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Warlord Chronicles #03 - Excalibur by Bernard Cornwell
epub |eng | 1999-07-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell [Cornwell, Bernard]

PART THREE Nimue’s Curse Queen Igraine sat in my window and read the last sheets of parchment, sometimes asking me the meaning of a Saxon word, but otherwise saying nothing. ...
( Category: Fantasy January 2,2018 )
Saxon #03 - The Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell
epub |eng | 2006-07-13 | Author:Bernard Cornwell [Cornwell, Bernard]

SIX The red ship was close and was coming fast. Her bows were crowned with a black-toothed dragon’s head and filled with armed men in mail and helmets. She came ...
( Category: Genre Fiction January 2,2018 )
Saxon #05 - The Burning Land by Bernard Cornwell
epub |eng | 2009-10-05 | Author:Bernard Cornwell [Cornwell, Bernard]

Nothing great is done without risk, but there are times I look back on those days and am amazed at the risk we ran in Frisia. It was, in its ...
( Category: Action & Adventure January 2,2018 )
Grail Quest #02 - Vagabond by Bernard Cornwell
epub |eng | 2003-07-02 | Author:Bernard Cornwell [Cornwell, Bernard]

Sir Guillaume had held the manor from its attackers for close on three months and did not doubt he could hold it indefinitely so long as the Count of Coutances ...
( Category: Genre Fiction January 2,2018 )
Saxon #04 - Sword Song by Bernard Cornwell
epub |eng | 2007-09-03 | Author:Bernard Cornwell [Cornwell, Bernard]

I wrote Alfred a letter. I have always hated writing, and it has been years since I last used a quill. My wife’s priests now scratch letters for me, but ...
( Category: Genre Fiction January 2,2018 )
Starbuck Chronicles #04 - The Bloody Ground by Bernard Cornwell
epub |eng | 1997-09-14 | Author:Bernard Cornwell [Cornwell, Bernard]

THE NORTHERN ARMY groped cautiously into the deserted Maryland farmlands, where General McClellan left nothing to chance. He watched his flanks, secured his communications, and advanced his forward units at ...
( Category: Genre Fiction January 2,2018 )
Sharpe #03 - Sharpe's Fortress by Bernard Cornwell
epub |eng | 2000-07-04 | Author:Bernard Cornwell [Cornwell, Bernard]

CHAPTER 6 Sharpe knew he was in an ox cart. He could tell that from the jolting motion and from the terrible squeal of the ungreased axles. The ox carts ...
( Category: Genre Fiction January 2,2018 )
Grail Quest #03 - Heretic by Bernard Cornwell
epub |eng | 2004-06-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell [Cornwell, Bernard]

PART TWO Fugitive It rained all night. It was a pelting rain driven by a cold wind that snatched the leaves from the oaks and chestnuts and swirled spite fully ...
( Category: Genre Fiction January 2,2018 )
The Very Model Of A Man by Howard Jacobson
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2015-03-26 | Author:Howard Jacobson

VII It is late when he gets back to his room. Already he can smell the morning on the night. He pushes open his door and resolves not to light ...
( Category: British & Irish January 2,2018 )
Jane on the Brain by Wendy Jones
epub |eng | | Author:Wendy Jones

Incidentally, what most of us think of as handsome or beautiful is by definition a schema. We cull the most regular and symmetrical features from the thousands of faces we ...
( Category: Social Sciences January 1,2018 )
The Poisonous Seed by Linda Stratmann
epub |eng | 2016-06-01 | Author:Linda Stratmann [Stratmann, Linda]

CHAPTER TWELVE Is this something to do with the Bayswater Bank?’ asked Frances, faintly. For a moment she feared that, unknown to her, the Doughtys’ business funds had been transferred ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense January 1,2018 )
A Sunless Sea: A William Monk Novel by Perry Anne
epub |eng | 2012-08-27 | Author:Perry, Anne [Perry, Anne]

CHAPTER 14 OLIVER RATHBONE WAS EATING his breakfast when the maid interrupted him to announce that Mrs. Monk had called to see him regarding a matter she said was urgent. ...
( Category: Genre Fiction December 31,2017 )
2001 - How to be good by Nick Hornby
epub | | | Author:Nick Hornby

NINE The party invitations have been sent out, and most evenings now David and GoodNews lock themselves away in David’s study to finesse their plan of attack. I attempted to ...
( Category: Contemporary December 31,2017 )
Chance by Joseph Conrad
epub |eng | 1913-12-31 | Author:Joseph Conrad [Conrad, Joseph]

I had seen Fyne come striding out of the hotel door. The intelligent girl, without staying to ask questions, walked away from me quietly down one street while I hurried ...
( Category: Classics December 31,2017 )
The Duel by Joseph Conrad
epub |eng | 1908-12-31 | Author:Joseph Conrad [Conrad, Joseph]

Chapter 4 No man succeeds in everything he undertakes. In that sense we are all failures. The great point is not to fail in ordering and sustaining the effort of ...
( Category: Classics December 31,2017 )

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