Biographical
mobi |eng | 2010-06-23 | Author:Alison Weir

Later, when the rest have gone, Dorset and I share a flask of hippocras before the dying fire. “I know what people say about me,” I muse. “That I am ...
( Category: Biographical April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-22 | Author:Jean Plaidy

After that I suffered such a tragedy that I forgot all my anxieties about everything else. My little Anne fell ill. She had always been the delicate one and had ...
( Category: Renaissance April 11,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1982-12-15 | Author:Michael Ondaatje [Ondaatje, Michael]

THE PRODIGAL HARBOUR I arrived in a plane but love the harbour. Dusk. And the turning on of electricity in ships, portholes of moon, the blue glide of a tug, ...
( Category: Biographical March 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 1969-01-01 | Author:Nigel Tranter [Tranter, Nigel]

and want and despair, it all seemed as pointless as it was unreal, even ridiculous. Wallace himself certainly gave the impression that he thought it so, standing about ill at ...
( Category: Biographical March 27,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-05-31 | Author:William Styron [Styron, William]

A TIDEWATER MORNING During the late summer of 1938, there was black news of the onrushing war. I had just turned thirteen, and I had a newspaper route that carried ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1982-01-01 | Author:John Banville [Banville, John]

In moments like that you can feel memory gathering its material, beady-eyed and voracious, like a demented photographer. I don’t mean the big scenes, the sunsets and car crashes, I ...
( Category: British & Irish March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1990-08-27 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

"The people did not like me." she went on. "They hate people to be in command if they are not of their blood. They said Henry could not beget a ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1968-01-02 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

When Alexander heard the news he became frantic with anxiety that some ill might befall his mistress. He hastily collected the money, which was despatched at once. Then, trembling with ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

Chapter IX ISABELLA RECEIVES CHRISTOBAL COLON Margaret went about the Palace like a sad, pale ghost. She had lost her Flemish gaiety; she seemed always to be looking back into ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Sally Armstrong [Armstrong, Sally]

A FEW CICADAS speak from the trees behind the house. The crickets chirp cozily in the grass. Little John is awake and playing with his fingers. Charlotte stands her daily ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Conn Iggulden [Conn Iggulden ]

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Sorhatani swept around the corner in full array, sons and servants marching with her. She was a member of the khan’s own family by marriage! She had thought ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Conn Iggulden [Iggulden, Conn]

Jelaudin rubbed his eyes, furious at his own weakness. He could not let his three brothers see his air of confidence fade, not when they looked to him every day ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-22 | Author:Vanora Bennett [Bennett, Vanora]

TWENTY-ONE Catherine had been lying there all day, for hours, just like this: utterly spent, but utterly at peace too, gazing at her baby. She didn't mind the aches, the ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1990-12-31 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

IT WAS AFTERNOON before I saw Frances. She had not appeared, so I sent for her. I was alone when I received her. She looked frightened. I said: “Come and ...
( Category: Renaissance March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1991-01-01 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

IT WAS AFTERNOON before I saw Frances. She had not appeared, so I sent for her. I was alone when I received her. She looked frightened. I said: “Come and ...
( Category: Renaissance March 26,2014 )

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