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“Violaine Huisman explores and contests the myths surrounding the great men of her family, using fiction where the official archives fall silent. The Monuments of Paris is a moving elegy for her accomplished, mercurial, outrageous father—and a beautiful act of disobedience.” —Ben Lerner...

‘Oh! How adorable! I didn’t know you had a cat!’ she exclaimed. I am always surprised how many people make this observation. Why should His Holiness not have a cat? ‘If only she could speak,’ continued the actress. ‘I’m sure she’d have such wisdom to share.’ And so the seed was...

A Feigned Madness is a meticulously researched, fictionalized account of the woman who would come to be known as daredevil reporter Nellie Bly. At a time of cutthroat journalism, when newspapers battled for readers at any cost, Bly emerged as one of the first to break through the gender barrier—a woman who would, through her daring exploits, forge a trail for women fighting for their place in the world.

What happens when the life you’ve built perfectly is the one you can no longer live? Sean was good at his job. He knew how to pace a slide deck, read a boardroom, and make a twenty-million-pound renewal sound like a foregone conclusion. But in the middle of a high-stakes meeting in London, the practiced mask of corporate competence finally cracked. In a single moment of uncontrolled laughter, he walked out of his career, left his laptop glowing on the table, and didn't look back.

The frigate Astrea leaves Spain for the Philippines in the late 1770s. Captain Alejandro Malaspina must bring the entering governor and his family to Manila. Lucia, the Governor's daughter is promised to the son of the exiting Governor. Astrea's Second Officer, Carlos is gravely wounded during a storm, and Pedro, Lucia's older brother and a student of medicine in Granada, heals his wounds. Lucia nurses Carlos. They fall in love. In Manila, the Franciscan sisters care for Carlos, and Lucia joins the convent rather than marry the despicable son of the exiting Governor.

Inspired by a true story, this is a moving reimagining of loss, legacy and the fragile truth between memory and myth… She was never meant to be a symbol, but the world made her one In 1912, fourteen-year-old Helen ‘Melville’ Smith loses her father, Captain Edward J. Smith of the Titanic...

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.

Some men love you. Some men ruin you. And some men are the lesson you never forget. Dance with the Devil is an autobiographical fiction novel about a woman rebuilding her life—until she meets Danny, the charming, intense, magnetic man who slips into her world like fate… and slowly begins to dismantle it from the inside out.

Panama, 1991. A broke 21-year-old throws a Hail Mary: the shortest Army contract possible, fleeing divorce and fatherhood. He ends up as MP Investigator "Eagle 12" in the sticky heat post-Operation Just Cause. One brutal weekend in Coco Solo barracks changes everything. Dawn anxiety, party highs, stripper nights, and self-deception collide with harsh reality—a neglected daughter, money demands, inescapable regret. Raw and inspired by true events, Eagle 12 captures the choking isolation of military life: jungle humidity vs. weak AC, fragile hope against relentless duty.

What really happened when Queen Elizabeth II met Marilyn Monroe? This stunning historical novel imagines the summer that bonded the world's two most famous women, both thirty years old and chafing against the façade of global celebrity. On a cool early-autumn evening in 1956, a glittering array...

Der in der Gepäckabfertigung arbeitende Devlin, der pensionierte Lehrer Walter und die Gutachterin Gabrielle haben nichts gemeinsam, doch als eine einzige Entscheidung ein neues Kapitel in der Geschichte der Geige in Gang setzt, fühlen sie sich endlich als Teil von etwas – etwas, das zählt und das sie bedeutend macht. Denn während ihre Suche nach den Ursprüngen der Geige ein Geheimnis aufdeckt, das sich über Jahrzehnte erstreckt, lehrt das Instrument sie eine Melodie, die sie nie erwartet hätten.

A restrained family novel concerned with pride, class, and the slow unravelling of authority within a once-ordered household. As a marriage falters and relationships subtly realign, ordinary decisions begin to carry unintended consequences. Written with psychological precision, it observes how silence, misjudgment, and the refusal to look closely can quietly reshape a life.

