Historical Humour

Im Winter 1884 versammeln sich auf Einladung Bismarcks die großen Mächte zu einer Konferenz, auf der ein ganzer Kontinent mit all seinen Reichtümern aufgeteilt werden soll: Afrika. Es geht um die Errettung der Eingeborenen aus Heidentum und Sklaverei – doch wer sagt, dass man an guten Taten nicht auch bestens verdienen darf? Österreich wird von Legationsrat Strinetzky vertreten, denn der Botschafter ist verhindert: Franz Liszt hat ihm ein Pianostück gewidmet, er muss üben.

Veteran authors Everett and Kincaid present an uproarious send-up of one of America's most controversial American icons. "[A]n outrageously funny satire of race relations and racism, US history, contemporary sexual mores and behavior, academia, and the publishing industry . . . It could become a...

The demons who once ran amok down there, torturing lost souls, were easy enough to subdue. The damned, left without their tormentors, have been put to work on cotton and tobacco plantations. As for the colonists, it takes all sorts to give up the comforts of home and make new lives on the infernal frontier.

“You’ll never look at Tupperware the same again.”—Bonnie Garmus, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry “What a celebration of female desire and empowerment…Wet Ink is a must read.”—Jennie Godfrey, USA Today bestselling author of The List of Suspicious...

What ho! A new Jeeves and Wooster novel that is "impossible to read without grinning idiotically" (Evening Standard), penned in homage to P.G. Wodehouse by bestselling author Ben Schott -- in which literature's favorite master and servant become spies for the English Crown. The misadventures of...

BBC Full-Cast productions of some of Aristophanes finest comedies Aristophanes was a renowned Greek playwright who wrote around 450 BC. He is considered the Father of Comedy or the Prince of Ancient Comedy. He wrote in total forty plays, of which eleven survive virtually complete today...

When Queen Victoria stepped onto the throne of Great Britain and Ireland in 1837, gone were the days when the monarch had supreme authority over the kingdom. Victoria ruled at the head of a government with which she was meant to converse, debate, and ultimately guide, and it was a job she sometimes struggled to perform. Victoria described herself as an emotional creature and blamed her gender for what she believed were her shortcomings as a monarch.

'A gorgeous, wildly seductive novel, shimmering with intelligence, humour and joy' - Sarah Waters Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize In 1838 Frédéric Chopin, George Sand and her children travel to a monastery in Mallorca. They are there to create and to convalesce, to live a simple life...

With echoes of Lonesome Dove and News of the World, the riveting story of a pregnant young mother, her child, and the frontier tradesman who helps them flee across Texas from outlaws bent on revenge, even as an unlikely love blossoms. Texas, 1868. As nineteen-year-old Benjamin Shreve tends to...