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On the Road Bike: The Search For a Nation’s Cycling Soul by Boulting Ned
mobi |eng | 2013-05-29 | Author:Boulting, Ned [Boulting, Ned]

( Category: Cycling January 19,2015 )
It's Not Rocket Science by Ben Miller
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-12 | Author:Ben Miller [Miller, Ben]

I once met Francis Crick, one of the two men who famously figured out the structure and function of DNA. I was a graduate student at the Cavendish, and Rachel ...
( Category: Essays January 18,2015 )
The Complete Oscar Wilde Collection (95 total works)
azw |eng | 2009-03-30 | Author:Wilde, Oscar [Wilde, Oscar]

One of the greatest difficulties with which the modern historian has to contend is the enormous complexity of the facts which come under his notice: D'Alembert's suggestion that at the ...
( Category: British & Irish January 17,2015 )
Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser
epub, mobi |eng | 1969-01-01 | Author:George MacDonald Fraser [Fraser, George MacDonald]

I screamed as he swung the whip, and leaped as it struck me. God, I never knew such pain; it was like a fiery razor. He laughed and swung again ...
( Category: Historical January 16,2015 )
Sleepless Knights by Mark Williams
epub |eng | 2013-12-26 | Author:Mark Williams

III Geraint took the goblet back from me and held it up to the light. “Trouble is, Miss B, there’s no way of telling a Cup of Shame from an ...
( Category: Historical December 27,2014 )
(2010) Solar by Ian McEwan
epub |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Ian McEwan [McEwan, Ian]

By the time his taxi had swung round Trafalgar Square and paused to join in a traffic jam along the Strand, he was over an hour and a half late. ...
( Category: Technothrillers December 19,2014 )
Paint Your Dragon by Tom Holt
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1995-12-31 | Author:Tom Holt

The statues – eight Berninis, three Donatellos, three Celliis, a Canova and the Giambologna Mercury – all went missing from various locations in the space of about eight hours. No ...
( Category: Paranormal & Urban December 8,2014 )
Kill Your Friends by John Niven
epub |eng | 2007-12-31 | Author:John Niven

June The Ivor Novello Awards are held at the Grosvenor House Hotel. Ken Berry becomes Head of EMI. ‘MMmm Bop’ by Hanson is N°1. A lot of people are talking ...
( Category: Humor & Satire December 8,2014 )
The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-12-31 | Author:Farahad Zama

Twelve The next day, Mr Ali and Aruna were going through their lists to identify non-members. These were people who had responded to ads but had never become members themselves. ...
( Category: Humorous December 8,2014 )
Last Orders at Harrods by Michael Holman
epub |eng | 2004-12-31 | Author:Michael Holman

17 “Only the lion may piss in the watering hole” President Josiah Nduka stood in the bay window of his State House study, looking out over Kireba. Much had changed ...
( Category: Political December 8,2014 )
Still life with Volkswagens by Geoff Nicholson
epub |eng | 1993-12-31 | Author:Geoff Nicholson

Six Paint Your Volkswagen The first skinhead says, “What if we went down Brick Lane and did over a few Indian restaurants?” “It’s definitely a possibility,” says Phelan. “Or,” says ...
( Category: Contemporary December 8,2014 )
The Mechanical Messiah and Other Marvels of the Modern Age by Robert Rankin
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Robert Rankin

Thirty-One But into space went the Marie Lloyd, leaving the Earth behind. Darwin clung to the colonel’s leg. The colonel peeped out through a porthole. “Always a stirring sight,” said ...
( Category: Humorous December 8,2014 )
The Pirates! in an Adventure with Communists by Gideon Defoe
epub |eng | 2005-12-31 | Author:Gideon Defoe

THE HIGH PRICE OF TINY DOCS LATELY – COMMUNISTS TO BLAME? ARE OUR BOULEVARDS NOT SO WIDE AND LEAFY AS THEY WERE? COMMUNISTS! IS THE RED MENACE BEHIND THIS WEATHER ...
( Category: Contemporary December 8,2014 )
Our Lady of Alice Bhatti by Mohammed Hanif
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Mohammed Hanif

Sixteen “Do you know what happens to men after they get married?” Teddy Butt asks not-Abu Zar as he massages his stomach. “And do you know what happens to women ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage December 8,2014 )
All Quiet on the Orient Express by Magnus Mills
epub |eng | 1998-12-31 | Author:Magnus Mills

A telephone number was also given. I read the advert several times to make sure I wasn’t mistaken, then continued turning the pages. Further along someone was inviting advance orders ...
( Category: Contemporary December 8,2014 )

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