Historical
epub |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Maureen Jennings [Jennings, Maureen]

Goddamn it. He recognized the tidy black printing at once. The envelope had been franked yesterday at the Ludlow post office and must have been delivered in the afternoon post. ...
( Category: War December 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-31 | Author:Jennifer Chiaverini [Chiaverini, Jennifer]

Joanna had a day of rest in Tavia’s cabin, nursing Ruthie, dozing, walking stiffly around the cramped space when Auntie Bess chided her out of bed to take a few ...
( Category: Historical December 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Alan Titchmarsh

28 Mill Cottage, Itchen Parva 19 June 2010 It was a decision taken by both of them the previous Sunday evening, that to live too much in each other’s pockets ...
( Category: Historical December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-12-31 | Author:Gideon Defoe

“We’ve finished all the biscuits?” asked the Captain in dismay. “I’m afraid so, Captain.” “We could fire a lime, sir,” suggested the pirate with a scarf. “They’re sort of the ...
( Category: Historical December 8,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Alan Bradley

Thirteen To my surprise, the Inspector chuckled. “Another of your chemical deductions?” he asked. “Not at all,” I said. “I simply observed that there was makeup on the upper surface ...
( Category: Murder December 8,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Malla Nunn

Sixteen A sleepy night watchman in a knee-length wool coat and fingerless gloves waved Emmanuel through the gates and onto the gravel driveway of van Niekerk’s house on the Berea ...
( Category: Historical December 8,2014 )
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 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Alan Bradley

Sixteen “You’re in my light,” Daffy said. I had intentionally planted myself between her book and the window. It was not going to be easy to ask my sister for ...
( Category: Murder December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 1992-12-31 | Author:William Boyd

THE FOUR-CYLINDER 12 H.P. FLANQUIN Udo Leys had a bad cold, his eyes itched, his nose ran copiously and he had a dull pain in his chest from the dry, ...
( Category: Historical December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Malla Nunn

Twelve “Five minutes,” Emmanuel said to Shabalala. He and Daglish set off in a counterclockwise direction taking them through the garden and around to the front of the cottage. Daglish ...
( Category: Historical December 8,2014 )
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 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-31 | Author:Gideon Defoe

Not long after, the Captain was knocking at the museum door, whilst two of his crew struggled with a heavy-looking bundle wrapped up in some sacking. There was the sound ...
( Category: Humorous December 8,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1988-12-31 | Author:Tom Holt

FOUR The next day, heralds from the Syracusans came to announce a truce for collecting our dead without hindrance, according to the custom. They also thanked us for the vast ...
( Category: Historical December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Malla Nunn

Eighteen It was the big one who did the stabbing. The pissant who grabbed the girl didn’t have the guts,” Labrant said. “I reckon Vickers knew them, let them in ...
( Category: Historical December 8,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1981-12-31 | Author:William Boyd

9 18 March 1915, Stackpole Manor, Kent Felix took off his eye-patch and stepped out onto the platform at Ashurst Station, blinking furiously in the weak early after-noon sun. His ...
( Category: Historical December 8,2014 )