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The Mother at Number 5 by Jill Childs
epub |eng | 2023-06-20 | Author:Jill Childs [Childs, Jill]

Ros’s first feedback came from Diana on Wednesday morning, when the two of them coincided at drop-off. Once they’d kissed their children and sent them, arms wheeling, across the playground ...
( Category: Contemporary August 25,2023 )
The Bearpit by Brian Freemantle
epub |eng | 1988-12-15 | Author:Brian Freemantle [Freemantle, Brian]

20 Finally it had all emerged so easily, reflected Vasili Malik: so stupidly, incriminatingly easy! And now he had them! Panchenko definitely. And Kazin as well. Not so definitely but ...
( Category: Contemporary June 7,2023 )
Becoming George Sand by Rosalind Brackenbury
epub |eng | | Author:Rosalind Brackenbury

“Edward,” she says to him on the phone. She has his mobile number, and hears him answer, but she can’t know where he is, what he is doing; she has ...
( Category: Contemporary May 26,2023 )
For Love or Money by Elizabeth Bevarly
epub |eng | 2000-03-15 | Author:Elizabeth Bevarly

Normally, it would have caused Dinah some concern to be alone with a man in a hotel room, wearing nothing but a little white towel. But Marcus was still in ...
( Category: Contemporary March 2,2023 )
Timoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan Rhodes
epub |eng | 2009-02-15 | Author:Dan Rhodes

GIUSEPPE, OR LEONARDO DA VINCI Timoleon Vieta killed and ate rats and rabbits and old, slow hares. He scavenged from bins outside houses, turning them over in the middle of ...
( Category: Contemporary February 8,2023 )
Tokyo Cancelled by Rana Dasgupta
epub |eng | | Author:Rana Dasgupta

SECTION 7 7.1 There was a backlog of things that Yukio had to do, but working at home seemed different without Yukiko. He was distracted. He had not expected to ...
( Category: Contemporary February 7,2023 )
Walking the Dog by Bernard MacLaverty
epub |eng | | Author:Bernard MacLaverty

BY TRAIN ‘. . . your man was travelling from Glasgow to Aberdeen by train. In the opposite corner of the carriage sat a man pretending to be absorbed in ...
( Category: Contemporary February 3,2023 )
Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains by Susan Elderkin
epub |eng | 2000-01-15 | Author:Susan Elderkin

11 From the windows of Santa Catalina Elementary School you look out on to the foothills of the Santa Catalina mountains. Sometimes, higher up where the sides of the mountains ...
( Category: Contemporary January 30,2023 )
Picking Up the Pieces by Mary Sheepshanks
epub |eng | | Author:Mary Sheepshanks

EIGHTEEN Kate was late for her date with Jack at Scott’s. She had pondered whether to leave the car at Mike’s house and fetch it later, but as she intended ...
( Category: Contemporary January 28,2023 )
The Dancers Dancing by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
epub |eng | 2011-11-07 | Author:Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

Talking to a friend On their walks, or at the meals, or in bed, Aisling and Orla hardly ever talk about problems, and this is one of the factors that ...
( Category: Contemporary January 20,2023 )
Intrusions by Ursula Hegi
epub |eng | | Author:Ursula Hegi

79 Backing out of the garage, she remembered the dinner she had not wanted to send back two months ago. They had gone out to dinner on Valentine’s Day to ...
( Category: Contemporary December 19,2022 )
The Body by Hanif Kureishi
epub |eng | 2004-12-15 | Author:Hanif Kureishi

5 I WENT TO eat in a taverna in town, reading at the table. After a few pages, I thought, “I can do this.” I pulled some paper from my ...
( Category: Contemporary December 12,2022 )
The Book of Color by Julia Blackburn
epub |eng | 2012-10-03 | Author:Julia Blackburn [Blackburn, Julia]

Nineteen When the boy woke, the room that he was in seemed familiar to him even though he knew he had never seen it before. The pattern of each day ...
( Category: Contemporary December 4,2022 )
The Life of a Banana by PP Wong
epub |eng | | Author:PP Wong

Chapter 22 Roses Are Red, Grandma Is Blue Grandma is acting a bit weird. Like we have to be at the airport in three hours and instead of her usual ...
( Category: Contemporary December 4,2022 )
A Charmed Circle by Anna Kavan
epub |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Anna Kavan

CHAPTER LII IN spite of his determination to take no further interest in Beryl, Will Trenchard was disappointed when Olive returned to the breakfast-room without her sister. He could not ...
( Category: Contemporary July 30,2022 )

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