Harpercollins The Royal Succession Druon Maurice

No man is impervious to the poisons of the crown… • Having murdered his wife and exiled his mistress, King Louis X of France becomes besotted with Princess Clemence of Hungary and makes her his new Queen • However, though the matter of the succession should be assured, it is far from so, as Louis embarks on an ill-fated war against Flanders • Where his father, Philip IV, was strong, Louis is weak, and the ambitions of his proud, profligate barons threaten his power and the future of a kingdom once ruled by an Iron King

Железный король – Филипп Красивый – холоден и молчалив, красив и немигающий, как статуя. Он управляет своим королевством железной рукой, но не может править собственной семьей: его сыновья слабы, а их жены прелюбодействуют; в то время как его чистокровная дочь Изабелла несчастливо замужем за английским королем, который предпочитает общество мужчин • Паутина скандалов, убийств и интриг сплетается вокруг Железного короля, но его падение произойдет с неожиданной стороны. Одержимый преследованием богатых и могущественных рыцарей-тамплиеров, Филипп приговаривает великого магистра Жака Моле к сожжению на костре, тем самым навлекая на себя проклятие, которое уничтожит всю его династию… • Книга на английском языке • “Accursed! Accursed! You shall be accursed to the thirteenth generation!” • The Iron King – Philip the Fair – is as cold and silent, as handsome and unblinking as a statue

"Королевская тайна" - роман Эндрю Тейлора • Две молодые девушки замышляют убийство с помощью колдовства. Вскоре после этого правительственный чиновник мучительно умирает при загадочных обстоятельствах. Его коллегу Джеймса Марвуда просят провести расследование, но это задание сопряжено с неожиданными опасностями • Тем временем архитектор Кэт Хэйксби работает на торговца, который живет на Слотер-стрит, где в воздухе пахнет кровью, а по конюшням бродит пленный берберский лев. Затем поступает новая престижная комиссия. Кот должен спроектировать птичник для женщины, которую король любит больше всего на свете • Никто не знает, что в основе этого лежит королевская тайна, настолько взрывоопасная, что она могла бы не только разорвать Англию на части, но и изменить весь облик Европы… • Книга на английском языке

The royal house of France has fallen. Charles IV is dead, fulfilling the curse of the Templars once and for all. This leaves the path to the throne open for Robert of Artois to place his cousin, Philippe of Valois, upon it. Having committed fraud, perjury and murder in the name of the new king, Robert expects to receive a title and his full reward • But the days of betrayal are far from over and Robert is banished to England. In the land of France’s enemies vengeance sparks fresh conflict as King Edward III and his new ally prepare for war. As swords are sharpened the lion wakes and a pretender threatens France once more …

The bestselling author of The Madonnas of Leningrad returns with a breathtaking novel of love, madness, and devotion set against the extravagant royal court of eighteenth-century St. Petersburg • Born to a Russian family of lower nobility, Xenia, an eccentric dreamer who cares little for social conventions, falls in love with Andrei, a charismatic soldier and singer in the Empress's Imperial choir. Though husband and wife adore each other, their happiness is overshadowed by the absurd demands of life at the royal court and by Xenia's growing obsession with having a child - a desperate need that is at last fulfilled with the birth of her daughter. But then a tragic vision comes true, and a shattered Xenia descends into grief, undergoing a profound transformation that alters the course of her life

Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, Richard Holmes’s dazzling portrait of the age of great scientific discovery is a groundbreaking achievement • The book opens with Joseph Banks, botanist on Captain Cook’s first Endeavour voyage, who stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769 fully expecting to have located Paradise. Back in Britain, the same Romantic revolution that had inspired Banks was spurring other great thinkers on to their own voyages of artistic and scientific discovery – astronomical, chemical, poetical, philosophical – that together made up the ‘age of wonder’ • In this breathtaking group biography, Richard Holmes tells the stories of the period’s celebrated innovators and their great scientific discoveries: from telescopic sight to the miner’s lamp, and from the first balloon flight to African exploration

