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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.

En el medioevo, los cátaros predican su credo en Francia. Sostienen ideas que, para la Iglesia Católica, resultan amenazantes: igualdad entre el hombre y la mujer, libertad para el amor, negación del infierno y recelo al materialismo. Entonces la Iglesia promueve una Cruzada para exterminarlos. Ramiro es un caballero cristiano que se dedica a la guerra y a las damas de la corte: territorios en los que la conquista le está asegurada. Recibe la misión de trasladar una reliquia a una abadía francesa.

Köln 1396/97: Elsbeth ist naiv und liebreizend, als sie mit sechzehn Jahren beginnt, im Bordell "Zur schönen Frau" zu arbeiten. Bald darauf wird einer ihrer Freier, der Ratsherr van Kneyart, vergiftet aufgefunden, und sie gerät ins Visier der Obrigkeit. Auch ihr Halbbruder wird auf sie aufmerksam und bewahrt sie vor dem Galgen. Die beiden werden Vertraute, und mit der Hilfe von Elsbeth, die für ihn im Dirnenhaus Informationen sammelt, wird er, sehr zum Gefallen seiner Frau, zum mächtigsten Mann Kölns und Elsbeth zur geschickten Drahtzieherin der Unterwelt.

En el París del siglo XV, con sus sombrías callejuelas pobladas por desheredados de la fortuna y espíritus atormentados, la gitana Esmeralda, que predice el porvenir y atrae fatalmente a los hombres, es acusada injustamente de la muerte de su amado y condenada al patíbulo. Agradecido por el apoyo que en otro tiempo recibió de ella, Quasimodo, campanero de Nuestra Señora, de fuerza hercúlea y cuya horrible fealdad esconde un corazón sensible, la salva y le da asilo en la catedral." Nuestra Señora de París" ha dado lugar a numerosos libretos de ópera y a varias versiones cinematográficas.

Breathtakingly suspenseful and beautifully written, The Historian is the story of a young woman plunged into a labyrinth where the secrets of her family's past connect to an inconceivable evil: the dark fifteenth-century reign of Vlad the Impaler and a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive through the ages. The search for the truth becomes an adventure of monumental proportions, taking us from monasteries and dusty libraries to the capitals of Eastern Europe.

International number-one best seller Ken Follett returns with The Evening and the Morning, a thrilling and addictive novel from the master of historical fiction. It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages, and in England one man's ambition to make his abbey a centre of learning will take the listener on an epic journey into a historical past rich with ambition and rivalry, death and birth, love and hate. Thirty years ago, Ken Follett published his most popular novel, The Pillars of the Earth, which has sold more than 27 million copies worldwide.

When young Tyballis discovers her husband has been arrested for murder, she is delighted. As a young orphan coerced to marry her abusive neighbor, she was horribly used. Now is her chance to be rid of him for good and find the confidence she never had. When Tyballis joins forces with the motley network of Andrew’s informers and thieves, they are lured into the dark and dangerous world of medieval London’s political intrigue and back alley slums.

"Sa robe caresse le sol. À cet instant, nous sommes comme les pierres des voûtes, immobiles et sans souffle. Mais ce qui raidit mes frères, ce n'est pas l'indifférence, car ils sont habitués à ne pas être regardés ; ni non plus la solennité de l'entretien - tout ce qui touche à Aliénor est solennel. Non, ce qui nous fige, à cet instant-là, c'est sa voix. Car c'est d'une voix douce, pleine de menaces, que ma mère ordonne d'aller renverser notre père." Aliénor d'Aquitaine racontée par son fils Richard Cœur de Lion.

Segle XIV. La ciutat de Barcelona és en un moment de màxima prosperitat, ha crescut cap a la Ribera, l'humil barri dels pescadors, i els seus habitants decideixen construir, amb els diners d'uns i l'esforç dels altres, el temple marià més gran conegut: Santa Maria de la Mar.

Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the listener in the dailiness of history, rather than history as the given sequence of events that, in time, it comes to seem. Time ebbs and flows and characters come and go in this novel, set in the era of the Black Death, about a Benedictine convent of no great note. The nuns do their chores, seek to maintain and improve the fabric of their house and chapel, and struggle with each other and with themselves.

