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12th century, England: A penniless young knight with few prospects, William Marshal is plucked from obscurity when he saves the life of Henry II's formidable queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. In gratitude, she appoints him tutor to the heir to the throne, the volatile and fickle Prince Henry. But being a royal favorite brings its share of danger and jealousy as well as fame and reward.

The greatest moment in Roman history, from the perspective of the man who could have had it all.Julius Caesar is dead. Mark Antony, his second in command, is surely also in the sights of the assassins.But for Antony, where there is danger, there is opportunity. Can he seize the chance, and replace Caesar as Rome's undisputed ruler? The portents are good until a young man named Octavian appears, claiming to be Caesar's heir... The following months and years are a time of shifting alliances, betrayals and score-settling.

La storia d’amore di una francese quindicenne con un giovane miliardario cinese, sullo sfondo di un ritratto di famiglia, nell’Indocina degli anni Trenta. Strade brulicanti di vita, il jazz, l’odore della pioggia e dei gelsomini. Racconti rivelazione di una lucidità struggente, di terribile e dolce bellezza, L’amante è l’opera che ha dato a Duras la consacrazione di un’immensa popolarità.

Before George Orwell was Orwell - the pen name he took on becoming a writer - he was Eric Blair, an unlikely policeman in Burma. 19 years old, unusually tall, highly intelligent, a diffident loner fresh from Eton, Blair stood out amongst his fellow trainees in 1920s Mandalay. It was here, over five years in the narrow colonial world of the Raj - a decaying system steeped in overt racism and petty class-conflict - that Eric Blair became the George Orwell we know: an anti-imperialist, a socialist and a writer of rare commitment.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, a remarkable novel about Henry James, the American-born novelist and a connoisseur of exile. 'A triumph' – The Observer 'A masterly achievement' – The Independent In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in...

Acclaimed Pulitzer-Prize finalist Yiyun Li, returns with a sweeping historical epic, following two extraordinary musicians on the rise. In Dublin, as the eighteenth century nears its end, a young musical virtuoso comes of age. John Field is able to hear notes in the air, and his family aspires...

Nach einem Burnout und gefangen in dem Druck der Arbeitswelt suchte Uwe Jettkant nach einer Auszeit und beschloss, den Jakobsweg nach Santiago de Compostela zu gehen. Dieser Pilgerweg strahlte eine Faszination aus, die er sich selbst nicht recht erklären konnte: Warum zieht der Jakobsweg jährlich hunderttausende Pilger an und warum sollte man 800 Kilometer zu Fuß durch Spanien gehen? Was erhoffte er sich selbst überhaupt davon?

An autobiographical short story about finding one’s place inside a Kyoto geisha house. After meeting a geisha she admires, a young woman enters a world shaped by hierarchy and unspoken rules. Quiet and minimalist, the story unfolds through small, everyday moments. She sits on the tatami floor. She serves her maiko and geiko seniors. She waits before touching her chopsticks, and is repeatedly corrected on something that seems small: greeting. Over time, she begins to understand what greeting asks of her.

Des rives de la baie d’Hudson aux paroisses de Sainte‑Thérèse et de Saint‑Jérôme, en passant par la Rivière Rouge de Saint‑Boniface et la rivière des Mille‑Îles, ce récit nous entraîne sur les traces de Jean Guénet. À travers un territoire immense et une époque où s’imposent la Charte royale de 1670 et l’essor de la Compagnie de la Baie d’Hudson, se dessine une quête de mémoire où routes, ponts et toponymes racontent l’élan des pionniers.

Seven-year-old Harold Thomas watches his father board a train bound for the battlefields of the Great War. What happens next will test him as brutally as any combat. The home front isn’t safe. It’s a battlefield of its own—where boys become men overnight, where winter kills without mercy, where one mistake can end everything. Where survival demands the same discipline, the same sacrifice, the same relentless courage required in the trenches overseas.

Brought to you by Penguin. Charles Highway is every mother's worst nightmare. Precociously intelligent, mercilessly manipulative and highly sexed, Charles devotes the last of his teenage years to bedding girls and evading the half-arsed overtures of his distant parents. That is, until, he meets...

The film star M is one of the most recognizable faces of our time. Now, a writer has decided to pay close attention to M's life, in the hope of understanding who she really is. In this astonishing, explosive novel, Rachel Cusk hunts for the nature of truth without ever swerving away into self-deceptions. She investigates who we are, and pretend to be, at this late stage of modern life when we are hypnotized, more and more effectively, by the images we see everywhere.

शुटिंगनंतर सहा वर्षांनी स्वरदाने विक्रांतवर सेटवर घडलेल्या प्रसंगाबद्दल आरोप केला ज्याची साक्षी ती एकटीच...

रघुवीर कुल लिखित कुल व्यक्तिचित्र - मुसाफीर काही माणसांबरोबर आपली काही असोसिएशन्स असतात. माझ्या बाबतीत वैद्य...

अख्ख्या जगाच्या नजरा गेल्या काही दिवसांपासून ज्या डीलकडे लागल्या होत्या ते डील अखेर पार पडलं. टेस्ला कंपनीचा...

नेहेमिया नीळकंठशास्त्री गोरे ही ऐतिहासिक व्यक्तिरेखा 'होरपळ' या कादंबरीचा गाभा आहे. नीळकंठशास्त्री गोरे हा...

रघुवीर कुल लिखित कुल व्यक्तिचित्रे - देबू देवधर खरं तर देबू पक्का पुणेकर! फिल्म इन्स्टिट्यूटमध्ये शिकत असताना...

The true story behind the world's most beloved children's book is a story the world was never supposed to know. In June 1940, as Hitler's armies closed on Paris, two German-Jewish refugees fled the city on makeshift bicycles assembled from junkyard scrap. Strapped to a luggage rack, wrapped in oilcloth, was a five-pound manuscript about a mischievous, tailless monkey — the book the world would come to know as Curious George.

Eleanor Dumont bricht alle Regeln und gründet als erste Frau auf dem amerikanischen Kontinent einen eigenen Spiel-Saloon. In einem Gebiet voller Gefahren und vergänglichem Reichtum nimmt ein tödliches Drama seinen Lauf. Dort, wo Gier, Sünde und Alkohol den Wert eines Lebens bestimmen, kommt es schon bald zu mörderischen Zwischenfällen. Basierend auf wahren Begebenheiten entführt Sie dieses Buch in die wohl spannendste Zeit der Pioniertage.

Panicked by his own mortality, despondent over his many failings as a writer and a man, Dunne leaves his wife and their three-year old child for the solitude of a crummy apartment off the Vegas Strip. There he plans to write an account of the city as he finds it; the book he ends up writing is "a fiction which recalls time both real and imagined."