, England.Titel der Originalausgabe:  »The Philosopher Prince«

Wir schreiben das Jahr 355 nach Christus. Das römische Reich hat längst den Höhepunkt seiner Macht überschritten. In einer Welt ehrgeiziger Beamter und machthungriger Priester ist Drusus, der immer noch an die alten Götter glaubt, in Ungnade gefallen. Gemeinsam mit seinem Freund Marcellus nimmt er den Kampf gegen den korrupten Staat auf. Ihr einziger Verbündeter ist der junge Julian - Philosoph, Statthalter in Germanien und Neffe des blutrünstigen Kaisers Constantius. Mit einem Heer treuer Verbündeter plant er die Rebellion.Über den Autor:Paul Waters ist in England geboren und riss mit siebzehn von zu Hause aus, um zur See zu fahren. Irgendwo auf dem Indischen Ozean fiel ihm ein Exemplar von Herodots Historien in die Hände, was seine Faszination für die Antike weckte. Später studierte er Latein und Griechisch am University College London. Danach lebte und lehrte er in Frankreich, Griechenland, Amerika und im südlichen Afrika. Er wohnt heute in Cambridge, England.Titel der Originalausgabe:  »The Philosopher Prince«

When Evie's father returned home from World War II, the family fell back into its normal life pretty quickly. But Joe Spooner brought more back with him than just good war stories. When movie-star handsome Peter Coleridge, a young ex-GI who served in Joe's company in postwar Austria, shows up, Evie is suddenly caught in a complicated web of lies that she only slowly recognizes. She finds herself falling for Peter, ignoring the secrets that surround him ... until a tragedy occurs that shatters her family and breaks her life in two.

Julie Otsuka’s commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination—both physical and emotional—of a generation of Japanese Americans. In five chapters, each flawlessly executed from a different point of view—the mother receiving the order to evacuate; the daughter on the long train ride to the camp; the son in the desert encampment; the family’s return to their home; and the bitter release of the father after more than four years in captivity—she has created a small tour de force, a novel of unrelenting economy and suppressed emotion.Spare, intimate, arrestingly understated, When the Emperor Was Divine is a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and an unmistakably resonant lesson for our times. It heralds the arrival of a singularly gifted new novelist.

The Crown Prince is partly right; the majority in the world is against him and what he stands for; but not against Germany and the Germans.

Liddy Hall is a determined young woman living in the U.S. during WWII. Like many women during this time, Liddy has to deal with the heaviness of the war while she tries to provide for herself and her family. Unlike many women, she’s applied to the Women Airforce Service Pilot program. Her excitement about the possibility of being accepted into the WASP is mixed with the apprehensions of leaving her ailing father and the only home and life she’s ever known.War complicates life and life complicates war as Liddy’s journey brings new friendships and love into her life that will change her forever.Full of adventure, heartbreak and joy, Wings is an engaging and moving story that transports readers to a life-altering time in history. Liddy Hall and the other characters in this funny and moving story will endear and entertain as they learn what it means to truly have wings.

During World War II, a legendary German sniper is sent to assassinate General Eisenhower when Ike makes a top-secret trip to Washington as planning begins for the D-Day invasion.

Für die Rettung eines Jungen erhält Tropenarzt Dr. Perthes von dem dankbaren Vater eine Geldsumme. Endlich kann er seinen Wunschtraum verwirklichen: eine Expedition in die Urwälder Südamerikas. Seine Geliebte, die Kinderärztin Dr. Angela Bender, ist dagegen, aber sie kann den tatendurstigen Mediziner nicht halten. Die Briefe aus Südamerika verbrennt sie ungelesen. Als der Giftspezialist Dr. Perthes einen Stammeshäuptling vor dem sicheren Tod rettet, ist er ein berühmter Mann. Doch eines Tages wird er selbst von einer giftigen Urwaldspinne gebissen — und bleibt gelähmt. Durch einen Zufall erfährt Angela Bender in der Heimat von seinem Unglück. In ihrer Verzweiflung wagt sie ein gefährliches Experiment…

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?

Amazon.com ReviewKen Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most-anticipated sequel of the year, World Without End.In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected. Critics were overwhelmed-"it will hold you, fascinate you, surround you" (Chicago Tribune)-and readers everywhere hoped for a sequel.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. The cathedral and the priory are again at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge, but this sequel stands on its own. This time the men and women of an extraordinary cast of characters find themselves at a crossroad of new ideas-about medicine, commerce, architecture, and justice. In a world where proponents of the old ways fiercely battle those with progressive minds, the intrigue and tension quickly reach a boiling point against the devastating backdrop of the greatest natural disaster ever to strike the human race-the Black Death.Three years in the writing, and nearly eighteen years since its predecessor, World Without End breathes new life into the epic historical novel and once again shows that Ken Follett is a masterful author writing at the top of his craft.

“Qarlı aşırım“ əsəri ilə böyük ədəbiyyata gələn görkəmli yazıçı, tarixi romanlar ustası Fərman Kərimzadənin “Xudafərin körpüsü“ romanında XV əsrin axırı, XVI əsrin əvvəllərində baş vermiş tarixi hadisələr, Şah İsmayıl Xətainin uşaqlıq və gənclik illəri, hakimiyyət uğrundakı mübarizəsi qələmə alınmışdır.Romanda həmçinin Şah İsmayıl Xətainin bir şair, sərkərdə və dövlət xadimi kimi yetişib formalaşdığı tarixi şərait təsvir edilmiş, Uzun Həsən, Sara Xatun, Hüseyn Lələ bəy, Əbih Sultan kimi tarixi şəxsiyyətlərin yadda qalan obrazları yaradılmışdır.

В книгу известного писателя А. П. Ладинского, хорошо знакомого читателю по историческим романам «Когда пал Херсонес», «Ярославна – королева Франции», вошли новые, ранее не публиковавшиеся на родине писателя произведения.Крушение античного мира, утонченная роскошь и разврат, непримиримая борьба язычества с христианством на закате Великой Римской Империи – вот тот фон, на котором разворачиваются события романа «XV легион».