British & Irish
azw3 |eng | 2007-09-24 | Author:David Gibbins

12 MARIA AND JEREMY LED JACK AND COSTAS through the imposing west entrance of Iona Abbey and down the worn flagstones of the nave. It was cool inside, a refreshing ...
( Category: Contemporary October 6,2023 )
epub | | 2010-04-05 | Author:David Donachie [Donachie, David]

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE James was right about Harry's initial reaction to Dreaver's information, though it didn't take the form of an explosion. But the grip he had on his tankard threatened ...
( Category: Historical October 6,2023 )
mobi |eng | 2010-08-30 | Author:Ellis Peters

Brother Mark had been vaguely but persistently troubled, all that day, by the feeling that his grasp on the whole body of his flock at the hospice had somehow been ...
( Category: Historical October 5,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-08 | Author:Johnson, Rian [Johnson, Rian]

✥ The next morning I opened my locker and a note fell out. It was folded into a star. I smoothed it out. “TWELVE THIRTY PICO + ALEXANDER”. I stood ...
( Category: Historical October 5,2023 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-05 | Author:Howard Jacobson [Howard Jacobson]

8 SEFTON READ KEVIN Dainty’s novel a couple more times on the way back to his room. It struck him as being rather light on construction, not so much wrought ...
( Category: Historical October 5,2023 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Barry Walsh [Barry Walsh]

Drowning and Denying Rooksy and I are walking beside the dry channel that runs through the Peabody Estate. It was once the course of the River Tachbrook, which is now ...
( Category: Historical September 17,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Gaspard & (And some new bits by John Gaspard) [Doyle, Arthur Conan]

As he had promised, Stapleton came over to call upon Baskerville on that first day, and the very next morning he showed us the spot where the legend of the ...
( Category: Humor & Satire September 17,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Eryn Marie

We woke up the next morning with mountains stretched out all around us. A shiver ran up my spine and I blinked happily at the variety of green pushing its ...
( Category: Contemporary September 14,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-05-04 | Author:Louise Mayberry [Mayberry, Louise]

Letty steadied herself in the saddle. Her hip hurt from the fall, but that was just a bruise. The real danger was in her mind, and possibly her heart. She’d ...
( Category: Historical September 14,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:E.M. Delafield [E.M. Delafield]

* * * April 13th.–Immense and inexplicable lapse of time since diary last received my attention, but on reviewing past five months, can trace no unusual activities, excepting arrears of ...
( Category: Humor & Satire September 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-08-02 | Author:Daphne Byrne [Byrne, Daphne]

She could feel his face moving closer to her neck as he spoke into her ear. “Then you close one eye, watch your target carefully…” The sound of his deep ...
( Category: Historical September 3,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-06-17 | Author:Olivia T. Bennet [T. Bennet, Olivia]

“I—” Isabel shook her head. “I want true love. Not a f—facsimile of it. I don’t want to go to bed alone or wake up to have to b—butter my ...
( Category: Historical September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-07-15 | Author:Olivia T. Bennet [T. Bennet, Olivia]

“Do you not miss me?” she had asked him plaintively. He had smiled. “It has been six months, Lady Teresa, and I have been busy. There has been no time ...
( Category: Historical September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-29 | Author:Michelle Vernal [Vernal, Michelle]

THE BIRDS WERE SETTLING down for the evening lining up along the power lines and having a final natter by the time they left Harry’s to await their Uber rides ...
( Category: Humor & Satire August 25,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-06-20 | Author:Jill Childs [Childs, Jill]

Ros’s first feedback came from Diana on Wednesday morning, when the two of them coincided at drop-off. Once they’d kissed their children and sent them, arms wheeling, across the playground ...
( Category: Contemporary August 25,2023 )