England, 1787. Mary Wollstonecraft is an avowed spinster. At 28, she moves to London to live independently as a writer. With her publication of A Vindication for the Rights of Woman a few short years later, she emerges as a leading figure for women's equality. But when a humiliating faux pas threatens her reputation, Mary travels to Paris to write about the French Revolution, where she unexpectedly falls in love with American adventurer Gilbert Imlay.

London, 1987: Als Rose den Nachlass ihrer Mutter sichtet, entdeckt sie, dass diese ein Adoptivkind war. Bei der Recherche nach ihrer Herkunft stößt Rose auf einen Hinweis, der sie zu einem von Anna Freuds Kriegswaisenhäusern führt. Dort betreut 1945 die aus Wien geflüchtete Jüdin Helen sechs Kinder aus Theresienstadt, nicht ahnend, dass sie mit einem kleinen Mädchen schicksalhaft verbunden ist. Erst Jahrzehnte später wird Rose die dramatische Wahrheit herausfinden und erkennen, dass in ihr die Geschichte einer bedingungslosen Freundschaft weiterlebt.

Brought to you by Penguin. An electrifying novel about the Nazi who reinvented himself, Albert Speer ‘Which is the most seductive, truth or fiction?’ This is the story of Albert Speer: The protégé. The ‘good Nazi’. The star. The mythmaker. In 1969 Speer, Hitler’s favourite architect...

Stell dir vor, du entdeckst eine Vorfahrin, die dir ähnlicher ist, als du je gedacht hättest. Zum 100. Geburtstag von Henriette kehrt die Familie ins alte Ferienhaus im Havelland zurück – zwischen Flussläufen und weiter Landschaft. Für Enkelin Antonia ist schnell spürbar: Der Tod ihres Vaters hat sich tief in das Familiengefüge eingegraben, und auch das Wiedersehen mit ihren drei Schwestern ist schmerzhafter, als sie gehofft hatte. Als ein Familienstammbaum verschenkt wird, stößt Antonia auf Jeanne Beauvais – eine Ahnin, die im 17.

Jewish refugee Felix Wolff believes he has found safety in England, but he is arrested and thrown into a British internment camp as a suspected Nazi spy. To clear his name and join the fight against Hitler, he must break free of a system that mistakes him for the very evil he fled. Fresh off his ruthless campaign in Poland, Sicherheitsdienst agent Karl Vogt is sent on a chilling mission: to devise a system for controlling the growing Jewish population within the Reich. His cold efficiency lays the groundwork for a coming horror the world has yet to comprehend.

1850: Dorettas Familie hat schon in Deutschland Klaviere gebaut. Jetzt wagt sie den Sprung nach New York. Trotz harter Arbeit ist der Anfang schwer in den Mietskasernen des deutschen Viertels, aber Doretta findet als Klavierlehrerin Eingang in die Prachthäuser der Reichen. Instrumente von Steinway & Sons werden zum »Must-have« der New Yorker Gesellschaft. 1925: Dorettas Urenkelin Florence begibt sich auf die Suche nach den deutschen Wurzeln ihrer Familie und stößt dabei auf Schweigen und Geheimnisse, die sie sich nicht erklären kann.

Caro Pardíaco es empresaria de la noche, reina del stream y la primera influencer argentina. Idealista y genuina, comparte sus secretos y sus sueños en O Zeah: un libro fundamental e innecesario.

In the shadows of London's Highgate Cemetery, Ngaroma stands before her great-great-grandfather's crypt, unknowingly about to unravel a tale that spans two centuries and two hemispheres. Victorian New Zealand sets the stage for an extraordinary story of two brothers bound by blood but divided by empire. Hōhepa, born to a British captain and a Māori mother, navigates a precarious path between two worlds during a time of mounting colonial tensions.