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The eagle
In de tweede eeuw wordt de Romeinse legerofficier Marcus Aquila uitgezonden naar Brittannië om de mysterieuze verdwijning van zijn vader, commandant, en zijn leger van 5000 man, te onderzoeken
Fictie | Historische roman | Thriller
Film
Charles Palliser Rustication
a novel
Nadat een 17-jarige student in 1863 wegens wangedrag van de universiteit van Cambridge is verwijderd, gaat hij bij zijn moeder en zus wonen in een dorp aan de Engelse zuidkust waar de bewoners schunnige dreigbrieven ontvangen en waar dieren op beestachtige wijze worden afgeslacht.
Fictie | Historische roman | Thriller
Engels | 327 pagina's | W.W. Norton & Company, New York | 2014
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C E Rose The Shadows of Rutherford
'Layers of secrets are gradually peeled back in this brilliantly absorbing tale.' Marion Todd, author of Old Bones Lie Darkness lies at the heart of this family... In 1959 Milly starts her new life as a housemaid at Rutherford House, working for the aristocratic Rutherford-Percy clan. Entranced by her new mistress, Vivienne, she becomes deeply embroiled in the household and the keeper of dark secrets the family conceals beneath the mansion’s grand exterior. In the present day, Christie is working...
Engels | 9 uur 31 minuten (438 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Alex Gough Emperor's Fate
Massacres, invasions, plots. An Emperor on the edge. An Empire in peril. Caracalla is on the warpath. Time, he has decided, to put his enemies in their place. To invade the Parthians at the edge of the Empire. To destroy everything in his way. For Imperial Assassin Silus, this is a time of crisis. Forced to guard the Emperor as part of his elite bodyguard, Silus knows that the situation is untenable. As everything threatens to crumble, Silus must make the ultimate choice... and face the ultimate...
Engels | 10 uur 57 minuten (484 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Henry James B.J. Harrison Reads The Turn of the Screw
A governess is hired by a bachelor to take care of his nephew and niece. She has barely arrives at the house that she starts seeing ghosts and having other supernatural visions. She decides to share her frightening experience with the maid of the house, Mrs. Grose. The maid, however, is not surprised and tells the governess that the ghosts are those of Peter Quint and Miss Jessel. What are the ghosts doing in the house? Were Peter Quint and Miss Jessel murdered? Are they seek revenge? Will the governess...
Engels | 4 uur 36 minuten (203 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Centurion
In het noorden van Brittannia, 117 n. Chr., strijden Centurion Quintus Dias en een aantal soldaten van het Negende Legioen tegen de Picten
Fictie | Historische roman | Thriller
Film
Alex Gough Emperor's Lion
A single death could plunge the Empire into chaos... Silus, a member of Emperor Caracalla's elite assassins, the Arcani, is dispatched to Numidia. Rumours of assassination plots against Marcellus, the Emperor's closest aide, are rife. Silus must stop them. But the forces arrayed against the Arcani are now as powerful as they are clandestine. Inducted into the Emperor’s bodyguard, his Lions, Silus soon discovers secrets that should have stayed hidden. And as the Emperor becomes ever more reckless...
Engels | 10 uur 44 minuten (474 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
Luisterboek (digitaal)
The last legion
De jonge keizer Romulus wordt bedreigd door barbaren. Een groepje getrouwen, aangevoerd door de legioensoldaat Aurelius, besluit de keizer te redden om hem vervolgens naar Brittannië te vervoeren
Fictie | Historische roman | Thriller
Film
Spartacus
Spartacus en de opstandige slaven maken zich op voor een laatste grote veldslag met het Romeinse leger onder leiding van Marcus Crassus.
Fictie | Historische roman | Thriller
Film
Jeffrey Archer Sons of Fortune
Separated at birth by a desperate nurse who loses a millionaire’s son to cot death, twin boys grow up without any knowledge of the other. Nat Cartwright lives with his middle-class birth parents and grows up to becomes a war hero in the Vietnam War before returning home to run for office in the Republican party. Fletcher Davenport becomes the only son of the millionaire couple. After graduating from Yale, he builds a reputation as a prolific criminal defence lawyer before he too delves into politics...
