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Owen has completed his latest mission for the Duke of Lancaster, but his plan to return home is thrown into peril when the young stonemason carving the tomb of Owen's late father-in-law, English knight Sir Robert D'Arcy, is discovered hanged. The Archdeacon of St. David's wants Owen to find out whether Cynog was executed due to his support for the would-be Welsh redeemer, Owain Lawgoch's, rebellion against English rule. Prolonging his stay in Wales means that Owen will be unable to deliver the news of Sir Robert's death to Lucie in person, but can he really leave her father's tomb unfinished?

After losing his knighthood, Crispin Guest has found a new calling as the Tracker, a private investigator who can locate anything—or anyone. Now famed French alchemist Nicholas Flamel needs Crispin to locate his wife, Perenelle, and his apprentice, Thomas Cornhill. But the case takes a sinister turn when Flamel's apprentice is found murdered. The kidnapper promises that Flamel's wife will be next...unless he hands over his precious Philosopher's Stone, a magical object that can turn lead into gold.

York, 1367. Owen Archer and his old comrade, Ned Townley, are each leading companies of the king's men north of York to Fountains and Rievaulx abbeys respectively, on a mission to win the support of the powerful abbots for William of Wykeham becoming the Bishop of Winchester. But trouble stalks Ned Townley—Sir William of Wyndesore's men at Windsor suspect he killed a page in a jealous rage over his betrothed. Is the rumor true?

Wales, 1369. Owen Archer is travelling to Wales on a mission for the Duke of Lancaster, recruiting archers in anticipation of King Charles of France's invasion of England. Joining him are Brother Michaelo, Geoffrey Chaucer and his father-in-law, Sir Robert D'Arby, who is on pilgrimage to the shrine of St David. When the body of John de Reine, one of the Duke of Lancaster's men, is found at the gate of St David's, the bishop asks Owen to return the corpse to John's father, Sir John Lascelles.

York, 1371. William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, has made many enemies since York knight Sir Ranulf Pagnell died imprisoned in France while Wykeham negotiated his ransom. After escorting Sir Ranulf's body back to the city, Wykeham realises that his own life is in grave danger. The bishop's woes increase when one of his properties in the city is set alight, with horrific consequences. Was it a thoughtless act of revenge or a deliberate murder? Why was someone searching for important documents in the house just before the fire, including those linked to the Pagnells?

Private investigator and former knight Crispin Guest faces his most complicated case yet when he witnesses a body fall from London bridge into the frigid River Thames. Though the man's death is declared a suicide, Guest sees evidence of foul play. His investigation leads him to Sir Thomas Saunfayl, an old acquaintance from his knighthood days. It seems the dead man was bargaining with Sir Thomas for the Spear of Longinus, the weapon used to pierce the side of Christ on the Cross, which grants invincibility to its owner.

Anno Domini 1483, Firenze. La città del Magnifico, Lorenzo de' Medici, è scossa da una serie di delitti raccapriccianti, che gettano un'ombra oscura sulla vita dei suoi ignari abitanti. Un predatore spietato caccia bambini innocenti, lasciando nelle loro bocche le carte degli Arcani Maggiori. Anche un prete viene brutalmente assassinato: sul suo corpo viene trovato un messaggio criptico che solo la mente più brillante di Firenze può decifrare.

July 1241. Christendom cowers in terror before the threat of a Mongol invasion. The swift-moving, invincible cavalry of Genghis Khan has smashed the proud, steel-clad knights of Russia, Poland and Hungary – and now Austria lies directly in their path. At a skirmish outside the walls of Vienna, German knights capture a squad of Mongol scouts, and are astonished to discover one of their number is an Englishman – a Templar knight – who has been riding with these Devil’s horsemen for more than 20 years.

England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on. A young Latin tutor—penniless and bullied by a violent father—falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people.

Spring 1152. Once she was a Queen, and will become so again... Eleanor of Aquitaine has escaped her marriage to Louis of France, as well as various lords bent on capturing her and forcing her into marriage with them, and is safe in her homeland once more. Sending a message to Henry, Duke of Normandy, Eleanor arranges her second marriage, this time to a lord of her choosing, a man already in possession of an empire of his own, an heir to the English throne about to take back the crown stolen from his mother, the Empress Matilda.

Anna Thalberg is a villager shunned for her red hair and provocative beauty, so when she is dragged from her home and accused of witchcraft, her neighbors do not intervene. Only Klaus, her husband, and Father Friedrich, a priest experiencing a crisis of faith, set out to Würzburg to prove her innocence. There, locked in a prison tower, Anna faces isolation and torture while anxiety builds over strange happenings within the city walls. Can the two men convince the Church inquisitors to release Anna, or will she burn at the stake?

