Historical Fiction
Juan José Millás
Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal
Prehistory is all around us. We just need to know where to look.
Juan José Millás has always felt like he doesn’t quite fit into human society. Sometimes he wonders if he is even a Homo sapiens at all, or s
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Jerry Toner
A Grand Tour of the Roman Empire
"Toner again spins a tale that is enjoyable and informative." The Times
Tour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and his amanuensis, Dr Jerry Toner. Travelling east, Falx explores the great cultural centre of Athens before tre
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Mike Downey
Istria Gold
From award-winning filmmaker and producer Mike Downey comes an ambitious and atmospheric historical thriller debut, the first in a trilogy starring Marco Mihailić.
Set on Croatia’s Istrian peninsula, Istria Gold explores the turbulent r
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Carmen Posadas
The Legend of La Peregrina
The Legend of La Peregrina tells the true story of the most valuable pearl in the world, which started as a gift for Philip II and ended up in Elizabeth Taylor's jewelry box. This novel has been named the great literary success of Chri
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Paul Strathern
Rise and Fall
From the Akkadian Empire to modern-day America, Rise and Fall charts the history of the world through its ten greatest empires. Through these we examine humanity's will to power in forms both infamous and poorly understo
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Angel Wagenstein
A Dream of St. Boris I (Illustrated Edition)
Angel Wagenstein: Bulgarian screenwriter, director, writer, democrat, anti-fascist, intellectual and active public figure. A creator full of incredible energy, Wagenstein has created the scripts for 52 feature films, documentaries and animations pro
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Michael Gruenbaum
Somewhere There Is Still a Sun
Resilience shines throughout Michael Gruenbaum’s “riveting memoir” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) about his time in the Terezin concentration camp during the Holocaust, in this National Jewish Book award
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Edward Wilson-Lee
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
“Like a Renaissance wonder cabinet, full of surprises and opening up into a lost world.” — Stephen Greenblatt
“A captivating adventure…For lovers of history, Wilson-Lee offers a thrill on almost every pag
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Rosella Postorino
The Women at Hitler’s Table
"A disturbing, powerful and beautifully written novel based on shockingly real events." Christy Lefteri, author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo
International bestseller, inspired by the powerful true story of Margot Wölk, this is a heartbreaking a
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Francesco Fioretti
Dante's Secret Manuscript
700 years ago, on September 13, 1321, under very dubious circumstances, Dante Alighieri died as an exile in Ravenna, whose great "Divine Comedy" marked the beginning of the end of the dark Middle Ages in Italy church dogmas and opens the
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Jack Fairweather
The Volunteer
COSTA BOOK AWARD WINNER: BOOK OF THE YEAR • #1 SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER
“Superbly written and breathtakingly researched, The Volunteer smuggles us into Auschwitz and shows us - as if watching a movie —the story
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Petko Mangachev
Angel Kuyumdzhiyski. Life between Precipices and Peaks
It is really strange why in our recent Bulgarian history - in the period between the two world wars - the name of Angel Kuyumdzhiyski seems to have disappeared. Has such a person never existed? Who is the man called by his friends "Kuyum"?
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Francesco Fioretti
Raffaello
1520-2020 FIVE HUNDRED YEARS SINCE RAFFAELLO’S DEATH
Francesco Fioretti offers a unique portrait of Raffaello. Not only as sophisticated and acclaimed master, but also as the victim of the same power, which made him one of the greatest f
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Robert Harris
An Officer And A Spy
Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair told as a chillingly dark, hard-edged novel of conspiracy and espionage.
Paris in 1895. Alfred Drey
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Comte Robert de Bourboulon
Bulgarian Diaries
“Bulgarian Diaries” is a recently identified documental story of one particular period of the Bulgarian history – from 1887 to 1928. The author, the French Count Robert de Bourboulon, employed by Ferdinant as his private secretary
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Francesco Fioretti
Leonardo's Secret Library
The end of the 15th and the dawn of the 16th century ... Italy was torn by wars with the French kings, by internal struggles and rivalry between noble families for power and patronage. Savonarola was excommunicated fr
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Haris Vlavianos
Hitler's Secret Diary
How did an insignificant man of humble origins, miseducated and banal, with petty ideological obsessions manage to seduce the German people, interpellate them with his thoughtless rhetoric and lead a country and almost the entire world to a pa
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Jean Pierre Vernant
The Universe, the Gods, and Men. Ancient Greek Myths
In this enchanting retelling of Greek myth, Jean-Pierre Vernant combines his deep knowledge of the subject with an original storytelling style.
Beginning with the creation of Earth out of Chaos, Vernant continues with the castration of
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Cédric Villani
Moon Dreamers
Four geniuses that changed the history:
Werner Heisenberg, the unsure of himself.
Alan Turing, the unrestrained.
Leo Szilard, the traveling prophet.
Hugh Dowding, the heavenly knight.
Physicists, a mathematician and a military m
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Elizabeth Kostova
The Shadow Land
From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes an engrossing novel that spans the past and the present and unearths the dark secrets of Bulgaria, a beautiful and haunted country.
