epub |eng | | Author:Oscar Wilde & Eliza Garrett

As soon as Wooffon left, Dorian hurried to the curtain screening the painting and pulled it back again. It hadn’t changed any further – he knew it would have altered ...

epub |eng | 2012-07-14 | Author:Richard Smyth [Richard Smyth]

Inexplicably, we do not. The narrator goes on to demand: Why isn’t the pioneer of perforation chiseled into the façades of libraries, along with Locke, Franklin, and the standard bunch ...

epub |eng | 2020-07-02 | Author:Sophie Ranald [Ranald, Sophie]

‘All right, darling?’ Gordon asked when I returned to our table. ‘I’ve ordered a bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, and our scallops should be on their way any second.’ My napkin had ...

epub |eng | 2020-06-30 | Author:Lina Hansen [Hansen, Lina]

18 WHICH WITCH Witch. Lurking among the elaborate scrollwork of the magazine cutting, the word reminded me of those trick images camouflaging figures, faces, and objects: hidden one moment, all ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-11 | Author:Oliver Sands [Sands, Oliver]

Chapter 24 The tide had ebbed far out, and the rippled sand it left behind shone warm and golden under Breeda’s bare feet. She hadn’t meant to come here. She ...

epub |eng | 2020-07-15 | Author:Naoki Matayoshi

Steam rose from the gyoza we’d bought at Iseya, mixing with the white breath escaping from our mouths. In the mild winter sunshine, the trees in Inokashira Park looked bleak, ...

azw3 |eng | 2020-03-27 | Author:Gracie Player

Twenty-Two Leaving the counter bell as my able deputy, I went to give the key to Alex. I figured he’d be in the kitchen, chained to its hot stove, while ...

epub |eng | 2020-06-30 | Author:Jonathan Barrow [Barrow, Jonathan]

Now we are outside the Mother’s room. The Keeper pushes open the door and lets Mary in. I feel out of place and decide not to enter yet. A moment ...

epub |eng | 2014-11-17 | Author:Caroline Taggart

Even if it has been made clear that one person is intending to pay, well-mannered guests will offer to contribute their share; the host should refuse the offer firmly but ...

epub |eng | 2018-09-24 | Author:Simon Brett

epub |eng | | Author:Dave Gorman

1. Royston Vasey is the fictional town in the TV show, The League of Gentlemen. It is also the real name of controversial comedian Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown, who also appears ...

epub |eng | 2014-02-03 | Author:Cerys Jones

One of Wales's most famous sons, Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea in 1914. Thomas's poems and short stories are famed for their verbal imagery and evocation of nature. His ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-09 | Author:Alec Bromcie

Properties of Oxygen • Colorless, tasteless, odorless, highly reactive; essential for all aerobic respiration and almost all combustion. • Commonest element in the Earth’s crust. • There are often only ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-05 | Author:Hannah Lynn [Lynn, Hannah]

Chapter Seventeen ‘Sorry.’ There was a jarring of her head as Octavia blinked repeatedly. ‘Could you just repeat that? You feel my wedding is a grotesque extravagance for the sake ...

epub |eng | 2019-12-24 | Author:Janet Elizabeth Henderson [Henderson, Janet Elizabeth]

Agnes had been in the shower, shaving her legs, while Logan was sending her desperate messages. She’d barely had time to throw on some clothes, and even then, not all ...