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The Malayan Trilogy by Anthony Burgess
epub |eng | 2010-12-01 | Author:Anthony Burgess [Anthony Burgess]

Two Malay workmen, dish-towels round their heads, came in to drink iced water. “There they go, hairy sods, drinking all day.” “Doing no work.” “Let them have their pleasure. They ...
( Category: British & Irish December 9,2018 )
My Friend Sandy (My Friends...) by Duncan Jane
azw |eng | 2015-08-26 | Author:Duncan, Jane [Duncan, Jane]

Chapter Eight TWICE arrived home in the middle of the following forenoon and when I heard him shouting to Clorinda for beer, I left my sewing and ran on to ...
( Category: British & Irish December 9,2018 )
Philip Larkin by Philip Larkin
epub |eng | 2018-12-07 | Author:Philip Larkin [Philip Larkin and James Booth]

Very much love, d.o.c. P. 1 Amis never visited Larkin in Hull, travelling for his funeral in 1985 only as far as St Mary’s, Cottingham. 2 Supplies of fuel from ...
( Category: Poetry December 8,2018 )
A Healer for the Highlander by TERRI BRISBIN
epub |eng | 2018-08-21 | Author:TERRI BRISBIN

Chapter Fourteen The light that pierced the darkness through a window high on the wall made the floating dust appear as burning snowflakes. They filled the chamber now, scattered by ...
( Category: Historical December 8,2018 )
After the Peace by Fay Weldon
epub |eng | | Author:Fay Weldon [Weldon, Fay]

A Reason For Everything [Writers’ Huddle: ‘Do we really want all this next stuff, Gwinny? Sounds a bit obsessional. As if you’re trying to prove that it’s unprotected sex makes ...
( Category: Contemporary December 8,2018 )
The Red Ribbon by H. B. Lyle
epub |eng | 2018-11-05 | Author:H. B. Lyle

Wiggins rested one hand on Cumming’s bath chair and breathed in the last of the slivovitz vapor. The old man had settled down into a deep, shivering sleep, and judging ...
( Category: Mystery December 8,2018 )
The Lines We Leave Behind by Graham Eliza
epub |eng | 2018-10-31 | Author:Graham, Eliza

13 June 1947 ‘That was that,’ I tell Dr Rosenstein. ‘A costly mission to bring out an important enemy officer destroyed.’ And Ana had saved me for a second time, ...
( Category: Genre Fiction December 8,2018 )
The Three Button Trick and Other Stories by Nicola Barker
epub |eng | 2018-09-30 | Author:Nicola Barker

Popping Corn Oh!’ she said. ‘If I had her breasts I’d become a topless model or a cocktail waitress, or I’d go to Saint-Tropez and lie on the beach all ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies December 8,2018 )
The Belgariad 1: Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings
epub |eng | | Author:David Eddings

The Belgariad 1: Pawn of Prophecy Chapter Eleven THEY WERE NINE DAYS on the coast road from Camaar to the capital at Sendar, though it was only fifty-five leagues. Captain ...
( Category: Fantasy December 8,2018 )
10-Peril on the Royal Train by Edward Marston
mobi |eng | 2013-12-12 | Author:Edward Marston

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Nairn Craig was unfailingly polite to his visitors but doubts were beginning to form beneath the surface. When Colbeck and Leeming called on him in his office that ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense December 7,2018 )
Highland Storm (Guardians of the Stone Book 4) by Tanya Anne Crosby
azw3 |eng | 2016-03-30 | Author:Tanya Anne Crosby [Crosby, Tanya Anne]

South had never been the dún Scoti’s favored direction to ride. Trudging through thick drifts of snow, Keane’s mood remained sour. His men spoke not a word, but every last ...
( Category: Historical December 6,2018 )
Parade's End (Wordsworth Classics) by Ford Ford Madox
epub |eng | 2012-11-30 | Author:Ford, Ford Madox [Ford, Ford Madox]

Served by Ras’us!’ a throaty voice proclaimed, ‘I’d be tickled to death to know that I could go And stay right there . . . ’ The ex-sergeant-major was adding ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 28,2018 )
03 Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett
epub | | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ken Follett [Follett, Ken]

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE Dimka’s grandmother, Katerina, died of a heart attack at the age of seventy. She was buried in Novodevichy Cemetery, a small park full of monuments and little chapels. ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 23,2018 )
02 World Without End by Ken Follett
epub | | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ken Follett [Follett, Ken]

The two nuns left. Godwyn and Philemon waited for Elfric to finish his gruesome task; then they went back inside the treasury. Godwyn said: “I think we’re safe.” Philemon nodded. ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 23,2018 )
03 A Column of Fire by Ken Follett
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ken Follett [Follett, Ken]

It was the psalm the crowd had sung at Lord Hubert’s Pasture, the twenty-third, beginning The Lord is my shepherd. Emotion swamped the crowd like a tidal wave. Tears came ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 23,2018 )

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