Historical
epub |eng | 2016-05-20 | Author:Isolde Martyn [Isolde Martyn]

It was tedious waiting. There was little breakfast to go round and while the dukes placated the prince upstairs, Heloise tried to keep Ned content. She was halfway through telling ...
( Category: Historical May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Rosalind Miles

CHAPTER 32 The two hooded figures trod carefully down the hill. The first snow of winter had clothed the island in white, and a mantle of ice had all but ...
( Category: Historical May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-20 | Author:Anabelle Bryant

The carriage rushed through the West End, past St James’s and Bond Street, where Gemma knew the Underworld lay tucked away in secret. Conversation was sparse and she preferred it ...
( Category: Regency May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-01 | Author:Stephen P. Kiernan

Chapter 20 The Field Marshal chose just that moment to call for the Kommandant, who stared at the baguette in each of his hands as if they were grenades, then ...
( Category: Military May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-26 | Author:Rebecca Glenn [Glenn, Rebecca]

Lisette stood in front of the doors to the Louvre, waiting a few moments before going inside. It felt strange to enter the Louvre without her papa. The noises from ...
( Category: Historical May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Rosalind Miles

THEY FOUND ARTHUR on his knees in his private chapel, hands clasped and eyes uplifted to an ivory carving of a tortured Christ. Beneath the crucifix stood a fine altar ...
( Category: Biographical May 21,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-12-07 | Author:Arnopp, Judith [Arnopp, Judith]

February 1473 I miss Harry. My bed seems vast and cold without the familiar body slumbering beside me, the touch of his hand on my hip. I never recognised how ...
( Category: Biographical May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Boyne

It was a Tuesday evening in late summer and Hawley was alone in the back garden at 39 Hilldrop Crescent, strolling around with his hands in his pockets, disturbing the ...
( Category: Historical Mystery May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-01 | Author:Minae Mizumura

By the time the train pulled into Hakone Yumoto, the end of the line, it was almost completely dark outside. The station, which had evidently undergone renovation, was now shiny ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage May 21,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-01-05 | Author:Dennington, David [Dennington, David]

Later, when the dinner guests had gone and the servants had finished clearing away, Marthe and Thomson sat beside the fireplace drinking liqueurs. “Have you considered my proposal any further, ...
( Category: Historical May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-16 | Author:Brandy Purdy [Purdy, Brandy]

PART 3 JOSEPHINE CHAPTER 20 From the moment Bonaparte changed my name, my life would never again be the same; I would never be the same. The moment I let ...
( Category: Biographical May 21,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-04-20 | Author:Ellen Feldman [Feldman, Ellen]

The third person who came to the apartment while Ruby was staying with me was my mother. She telephoned one afternoon to say she was in town on league business, ...
( Category: Historical May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-18 | Author:Pier Paolo Pasolini

* * * Among the many topics on which the toughs of Maranella gave their opinion at the Bar della Pugnalata or the Tappeto Verde—between one shot and the next, ...
( Category: Coming of Age May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Linda Rae Sande [Sande, Linda Rae]

Chapter 24 A Visit with a Countess Two-thirty in the afternoon Lady Clarinda Norwick screwed up her face and watched as the baby she held responded with a grin. “You ...
( Category: Regency May 21,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-05-20 | Author:Georgie Lee

Chapter Seven ‘Are you certain this is where the auction is being held?’ Jasper asked as they ascended the stone stairs into the building in Somers Town. ‘The paper was ...
( Category: Historical May 21,2017 )