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Step onto the gritty scaffolds of medieval history and survive the brutal, unvarnished reality of cathedral building. Perfect for an immersive commute, this atmospheric journey strips away romanticized myths to expose a perilous world of rigid class divides and fierce craftsmanship. Follow one...

Step into an atmospheric historical fiction adventure where a fierce shield-maiden faces a looming Viking raid. As dawn breaks over the icy shores, the scent of hearth smoke and sea spray signals a day of brutal survival. For listeners seeking a gritty, immersive escape during a busy commute...

Survive the brutal reality of the Viking Age in this gritty historical fiction about a captive fighting for freedom. Perfect for your daily commute or an intense late-night escape, this atmospheric narrative shifts the focus from glorious kings to the dark shadows of the longhouse. Grounded in...

An epic full-cast play about Robin Hood, plus an episode of In Our Time setting him in his historical context and four dramatic interpretations of his story Robin Hood has captured the English imagination for centuries. His tale has been told in ballads, novels, plays, TV shows and films – and...

What if your temporary deception became an inescapable trap and forcibly determined your destiny? In fifteenth-century Venice, a city of power and intrigue, lives are shaped by class, reputation, and fate, and for some, by the fragile boundaries between identity and survival. Caterina, the spirited daughter of a wealthy Venetian merchant, is expected to follow the rigid path laid out for Renaissance women: obedience, arranged marriage, and silent acceptance. But when her defiance sparks scandal, she is subjected to a punishment designed to break her will and reshape her future.

Bloomsbury presents The Knife Maker of Venice by David Gilman read by Ben Cura and Davild Gilman, and featuring an exclusive interview between them. A young Englishman captured by slavers must survive the snakepit that is seventeenth-century Venice. 1604. As pirates seeking slaves to sell in the...

Toledo, 1086. Archbishop Bernard has arrived with a mandate to purge infidel learning. But under the unlikely patronage of suspicious churchmen, the city's famous School of Translators is taking shape—and the heirs of the original covenant are walking a razor's edge. Satisfying clerics by day. Smuggling philosophical texts to safety by night. Encoding medical knowledge in women's embroidery patterns. Setting stone-carved clues into the architecture that only the initiated will find. The Second Crusade is mobilizing. The Almoravid invasion is coming from the south.

Audiolibro narrado en castellano. Los Cenci es uno de los relatos recogidos en Crímenes célebres. Publicada a partir de 1839 en ocho volúmenes, que reúnen dieciocho de los procesos criminales más célebres de la historia europea; antes de que el autor alcanzara fama universal con Los tres...

España, 1490. Gonzalo Palencia, comerciante adinerado, enfrenta la Inquisición con un secreto que no puede revelar. Su hija Mariana navega entre dos mundos—el que le heredaron y el que ella misma construye. A lo largo de un siglo, la familia lleva ese secreto de España a Colombia, de la colonia al presente, inscrito en márgenes codificados, libros de cuentas ocultos y lenguas que se hablan y callan según la época. Un siglo después, una mujer contemporánea que busca la ciudadanía española descubre que los documentos que necesita guardan más de lo que esperaba.

As his father's second son, Rogar was always meant to be a soldier... But everything changes when he sees the girl on the anvil.

Seville, present day. A gray archival box. A manuscript no one was expecting to find. When Roberto Alvarado, a Mexican-American historian of colonial Latin America, is summoned to the Archivo de Indias, he finds what appears to be an unpublished manuscript in the hand of Bartolomé de las Casas—the sixteenth-century Dominican friar who witnessed the Spanish conquest of the Americas and spent fifty years bearing witness to its destruction.

Selene Brookhaven has always known exactly how to fight with Aster Lakeborne. Their childhood betrothal was shaped by insults, pride, chestnut tarts, and a rivalry neither family could fully control. When Aster returns from captivity under a cloud of scandal, Selene claims his damaged reputation makes him unworthy of her, but her anger cannot hide the fact that she still remembers the boy who once saved her from drowning. Then Aster is taken again, and a ransom note demands that Selene bring one hundred gold sovereigns into the mountains herself.

"Ich verfluche euch! Mein Tod wird mir die Rache ermöglichen, welche mir im Leben verwehrt war." Deutschland, Anfang des 17. Jahrhunderts: Das große, jährliche Dorffest in Furtenblick endet unerwartet, als ein Fremder das Podium besteigt und den grausamen Tod von vier Bürgern ankündigt. Um seinen unheilvollen Fluch zu stärken, stürzt er sich über eine Klippe in den nahen Fluss. Am Tag danach findet man flussabwärts die zerschmetterte Leiche. Kurz darauf gibt es das erste Opfer. Genau wie im Fluch angekündigt, liegt der Tote nackt im Wald und ist von Insekten übersät.

'One of my favourite writers' Santa Montefiore ‘The Grand Dame of the time-slip novel’ Peter James In the depths of the valley, two women, centuries apart, are bound by fate… Present Eve, desperate for a fresh start, arrives in the Valley of Ravens to restore a long-abandoned cottage...

Bloomsbury presents Duel of Beasts by Boyd and Beth Morrison, read by Mark Elstob. Savage beasts, fabulous treasures, perilous duels, and deadly treachery abound in this thrilling adventure novel set in medieval Spain. Málaga, Spain, 1352. Knight-errant Gerard Fox and his daring wife Willa seek...

Klug, visionär und unerschrocken: Hildegard von Bingen heilte Kranke, sammelte medizinisches Wissen, gründete ihr eigenes Kloster und predigte als erste Frau mit Zustimmung des Papstes. Als Autorin, Beraterin von Herrschern und Universalgelehrte verband sie Spiritualität, Naturkunde und...

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY MARK RYLANCE 'As disturbing as it is empathetic, as beautiful as it is riveting' Eimear McBride, New Statesman 'A literary triumph' Adam Thorpe, Guardian 1066. The Norman invasion has brutally seized the country that the Buccmaster of Holland, a proud landowning farmer in...

The thirty-seventh mystery in Peter Tremayne's long-standing and much-loved series, featuring 7th-century Irish super-sleuth Sister Fidelma. AD 673. Sister Fidelma and her husband Eadulf are journeying back from the Kingdom of the East Angles to Cashel when a violent storm wrecks their ship on...

Toledo, 1108. El rey Alfonso VI agoniza. Abraham Cohen corre contra el tiempo para terminar el Testamento—el fundamento filosófico de todo lo que el pacto ha protegido durante tres décadas. Cuando la traición golpea y la hermandad se dispersa por tres continentes, el plan exige un último acto audaz: los cálculos de un navegante que apuntan hacia tierras al otro lado del océano occidental. El volumen final de la trilogía sigue al pacto hasta su contingencia más atrevida—sembrando no solo para la próxima generación, sino para un futuro que ningún vivo verá.

Dezember 1137, vor einer erbärmlichen Hütte in einem Dorf in Tirol: Kaiser Lothar ist tot. Dies ist der Auftakt für ein raffiniertes Intrigenspiel um den Thron, in dem Welfen, Askanier und Wettiner mitmischen und keine Skrupel haben, von ihren Schwertern Gebrauch zu machen. Und nicht nur Fürsten und Geistliche ringen erbittert um die Macht im Reich, sondern auch so manche Frau – mit ganz anderen Mitteln.