A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to S
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Sandra Gulland
The Shadow Queen
From the author of the beloved Josephine B. Trilogy, comes a spellbinding novel inspired by the true story of a young woman who rises from poverty to become confidante to the most powerful, provocative and dangerous woman in the 17th century French
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Nedim Gürsel
The Conqueror
The author of over thirty books, including novels, essays, short stories, literary criticism, and travel writing, Nedim Gursel received Turkey's highest literature prize, the Prize of the Turkish Language Academy, in 1976 for his volume of stories
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Vicenç Villatoro
Return of the Bassats
"The Return of Bassat" is not a novel in the artistic sense. This book is rather a chronicle of the origins and migrations of a Sephardic family, since the historical expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492 until today. In the story about
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Alberto Angela
The Three Days of Pompeii
“The Three Days of Pompeii” narrates the biggest tragedy of antiquity by following the last hours of some of Pompeii’s inhabitants who really existed. Alberto Angela, the Italian paleontologist, science promoter and documentary
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Shusaku Endō
Silence
Father Rodrigues is an idealistic Portuguese Jesuit priest who, in the 1640s, sets sail for Japan on a determined mission to help the brutally oppressed Japanese Christians and to discover the truth behind unthinkable rumours that his famous teache
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Claire Tomalin
The Invisible Woman
When Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan met in 1857, she was 18: a professional actress performing in his production of The Frozen Deep. He was 45: a literary legend, a national treasure, married with ten children. This meeting sparked a lo
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Philip Le Roy
The Messiah's Gate
Compared with "Da Vinci Code" by its response, "The Messiah's Gate" is a richly documented detective story with an unusual storyline, devoted to the genesis of the sacred book of Muslims.
The thirty-year-old theologian Simon Lange, secluded hi
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Alberto Angela
Love and Sex in Ancient Rome
How did ancient Romans dressed themselves? How did they kiss? Did they arrive with red roses when meeting someone for the first time? What happened in the wedding night? What tricks did women use in order to seduce men? And how did they cheat?
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Angel Wagenstein
A Dream About St. Boris I
Boris I is one of the most iconic and dramatic figures in Bulgarian antiquity. The great pagan khan, and later Christian prince Boris-Mihail, is the ruler who imposes Orthodoxy and the Slavic writing, sometimes with unspeakable violence,
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Alberto Angela
The Reach of Rome: A Journey Through the Lands of the Ancient Empire, Following a Coin
In this unconventional and accessible history, Italian best-seller Alberto Angela literally follows the money to map the reach and power of the Roman Empire. To see a map of the Roman Empire at the height of its territorial expansion is to be struck
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John Allyn
47 Ronin Story
"47 Ronin Story" is the unforgettable tale of a band of samurai who defied the Emperor to avenge the disgrace and death of their master, and faced certain death as a result. This set off a chain of events that led to one of the bloodiest episodes i
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Jon Halliday
Mao: The Unknown Story
The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader ever written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao’s close circle in China who have never talked before — and with
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Vicente Botin
Castro's Funeral
From January 2005 to October 2008 Vicente Botin worked in Cuba – a difficult job given the strict control that the State Security exerts over foreign journalists. No one on the island is allowed to tell the truth about what really go
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Pierre Voillery
Alexander Exarh. A Bulgarian Destiny
This book is a result of patient research I started in the seventies, while I was preparing my PhD dissertation at the Higher Institute of Social Studies and the subject was the Bulgarian Revival and the West. It was my first encounter with Alex
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Alberto Angela
A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome
Many books, documentaries and movies claim to chronicle daily life in Ancient Rome, but it's rare to find a narrative so encrusted in detail as this lively offering from an Italian author and television host. Adopting a first person plural voice, A
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Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager
Valkyrie: An Insider's Account of the Plot to Kill Hitler
In this memoir, Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager says he didn't know about Nazi misdeeds as a young soldier-recruit in Germany during the 1930s. Yes, the Catholic Church, to which the aristocratic Boeselagers belonged, had denounced Nazism, but
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Collective
Egypt
This book is a kaleidoscope of information about Ancient Egypt. Every aspect of life is examined in it, including furniture, food, language and writing, religion, architecture and art, political administration. Before our eyes is unfold a v
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Marcel Giraud-Mangin
A Secretary of a Legation
“A Secretary of a Legation” is a memoir written by a diplomat at the beginning of XX century. This book is a mixture of reality and imagination. In the story has been intertwined actual events and an invented love intrigue.
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Collective (CIA)
Mapping the Global Future: Report of the National Intelligence Council's 2020 Project
As Niels Bohr noted, prediction is difficult, especially about the future. That said, anyone seriously interested in what the world might look like 15 years down the road should mull this impressive report from the National Intelligence C
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Pierre Haski
The Diary of Ma Yan
The daughter of poor peasants from an extremely remote village in the northwestern region of Ningxia – thirteen-year-old Ma Yan, just understood that her parents have no money for her education. In her despair Ma Yan wrote a letter to he
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