The reign of the Capetian kings has ended and John II, ‘The Good’, takes the throne • Under the leadership of this vain, cruel, incompetent monarch The Hundred Years War escalates and England and France begin to tear each other apart. Warring factions plunder the land, famine threatens the people and the Black Death spreads far and wide. France is bleeding to death around the new king…

"The King’s Evil" - следующая книга Эндрю Тейлора из феноменально успешной серии "Marwood and Lovett" • Королевский скандал… • При дворе Карла II жить опасно – неверный шаг может привести к позору, изгнанию или смерти. Таким образом, обнаружение тела в доме одного из самых высокопоставленных придворных в стране может иметь катастрофические последствия • Шокирующее убийство… • Джеймсу Марвуду, сыну предателя, приказано скрыть убийство. Но Марвуду известен убитый мужчина, как и наиболее вероятный преступник, Кэт Ловетт • Ставки еще никогда не были так высоки… • Марвуд уверен, что Кэт невиновна, поэтому решает найти истинного убийцу. Но время на исходе. Если он допустит ошибку, это может угрожать самому королю… • Книга на английском языке • A royal scandal… • In the Court of Charles II, it’s a dangerous time to be alive – a wrong move may lead to disgrace, exile or death

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The movements of his mind seemed to tend to the thought that some power was working against him.' When Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser gets drunk and sells his wife at a country fair, his life will never be the same. Eighteen years later, his wife and daughter return to Casterbridge to find that Henchard has become Mayor. Although he's spent most of his life attempting to repent for his actions, he remains a rash and impetuous man. Hardy portrays Henchard as a tragic hero, searching for love and acceptance from the community around him, posing the overarching question of whether we shape our own fate, or whether life deals us an inevitable hand

The first novel by one of the legends of the Harlem Renaissance, a classic in the annals of Black fiction • When Black lawyer Fred Merrit purchases a house in the most exclusive white neighbourhood bordering Harlem, he has to hire the toughest removal firm in the area to help him get his belongings past the hostile neighbours. The removal men are Jinx Jenkins and Bubber Brown, who make the move anything but straightforward • This hilarious satire of jazz-age Harlem derides the walls people build around themselves—colour and class being chief among them. In their reactions to Merrit and to one another, the characters provide an invaluable view of the social and philosophical scene of the times • First published in 1928, The Walls of Jericho is the first novel by Rudolph Fisher, author of The Conjure-Man Dies, whom Langston Hughes called ‘the wittiest of the Harlem Renaissance writers, whose tongue was flavoured with the sharpest and saltiest humour’

The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family’s fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany to Latvia and to Britain • In November 1941, Peter Bradley's grandparents, Sally and Bertha Brandes, were deported from their home in Bamberg to their deaths in Latvia • The Last Train is a profound and moving homage to Peter’s lost family and to his father who rarely spoke of the traumas through which he lived • It is also his attempt to understand, through the prism of his family’s story, how the Nazis came to conceive and implement the Final Solution • Why did Sally and Bertha’s fellow citizens put them on the train that carried them to the killing fields? • Why did the democracies which so loudly condemned Hitler’s persecution of the Jews deny them sanctuary? • And why, when Peter's father finally reached Britain after five terrible months in a Nazi concentration camp, was he arrested as an 'enemy alien'? • The quest for answers led Peter to explore the origins and evolution of an ancient hatred and the struggles against it of each generation of his family, from the Reformation, through the Enlightenment and the Age of Reform, to the catastrophe of the Holocaust

The third volume in the acclaimed Emperor series, in which Conn Iggulden brilliantly interweaves history and adventure to recreate the astonishing life of Julius Caesar - an epic tale of ambition and rivalry, bravery and betrayal • The Gates of Rome, The Death of Kings and now The Field of Swords tell the powerful, dramatic story of the friendship and enmity between the two men who ruled the Roman world • Following the defeat of the Spartacus rebellion, Julius Caesar and Marcus Brutus, who have been sent to run the Roman colonies in Spain, return to challenge powerful senators to become one of the Consuls of Rome. Political opposition, family quarrels, armed rebellions and corruption make this a highly contemporary scene, fuelled by the intrigue of the major characters, who are now developing as full adults