Engels | 16 uur 10 minuten (705 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Arthur B. Reeve The Poisoned Pen
"The Poisoned Pen" is a collection of twelve of Professor Kennedy's adventures. In these, Reeve uses the newest technologies of the early 1900s, which were nothing short of revolutionary for the time. The title story for example features the use of special inks, some appearing and others disappearing in sunlight, making the pursuit of a murderer incredibly difficult for the professor. Each story offers a fascinating look at life in the early 20th century, as well as being loaded with adventure, action,...
Engels | 10 uur 13 minuten (449 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Arthur B. Reeve The Silent Bullet
"The Silent Bullet" contains twelve of Professor Kennedy's adventures. Reeve uses the newest technologies of the early 1900s, which were nothing short of revolutionary for the time. In the title story, for example, everyone is wondering how somebody could have been killed by a bullet without anyone having heard the detonation. In "The Deadly Tube" an evil doctors hurts his patients using x-rays. "The Terror in the Air" follows the development of the gyroscope for aeroplanes. Each story offers a...
Engels | 8 uur 52 minuten (507 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Elizabeth Fremantle The poison bed
De schrijver en dichter Thomas Overbury vindt in 1613 de dood door vergiftiging, De daders, Robert Carr en Frances Howard, leden van de Engelse adel worden veroordeeld maar nooit gestraft.
Fictie | Historische roman | Thriller
Engels | 405 pagina's | Penguin Books, London | 2019
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Laura Purcell The corset
Een arme, van moord beschuldigde naaister die denkt dat haar naaiwerk kan doden, vertelt haar relaas aan een rijke, onconventionele erfgename die gefascineerd is door frenologie.
Fictie | Historische roman | Thriller
Engels | 394 pagina's | Raven Books, London | 2018
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Alex Gough Emperor's Axe
The fate of Rome, and thousands of lives, rests on the shoulders of one man. After murdering his brother, and taking the position of Emperor for himself, Caracalla orders a brutal purge of the supporters of Geta. Meanwhile, Caracalla’s ally Marcellus is captured by Syrian warriors. They wish to use his son, Avitus, as a puppet emperor to affirm a new Eastern Empire. Caracalla orders Silus to track down and rescue Avitus, rumoured to be Caracalla’s child. As Rome buckles beneath the weight of...
Engels | 11 uur 50 minuten (524 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Alex Gough Emperor's Spear
An intense novel of war at the Roman frontier. On the Empire's Northern border trouble is stirring. For decades the barbarians have been at the gates. Now, facing threats from within as well as outside, the Emperor is provoking war. When his friend Atius goes missing in Germania, Imperial Assassin Silus is sent into the heart of the battle-torn region. Plunged into a deadly intrigue and a brutal conflict, can Silus find out who is betraying Rome? Or will the legions start falling, one by bloody...
Engels | 10 uur 21 minuten (456 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Alex Gough Emperor's Sword
A desolate wasteland. A mission gone wrong. An impossible goal. Roman scout, Silus, is deep behind enemy lines in Caledonia. As he spies on a raiding party, he is abruptly discovered by an enemy chief and his son. Mounting a one-man ambush, everything quickly goes wrong and Silus must run for his life, the head of the enemy leader in his hands. Little does he know the price he will pay... As Silus is inducted into the Arcani, an elite faction of assassins and spies, he must return to Caledonia...
Engels | 12 uur 58 minuten (571 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Spartacus
Een gevangen genomen Griekse soldaat wordt vanwege zijn opvallende vechtkracht gekocht door de eigenaar van een gladiatorenschool, die hem 'Spartacus' noemt.
Fictie | Historische roman | Thriller
Film
Camelot
de complete serie
Wanneer koning Uther overlijdt, haalt Merlijn diens onwettige zoon Arthur naar het paleis. Arthur's halfzuster Morgan vindt echter dat zíj de wettige troonopvolger is.
Fictie | Historische roman | Thriller
Film
Sarah Waters Fingersmith
Een Londens weesmeisje, dat vanaf 1845 wordt opgevoed door een vrouw met onderwereldconnecties, wordt gevraagd mee te werken aan het plan van een schurk om een rijke erfgename te verleiden.
Fictie | Historische roman | Thriller
Engels | 632 pagina's | Virago, London | 2003
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