Historical
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Fay Weldon

Minnie’s Condition Mrs Flower at the post office telephoned through to the station master at Brighton to tell him that the 10.00 train needed to make a detour and stop ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-15 | Author:Gideon Defoe

‘Pretty Romantic stuff, Percy,’ said Byron, downing his coffee and then banging the mug on the table. ‘Thank you, Byron, I like to think so,’ agreed Percy with a theatrical ...
( Category: Sea Stories April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Gaynor Arnold

“WOULD YOU OBTAIN a box for Mrs. Gibson?” Mrs. Brooks says to Mercer. “A box?” “Yes. To put things in. A large one.” He departs in a stately way, as ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-26 | Author:Jane Sanderson

Chapter 32 Samuel Farrimond drove his gig as slowly as was possible without actually stopping. He wanted time to observe his surroundings and order his thoughts, so he kept the ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Jill Pitkeathley

May 1798 Well, that did not take her long! When I think how she has often teased me about Mr Whitaker and wished me joy with him but when it ...
( Category: Biographical April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-12 | Author:John Boyne

The White Nights THE WAR WAS NOT going to our advantage. As the riots in the streets evolved into attacks on the grain stores and municipal warehouses, the atmosphere surrounding ...
( Category: Military April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1973-01-06 | Author:Jean Plaidy

She was inconsolable. Her women tried to calm her. “This is so bad for you, Your Grace. Children take these maladies… and often they die.” “Had I brought him with ...
( Category: Biographical April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-31 | Author:John Pilkington

TWELVE Late the following night, Marbeck was back in Weymouth. He had slipped into the town after dark, and tethered Cobb to a ring on the quayside. Now, with the ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-07 | Author:Jo Baker

Miss Lucas was married on the Thursday, and the bride and bridegroom set off for Kent from the church door. Mrs. Hill and Sarah and Polly stood in the road, ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Jane Feather

Chapter Seven Thomas was laying out his lordship’s nightgown when Julius entered his bedchamber. “A nice evening, m’lord?” He smoothed down the coverlet. “Very pleasant, thank you, Thomas. I shan’t ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1961-01-06 | Author:Jean Plaidy

The French Marriage IN THE BED, ABOUT WHICH THE ELABORATE CURTAINS HAD been drawn, Thomas Wolsey felt shut away from the world with Mistress Wynter. He talked to her more ...
( Category: Biographical April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-09 | Author:James Wilde

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE THE BOY LAY ON HIS BED OF RUSHES, MUMBLING INCOHERENT words in the throes of his fever. Sweat slicked his flushed face in the glow from the hearth. ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Jill Dawson

6 My Apprenticeship That then was my education. I was about seventeen by the time I got out, and had learned plenty. The girls in the Young Offenders place found ...
( Category: Heist April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Julia Gregson

Chapter 24 ‘Mr Cleeve’s here,’ Ellie was standing at the door when Saba got home. She looked pale. She pointed upstairs towards the bedroom. ‘He came suddenly on the Cairo ...
( Category: Historical April 4,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-04 | Author:Jennifer McVeigh [McVeigh, Jennifer]

Twenty-Four Frances sat on the stoep watching the two men walk out of the veldt towards her. They were still far off, their figures no more than dark silhouettes against ...
( Category: Historical April 4,2015 )