Historical Fiction
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Grace Thompson

* * * The day of the beauty contest was dry but overcast, with a breeze blowing in across the sea and making people add a warm cardigan on top ...
( Category: World War II January 30,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-06 | Author:Mahir Guven

19 OLDER BROTHER The next morning I booked it to the lawyer’s office. There was a painting of a blindfolded woman on the waiting-room wall, holding a scale in her ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage January 30,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-24 | Author:Kim Murphy [Murphy, Kim]

* * * Chapter Fourteen Cold—so cold. Sam paced the floor of the old warehouse in a useless effort to remain warm. There was no glass in the windows, and ...
( Category: Military January 30,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Amos Oz

Moreover, for many years I was accompanied in my travels by a middle-aged Trades Union singer, Liuba Kaganovskaya. We appeared together, she and I, all over the country. She read ...
( Category: Middle Eastern January 30,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-30 | Author:Bianca Blythe

CHAPTER ELEVEN HE MIGHT PROPOSE. The words rang through Celia’s mind. It was the last thing she’d thought of when she’d gone to bed, and now she’d woken, it was ...
( Category: Regency January 30,2023 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-15 | Author:S. W. O'Connell [O'Connell, S. W.]

Chapter 16 At last, the word came. Chester finally received orders to move back from the defense works and assemble at the Brooklyn ferry for the return to New York. ...
( Category: Military January 30,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Leavell

Chapter 16 I fell into a bottomless void. Sensations of black mist whirled around my stretched fingers. A marble floor rushed to meet me. I woke before hitting bottom. Voices ...
( Category: United States January 30,2023 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-02 | Author:Kate Kerrigan

November 11, 1918 WHEN NEWS OF the Armistice came through, that the war was ended, it was like the Royal Barracks Dublin was set on fire with joy. Clive’s first ...
( Category: World War I January 30,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:George Eliot [Eliot, George]

( Category: Australian & Oceanian January 30,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-21 | Author:Pamela Kaufman [Kaufman, Pamela]

I watched Richard closely thereafter, though not to obey Bonel; we all watched the king as we would the sun if it rolled in a fiery ball before us. The ...
( Category: Fantasy January 30,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-04-13 | Author:Porter, M J [Porter, M J]

Chapter 11 “Where did that come from?” Edmund’s shocked eyes round on me. “It wasn’t the drawing room,” I’m already preparing to run to some new disaster. “Was it Margot’s ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense January 30,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-09-27 | Author:Harriet Caves [Caves, Harriet]

“Your mother would no doubt be happy enough for you to steal a moment or two with me.” “Only because she believes you are courting me.” He gave her a ...
( Category: British January 30,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-06-12 | Author:Kingswood, Mary [Kingswood, Mary]

18: Beside The River Samuel sat unmoving at his desk, just as when Dr Beasley had left him. Lassitude and despair had him in their icy grip, and he waited ...
( Category: British January 30,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-09-29 | Author:Daphne Byrne [Byrne, Daphne]

* * * Rosaline blushed. It was rather a silly thing to say, but she couldn’t quite get over the fact that Lord Benedict had bought her several hundred pounds’ ...
( Category: British January 30,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-10-12 | Author:Sofie Darling [Darling, Sofie]

He should wake her. Will knew he must. But he couldn’t yet bring himself to do it, not with her head nestled into the crook of his shoulder like the ...
( Category: European January 30,2023 )