British & Irish
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:George Macdonald Fraser

Our strategic withdrawal from the top floor of the Hotel Astoria was a fairly fraught business; for a while I didn’t think we were going to make it. Keil, with ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies June 15,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-12-01 | Author:Michel Faber

A Mighty Horde of Women in Very Big Hats, Advancing My father made half of me. Exactly half, my mother said. She didn’t specify which half, so for some time ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Philippa Gregory [Gregory, Philippa]

I should not have worried about the loss of Henry’s curls. When they were shorn, I could see once more the exquisite rounded shape of his head, the tender vulnerable ...
( Category: Historical June 15,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Jonathan Coe [Coe, Jonathan]

One evening when I was about thirty-seven, I came home to my flat carrying a small plastic bag, half filled with provisions from the local supermarket. I had a pint ...
( Category: Contemporary June 15,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Roddy Doyle

—Fergus Nash? I turned away from Paddy Clare’s counter but I brought my bottle with me, in case I needed a club. I had a chisel in my pocket but ...
( Category: Genre Fiction June 15,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-07-07 | Author:Jan Potocki

The Twenty-ninth Day We reassembled early and as the gypsy chief was free, he took up once more the story of his adventures: THE GYPSY CHIEF’S STORY CONTINUED After telling ...
( Category: Literary June 15,2017 )
epub, mobi | | 1987-06-14 | Author:Magnus Mills

Seven There had been further sightings of the articulated bus. Several times of late it had been seen among the traffic flowing slowly down the bejewelled thoroughfare. Jeff spotted it ...
( Category: British & Irish June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-13 | Author:Kingsley Amis [Amis, Kingsley]

2 Immediately· upon getting into the car beside Malcolm, Rhiannon noticed a peaked cap in nearly the same pattern as his jacket folded up on the shelf in front of ...
( Category: Classics June 15,2017 )
epub | | | Author:The Miracle at Speedy Motors [Motors, The Miracle at Speedy]

CHAPTER TEN THE DOCTOR’S HOUSE M R. J.L.B. MATEKONI had not told Mma Ramotswe that he had set up an appointment for Motholeli to see the doctor from SelebiPhikwe. He ...
( Category: Mystery June 15,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Jill Mansell

Dear Millie, I’m so sorry, my behavior on Saturday night was appalling. I do hope you can forgive me. Richard. Millie frowned. She turned the card over, found nothing on ...
( Category: Contemporary June 15,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-09-30 | Author:Allison Pearson

7:47 P.M. THE CLOISTERS HOTEL, YORK. I ring my mother back. She sounds breathless. With a little gentle prompting from me she admits that, yes, she has been feeling a ...
( Category: Women's Fiction June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-29 | Author:Arthur Koestler [Koestler, Arthur]

The action takes place in a home for German refugee children near Paris; time, the present. The characters are children from 2 1/2 to 16 years, mostly of proletariau origin; ...
( Category: British & Irish June 14,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-06-13 | Author:Adele Parks

37. Ted’s Story Lloyd knocked on Ted’s door, there was no response. Lloyd didn’t believe Ted was sleeping – he could hear the faint drone of the TV. It sounded ...
( Category: British & Irish June 14,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-07 | Author:Allison Pearson [Pearson, Allison]

At David Cassidy’s White City concert on May 26, 1974, the central section of the 35,000-strong crowd of fans surged forward when Cassidy appeared; many fainted, were trampled upon or ...
( Category: Women's Fiction June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 1996-04-15 | Author:adam piette [piette, adam]

-139- analysis of their secret sense in parentheses. This sudden move gives real, personal matter to the narrator's admiration for 'phrase-types' which reveal 'une réalité cachée', the reality of Albertine's ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 14,2017 )