Biographical
epub, mobi |eng | 1954-01-01 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

FOLLOWING THAT, there were disputes and arguments between Thomas and Will. In these Will waxed hot, and Thomas was always calm, which meant that Will must come out the worse ...
( Category: Renaissance March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1990-01-01 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

SANCTUARY What followed was like a dream and I remember only snatches of it. The ecstasy of riding those night-quiet streets on Richard’s horse; the bliss of being close to ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Elizabeth Fremantle [Fremantle, Elizabeth]

GREENWICH PALACE, KENT, JUNE 1545 ‘What’s the racket? It’s bedlam in here,’ says Katherine, as she enters her privy chamber with Cat Brandon. Rig is barking manically at François the ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1983-01-01 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

THE SPY When I went to see my mother she was in a state of panic. She had faced the fury of the people of her own country so was ...
( Category: Renaissance March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Elizabeth Chadwick [Chadwick, Elizabeth]

The Welsh Marches, February 1140 The stink of burning horn filled the farrier’s small corner of Woolcot’s crowded bailey as he pressed a red-hot horseshoe on to Gorvenal’s near hind ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Rafael Sabatini

CHAPTER XVII THE DUPES It was a crestfallen Captain Blood who presided over that hastily summoned council held on the poop-deck of the Arabella in the brilliant morning sunshine. It ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-04 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

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 March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1976-01-01 | Author:John Banville [Banville, John]

* The battle dragged on for three months. Chapter sessions grew more and more frantic. At one such meeting Andreas himself made an appearance, stumbled drunk into the conference hall ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-24 | Author:W. Somerset Maugham [Maugham, W. Somerset]

XII MY PROMISE to Roy sent my thoughts back to my first years in London. Having nothing much to do that afternoon, it occurred to me to stroll along and ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-07-14 | Author:Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall [Nordhoff, Charles & Hall, James Norman]

CHAPTER XII The house of Quintal and McCoy had long been in darkness. Their sleeping rooms were on the upper floor, divided by a partition of matting. The ground floor ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1969-05-15 | Author:James Norman Nordhoff [Nordhoff, James Norman]

CHAPTER VIII During the following night the severity of the weather relaxed; at dawn the sea was so calm that for the first time in fifteen days we found it ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Conn Iggulden [Iggulden, Conn]

♦ ♦ ♦ Temuge walked through pitch darkness to the ger of Kokchu. As he passed the door, he heard the muffled sound of weeping from within, but he did ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-06-01 | Author:Robert B. Parker [Parker, Robert B.]

Twenty-eight It was hot and the river was low. The green belt along the San Pedro had narrowed as the water dropped. But there was some shade and there was ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-28 | Author:Sharon Kay Penman [Penman, Sharon Kay]

27 Oxford Castle, England December 1142 IT was snowing again. From his vantage point up on the castle battlements, Ranulf gazed out upon a frigid, frozen landscape of barren, foreboding ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1977-01-01 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

So the siege of Acre had not been broken and the two kings were sick. The crusaders were despondent. They cursed God. They had come all this way to fight ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )

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