1471. Mariée à 14 ans, Anne Neville - la fille du comte de Warwick, surnommé le «faiseur de rois» - perd succes- sivement son époux et son père. Elle ne doit son salut qu'au futur Richard III, le frère du roi, qu'elle épouse deux ans plus tard, même si elle devra pour cela affronter la puissante famille royale... dont la reine. Cet épisode de la Guerre des Deux-Roses est ici raconté avec brio par l'une des plus talentueuses romancières du genre, qui choisit de faire parler les femmes que l'Histoire a trop souvent tendance à oublier.

La fille du faiseur de rois

A witty contemporary satire on the pitfalls of political correctness. From New Men and earnest academics to New Age Travellers and pig farmers, nobody emerges unscathed.

 Dr Louise Case has the right career, the right country cottage and a commitment-free relationship with a fellow academic. According to contemporary codes, it's all very correct - except that Louise begins to suspect that it's far from perfect.

 Then along comes Rose, eighty if she's a day, who effortlessly disrupts everything. Soon both campus and cottage are in chaos, while the old lady commences to set her own house - a decrepit old van - in order. And this includes an unthinkably traditional role for Louise.

Perfectly Correct

1453. Il se passe des choses étranges dans un couvent proche de Rome. Les soeurs semblent frappées de folie. Isolde, la jeune et belle abbesse, est accusée d'hérésie et risque le bûcher ! Luca Vero, un novice, est envoyé par le pape en mission secrète pour enquêter. Il a dix-sept ans, il est brillant, séduisant, il n'a pas les yeux dans sa poche. Et le charme de la belle Isolde ne le laisse pas indifférent... Saura-t-il dénouer les peurs et les supersitions ? Pourra-t-il sauver Isolde ?

Hérétiques (Tome 1) - Le mystère Isolde

The sequel to THE PRINCESS RULES sees rebel princess, Princess Florizella, going on even more adventures, but this time, she also has a little brother in tow.

 Once upon a time, there was a princess who broke all the rules, and dared to be different.

 So when that same princess - Florizella - finds a baby boy delivered by stork to her parents' palace, she is shocked to discover that he will one day be king and inherit her kingdom! For every prince is given a permit which allow them to do whatever they like in the same way that every princess is given a set of rules that they have to live by.

 As soon as Princess Florizella's brother is big enough to have adventures, she takes him all over the land, fighting pirates, wrestling with a sea serpent and rehoming a woolly mammoth.

 Can Florizella prove that girls having rules and boys having permits isn't right? And that princes and princesses, and girls and boys, should be anything that they want to be.

It’s a Prince Thing

Two sisters competing for the greatest prize: The love of a kingWhen Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of Henry VIII. Dazzled, Mary falls in love with both her golden prince and her growing role as unofficial queen. However, she soon realises just how much she is a pawn in her family's ambitious plots as the king's interest begins to wane and she is forced to step aside for her best friend and rival: her sister, Anne. Then Mary knows that she must defy her family and her king and take fate into her own hands.A rich and compelling novel of love, sex, ambition, and intrigue, The Other Boleyn Girl introduces a woman of extraordinary determination and desire who lived at the heart of the most exciting and glamourous court in Europe and survived by following her heart.

Deux soeurs pour un roi

" À travers le regard de Margaret, Philippa Gregory nous montre la transformation d'Henri VIII en un tyran despotique. Une héroi?ne d'exception. Une autrice au sommet de sa forme. " Sunday Express Angleterre, 1499. Après la décapitation de son frère sur ordre d'Henri VII, Margaret Plantagenêt se retrouve l'une des dernières héritières de la maison d'York. Un nom dangereux à porter depuis que les Tudors se sont emparés du trône...

Pour assurer sa sécurité, elle épouse Richard Pole, un cousin du roi. À la mort de celui-ci, veuve et sans ressources, elle ne doit son salut qu'à l'arrivée à la cour de la future souveraine, Catherine d'Aragon.

Désormais comtesse de Salisbury, Margaret devient première dame de compagnie de la reine. Au point de susciter des jalousies.

Philippa Gregory ressuscite avec maestria les heures les plus sombres de la royauté anglaise, où complots et trahisons se règlent souvent dans le sang...

La malédiction du roi

Another sweeping novel from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author.

 A traveller in a time of discovery, the greatest gardening pioneer of his day, yet a man of humble birth: John Tradescant's story is a mirror to the extraordinary age in which he lives.

 As gardener and confidante to Sir Robert Cecil, Tradescant is well placed to observe the social and political changes that are about to sweep through the kingdom. While his master conjures intrigues at Court, Tradescant designs for him the magnificent garden at Hatfield, scouring the known world for ever more wonderful plants: new varieties of fruit and flower, the first horse chestnuts to be cultivated in England, even larches from Russia.

 Moving to the household of the flamboyant Duke of Buckingham, Tradescant witnesses at first hand the growing division between Parliament and the people; and the most loyal of servants must find a way to become an independent squire.

Earthly Joys

1453. Luca Vero, le jeune inquisiteur, poursuit sa mission secrète à travers l'Italie. Désormais en route secrète vers Zagreb au bras de la belle Isolde, en compagnie de la mystérieuse Ishraq et du facétieux Freize, il fait halte à Piccolo, un village de pêcheurs où règnent supersitions et peurs. Soudain, les rues sont submergées par des centaines d'enfants. Qui sont-ils ? D'où viennent-ils ? Johann le Bon, leur guide, prétend que la mer s'ouvrira devant eux jusqu'en Terre Sainte. Est-il prophète, démon ou imposteur ?

L'Ordre des Ténèbres (Hérétiques, #2)

From the author of THE WHITE QUEEN and THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL, discover Philippa Gregory's sweeping and passionate epic, The Wideacre Trilogy

 WIDEACRE is Philippa Gregory's first novel, a tale of passion and intrigue set in the eighteenth century. Wideacre Hall, set in the heart of the English countryside, is the ancestral home that Beatrice Lacey loves. But as a woman of the eighteenth century she has no right of inheritance. Corrupted by a world that mistreats women, she sets out to corrupt others. No-one escapes the consequences of her need to possess the land.

 In THE FAVOURED CHILD, the Wideacre estate is bankrupt, the villagers are living in poverty and Wideacre Hall is a smoke-blackened ruin. But in the Dower House two children are being raised in protected innocence. Equal claimants to the inheritance of Wideacre, rivals for the love of the village, only one can be the favoured child. Only one can be Beatrice Lacey's true heir.

 MERIDON is a desolate Romany girl, determined to escape the hard poverty of her childhood. Riding bareback in a travelling show, while her sister Dandy risks her life on the trapeze, Meridon dedicates herself to freeing them both from danger and want. But Dandy, beautiful, impatient and thieving, grabs too much, too quickly. And Meridon finds herself alone, riding in bitter grief through the rich Sussex farmlands towards a house called Wideacre - which awaits the return of the last of the Laceys.

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