Historical
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:Hilary Mantel

Now Edward Seymour is promoted into the king’s privy chamber, a singular mark of favour. And the king says to him, ‘I think I should have young Rafe Sadler among ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-29 | Author:Anne Perry

7 CHARLOTTE WAS deeply distressed that Lindsay had died in the second fire. Her relief that Shaw had escaped was like a healing on the surface of the first fear, ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-06-25 | Author:Harry Sidebottom

About three miles down the coast west from Sebaste was the town of Corycus. The most notable thing about it was the island lying offshore. It shared a name with ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-07-16 | Author:Harry Sidebottom

XV The theatre of Ephesus can be seen from miles out at sea. The Venus came out of the early morning mist and there it was, directly ahead, its marble ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Anne Perry

CHAPTER EIGHT The nightmare was so real that even when the old lady woke up the room around her seemed to be the one in which she had spent her ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Sansom, C. J. [Sansom, C. J.]

Chapter Twenty-Three THE FOLLOWING MONDAY was a busy day at the embassy. Harry had arranged to meet Milagros Maestre at the Prado at four but a press release from the ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-15 | Author:Kate Mosse

I looked down into the still surface of the water. My cheeks were hollow with lack of sleep and my eyes, rimmed with exhaustion, stared back at me in the ...
( Category: Ghosts March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-04-14 | Author:Beryl Bainbridge

Some men shy away from society when life deals an underhand blow. That’s not my way; I need people to restore my spirits and could scarcely wait to join the ...
( Category: Historical Fantasy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-03-27 | Author:Conn Iggulden

Labienus stood still on the training yard at Dyrrhachium. More than two hundred of Caesar’s Third legion were on their knees in the red dust, their hands bound behind them. ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-03-01 | Author:Conn Iggulden

The Helvetii had no cavalry and Julius sent the extraordinarii out to hammer their lines as they tried desperately to re-form to repel the new attack. As Julius marched with ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-23 | Author:Conn Iggulden

CHAPTER 25 Antonidus paced up and down the lushly furnished room, his skin mottled with anger. The only other occupant, lounging on a soft purple couch, was the corpulent figure ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-05-22 | Author:Iggulden, Conn [Iggulden, Conn]

The Senate watched each change of expression in the young man before them. He had answered every question and they had been impressed. His lineage was beyond reproach. Only his ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-26 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

CHAPTER 14 Angel had woken before dawn. He had slept in the stable, wrapped by warm straw and his thick cloak. He had shivered as he yawned, wriggled from his ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1996-10-06 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

CHAPTER 6 “He's mad, Hogan,” Wellington said. "Stark mad. Gibbering. Should be locked up in Bedlam where we could pay sixpence to go and mock him. Ever been to Bedlam?" ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-26 | Author:Jacqueline Winspear

Chapter Twelve It was at breakfast that Maisie asked James if it wouldn’t be too much trouble for her to come along to supper at the Otterburns’ that evening after ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )