British & Irish
epub | | | Author:Dyer, Geoff [Dyer, Geoff]

It was daylight by the time they finally stopped for breakfast. Stiff from so many hours in the car, they walked awkwardly into the diner, the screen door slamming behind ...
( Category: Jazz July 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Roy Lewis [Lewis, Roy]

10 I suppose we could have rushed Father if we had wanted. But he would certainly have got one of us, and probably two, before we got him. So, snarling ...
( Category: Humor & Satire July 13,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:George, Pauline [George, Pauline]

Chapter Ten I FELT QUITE deflated on the journey home and I put that down to the holiday being over and seeing Katie. Which made me start thinking about her ...
( Category: Religions June 24,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Paul Fraser Collard [Collard, Paul Fraser]

Chapter Twenty-one ‘I would like to apologise for my behaviour, sir.’ The colonel’s tent was stuffy, despite the fact that the canvas flaps of the entrance were tied back as ...
( Category: Military June 21,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2015-01-11 | Author:Georg Brandes

* * * XVIII BEYLE From the standpoint of our own day we see side by side with Balzac another French author whom it would never have occurred to any ...
( Category: British & Irish June 18,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-06-16 | Author:David Ambrose [Ambrose, David]

Chapter 31 LATIMER WEST’S OFFICE was on the top floor of the main building. She imagined, when she thought about it, that the view must be impressive, but she never ...
( Category: Contemporary June 18,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-11-05 | Author:Evelyn Waugh

At the beginning of May the engagement was announced. I saw the notice in the Continental Daily Mail and assumed that Rex had ‘squared the old man’. But things did ...
( Category: British & Irish June 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2005-06-15 | Author:Jill Ciment [Ciment, Jill]

CHAPTER THIRTEEN ll that remained of my drawings the next morning was a dusting of ash on Philip’s skin, except for two remarkably intact images—the black ship on his chest ...
( Category: Historical June 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-30 | Author:MICHAEL DOBBS

The second of August. A Wednesday. The House had a stale, masculine atmosphere that left tempers frayed and caused rings of sweat to gather around the collars. Time to leave. ...
( Category: Historical June 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-11-06 | Author:Cecelia Ahern [Ahern, Cecelia]

The sky was clear black and a million little stars twinkled down on them; it was as if someone had thrown glitter up into a massive black net. The full ...
( Category: British & Irish June 13,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-15 | Author:Daphne Du Maurier [Maurier, Daphne Du]

‘Wherever’s Joe?’ worried Annie. ‘Nearly three o’clock an’ not back yet. I’ve a mind to clear away. Seen your father, boys?’ Charles and Albert shook their heads. ‘Can’t fathom out ...
( Category: Historical June 13,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1954-01-02 | Author:Daphne Du Maurier [Maurier, Daphne Du]

20 The rebel army capitulated to the King in the early hours of Sunday morning. There was no escape by sea for the hundreds of men herded on the beaches. ...
( Category: Historical June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 1984-01-02 | Author:Paul Scott [Scott, Paul]

The Dak Bungalow (Sarah Layton) I THE SCENE WAS over. I can enter now, Sarah told herself. * But I did not enter. None of us did. I thought I ...
( Category: Historical June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Perry, Anne [Anne, Perry,]

Thirty-nine FOR ZOE CHRYSAPHES TO INQUIRE WAS EXCELLENT, BUT it was not all that Giuliano could do. He also looked in the other quarters of the city for people who ...
( Category: Historical June 13,2015 )
epub | | 2011-01-14 | Author:Gregson, Julia [Julia, Gregson,]

Part Three Scutari and the Crimea Chapter 37 Constantinople, November 2, 1854 They traveled east in an old mail boat called the Vectis, and as it drifted toward the shore, ...
( Category: Historical June 13,2015 )