British & Irish
epub |eng | 2014-09-09 | Author:Philippa Gregory [Gregory, Philippa]

I am to take a new young woman into my care in the princess’s household. Lady Margaret Douglas, the commoner daughter of the king’s sister the Dowager Queen of Scotland. ...
( Category: Historical August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Edward Marston [Marston, Edward]

The ceremony was held at the Banqueting House. Since it was his first visit there, Christopher Redmayne took the opportunity to study what was, architecturally, the most striking part of ...
( Category: Mystery August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-10 | Author:Anne O'Brien [O’brien, Anne]

( Category: Historical August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-02-28 | Author:Karen Harper

CHAPTER TWENTY April 27, 1526 Hampton Court The weeks, days and hours were precious now and not to be dreaded as Mary had feared: each meal, each walk through the ...
( Category: British & Irish August 26,2017 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-09-26 | Author:David Gibbins

Jack led the way out of the sacrificial chamber and through the portal, his headlamp trained on the tunnel ahead. After about ten metres the passageway narrowed and curved off ...
( Category: Action & Adventure August 26,2017 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-11-15 | Author:Dewey Lambdin

vanishing in a finger-snap as it did in these climes, the wind would be right up the stern, flooding through his transom sash-windows, cupped by the propped open windows of ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Pfordresher

Charlotte Brontë began her first, full-fledged novel during the winter of 1846. At the same time, Emily was working on Wuthering Heights and Anne on Agnes Grey. Charlotte’s first working-title ...
( Category: British & Irish August 26,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-02-15 | Author:M.J. Trow [M. J. Trow]

ELEVEN Marlowe had walked along the Strand many times, past the great houses mellow in their stone. The Convent Garden stretched to his left, a convent no longer but the ...
( Category: Mystery August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-15 | Author:Jane A. Adams [Jane A. Adams]

THIRTEEN By the time they left Sally Morris it was well after two. Fortunately, they had been offered tea and sandwiches made with thick slices of cheese brought in from ...
( Category: Mystery August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-12 | Author:Jonathan L. Howard [Howard, Jonathan L.]

Chapter 11 IN WHICH CABAL BEHAVES DESPICABLY AND INQUISITIVELY Cabal, for his part, knew exactly what he was going to tell the Senzan authorities. The Princess Hortense’s entry into the ...
( Category: Fantasy August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-06 | Author:Lindsey Davis [Lindsey Davis]

29 Since I was by the Palatine, I went to tell Trebianus what Ilia had said, then see what he wanted me to do. I reached the palace via a ...
( Category: Mystery August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-23 | Author:Tom Stern

4. “It’s not working out,” Klaus explained as Richard Pope looked on, stone still. “Something in the sound,” Klaus continued, without even a hint of awareness as to how pompous ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 26,2017 )
mobi |eng | 1977-01-01 | Author:W. Somerset Maugham; Robert Calder

9 Margaret’s night was disturbed, and next day she was unable to go about her work with her usual tranquillity. She tried to reason herself into a natural explanation of ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 25,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-07-02 | Author:Luke McCallin

There was a message slip on his desk. Thallberg had called and was waiting to see him at the State House. He put the piece of paper from Freilinger on ...
( Category: Mystery August 25,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-07-12 | Author:Mike Ashley (ed)

She’s gagging, but trapped in her own vile stench. And still the sack keeps on swinging – “How long did you stand there laughing at her, Mary? How many hours ...
( Category: Mystery August 25,2017 )