Born on Christmas Eve, Arthur Pendragon is the illegitimate son of the married duchess Ygraine and Uther Pendragon, brother of a great king: a union Merlin arranged. But Arthur's birth is not welcomed by everyone: his father demands he be hidden until a legitimate son can be born, and Merlin is forced to give the babe to his own childhood nurse for safekeeping and go into hiding....

Año 844, los vikingos atacan las costas de España. Después de haber sometido Irlanda y media Inglaterra, asolar Francia y sojuzgar nada menos que París y Nantes, los normandos desembarcan en la Torre de Hércules, en La Coruña. En esta nueva novela, José Javier Esparza aborda este episodio fascinante de nuestra historia con una prosa tan bella como épica y desde el mayor rigor histórico. Una auténtica recreación de la España altomedieval.

The puny, self-impotent Louis X, having caused his first wife to be murdered and his mistress exiled, becomes besotted with the lovely Clemence, his new Queen. Vacillating between self-pity and vainglory he is caught between the vaulting ambitions of proud, profligate barons….

England, 1123 - 1173. Eine Zeit blutiger Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Krone und Adel, Klerus und Volk. Der junge Prior Philip träumt von einem Zeichen des Friedens, einer gotischen Kathedrale. Doch bis dieser kühne Traum Wirklichkeit geworden ist und in Kingsbridge das großartige Gotteshaus endlich emporragt, müssen der Klosterherr, sein Baumeister Tom und die Grafentochter Aliena sich in einem Kampf auf Leben und Tod gegen ihre Widersacher behaupten.

Prolific sci-fi and fantasy writer Edgar Rice Burroughs's second novel follows a rebel outlaw in 13th century England during the Second Barons' War, making for an adventurous tale akin to Robin Hood that's perfect for anyone that loves an historical action and adventure story.

Noruega, 1662. Una época peligrosa para ser mujer, cuando incluso bailar puede dar lugar a acusaciones de brujería. Zigri, una viuda del pueblo, tiene una aventura con un comerciante, es descubierta y enviada a la fortaleza de Vardø para ser juzgada como bruja. La hija de Zigri, Ingeborg, se adentra en territorios helados y yermos para intentar rescatar a su madre. Maren, hija de una bruja, la acompaña en su travesía. Su naturaleza salvaje y su espíritu invencible le dan a Ingeborg el coraje para arriesgarlo todo.

1353. The Hundred Years' War erupts again, and the band of brothers known as the Essex Dogs are thrown into the fray once more. The Black Death rages as the characters' fates are decided in this thrilling, merciless, blood-soaked finale.

For the Dogs, the war has only just begun. Caught up in the siege of Calais, in the midst of a brutal eleven-month blockade of a small port on the French coast, they are no longer blindly walking into the unknown. But the men still have more questions than answers about what faces them–and why. What are they really fighting for? And why does the king care so much about taking such a small French town? The Dogs aren't paid to ask questions but in their work, they have the means to make people talk.

It is AD 976. Olaf Tryggvason, the renegade prince of Norway, has lost his beloved wife to a tragedy that turns the lords of the land he rules against him. With his family gone and his future uncertain, Olaf leaves his realm and embarks on a decades-long quest to discover his course in life. Though his journey brings him power and wealth, it is not until he encounters the strange man in the streets of Dublin that his path to fame unfolds. And in that moment, he is forced to make a choice as the gods look on—one that could either destroy him or ensure his name lives on forever.

Eine junge Diebin, ein lange verschwundener, sagenumwobener Schatz - und eine gefährliche Mission im Auftrag von Jakob Fugger. Augsburg 1502. Als sie den Inhalt des Beutels betrachtet, den sie einem Herrn abgeschnitten hat, ist die junge Diebin Afra enttäuscht. Statt Münzen beinhaltet er Zeichnungen von edlem Schmuck. Wenig später findet sie heraus: Die Preziosen gehören zum sagenumwobenen Burgunderschatz, der sich in Bern befinden soll. Geschäftstüchtig, wie sie ist, versucht sie, ihr Wissen an eine der reichen Augsburger Familien zu verkaufen.