Historical Fiction
epub |eng | | Author:Eliza Knight

Freya’s head was buzzing by the time they arrived at the grand manse north of Sunderland. The ride had taken about an hour. She needed fresh air after her mother, ...
( Category: Scottish October 5,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-02-26 | Author:Fenella J Miller [Miller, Fenella J]

Chapter Ten Paul checked on the horses and discovered that the injury to the carriage horse wasn't as bad as he'd feared. The farrier had removed the shoe from the ...
( Category: Irish October 5,2023 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-04 | Author:Frank Barnard [Frank Barnard]

It was three hours into 1940. It looked the same as 1939. They knew it wasn’t. They wondered, as they walked to their billets, if they would see 1941. Part ...
( Category: German October 4,2023 )
epub |eng | 2007-07-25 | Author:Frank Barnard [Frank Barnard]

Seven Kit Curtis came up level with the priest on the steepest part of Pennellu Hill. The kappillan was moving slowly, pausing every few yards to catch his breath, wipe ...
( Category: World War II October 4,2023 )
epub |eng | 2009-02-19 | Author:Frank Barnard [Frank Barnard]

Eight For almost a week now Ossie had not flown the Storch, although the ghibli had long passed, heading north across the Mediterranean Sea to southern Europe, where it changed ...
( Category: World War II October 4,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nicola Griffith

* * * The men of Gwynedd ate around cookfires in the bulging northeastern corner in the wide space between walls. Aldnoth was right: nowhere near the twelvescore Cuthred spoke ...
( Category: Medieval October 4,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-07-17 | Author:Sandra Sookoo [Sookoo, Sandra]

Chapter Eleven Diana’s heartbeat tripped so quickly through her veins it felt as if she’d run all the way from London instead of through a garden and then over the ...
( Category: Regency October 4,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-07-16 | Author:Zofia Nałkowska

GAZING FROM THIS MOST EXALTED POSITION IN EVOLUTION INTO THE INFINITE ABYSS OF THE FUTURE, WE DISCERN THERE NOT THE DESPERATE DUSKS OF ETERNAL DEATH, BUT THE VIVIFYING FLASH OF ...
( Category: Jewish October 4,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-08-24 | Author:Emma Ling Sidnam [Emma Ling Sidnam]

Strange Beats I call Mum. She picks up after seven rings, sounding flustered. ‘Hi, Laura.’ ‘Hi, Mum, are you busy?’ ‘No, no, just out for a walk, that’s all.’ We ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage October 4,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-12-20 | Author:Alys Clare [Clare, Alys]

ELEVEN That night I dreamt I was back at sea. I was on a ship very like the Falco, and we were running fast under full sail. Now and again ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense October 4,2023 )
azw3 |eng | 2005-10-15 | Author:Alanna Knight

Chapter 15 Before sending a message to Imogen, Faro required a reliable timetable. No doubt this would be available at Stuttgart railway station. When he mentioned this Dieter seemed pleased ...
( Category: European October 3,2023 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Sarah Martin Byrd [Byrd, Sarah Martin]

Lakin woke early, thinking of her Me-maw and the little cottage. She wasn’t going back to college. She was also moving on, just like Grandma Nelda, only her heaven and ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage October 1,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Andrea Parnell

Chapter 9 Her duty half-done with the butter delivered to Rachel Leonard and a jar of medicine dropped off at the Allyn house, Glory guided the mare toward the Collier ...
( Category: United States October 1,2023 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-25 | Author:Annie Groves [Annie Groves]

TWO ‘It can’t be morning already,’ Lou heard Betty complain as the public address system announced that it was six o’clock and time for them to get up. Inside the ...
( Category: Anthologies October 1,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-27 | Author:Tabor Evans

Chapter 12 Longarm watched from the porch as Slim Peak left the house and headed toward the big hay barn. The order had already been given that a team of ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense October 1,2023 )