British & Irish
epub |eng | 2015-09-14 | Author:William Boyd [Boyd, William]

The Vertical Poets, Oxford, 1942. Left to right, Herbert Percy, V. L. Lindon and Xan Clay. ‘Premonitions’ by Xan Clay Stars foretell the fall of czars. Strummed guitars lead to ...
( Category: Historical November 24,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-11-12 | Author:Holt, Samantha [Holt, Samantha]

Chapter Eight Wind whipped through his hair as Blane pushed his mount faster. The lads he’d brought with him were already making their way up the mountain path but he ...
( Category: Historical November 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-30 | Author:Toby Venables [Venables, Toby]

XXXI King Stormont Castle 25 May, 1193 GISBURNE AWOKE FACE down on the Persian rug, his face hot and itchy against its prickly, dusty fibres. The sun was high in ...
( Category: Historical November 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-19 | Author:Sax Rohmer [Rohmer, Sax]

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN IN THE GALLERIES My course was already set. That there would be some kind of night patrol—probably one of those immobile Chinamen—I could not doubt. But since I ...
( Category: Historical November 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Patrick O'Brian

Chapter Three MS III, 1The diminished but still well-manned Surprise and her lithe fore-and-aft companion Ringle swung easily at their moorings on the making tide not far from the imposing ...
( Category: Historical November 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-01 | Author:Janet Kellough

Luke waylaid his father just as he was leaving to collect Morgan. Dr. Christie had once again disappeared into the back rooms of the house. Even so, Luke spoke in ...
( Category: Historical November 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-11 | Author:T. H. White

“You must therefore withdraw your criticism of Karl Marx.” “Withdraw my criticism?” exclaimed the philosopher. “Yes; for Marx did solve the king’s puzzle of war, by his Union of S.S.R.” ...
( Category: Historical November 12,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-06-30 | Author:Aldous Huxley [Aldous Huxley]

CHAPTER XXII December 8th 1926 MARK LIVED IN a dingy house off the Fulham Road. Dark, brown brick with terra-cotta trimmings; and, within, patterned linoleum; bits of red Axminster carpet; ...
( Category: British & Irish November 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-07 | Author:Wendy Jones

Grace left the Ballantyre Suite, hurriedly pushing the gold watch inside her brassière, where the metal clasp dug into her hard breasts. Lady Lytton was the third person to give ...
( Category: Historical November 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-08-17 | Author:Jennifer Bohnet [Bohnet, Jennifer]

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE RACHEL Carla was already in bed when Rachel arrived in response to Johnnie’s last-minute plea for her to babysit for an hour. ‘Thanks for this,’ Johnnie said. ‘I ...
( Category: British & Irish November 10,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-25 | Author:Gibbins, David [Gibbins, David]

12 MARIA AND JEREMY LED JACK AND COSTAS through the imposing west entrance of Iona Abbey and down the worn flagstones of the nave. It was cool inside, a refreshing ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense November 10,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2015-03-31 | Author:Gibbins, David [Gibbins, David]

CHAPTER 15 LARNAKA, CYPRUS “Jeremy! Good to see you. We haven’t got much time.” Jack stood up and extended a hand as the tall young man loped through the airport ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense November 10,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-25 | Author:Crusader Gold

12 MARIA AND JEREMY LED JACK AND COSTAS through the imposing west entrance of Iona Abbey and down the worn flagstones of the nave. It was cool inside, a refreshing ...
( Category: Contemporary November 10,2015 )
mobi |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Beverley Nichols

Where I should begin is any man's guess. Probably at the National Gallery, in front of the Annunciation by Piero della Francesca; for of all the works of man that ...
( Category: Essays November 10,2015 )
mobi |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Beverley Nichols

I was seized by a wild idea, of revolutionary import. Trees grew from seeds, did they not? They did. Seeds, if sown, might come up? They might. This was a ...
( Category: Reference November 10,2015 )