Historical
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-17 | Author:Alexander McCall Smith

LA LEANED HER BICYCLE against the wall and bent down to remove the cycle clips that she placed about her trouser legs. She wore trousers for her work on the ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-09 | Author:Barry Unsworth

19 In the course of the following days, helped along by the wrestler’s two shillings and by farthings and halfpennies from his fiddling and singing, Sullivan got across the Humber ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-10 | Author:Gregory, Philippa [Gregory, Philippa]

15 I had not been lying to James Fortescue when I told him that all the dances for the evening were taken. But he was right to be confident of ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-01-02 | Author:Iain Pears

There was much to do, a whole society to rebuild, an entire regime to establish. Simple things, normally taken for granted, required immense effort and labor. All his tasks he ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-12 | Author:Dorothy Dunnett

Chapter 25 IT WAS NOT, however, the two equal swords of Katelina van Borselen that Nicholas found waiting for him on his return, at long last, to the capital. Before ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-04-21 | Author:Robert Harris

Pliny had grown too fat for a litter. He travelled instead by carriage, a two-seater, with Gaius wedged in next to him. Beside his red and corpulent uncle he looked ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-01-29 | Author:Anne Perry

7 “THANK HEAVEN.” Cornwallis leaned back in his seat in the box at the theater and glanced across at Pitt. Charlotte and her mother, Caroline, were sitting on the farther ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1969-12-31 | Author:Dorothy Dunnett

To dissect a fully grown giraffe with any success, in the open, in Aleppo, in September, demands an esoteric assortment of talents, such as, for example, a smart turn of ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Barry Unsworth

About the Author Barry Unsworth was born in 1930 in a mining village in Durham. He attended Stockton-on-Tees Grammar School and Manchester University. He has spent a number of years ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-25 | Author:Ben Kane

Chapter XVI: The Road to Gaul Northern Italy, winter 53/52 BC Seeing her fear, Secundus moved closer. ‘Tell me.’ ‘It’s the fugitivarii,’ Fabiola whispered. ‘I know it.’ ‘This would be ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1992-01-01 | Author:Anne Perry

7 MICAH DRUMMOND found himself thinking of the Byam case more and more often, at times even when he would normally have left police matters far behind him and begun ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-04-04 | Author:Anne Perry

7 AS SOON AS PITT had left to go and see Sir Guy Stanley, Charlotte picked up the newspaper and read the article again. She did not know if Stanley ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 1987-08-17 | Author:Allan Massie

Cleopatra's fate was not of course my only concern, hardly even the chief one. The most urgent was the treatment of Egypt itself. I decided it was too rich and ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-10-01 | Author:Jamie O'Neill

Leaving MacMurrough among the muttering poor. He made his way to the summerhouse where his boys were waiting. “Are we ready?” Yes, sir, they were. But there was a hemming ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-29 | Author:Anne Perry

7 GRACIE ARRANGED the white chrysanthemums and placed the vase on the table in the dressing room, then drifted downstairs in a vague, delicious daydream. In the hallway she did ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )