Historical Fiction Napoleon

London, 1798. Late one night, a junior naval officer at the Admiralty intercepts a coded despatch, marked with blood: Napoleon Bonaparte is about to launch the largest invasion fleet in history. Target: unknown.

After the defeated Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte goes into exile on tiny St. Helena Island in the remote South Atlantic, he and his lover, Albine de Montholon, plot to escape and rescue his young son. Banding together African slaves, British sympathizers, a Jewish merchant, a Corsican rogue, and French followers, they confront British opposition as well as treachery within their own ranks with sometimes subtle, sometimes bold, but always desperate action. When Napoleon and Albine break faith with one another, ambition and Albine’s husband threaten their reconciliation.

1804. Napoleon Bonaparte, Kaiser der Franzosen, trachtet danach, Europa zu unterwerfen. Nach der Niederlage in der Schlacht von Trafalgar erringt er bei Austerlitz einen glorreichen Sieg gegen die Russen und Österreicher. Er zwingt den spanischen König zur Abdankung und verhilft seinem Bruder auf den Thron. Doch ein erbitterter Feind steht ihm weiterhin im Weg. Arthur Wellesley führt die Britischen Truppen auf dem Kontinent an. Er befreit Portugal aus der französischen Herrschaft und führt das Heer in Spanien von Sieg zu Sieg.

A glittering French aristocrat is on the run, disguised as a British governess. England's top spy has a score to settle with her family. But as they're drawn inexorably into the intrigue and madness of Revolutionary Paris, they gamble on a love to which neither of them will admit.

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of H. Rider Haggard’s tale of Allan Quatermain, 'Long Odds'. Allan Quatermain, the famous African hunter, didn’t drink as a rule, but one night while having a particularly fine wine with his friends, he was led to tell the tale of a lion hunt that would leave Allan both poor and wounded.

While recovering at his uncle's estate from wounds sustained in the Sudan, Jack Cameron - a loyal Scottish captain in the British army - is haunted by the words of a dying officer: one of her majesty's Black Dragoons is aiding the slavers they were sent to suppress. But how will he uncover the traitor without sending the culprit to ground?

Here is the recently discovered novella by one of the world's most notorious historical figures.

Triumphant on the field of battle, Clisson turns his back on worldly success, falls in love, and marries Eugénie. But how long will their love survive?

The tragic story of Clisson and Eugénie, written in an eloquently romantic style true to its period, offers the reader a fascinating insight into how the young Napoleon viewed love, women, and military life.

The man known as Falconer was born the bastard son of a whore, served the royal court as a predator trainer, and warred against the infidel Saracens as a conscripted soldier in the Holy Land. But it wasn't until he found himself in the arms of a creature called Pythia that he found his destiny - as a vampire.

In the autumn of 1940, four children meet on a train. Behind them is London, under heavy aerial attack; ahead of them is a ship bound for the safe shores of Canada. Arthur has promised his mother not to let his little brother, Philip, out of his sight. Pippa and Dora are on their own: polar opposites, brought together by the adventure of a lifetime. But disaster strikes mid-Atlantic, and in the chaos one of the children makes a choice that will determine the course of their lives forever.

Halfdan and his master, Winston the Illuminator, are guests in a monastery when they’re awakened in the middle of the night and asked to solve a crime. A monk praying in the church has been brutally murdered, and his severed hand offers the first clue of a motive. As they investigate who could have committed such a heinous atrocity - and why - Halfdan and Winston must negotiate bitter rivalries within the monastery’s hierarchy, a sensitive class structure, and the tension between the new laws King Cnut has sworn to uphold and the codes of honor that precede them.

It's 1803, and an adolescent Nadya is determined not to follow in her overbearing Ukrainian mother's footsteps. She's a horsewoman, not a housewife. When Tsar Paul is assassinated in St. Petersburg and a reluctant and naive Alexander is crowned emperor, Nadya runs away from home and joins the Russian cavalry in the war against Napoleon. Disguised as a boy and riding her spirited stallion, Alcides, Nadya rises in the ranks, even as her father begs the tsar to find his daughter and send her home.

An epic historical maritime adventure... In this first of a new Treegate trilogy, we see the Napoleonic War between the French and the English and the events leading up to the American War of 1812 through the eyes of 13-year-old Manly Treegate, an orphan growing up in the home of his uncle Peter Treegate in Salem, Massachusetts. Manly, an American citizen, is captured and impressed against his will to serve on the British frigate Leopard in 1807. He experiences the cruelties of life in the British navy and sees action in several battles as a powder boy before falling overboard during a ...

Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone wakes to find an intruder in his Copenhagen bookshop: An American Secret Service agent with assassins on his heels. Narrowly surviving a ferocious firefight, the two journey to the secluded estate of Malone’s friend Henrik Thorvaldsen. The wily Danish tycoon has uncovered the insidious plans of the Paris Club, a cabal of multimillionaires bent on manipulating the global economy. But Thorvaldsen also harbors a hidden agenda - a vendetta - that will force Malone to choose between friend and country, past and present.

Korsika 1769: Unter dramatischen Umständen erblickt ein Junge das Licht der Welt, der schon bald das Schicksal Europas erschüttern wird: Napoleon Bonaparte. Im gleichen Jahr wird im fernen Dublin Arthur Wellesley geboren. Die Wege dieser beiden außergewöhnlichen Männer werden sich immer wieder kreuzen. Mit eisernem Willen arbeitet Napoleon sich empor. Als junger Offizier führt er einen blutigen Vorstoß gegen die britischen Armeen, die die Revolution niederschlagen wollen. Im Kampf der beiden Imperien treten Napoleon und Wellesley zum ersten Mal gegeneinander an.

Deutschland im Herbst 1813: Als Napoleon in der Völkerschlacht bei Leipzig geschlagen wird, ist er noch lange nicht besiegt. Niemand ahnt, dass es mehr als anderthalb Jahre dauern soll, bis er 1815 bei Waterloo endgültig bezwungen wird. Und statt des erhofften Friedens kommt immer größeres Elend über viele deutsche Städte. Die fliehende Grande Armée zieht eine Spur aus Blut, Hunger, Verwüstung und Krankheit durch das Land. Auch die junge Henriette, die nach Leipzig ging, um Verwundeten zu helfen, muss die Stadt verlassen und Hals über Kopf heiraten, um zu überleben.

Firmly rooted in modern archaeological discoveries about Bronze Age cultures, The Shattered Horse paints a vivid picture of a decaying golden age seen through the eyes of the survivors of Trojan War. At the center of the story is Prince Astyanax: heir to the Trojan kingdom, marked for death as a child by the Greek conquerors, escaping, perhaps by divine intervention, and doomed, perhaps, to repeat history.

Famous elephant hunter Allan Quatermain is approached by Sir Henry Curtis to help him search for his brother who disappeared in the heart of Africa. When Allan accepts the job, little does he know that the quest for the missing man will drag him over mountains, through deserts, under ground and into the midst of a bloody war.

The year is 1806, and a new French Empire is rising from the shadow of the Reign of Terror. The citizens who shouted “Death to Kings” now chant “Vive l’Empereur!” for Napoleon, who is seeking to consolidate his power. While the peace and prosperity he promised is decadently enjoyed in Paris, fear spreads across Europe, and a new coalition has united against him.

Born on the Caribbean island of Martinique, Josephine had an exotic Creole appeal that would ultimately propel her to reign over an empire as wife of the most powerful man in the world. But her life is a story of ambition and danger, of luck and a ferocious will to survive. Married young to an arrogant French aristocrat who died during the Terror, Josephine also narrowly missed losing her head to the guillotine. Soon she had married the much younger General Bonaparte, whose armies garnered France an empire.

Whilst living in exile on St Helena, Napoleon exerted an extraordinary influence on young Betsy Balcombe. How did she get from Napoleon's side to the Australian bush? Betsy Balcombe as a young woman lived with her family on St Helena. They befriended, served and were ruined by their relationship with Napoleon. To redeem the family's fortunes, William Balcombe, Betsy's father, betrayed Napoleon and accepted a job as the colonial treasurer of NSW, bringing his family with him.