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Brodie 01 - Case Histories by Atkinson Kate
mobi |eng | 2003-12-31 | Author:Atkinson, Kate [Atkinson, Kate]

Jackson put Emma Drake in a cab and gave the driver a ridiculously generous twenty-five pounds to take her back to Crouch End and see her into her flat. Then ...
( Category: Short Stories April 9,2016 )
Literary Advertising and the Shaping of British Romanticism by Mason Nicholas
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-08-22 | Author:Mason, Nicholas [Mason, Nicholas]

Figure 4.2. Henry Robinson’s engraving of H. W. Pickersgill’s 1825 portrait of Landon. The ostentatious hat is apparently Robinson’s addition. (Frontispiece to vol. 3 of the Autobiography of William Jerdan.) ...
( Category: Marketing & Sales April 3,2016 )
Lord Rakehell by Virginia Henley
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Virginia Henley [Henley, Virginia]

Chapter Fifteen “T he queen has sent some of her ladies to serve you,” Anne explained to the group waiting to board the yacht. She sent up a silent prayer ...
( Category: Historical April 2,2016 )
The Swords of Corum by Michael Moorcock
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Michael Moorcock [Moorcock, Michael]

The Third Chapter Beasts of the Abyss Now the White River foamed wildly and roared as it rushed over the brink. Corum and Jhary dragged the oars free and used ...
( Category: Epic April 2,2016 )
The North Water: A Novel by Ian McGuire
mobi |eng | 2016-03-15 | Author:Ian McGuire

CHAPTER FIFTEEN For four days and nights, Brownlee lies insensible on his cot, open-eyed but barely breathing. The left side of his face is blackened and misshapen. His eye is ...
( Category: Historical April 2,2016 )
The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
epub |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:Helen Simonson

“Your marble thigh so sinewed, whitely, Would that my hand might press to warm Life to the veins, set sap to running— And harvest the shepherd home to the farm.” ...
( Category: Historical April 2,2016 )
Jack: A Life of C. S. Lewis. by Sayer George & Lyle W. Dorsett
epub |eng | 2005-06-20 | Author:Sayer, George & Lyle W. Dorsett [Sayer, George]

(“Because so many thousands looked at it with him”—here is the effect on Jack of becoming a communicating member of the Church and part of the mystical body of Christ.) ...
( Category: British & Irish March 31,2016 )
Jack: A Life of C. S. Lewis by Sayer George & Lyle W. Dorsett
mobi |eng | 2005-06-19 | Author:Sayer, George & Lyle W. Dorsett [Sayer, George]

(“Because so many thousands looked at it with him”—here is the effect on Jack of becoming a communicating member of the Church and part of the mystical body of Christ.) ...
( Category: British & Irish March 31,2016 )
Pasquale's Angel by Paul J McAuley
epub |eng | 2014-01-21 | Author:Paul J McAuley

6 The vaporous liquid that soaked the cloth did not put Pasquale entirely to sleep. It was as if he were hovering at the border of dreaming and waking, might ...
( Category: Historical March 19,2016 )
Discworld 10 Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
epub | | 2010-05-17 | Author:Terry Pratchett [Pratchett, Terry]

No-one knew where it was, or even if it had existed. The Librarian glanced at the symbols again. They were very familiar. They were on the old ruins all over ...
( Category: Humor & Satire March 19,2016 )
Paint Your Dragon (1987) by Tom Holt
epub | | 1987-03-18 | Author:Tom Holt

The statues—eight Berninis, three Donatellos, three Celliis, a Canova and the Giambologna Mercury—all went missing from various locations in the space of about eight hours. No sign of forced entry, ...
( Category: Humorous March 19,2016 )
Terry Pratchett - [Discworld 12] by Witches Abroad
mobi |eng | 2011-04-07 | Author:Witches Abroad

However available they were, and no further information was vouchsafed on this point, they were certainly more available than accommodation in Genua in Fat Lunchtime. All the taverns and inns ...
( Category: Humor & Satire March 19,2016 )
Shape-Shifter by Pauline Melville
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Pauline Melville

McGregor’s Journey ‘I’M JACKING,’ SAID MCGREGOR. It was ten o’clock in the morning. The other scaffolder hadn’t turned up. It had taken him half an hour to unload the freezing ...
( Category: Contemporary March 19,2016 )
The Violet Hour by Katie Roiphe
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:Katie Roiphe

Updike once said that finishing Rabbit at Rest was like a kind of death. In the Rabbit books, Rabbit’s son is with him when he dies. Nelson is undone at ...
( Category: British & Irish March 15,2016 )
The Assize of the Dying by Ellis Peters
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Ellis Peters

AUNT HELEN Chapter 1 It was turning out exactly like all the other abortive attempts to get Uncle Philip to see reason. He should have known better than to expect ...
( Category: British & Irish March 14,2016 )

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