Títulos em Ficção Histórica

Most debutantes dream of finding husbands. Lady Pandora Ravenel has different plans. The ambitious young beauty would much rather stay at home and plot out her new board game business than take part in the London Season. But one night at a glittering society ball, she's ensnared in a scandal with a wickedly handsome stranger.

In the resplendence of William the Conqueror's London court, the lovely Saxon captive, Nicholaa was forced to choose a husband from the assembled Norman nobles. She chose Royce, a baron warrior whose fierce demeanor could not conceal his chivalrous and tender heart. Resourceful, rebellious and utterly naive, Nicholaa vowed to bend Royce to her will, despite the whirlwind of feelings he aroused in her.

Five linked families live out their destinies as the world is shaken by tyranny and war in the mid-20th century. Berlin in 1933 is in upheaval. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. Into this turmoil step her mother’s formidable friend and former British MP, Ethel Leckwith, and her student son, Lloyd, who soon learns for himself the brutal reality of Nazism.

France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever—and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.

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...of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secret shame...and of a struggle between good and evil that will turn church against state and brother against brother.

Number-one New York Times best-selling author Diana Gabaldon has captivated millions with her critically acclaimed Outlander novels, the inspiration for the Starz original series. From the moment Claire Randall stepped through a standing stone circle and was thrown back in time to the year 1743 - and into a world that threatens life, limb, loyalty, heart, soul, and everything else Claire has - fans have been hungry to know everything about this world and its inhabitants, particularly a Scottish soldier named Jamie Fraser.

More than a decade ago, number-one New York Times best-selling author Diana Gabaldon delighted her legions of fans with The Outlandish Companion, an indispensable guide to all the Outlander books at the time. But that edition was just a taste of things to come. Since that publication, there have been four more Outlander novels, a side series, assorted novellas, and one smash-hit Starz original television series.

Filho de um servo que escapa dos abusos de seu senhor feudal e se refugia em Barcelona, Arnau tem a vida marcada pelo trabalho árduo e pela devoção à Virgem Maria. A fé liga sua história a um dos principais templos da Catalunha—Santa Maria do Mar—e a igreja do povo se torna ela mesma um personagem à medida que Arnau acompanha sua edificação.

Em seu romance de estreia, o sueco Niklas Natt och Dag cria um retrato vívido da sombria Estocolmo do final do século XVIII. Estamos no outono de 1793. Logo pela manhã, ainda de ressaca, o sentinela Mickel Cardell é alertado sobre um corpo que foi encontrado flutuando nas águas fétidas do lago da Ucharia. Os esforços para identificar o cadáver totalmente mutilado são confiados ao incorruptível advogado Cecil Winge, que pede a ajuda de Cardell para resolver o caso.

Josef Mengele, o médico nazista que ficou conhecido como “Anjo da Morte” no campo de concentração de Auschwitz, escolhia o destino de suas vítimas: as câmaras de gás, os trabalhos forçados ou seu laboratório, alimentado diariamente com anões, gigantes, deformados e gêmeos para pesquisas e experimentos macabros. Ele consegue escapar dos tribunais no fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial, mudando-se para a América do Sul em 1949, quando chega à Argentina.

At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army.

Raised on the battlefield and in the most beautiful Moorish palace in the world, sent to England alone at the age of 16 to take her place in a court where she couldn't speak the language, and abandoned and forced to endure poverty after the death of her husband, Katherine remained a woman of indomitable spirit, unwavering faith, and extraordinary strength. Philippa Gregory brings to life one of history's most inspiring women and creates one of the most compelling characters in historical fiction.

This is the story of King Midas. Or that's what we're always told. The Golden King with his palace of riches and me, the girl he turned to gold. Upon the snowy mountains in the Sixth Kingdom of Orea, I'm locked away in Highbell Castle. It's for my safety, I'm told. Away from the dangers of the world below. No one can get in. Apart from him. King Midas rescued me from the streets. He gave me food, shelter and his heart. I promised to love him forever. But when war comes to the kingdom, a deal is struck—and I am at the heart of the bargain. Everything I know starts to change.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. A decade of monumental change and slaughter. Many of society’s telling questions are cast aside in times of that speak of greater needs, greater priorities. For these talented authors their ideas and words keep these magnificent stories at the forefront of our literary lives.

Ao se tornar sócia da empresa de eventos Ocasiões Especiais com as duas irmãs, a jovem viúva Eliza Pierce experimenta uma segurança financeira e uma liberdade com as quais nunca se atreveu a sonhar. A vida parece ter entrado nos eixos e se tornado previsível e prazerosa. Até que Nathaniel Stanton, o conde de Foxstead, melhor amigo de seu falecido marido, decide contratar as três para ajudar outra jovem viúva a ser aceita pela sociedade. Logo o que começa como um simples trabalho acaba com a paz de Eliza, porque a proximidade dela com o conde acende uma chama impossível de apagar.

The year is 1949, the city London. Amidst the smog of the capital is Dennis Knuckleyard, a hapless eighteen-year-old employed by a second-hand bookshop. One day, on an errand to acquire books for sale, Dennis discovers a novel that simply does not exist. It is a fictitious book, a figment from another novel. Yet it is physically there in his hands. How?

I would have trusted this man with my life. Until a couple of days ago, anyway. You know what they say - hope for the best, but plan for the worst. Max is quite accustomed to everything going wrong. She's St Mary's, after all. Disaster is her default state. But with her family reunited and a jump to Bronze Age Crete in the works, life is getting back to normal. Well, normal for St Mary's. And then, following one fateful night at the Tower of London, everything Max thought she knew comes crashing down around her. Too late for plans. The worst has happened. And who can Max trust now?

Orphaned Jane emerges from a cold, hostile upbringing at Lowood Institution to take her place as governess at Thornfield, home of Mr Rochester. Her petulant but loving charge, Adele, and the housekeeper, Mrs Fairfax, are her sole company, while Rochester remains a distant, mysterious and yet imposing presence.

A última coisa que o capitão Maximus Harcourt, duque de Alderidge, esperava encontrar ao voltar para casa depois de anos no mar era um homem amarrado à cama de sua irmã inocente, Beatrice Harcourt. Um homem conhecido como o Conde da Devassidão. Que estava nu. E morto. Sem saber navegar pela sociedade londrina, e desesperado porque, além de tudo, a irmã está desaparecida, Max agora está à mercê da deslumbrante srta. Moore, da D'Aqueus & Associados, "reparadora de problemas irreparáveis".

Ingrid é filha de Franz Stangl, comandante nazista do campo de extermínio de Treblinka durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Gabriel Waldman é um judeu sobrevivente do Holocausto. Suas vidas são atravessadas por esse que foi dos episódios mais tenebrosos da história recente. Apaixonado por Ingrid, e sem saber a verdadeira identidade do pai da garota, Waldman envolve-se num relacionamento amoroso que o abalará profundamente, para sempre.