Книги пользователя perepelkin, жанр Исторические романы

It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. Queenie Bligh's neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but Queenie doesn't know when her husband will return, or if he...

In medieval Cambridge, England, four children have been murdered. The crimes are immediately blamed on the town's Jewish community, taken as evidence that Jews sacrifice Christian children in blasphem...

1172, Britain - king's lover is dead, and the bishop of St Albans summons an Italian female physician-cum-detective to find out the truth...

Adelia Aguilar is a unique person - she is Doctor to the Dead, in XI century. She has to accompany 10-year-old Princess Joanna on her thousand-mile journey to marry the King of Sicily. But when member...

Last 12 years of Genghis Khan's struggle for control of vast Asian territory, from Pacific to Kiev. Compelling and historically as accurate as artfully written.

Австралия-1923 - волшебный и манящий континент, талантливые описания природы (это самое крутое) и политические бури того времени и места. Досталось и безжалостной военной машине имперской Британии.

In 1954 a fisherman is found dead in the nets of his boat, and a local Japanese-American man is charged with his murder. In the course of his trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than...

"The Radetzky March" charts the history of the Trotta family through three generations spanning the rise and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Through the Battle of Solferino to the entom...

"Autobiography" of a notorious Australian gang leader, written as a letter to his daughter. Late XIX century. Impressive.

Two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey imagines the experiences of Alexis de Tocqueville, the great French political philosopher and author of Democracy in America. Not in the least interesting, how...

An extraordinary work of fact-based fiction. Set during the 1830s in a hellish island prison colony off the Tasmanian coast, the novel plucks a real-life thief and prisoner, English forger William Bue...

He who calls himself a Civilized Man, an Englishman - is he able to discipline his heart so as to distinguish oneself from a savage? That is the question - for Charles Dickens and for the wife of a go...

In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under hi...

A welcome return to a writer whose last book, the much loved and admired Girl With a Pearl Earring has been such an outstanding success. 1901, the year of the Queen's death. The two graves stood next ...

Game of Thrones meets Ancient Egypt in this magnificent, action-packed epic. On the gleaming banks of the Nile, the brilliant Taita - slave and advisor to the Pharaoh - finds himself at the center of ...