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 ?

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1464. L'Angleterre est en guerre. La maison d'York, avec a sa tete le roi Edouard IV, s'oppose a la maison de Lancastre, qui souhaite lui reprendre le trone.Le jeune roi fait alors la connaissance d'Elisabeth Woodville, veuve de Sir John Grey et mere de deux garcons, Richard et Thomas. Seduit, il l'epouse secretement.Mais Richard Neville, comte de Warwick, cousin et principal conseiller du roi, voit d'un tres mauvais oeil cette union qui contrecarre ses desseins politiques. Il voit de plus son influence decroitre au profit des proches d'Elisabeth.Neville passe alors a l'ennemi et rejoint la maison de Lancastre...Luttes fratricides, complots et trahisons, secrets de palais... Philippa Gregory nous entraine dans les meandres d'une histoire royale, vue par les yeux d'une femme prete a tout pour l'honneur des siens."

La Reine Clandestine

A stunning novel set in the Tudor court, from the Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Philippa Gregory.

 I would have been a fool indeed to tell the truth in this court of liars.

 1553. King Edward is on his deathbed, and the future of the Tudor dynasty swings perilously.

 Forced out of Spain by the Inquisition, Hannah Green arrives in a volatile kingdom. She is identified as a seer and sworn into the service of Robert Dudley, the son of King Edward's protector and a key player at court. Her task: to keep watch on Princess Mary, the forgotten heir.

 Mary's grip on the Crown is fragile. Elizabeth, Mary's half-sister, is ready to take England's throne. Caught in the rivalry between the daughters of Henry VIII, Hannah must navigate her way through a treacherous court if she is to survive.

The Queen’s Fool

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

Beatrice Lacey, daughter of Wideacre Hall, will not accept society's rules that women cannot inherit.The internationally bestselling debut from the author of The Other Boleyn Girl and Three Sisters, Three Queens.

 Wideacre Hall, set in the heart of the English countryside, is the ancestral home that Beatrice Lacey loves. Built from yellow stone, facing due south and surrounded by the rich woodlands and rolling downs of Sussex, it has been in her family for generations. But as a woman in England in the 1770s she has no right of inheritance; only a loveless arranged marriage lies ahead. Beautiful, sensual and passionate, Beatrice sets out to pursue her own goal: control over Wideacre - at any cost.

 Yet even as her scheming succeeds, Beatrice is haunted by the one person alive who fully understands her obsession and knows her capacity to let nothing - and no-one - stand in her way.

 The 30th anniversary edition, with new foreword by the author.

Wideacre

Alys joins a nunnery to escape the poverty of her life on the moor with her foster mother, Morach, the local wise woman with whom she lives as an outcast, but she soon finds herself thrown back into the world when Henry VIII's wreckers destroy her sanctuary. Summoned to the castle as the old lord's scribe, she falls obsessively in love with his son Hugo, who is married to Catherine. Driven to desperation by her desire, she summons the most dangerous powers Morach has taught her, but soon the passionate triangle of Alys, Hugo, and Catherine begins to explode, launching them into uncharted sexual waters. The magic Alys has conjured now has a life of its own -- a life that is horrifyingly and disastrously out of control. Is she a witch? Since heresy means the stake, and witchcraft the rope, Alys is in mortal danger, treading a perilous path between her faith and her own female power. Synopsis from Barnes & Noble.

Sous le signe du feu

Bristol in 1787 is booming, a city where power beckons those who dare to take risks. Josiah Cole, a small dockside trader, is prepared to gamble everything to join the big players of the city. But he needs capital and a well-connected wife.Marriage to Frances Scott is a mutually convenient solution. Trading her social contacts for Josiah's protection, Frances finds her life and fortune dependent on the respectable trade of sugar, rum, and slaves.Into her new world comes Mehuru, once a priest in the ancient African kingdom of Yoruba, now a slave in England. From opposite ends of the earth, despite the difference in status, Mehuru and Frances confront each other and their need for love and liberty.

Les enchaînés

Fallen Skies

From the bestselling author of 'The Other Boleyn Girl', Philippa Gregory, comes a wonderfully atmospheric evocation of the court of Henry VIII and his final queens.The year is 1539 and the court of Henry VIII is increasingly fearful at the moods of the ageing sick king. With only a baby in the cradle for an heir, Henry has to take another wife and the dangerous prize of the crown of England is won by Anne of Cleves.She has her own good reasons for agreeing to marry a man old enough to be her father, in a country where to her both language and habits are foreign. Although fascinated by the glamour of her new surroundings, she senses a trap closing around her. Katherine is confident that she can follow in the steps of her cousin Anne Boleyn to dazzle her way to the throne but her kinswoman Jane Boleyn, haunted by the past, knows that Anne's path led to Tower Green and to an adulterer's death.The story of these three young women, trying to make their own way through the most volatile court in Europe at a time of religious upheaval and political uncertainty, is Philippa Gregory's most compelling novel yet.

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