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First came Plague, now comes Fire. The epic tale of the hunt for a serial killer threatening London's rich and poor during the Great Fire of London. A gang of fanatics - the Saints - choose to hasten that prophesied day. Two men - the highwayman William Coke and the thief-taker Pitman - are recruited to stop them.

The epic tale of the hunt for a serial killer threatening London's rich and poor during the Great Fire of London. Follows "Plague". For fans of S.J. Parris and C.J. Sansom.

Dracula. A name of horror, depravity and the darkest sensuality. Yet the real Dracula was just as alluring, just as terrifying, his tale not one of a monster but of a man . . . and a contradiction. His tale is told by those who knew him best.

Dracula's tale is told by those who knew him best. His priest, betraying the secrets to reveal the mind of the man history would forever remember as 'The Impaler'. His extraordinary life burns with passion, taking him from his years as hostage through torture, battle, triumph and betrayal, ultimately to a last crusade, to find redemption for his innumerable sins.

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To be (or not to be) the man to save EnglandEngland's finest swordsman and fight choreographer at the magnificent new Globe Theatre has hit rock bottom. John Lawley just wants to win back his beloved, become a decent father to his son, and help his friend William Shakespeare finish The Tragedy of Hamlet, the play that threatens to destroy him.But all is not fair in love and war. Dogged by his three devils--whiskey, women, and Mad Robbie Devera...

Excerpt from The Anglican Church in the Nineteenth Century: Indicating Her Relative Position to Dissent in Every Form IN investigating the position of a peculiar church, its present difficulties and their obvious consequences most emphatically invite attention, whence it has appeared that, objects in the foreground of the picture have been the immediate subjects of alteration, or chie¿y affected by the progress of time and differences of opin...

1941, la Seconda Guerra Mondiale imperversa in Europa, e l'Inghilterra è il bersaglio dei micidiali bombardamenti degli Stuka tedeschi. Gwen Davis decide di lasciare Londra e il suo lavoro alla Royal Horticultural Society per entrare a far parte del Land Army, un corpo paramilitare incaricato di coltivare la terra per meglio sostenere lo sforzo bellico. Dirigerà una squadra di sette Land Girl, agricoltrici volontarie, in una tenuta della campa...

1830. In una Parigi putrida e vitale, attraversata da slanci rivoluzionari, dove si persegue la bellezza e nello stesso tempo si muore di colera, vive Charles Sainte-Beuve. Poeta e critico letterario, Sainte-Beuve nasconde un segreto, un'anomalia fisica che dovrebbe negargli perfino la possibilità dell'amore. A questa realtà dolorosa ha imparato a rassegnarsi, confortato anche dalla passione per la scrittura. Quando, però, incontra Adele, mogl...

È la notte del 14 novembre 1940. Harriet Marsh, una donna sola e disincantata, vedova di guerra, si trova per una serie di sfortunate coincidenze sul tetto della antica cattedrale inglese di Coventry con la divisa di guardia antincendi del suo vicino di casa. Osserva ammirata la bellezza dei tetti, visibili grazie alla luna piena. Una luna, però, perfetta per i bombardieri tedeschi della Luftwaffe che stanno per attraversare la Manica e avvici...

General Israel Putnam is remembered in history and legend as exclaiming to the American soldiers at the Battle of Bunker Hill, "Don't fire 'til you see the whites of their eyes!" As Dowling notes, "All the episodes are retold -- Bunker Hill, the Battle of White Plains, the crossing of the Delaware, the Battle of Princeton -- but from the perspective of one who was there throughout, and who always permits us to see Putnam as the sort of charact...

General Israel Putnam is remembered in history and legend as exclaiming to the American soldiers at the Battle of Bunker Hill, "Don't fire 'til you see the whites of their eyes!" As Dowling notes, "All the episodes are retold -- Bunker Hill, the Battle of White Plains, the crossing of the Delaware, the Battle of Princeton -- but from the perspective of one who was there throughout, and who always permits us to see Putnam as the sort of charact...