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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Sisters of Treason by Elizabeth Fremantle. Lady Jane Grey has just been executed by her cousin Mary Tudor and her two younger sisters, Mary and Catherine, live in the shadow of their sister's tragic demise. Lady Catherine's fatal...

Karibik 1635: In den spanischen Kolonien hat der Schwarzhandel überhand genommen. Der neue Gouverneur von Hispaniola schwört, jeden Schmuggler, den er erwischt, eigenhändig aufzuhängen. Die schöne Doña Maria zittert um ihren Gemahl, einen reichen Pflanzer und heimlichen Drahtzieher des verbotenen Handels. Im fernen Bremen hat der junge Handelsherr Jan van Hagen nur die Wahl zwischen Schuldturm und Flucht in die Neue Welt, um als Schmuggler das verlorene Familienvermögen wieder herzustellen. Noch in der Nacht entkommt er den Schergen und nimmt Kurs auf Westindien. Seine Suche nach dem Gold des Südens hat begonnen.

Chi se non Paolo Poli poteva calarsi nei panni di Don Abbondio e della Monaca di Monza, dando una voce inconfondibile a ciascuno dei memorabili personaggi manzoniani e tirandoci dentro nelle vicende umane e storiche del grande romanzo? Il libro di tutti e per tutti, in una lettura che è un vero spettacolo!

From #1 New York Times bestselling author of Boleyn Traitor and “queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory comes the remarkable story of Katherine of Aragon, Princess of Spain, daughter of two great monarchs, and eventual Queen of England when she marries the infamous King Henry...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and “queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory—a dazzling new novel about the intriguing, romantic, and maddening Mary, Queen of Scots. Fleeing violent rebellions in Scotland, Mary looks to Queen Elizabeth of England for sanctuary...

Phantasiereise ins England des 16. Jahrhunderts: Rebecca Gablé zählt zu den bekanntesten Autorinnen für historische Geschichten. Mit "Der dunkle Thron" knüpft sie an ihre erfolgreiche Waringham-Trilogie an. Detlef Bierstedt erzählt die Geschichte der Familie Waringham in diesem Hörbuch spannend weiter.

Stephanie Laurens continues her bestselling Cynster series with Temptation and Surrender, the story of Jonas Tallent, brother-in-law of Lucifer Cynster, who leaves the ballrooms of London to manage his family’s estate, and his romance with lady innkeeper Emily Beauregard...

From “the queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) the author of Boleyn Traitor comes this New York Times bestseller featuring three very different women whose fates are each bound by a bloody curse: the legacy of the Boleyn family. After the death of his third wife, Jane Seymour, King Henry VIII...

Questo luogo è il rifugio segreto del mio maestro, il pittore Michelangelo. Qui si è rifugiato mentre tutta Roma lo cercava. E qui, a volte, si riunisce con un gruppo di persone il cui scopo principale è la conoscenza. È una notte del 1534 quando Jacopo, che da grande vuole diventare un pittore, fugge da Pistoia e dal padre, che non condivide il suo sogno e lo vorrebbe costringere a lavorare in bottega.

La famosa caza de brujas en Zugarramurdi, el auto de fe de Logroño de 1610, las cárceles secretas de la Inquisición, los bucaneros de La Española, los Hermanos de la Costa y la república libertaria que intentaron crear en la isla Tortuga, los corsarios vascos del mar Caribe… Joanes de...

‘An intriguing tale, told with confidence’ The Times ‘A great tale… the golden thread that led to the crown of England’ Conn Iggulden She’ll betray her king to crown her son When Edward of York takes back the English crown, the Wars of the Roses scatter the Lancastrian nobility and...

In the year 1492, the Inquisition has all of Spain in its grip. Yonah Toledano, the 15-year-old son of a celebrated Spanish silversmith, has seen his father and brother die during terrible days - victims whose murders go almost unnoticed in a time of mass upheaval. Trapped in Spain by circumstances, he is determined to honor the memory of his family by remaining a Jew. On a donkey named Moise, Yonah begins a meandering journey, a young fugitive zigzagging across the vastness of Spain.

In Oberammergau herrscht kurz vor Pfingsten 1670 helle Aufregung. Bei den Proben zum berühmten Passionsspiel wird der Christus-Darsteller tot aufgefunden. Er wurde gekreuzigt. Der Schongauer Henker Jakob Kuisl und der Bader Simon Fronwieser werden um die Aufklärung des Todesfalls gebeten, doch sie stoßen auf eine Wand des Schweigens. Als ein weiterer Darsteller den Märtyrertod stirbt, glauben die Dorfbewohner an eine Strafe Gottes und wollen erst recht nicht mit den beiden Fremden reden.

The #1 New York Times bestseller from “the queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) and the author of Boleyn Traitor Philippa Gregory is a rich, compelling novel of love, sex, ambition, and intrigue surrounding the Tudor court of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the infamous Boleyn family. When Mary...

The inspiration for the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries The White Queen, #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings to life the extraordinary story of Elizabeth Woodville, a woman who rises from obscurity to become Queen of England, and changes the course of history...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and “queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) comes a riveting and scandalous love triangle between a young woman on the brink of greatness, a young man whose ambition far exceeds his means, and the wife who cannot forgive them. In the autumn of 1558...

Christian Stern, an ambitious young scholar and alchemist, arrives in Prague in the bitter winter of 1599, intent on making his fortune at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor, the eccentric Rudolf II. The night of his arrival, drunk and lost, Christian stumbles upon the body of a young woman in Golden Lane, an alley hard by Rudolf’s great castle. Dressed in a velvet gown, wearing a large gold medallion around her neck, the woman is clearly well-born—or was, for her throat has been slashed.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author behind the acclaimed Starz series The White Queen comes the story of lady-in-waiting Margaret Pole and her unique view of King Henry VIII’s stratospheric rise to power in Tudor England. As an heir to the Plantagenets, Margaret is seen by the...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory, the little-known story of three Tudor women who are united in sisterhood and yet compelled to be rivals when they fulfill their destinies as queens. As sisters they share an everlasting bond; as queens they can break each other’s...

By the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a novel of passion and power set against the deadly backdrop of Tudor history, this riveting new tale explores the fate of Kateryn Parr—King Henry VIII’s sixth and final wife—in a richly imagined work of historical fiction. Kateryn Parr, a...