Biographies & Memoirs
epub |eng | 2007-10-04 | Author:Lust Call [Nexus] (retail) (epub)

Six I DRAGGED MYSELF from my bed and gazed out of the window, thankful to see rain pouring down from heavy black clouds. The alleyway would be wet and muddy, ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-05 | Author:Joe Bennett

Chapter 19 Prince William was coming. He had been dispatched on a condolence tour of bits of the former empire that had been thumped by calamity. Christchurch was his last ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs August 23,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Tessa Hainsworth

CHAPTER EIGHT A Mermaid’s Ear and Other Wonders I’M IN POLDOWE a week or so later, delivering to the main street of the village, when a van screeches to a ...
( Category: Pictorial August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Annie Dillard

In the morning I saw nothing but the food on my plate, the slit of light at the window. It was on the horizon, but it might have been attached ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-11 | Author:Max Eisen

CHAPTER 17 A Pot of Stew It was a well-known fact among the prisoners that unless a door opened for you, it was impossible to get out of Auschwitz alive. ...
( Category: World August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dan Wakefield

September was cold there, a chilly wind rattled the windows and seeped through cracks in doors and swept down the chimney with a shrill, chilling rush. They alternated drinking gin ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dan Wakefield

EIGHT Roses, Dreams, and Diaphragms A ROMANTIC EDUCATION The throaty lilt of sexy June Christy swinging out with “I’ll Take Romance” seemed to me a companion song to Mel Torme’s ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Catriona Menzies-Pike

8 Rejoice, we conquer! I kept running and, gradually, it became a habit. I ran another half marathon, and then another and another. My race times weren’t impressive, but I’d ...
( Category: Individual Sports August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Drummond, Sarah

SHACKLANDS Bullet stopped in at the Bremer Bay servo and bought some bread rolls. We crossed the bar at the river mouth and he drove a fisherman’s dodgem through the ...
( Category: Memoirs August 23,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Amanda Owen [Owen, Amanda]

9 Edith on the Way Edith was born on a lovely hot day in August 2008. I was very busy serving cream teas, and the customers were all lapping up ...
( Category: Memoirs August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-23 | Author:Alice Taylor [Alice Taylor]

The Gates of Heaven I SAT ON A LOW súgán chair beside Mrs Casey’s fire and watched her making her Christmas cake. The flames from her big turf fire curled ...
( Category: Ethnic & National August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2000-08-23 | Author:James Sallis

11 European Experience Anything can save you, if you grab it hard enough and hold on. On the ship across, two or three days out, Himes begins to convince himself ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-20 | Author:Zora O'Neill

As I walked west through the quiet streets, more memories of my first visit returned. Humidity. Hills. Bougainvillea and staircases instead of streets. Green almonds, fuzzy and tart as stunted ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-01 | Author:Rachel Cusk [Rachel Cusk]

Later, at the train station before she leaves, my sister says to me: you have to learn to hide what you feel from the children. They will feel what they ...
( Category: Family Relationships August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-28 | Author:Helen Garner

‘Get crossways of me, LaBoeuf, and you will think a thousand of brick has fell on you.’ Charles Portis, True Grit At an Australian literature conference in Armidale a dozen ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 23,2017 )