Angleterre, 1527. Dynastie des Tudors. Thomas Cromwell est le secrétaire du cardinal Wolsey, le conseiller favori d'Henri VIII. Mais les rois sont inconstants. La couronne réclame un héritier et la reine Catherine a une rivale : la belle Anne Boleyn qui attise la passion du souverain... Ce dernier v...
1535. À l'ombre des Tudors, grandir demande une prudence de tous les instants. Nommé secrétaire d'Henri VIII en reconnaissance de ses manoeuvres, Thomas Cromwell touche enfin le pouvoir du doigt. Après le scandaleux divorce royal et le schisme qui en a découlé, l'Angleterre vit pourtant des heures t...
Trois hommes et un destin... En cette fin de XVIIIe siècle, la France est en ébullition. Trois acteurs sont sur le point d'entrer en scène. Jacques Danton rêve de gloire et de fortune, mais il est criblé de dettes. Malgré une disgrâce physique, il dégage un puissant magnétisme érotique. Maximilien d...
1791. La Révolution a fait voler en éclats la société française. Tout a changé : le régime, les lois, le système éducatif... Mais la situation politique du pays reste profondément instable et le climat est délétère. Après avoir oeuvré pour la Révolution, Danton et Desmoulins voient Robespierre bascu...
Shortlisted for the Women''s Prize for Fiction 2020 Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 The long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies , the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel''s Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy. ''A masterpiece'' Guardian ''It is a book no...
Historical fictionThe first PB publication of the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009, with Mantel's backlist reissued to accompany it. In England, the 1520s, Henry VIII is on the throne but has no heir; Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor; Thomas Cromwell, Wolsey's clerk. Cromwell is a briber and ...
Shortlisted for the Women''s Prize for Fiction 2020 Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 The long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies , the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel''s Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy. ''A masterpiece'' Guardian ''It is a book no...
A gripping and celebrated epic from Hilary Mantel, the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Beyond Black', this is the story of three young men who find themselves in Paris at the dawn of the French Revolution. ...
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Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Hilarious and sinister, 'Beyond Black' is a tale of dark secrets and secret forces in suburban England. ...
Dix ans après son départ cataclysmique vers une institution psychiatrique où elle a été internée, Muriel Axon est de retour dans sa petite ville des environs de Londres. Elle veut récupérer son ancienne maison qu'elle considère comme un dû. Mais par-dessus tout, elle veut se venger de ceux qui ont f...
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A gripping and celebrated epic from Hilary Mantel, the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Beyond Black', this is the story of three young men who find themselves in Paris at the dawn of the French Revolution. ...
Following on from 'A Change in Climate', this brilliant novel follows two girls as they leave behind their pasts and set off to the new preoccupations of 1970s London.It is London, 1970. Carmel McBain, in her first term at university, has cut free of her childhood roots in the north. Among the gossi...
One of Hilary Mantel's classic novels, this is a dark fable of lost faith, mysterious omens and awakening love set among the priests and nuns of a surreal English town deep in the northern moors.Fetherhoughton is a drab, dreary town somewhere in a magical, half-real 1950s north England, a preserve o...
Hilary Mantel's superb story of suburban mayhem and revenge is sharp, merciless and unerringly hilarious. ...
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009'Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,' says Thomas More, 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks' tongues, and all the gaolers will owe him money.'England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no hei...
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012, the 2012 Costa Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction. (Note that this ebook contains family trees, which are best viewed on a tablet.) ...
The Giant, O'Brien is based on the true story of the 18th Century Irish giant, Charles O'Brien, who was exhibited in London and eventually dissected by the surgeon Charles Hunter. O'Brien's bones hang to this day in the Hunterian Museum in Lincoln's Inn Field, despite O'Brien's best endeavours to av...
From the violent townships of South Africa to the windswept countryside of Norfolk, this is an epic yet subtle family saga about what happens when trust is broken, when secrets are buried and when lives must be torn apart before they can be put back together again.Ralph and Anna Eldred live in the b...