Contemporary
epub |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:John Minichillo

In the morning Toni dressed Jacobs in a suit of her husband's that fit well enough. She let him use her phone, which he thought was generous since he'd rebuffed ...
( Category: Contemporary February 8,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Walter Woon

17 D’ALMEIDA was right about events moving very fast. Shortly after our meeting, I returned to the station late one Sunday afternoon from my usual shopping expedition in the kampong ...
( Category: Contemporary February 8,2023 )
epub |eng | 2006-02-15 | Author:Sara Donati

Miss Maddie stood at the end of the table, fists on hips and her head cocked at a thoughtful angle. Her apron fluttered a little in the breeze from the ...
( Category: Contemporary February 8,2023 )
epub |eng | 2009-02-15 | Author:Gareth O'Callaghan

CHAPTER SEVEN “Who is the most important person in your life right at this moment, Joe?” Marty sat back and stared out at the fishing boats closing in on the ...
( Category: Contemporary February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2009-02-15 | Author:Peter Sheridan

Chapter Five Redser couldn’t sleep that night. He couldn’t stop thinking about the money. Why had he done it? He wasn’t a robber. He’d never stolen anything in his life. ...
( Category: Contemporary February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-19 | Author:Charmeljun Gallardo [Gallardo, Charmeljun]

Saturday, October 25, 1986. 5:17PM Robbie and I were sitting on the curb in front of his house. I took off my sunglasses and put them in my jacket pocket. ...
( Category: Contemporary February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-05 | Author:Will Self [Self, Will]

Thai My friend Ian’s girlfriend Cindy has opened a Thai restaurant at Toll Cross in Edinburgh. There’s nothing particularly reprehensible about that – I mean, at least Cindy is Thai, ...
( Category: Contemporary February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Pamela Lu

Thus began my ill-starred journey to the interior. I slogged along the riverbank in a southwesterly direction until I came across a tributary where a great banyan tree had taken ...
( Category: Contemporary February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Lynne Pemberton [Pemberton, Lynne]

Chapter Eleven Before daylight I’m woken by an urgent rapping. I stagger to the door, hearing Brendan on the other side. ‘Kate, it’s me, let me in.’ I yell, ‘Give ...
( Category: Contemporary February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-04 | Author:Simon Barnes

You acquire a method for dealing with these things. When you begin that long, slow, graceful parabola backwards into the vastness of space, there is yet no need to despair. ...
( Category: Contemporary February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-02 | Author:Toni Morrison [Morrison, Toni]

From the novel Beloved UNFORTUNATELY HER BRAIN was devious. She might be hurrying across a field, running practically, to get to the pump quickly and rinse the chamomile sap from ...
( Category: Contemporary February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Saul Bellow [Bellow, Saul]

THE BEGINNING Let the conversation begin … Follow the Penguin Twitter.com@penguinUKbooks Keep up-to-date with all our stories YouTube.com/penguinbooks Pin ‘Penguin Books’ to your Pinterest Like ‘Penguin Books’ on Facebook.com/penguinbooks Listen ...
( Category: Contemporary February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-02 | Author:Salman Rushdie [Rushdie, Salman]

The Courter A story from East, West 1 CERTAINLY-MARY WAS THE smallest woman Mixed-Up the hall porter had come across, dwarfs excepted, a tiny sixty-year-old Indian lady with her greying ...
( Category: Contemporary February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2006-02-15 | Author:Lise Haines

twelve I have no affinity for the afterlife. No desire to play with its rolling energy as Jane did. She treated death like a boy inside a tire at the ...
( Category: Contemporary February 7,2023 )