British & Irish
epub |eng | | Author:The House in the Orchard (retail) (epub)

If I’d had a pocket, I could have stuffed the letters I wish I’d had a pocket in my dress, so that If I were a true detective, inspired by ...
( Category: Historical December 15,2022 )
epub |eng | 2021-12-15 | Author:Graeme Macrae Burnet

Braithwaite III: Kill Your Self By the autumn of 1965, when the author of the notebooks contained in this volume presented herself at Ainger Road, Braithwaite was approaching the height ...
( Category: Historical December 15,2022 )
epub |eng | 2004-12-15 | Author:Hanif Kureishi

5 I WENT TO eat in a taverna in town, reading at the table. After a few pages, I thought, “I can do this.” I pulled some paper from my ...
( Category: Contemporary December 12,2022 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-10 | Author:P. G. Wodehouse

Chapter 5 Fortunately the road was mainly level. On the other hand, he was hampered by an overcoat. After the first hundred yards he took this off, and carried it ...
( Category: British & Irish December 10,2022 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-24 | Author:Jonathan Swift

Idque petit corpus mens unde est saucia amore: Unde feritur, eo tendit, gestitque coire. LUCR. Having to no purpose used all peaceable endeavours, the collected part of the semen, raised ...
( Category: Humor & Satire December 5,2022 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-02 | Author:Charles Dickens

Chapter 42 The Royal East London Volunteers made a brilliant sight that day: formed into lines, squares, circles, triangles, and what not, to the beating of drums, and the streaming ...
( Category: Historical December 4,2022 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-03 | Author:Julia Blackburn [Blackburn, Julia]

Nineteen When the boy woke, the room that he was in seemed familiar to him even though he knew he had never seen it before. The pattern of each day ...
( Category: Contemporary December 4,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:PP Wong

Chapter 22 Roses Are Red, Grandma Is Blue Grandma is acting a bit weird. Like we have to be at the airport in three hours and instead of her usual ...
( Category: Contemporary December 4,2022 )
epub |eng | 2020-11-12 | Author:Rosie Thomas [Thomas, Rosie]

THIRTEEN In the same instant, Nick looked up and saw her. A girl with dark red hair cut short around a thinner, paler face than he remembered. The blue-green eyes ...
( Category: Historical October 29,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Nobbs

14 In Love Droplets of dew hung on every leaf and every blade of grass. Thin grey clouds scudded across a leaden sky. Ginny looked dreadful. Her face was blotchy. ...
( Category: Humor & Satire October 24,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Walsh [Walsh, Stephen]

PLEASE SAY WHY YOU’RE CALLING SHE SAW HIM ON THE first day of her assignment. She was walking along the canal bank to the office. He was just ahead of ...
( Category: Humor & Satire October 24,2022 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-16 | Author:Dennison, Hannah [Dennison, Hannah]

23 The morgue was conveniently located at the rear of Gipping Hospital behind a walled courtyard. It was a plain one-storey, redbrick building with a flat roof and no windows, ...
( Category: Historical October 13,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hannah Lynn

Chapter 2 Mac “Hey, Mac, we got another problem.” Mitchell MacAllan squeezed the bridge of his nose between his thumb and forefinger, warding off an impending headache. The late-afternoon winter ...
( Category: Humor & Satire October 13,2022 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Hannah Dennison

18 As we turned out of Peking Road and into the High Street, the theme to Mission Impossible burst into life. It seemed to be coming from Steve’s top jacket ...
( Category: Historical October 13,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hannah Dennison

18 As we turned out of Peking Road and into the High Street, the theme to Mission Impossible burst into life. It seemed to be coming from Steve’s top jacket ...
( Category: Historical October 10,2022 )