Trefferliste "Historical Worlds" - alle Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr

David Greig

The Book of I

A Fall 2025 Indies Introduce Pick★ "A small treasure... A bloody and beautiful sojourn in the distant past."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)A brilliant Scottish debut, shortlisted for the Highl…

Amitava Kumar

My Beloved Life

"Jadunath Kunwar's beginnings are humble, even inauspicious. His mother, while pregnant, nearly dies from a cobra bite. And this is only the first of many challenges in store for Jadu. As his life sk…

Alexandre Dumas,

The Man in the Iron Mask

The final adventure of the greatest heroes in French literature takes the musketeers on an epic saga from the royal palace of Louis XIV to the dreaded dungeons of the Bastille.

Monika Helfer,

Library for the War-Wounded

From Monika Helfer's award-winning, internationally bestselling wartime trilogy, based on her own family. Translated into English for the first time.?We called him Vati, Dad. Not Father, not Papa. That's …

Nadia Terranova,

The Night Trembles

"'There is something stronger than pain, and that is habit.' Eleven-year-old Nicola knows this well. Each night he is tied up in the cellar by his mother, the wife of Calabria's biggest bergamot prod…

Clare Chambers

Shy Creatures

A "literary mystery full of secrets and lies [in which] an art teacher at a psychiatric hospital in 1960s England finds her life turned upside down by the arrival of a mysterious patient who has spen…

Vanessa Taylor

Seven Rivers

A magisterial history of the seven rivers representing the great natural arteries running through civilization, by virtue of the roles they have played in our shared and conflicted world history.Every riv…

Sarah Perry

Enlightenment

**A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Telegraph, Washington Post, The New Yorker.LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE."Like A.S. Byatt's Possession , Enlightenment is a baroque, genre-bending novel of ideas, gh…

Jim Schutze

Pontiac

"In the inner sanctum of an elite boarding school, boys test their boundaries and class when they welcome an outsider. In 1960, St. Philip's School, a famously exclusive boys boarding school, grudgin…

Frank Sinatra & Count Basie

An Historical First (180g)

Damien Lewis

SAS Great Escapes Four

The new bestseller from Damien Lewis, the Regiment's de facto historian.

Milo Todd

The Lilac People

"In 1932 Berlin, Bertie, a trans man, and his friends spend carefree nights at the Eldorado Club, the epicenter of Berlin's thriving queer community. An employee of the renowned Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld…

Erich Maria Remarque,

All Quiet on the Western Front

The most famous anti-war novel ever written. In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire and pa…

Carys Davies

Clear

"Tender, riveting, and inventive is Clear, the newest offering and masterpiece from the brilliant Carys Davies. It will take your breath away...What a thrill." ---Sarah Jessica Parker ANew York …

Biyi Bandele

Yoruba Boy Running

"Based on real historical events, 'Yoráub/74/a Boy Running' charts Samuel Ajayi Crowther's miraculous journey from slave to liberator, boy to man, running to resisting 'Run, áAjáayâi, run!' The day t…

"Montanism" in the Roman World

Festschrift for William Tabbernee on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday

Bernhard Schlink,

The Granddaughter

'Anyone who wants to understand contemporary Germany must read The Granddaughter now' Le Monde 'The great novel of German reunification' Le Figaro 'A masterpiece' Maurice Szafran May, 1964. At a youth fes…

Honoré de Balzac,

The Girl with the Golden Eyes

"Henri de Marsay believes neither in man nor woman, God nor devil. He believes in Paris, a city that readily accommodates his pursuit of sensual pleasure. It is in the Tuileries, just outside the Caf…

Ian Fleming

Dr. No

JAMES BOND IS PUT TO THE TEST AGAINST AN EGOTISTICAL SCIENTIST WITH NEFARIOUS AIMSDispatched by M to investigate the mysterious disappearance of MI6's Jamaica station chief, Bond was expecting a holiday i…