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Saxon: The Book of Dreams by Tim Severin
epub |eng | 2012-08-02 | Author:Tim Severin [Severin, Tim]

Chapter Thirteen WE REACHED ZARAGOZA three days later. It was mid-morning and the air crisp and invigorating, the cloudless winter sky a pale washed-out blue. The city had been alerted ...
( Category: British & Irish August 17,2017 )
Royalist Rebel by Seymour Anita
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-22 | Author:Seymour, Anita

‘I will ask you again, Mistress Murray. Who was that man?’ Straggly clouds slide across the moon, throwing pale light onto the stern expression of Robin Carter, who glares down ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 17,2017 )
Dark Angel by Sally Beauman
epub |eng | 1990-01-01 | Author:Sally Beauman [Beauman, Sally]

VI UNKNOWN SOLDIERS From my mother’s diaries: General Hospital 1, Saint-Hilaire, March 21, 1917 IT IS SIX DAYS since I lost a patient, but this evening the Canadian died. I ...
( Category: Romantic Suspense August 17,2017 )
One Night with the Laird by Nicola Cornick
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-10-28 | Author:Nicola Cornick [Cornick, Nicola]

CHAPTER TWELVE THEY FOUND NO trace of Wilfred Cardross on Jack’s patrol. Later in the day he went out with the Methven men again, quartering the hillsides above the castle, ...
( Category: Historical August 17,2017 )
The Confession of Katherine Howard by Suzannah Dunn
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:Suzannah Dunn

Over the weeks, we girls–with the exception of Mary–grew relaxed enough in the boys’ presence to discard not only our hoods but our gowns, which left us sitting around in ...
( Category: British & Irish August 17,2017 )
The Late Hector Kipling by David Thewlis
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:David Thewlis [Thewlis, David]

Here I am, look. Here I am. I’m squeezed into a phone box on the corner of the Roman Road, and Mum’s all over the place. Mum’s in little pieces ...
( Category: British & Irish August 17,2017 )
Inventing Ireland by Declan Kiberd
epub |eng | | Author:Declan Kiberd [Declan Kiberd]

SEXUAL POLITICS SEXUAL POLITICS In the 1920s James Joyce liked to joke that his country was entering "the devil's era"; and historians now tend to agree that the next three ...
( Category: British & Irish August 17,2017 )
Call Me the Breeze by Patrick McCabe
epub |eng | 2003-08-17 | Author:Patrick McCabe [McCabe, Patrick]

Approximately two miles away, in a mobile home on the edge of a former itinerant settlement, there is a certain person who is not at this point exhibiting any sign ...
( Category: British & Irish August 17,2017 )
A Wayne in a Manger by Gervase Phinn
epub |eng | 2008-11-06 | Author:Gervase Phinn

Jesus giving Him an unhealthy grey appearance. Joseph had lost an arm and the angels their haloes, the Three Kings looked like down-and-outs, while the ox and the ass were ...
( Category: British & Irish August 17,2017 )
Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara by Tim Robinson
epub |eng | 2012-08-17 | Author:Tim Robinson [Tim Robinson]

THE PERSON The Synges came to Ireland in the seventeenth century from England, produced a succession of bishops for the Protestant Church of Ireland, and married land. J.M. Synge’s father, ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 17,2017 )
Wise Children by Carter Angela
epub, mobi |eng | 1992-01-16 | Author:Carter, Angela [Angela Carter]

Pardon me, vicar. Tony was a nice boy but he never moved me. We changed trains at Chicago. Onwards! To the Dearborn Station! To the Super-Chief! Nora’s Tony wasn’t, as ...
( Category: Literary August 17,2017 )
The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas
epub, pdf |eng | 1993-09-01 | Author:D. M. Thomas [Thomas, D. M.]

About a year later, I met Frau Anna again, quite by chance. By a pleasant coincidence, the meeting occurred at Bad Gastein, where I was on holiday with another member ...
( Category: Contemporary August 17,2017 )
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-12-11 | Author:Evelyn Waugh [WAUGH, EVELYN]

“Did you write that?” Dennis hesitated. “You like it?” “Why, it’s beautiful. It’s just what I’ve thought so often and haven’t been able to express. ‘To make it rich to ...
( Category: Classics August 17,2017 )
Jane Austen For Beginners by Robert Dryden
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:Robert Dryden [Dryden, Robert]

With Mary and Henry now in attendance, and the law of the father (Sir Thomas) in abeyance, the stage is set for a decline in manners and morals and the ...
( Category: Women's Studies August 17,2017 )
Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh
epub |eng | 1953-01-01 | Author:Evelyn Waugh [Waugh, Evelyn]

Five The International Incident It was the conversation of the two generals, overheard as he lay in his cabin after luncheon, which first made Mr. Pinfold aware of the international ...
( Category: Classics August 17,2017 )

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