Fire in the Steppe
In 1668, Poland is still reeling from the succession of epic battles fought to drive out the Swedish invaders. The war has left the country exhausted, but its problems are far from over: the Ottoman Empire...
Literature - Historical Novel
Junia. The Fictional Life and Death of an Early Christian
A novel that describes the joys, sorrows, splendors and risks of the Christians of the early church. Junia, daughter of a Roman senator, had money, power, all human comforts and a future ahead of her. But...
The Name on the Wall
Starting from a chance discovery—the name of André Chaix on a wall of a house being renovated in the French region of Drôme—the author, who won the Goncourt Prize in 2020 for his novel The Anomaly, decides...
How Rome Fell
Around the year 200 AD, the Roman Empire was an invincible superpower. But by the end of the 5th century, Rome had been subjugated by successive barbarian invasions and the last emperor was deposed. The...
The Mauritius Command
Book in the series featuring Aubrey and his friend Maturin, a physician. Europe in 1810 is in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars. Aubrey is ashore with his wife and daughters, but he hopes to be called back...
Trafalgar. A Tale
Trafalgar (1805) was a decisive naval battle that marked the collapse of Spain’s maritime power. It is the first novel in the Episodios Nacionales. In it, the author does not tell history as a simple war...
Peace in War
The appearance of this work is that of a major war novel, in the style of War and Peace. But individual episodes are lacking, as they give way to collective events. It is, indeed, a novel of collectivity,...
The quiet american
Greene was one of the most widely read writers in the 1950s and 1960s, and many of his works were adapted into films. He has been considered a Catholic writer, although his characters and his beliefs leave...
The wartime book club
This heartwarming story takes place on the British island of Jersey, occupied by Nazi troops during the Second World War. It alternates between the first-person experiences of the librarian Grace and her...
The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna
Narrated by the mother of the last tsar, the book revives the story of Maria Feodorovna, one of the most influential women of Imperial Russia, well known in her time but “overshadowed” by the tragic death...