Writing on a small island in the Firth of Forth in the 1440s, Walter Bower set out to tell the whole story of the Scottish nation in a single huge book, the Scotichronicon-'a history book for Scots'. It begins with the mythical voyage of Scota, the Pharaoh's daughter, from Egypt with the Stone of Destiny. The land that her sons discovered in the Western Ocean was named after her: Scotland. It goes on to describe the turbulent events that followed,...

La suite des aventures palpitantes d'Eva et du prince aveugle Alors qu'elle visitait les ruines d'un château allemand avec sa classe, Eva s'est trouvée mystérieusement projetée au Moyen ge, au cœur d'une bataille médiévale. Elle s'est vue contrainte de fuir et de protéger le Prince aveugle Emil. Une prophétie la désigne comme la Fille de l'Araignée, celle qui doit sauver les Maudits, les partisans hors-la-loi du prince. Après avoir retrouvé...

Step back in time and experience the grandeur and romance of a previous era as Harlequin® Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection! HIS RUNAWAY MARCHIONESS RETURNS (Victorian) by Marguerite Kaye Oliver, Marquess of Rashfield, is society's most eligible bachelor. Except he's already married! Conveniently wed years ago, he and Lily have built separate lives. Only now she's returned… SECRETS OF THE VISCOUNT'S BRIDE...

The spellbinding, suspenseful story of how Myrddin and Nimue come together in an effort to keep Wales pagan - a magnificent novel set in a time when no life is safe, no law stable. Nimue and Merlin meet and fall in love while the high king of Britain has died and a new king, a Christian king, will be named to the throne.Pawns in a game of king-making, Nimue, her sister Gwenhwyfar, their brother Mordred and their cousin Aelwen's lives are useful to...

Ernst Bloch was one of the most significant twentieth-century German thinkers, yet he remains overshadowed by his Frankfurt School contemporaries. Known for his engagement with utopianism and religious thought, Bloch also wrote incisively about ontological questions. In his short masterpiece Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left, Bloch gives a striking account of materialism that traces emancipatory elements of modern thought to medieval Islamic philosophers'...

THE AWAKENING OF MISS HENLEY The Cinderella Spinsters by Julia Justiss Destined never to marry, Miss Henley is tempted by rakish Lord Theo. Perhaps he could even show her the pleasures of the marriage bed… A MIDSUMMER KNIGHT’S KISS by Elisabeth Hobbes (Medieval) When Rowenna sees childhood friend Robbie again, he’s begun claiming his knighthood. Despite their newly awakened connection, Robbie’s promised to another—could a kiss change...

A charming rogue, a woman with responsibilities, a highland romance you won't forget... Lowlander Adair has more charm and wit than any one man has a right to, despite being abandoned by his mother when only four. Granted one year's leave from his duties to the Elliot Clan, Adair travels to the Highlands in search of kith and kin, enjoying whichever women catch his eye along the way. But no one can hold him, and he always leaves the next morning....

It should have been a beautiful moment between a man and his dog. Philip Womack made a quip about Cerberus, the three-headed hell-hound, but for Una, the beloved lurcher, it was all Greek. Then she ran off after a squirrel. And Womack was left to wonder what else she didn't know about the great civilizations of the past. The Greeks and the Romans laid the foundations of so much of what we read, listen to and watch today, from the baked pies of Game...

Do you dream of wicked rakes, gorgeous Highlanders and muscled Viking warriors? Harlequin® Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection! This box set includes: HER HIGHLANDER FOR ONE NIGHT (Medieval) A Highland Feuding • by Terri Brisbin When Glynnis had to make a noble marriage, Iain Mackenzie Cameron's illegitimacy stood in the way. Now she's returned a widow, and Iain is an assured warrior, the chieftain's...

Do you dream of wicked rakes, gorgeous Highlanders and muscled Viking warriors? Harlequin® Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection! This box set includes: #799 LADY ARMSTRON'G SCANDALOUS AWAKENING by Marguerite Kaye Revelations of the Carstairs Sisters (Victorian) Longing to reinvent herself, Lady Mercy Armstrong strikes up a fake dalliance with Jack Dalmuir. But cavorting with the handsome Scotsman ignites a passion...