Historical
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-11-30 | Author:Jennifer McVeigh

XVI Harold returns from his expedition in the bush. He looks stronger—more robust—and older. His skin glows from the sun, and his eyes shine with happiness. He shows us photographs ...
( Category: Historical February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Penelope Fitzgerald

13 There was nothing wrong, nothing that you could lay a finger on, in the way Selwyn did his work at Reidka’s, but the imminent birth of his first volume ...
( Category: Historical February 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-21 | Author:Goodwin, Daisy [Goodwin, Daisy]

BOOK THREE CHAPTER ONE “There is a letter for you, Majesty, from Brussels.” Lehzen produced the letter from a pocket in her skirts. Victoria sighed. “I don’t want to read ...
( Category: Historical December 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-28 | Author:Cornwell, Bernard [Cornwell, Bernard]

I had been to Dumnoc before, long ago, and had been trapped in its largest tavern, the Goose, and the only way to escape had been to start a fire ...
( Category: Military December 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-05 | Author:Paul Fraser Collard [Collard, Paul Fraser]

The British column advanced through the wreckage of the cantonment. It was still not yet noon but already the sun was cooking the advancing infantrymen, even though they advanced in ...
( Category: Military July 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-31 | Author:Sandra Gulland [Gulland, Sandra]

Chapter Twenty NICOLAS FOUQUET WELCOMED his royal guests to his new château with an effusive show of grandeur. “This modest fete is in your honor, Your Majesty.” Attired in lace ...
( Category: Biographical July 2,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-01-25 | Author:Fiona Buckley

Beyond this surprising tableau, I could see several other men, close to the cliff edge, all staring downwards and apparently discussing something. I turned Lady towards them and realized as ...
( Category: Family Saga June 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-22 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

Thirteen I “I suppose it couldn’t possibly have been the mayor?” said Inspector Cornish wistfully. He tapped the paper with the list of names on it with his pencil. Dermot ...
( Category: Historical June 27,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2015-06-09 | Author:Balogh, Mary [Balogh, Mary]

* * * “A minor crisis,” Ralph explained to his mother and two of his sisters at breakfast. “Chloe decided to cut her hair last night and did not like ...
( Category: Regency June 14,2016 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-01-14 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

"I'm sure there's nothing to thank me for--nothing at alll So glad if I've been able to do anything--if there's anything more I can do--" Poirot came back from the ...
( Category: Historical May 18,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-26 | Author:Susanna Jones [Jones, Susanna]

Father glared down from somewhere near the ceiling of my sitting room and mumbled at me. What did I think I was doing, so soon after his death when I ...
( Category: Historical May 16,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Graham Swift [Swift, Graham]

One day, after she had lodged her bold but shy, even slightly simpering request, Mr Niven had said, after a lengthy pause for thought, ‘Well yes, of course you may, ...
( Category: Historical May 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-25 | Author:Guy Gavriel Kay [Kay, Guy Gavriel]

When Obravic sent an important message to Senjan, the court used two couriers, two days apart, for safety. The identical messages that arrived (within a day of each other, as ...
( Category: Historical May 11,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kate Lord Brown

TWENTY-NINE FLYING POINT, LONG ISLAND 2000 GABRIEL The thought of Quimby has me on edge again. Still, after all this time. I screw my eyes closed against the memory of ...
( Category: Historical May 11,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-05-08 | Author:Candace Robb

William wore a fine squirrel-lined cloak and a matching fur hat. The hand that touched Kate’s face as he kissed her cheek in greeting was gloved in softest leather. “May ...
( Category: Historical May 9,2016 )