A quest to save the free world. In this third and final book in Jerry Sanders’s epic trilogy, Troy Kensington, a powerful and talented warrior, faces his most ambitious quest yet. A secret underground society of misguided but brilliant Ashkenazi Jews has but one mission: military domination. If they succeed, millions of people from England to Israel will be killed.

Zdánlivě obyčejná návštěva hradu Krašova se změní v noční můru. Královský prokurátor Oldřich z Chlumu slíbil pomoci příbuzné, která se mu svěří s dávným prokletím hroznatovského rodu. Nejprve však jeho výpravu málem smete rozbouřená řeka a když pak uprostřed ledové vánice dorazí na Krašov, Oldřich z Chlumu na vlastní oči spatří, jak se kdosi uprostřed noci vrhne z oken hradu dolů do propasti. Obyvatelé hradu věří, že to byl přízrak zesnulé hradní paní Anny, královský prokurátor však hledá prozaičtější vysvětlení.

De Clovis et Clotilde nous connaissons surtout les images d'Épinal de l'épisode du vase de Soissons ou du baptême du roi franc à Reims. Au-delà de ces représentations collectives, Marie-Céline Isaïa spécialiste en histoire du haut Moyen Âge et maître de conférences à la Faculté des Lettres et Civilisations à l'Université de Lyon 3, nous invite à redécouvrir ces personnages historiques.

Arnau de Vallbona and his fellow Templar Brother Ramon are bound for the Holy Land to take part in the great Crusade when fate intervenes. Delayed in Cyprus, they learn of a growing rift in Christendom: the crusading army has diverted from its course and threatens Rome's allies in the Byzantine Empire. Arnau and Ramon, alongside the irascible Preceptor Bochard, race to Constantinople, encountering a grand and crumbling world of alliances and betrayals, emperors and armies.

Liebe und Hass sind einerlei, nur Furcht hält meine Krone. John, König von England Normandie 1199. Nach dem Tod von Richard Löwenherz verhilft der einflussreiche William Marshal, der berühmteste Ritter aller Zeiten, dessen Bruder John zum englischen Thron. Doch seine Hoffnung auf Frieden wird jäh enttäuscht, kaum an der Macht, stürzt der neue Herrscher das Land in einen Krieg gegen das mächtige Frankreich. Vom unberechenbaren John wird Marshals Treue auf harte Proben gestellt, dennoch kämpft er für ihn, um einen Zusammenbruch des Reiches zu verhindern.

"KIRKEGÅRDEN I PRAG" er en fortælling fra 1800 om et Europa i oprør; en fortælling om et Europa, der søger en syndebuk. Udadtil er Simone Simonini antikvitetshandler i Paris. Men bag den stilfærdige facade gemmer sig en person, som forfalsker adskillige breve og andre dokumenter. Ét af antikvitetshandlerens dokumenter skal vise sig at være fatalt: Zions Vises Protokoller. Protokollerne foregiver at beskrive en jødisk pagt om verdensherredømme indgået på en kirkegård i Prag. Simoninis forfalskninger skal komme til at ændre historiens gang.

In 1483, Edward and Richard of York—Edward, by law, already King of England—were placed, for their protection before Edward's coronation, in the Tower of London by their uncle Richard. Within months the boys disappeared without a trace, and for the next five hundred years the despised Richard III was suspected of their heartless murders.

In To the Tower Born, Robin Maxwell ingeniously imagines what might have happened to the missing princes.

Rungholt, 1361. Gelegen auf den weitläufigen Salzwiesen der nordfriesischen Küste, ist Rungholt durch den Abbau von Salz, durch Fischerei und internationalen Handel reich geworden. Zwei verfeindete Familien teilen sich die Macht: die von Tammo Jaspers, dem die meisten Salzwiesen gehören, und die von Ove Barwegen, der im Besitz der Fischereiflotte ist. Tammos Tochter Fenna und Oves Sohn Jorik lieben sich, doch das darf niemand erfahren, sonst käme es zur blutigen Fehde. Und nicht nur ihr Glück ist bedroht: Der Salzabbau schädigt die Küste.

Jest rok 1602. W Zamościu krzyżują się ścieżki Polaków, Ormian i sefardyjskich Żydów. Kupiec Menachem Campos i jego syn Ruben wracają ze Stambułu z niedawno poślubioną żoną Rubena, Szikmą o różnobarwnych oczach. Mądrej i pięknej zielarce, uśmierzającej choroby ciała i duszy, towarzyszy młodsza siostra, tkaczka Miriam, której palce wyczarowują pełne życia i namiętności gobeliny. Zamojski dom Camposów znów jest pełen śmiechu, rozmów i miłości, a głowę i serce Hili poza córeczką zaczyna zaprzątać ktoś jeszcze. Wydaje się, że rodzinie tułaczy nareszcie sprzyja los. A jednak tylko do czasu…