epub |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Michael Pearce [Pearce, Michael]

The meeting had already gone on for some time. It was being chaired by Saunders, a Scot from the Ministry of Public Works, who was proceeding painfully slowly through the ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Michael Pearce [Pearce, Michael]

Owen could quite see why the Nationalist Party was putting down a question. It wished to embarrass the Administration and a foreign company was a good stick to beat the ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Michael Pearce [Pearce, Michael]

“A lot of nonsense,” said Owen, when they were alone. “Is it?” said Mahmoud. “Yes,” said Owen, “it certainly is.” “I’m not so sure,” said Mahmoud. “Garvin is an ambitious ...

epub |eng | 2019-04-25 | Author:Sabra Waldfogel [Waldfogel, Sabra]

Chapter 10: Freedom Is Sweeter Caro let her sewing fall into her lap. Days later, she could still feel the ghost of Danny’s kiss. She raised her fingers to her ...

epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

Chapter 20. East of Cosa The morning rain had left a chill on the streets, causing Appius to shiver all the way from the baths to the Forum. The columns ...

epub |eng | 2020-01-31 | Author:Peter Rimmer [Rimmer, Peter]

3 The Honourable Barnaby St Clair was impressed. Smithers had gone out for the newspapers. When he came back Barnaby had spread them out on his dining room table. The ...

epub |eng | 2019-09-10 | Author:Peter Rimmer [Rimmer, Peter]

6 On the other side of the Indian Ocean, close to where the Indian and Atlantic Oceans meet, Anthony Brigandshaw was sitting on Clifton Beach looking at the girls. He ...

epub |eng | 2011-08-03 | Author:Whittam, Jeffrey

-26- To Catherine, her allotted fourteen days came and went with impunity. From the street’s edge she watched her menfolk, along with Victoria’s youngest and fittest form their column of ...

mobi |eng | 2003-05-15 | Author:Wilbur Smith

The auction sale at the Company’s magnificent premises at Leadenhall Street took four days to accomplish. Tom sat beside Master Walsh throughout to note the prices bid on the booty. ...

mobi |eng | 2018-01-02 | Author:Wilbur Smith

The sun was sinking towards the western horizon and the elongated shadows cast by their camels flitted across the orange yellow dunes when at last Penrod made out the streaming ...

mobi |eng | 2019-04-01 | Author:Wilbur Smith

Ryder approached the camp the following day in the late morning. They had made good progress since parting from Ras Alula. Ryder always moved quickly when he was thinking and ...

mobi |eng | 2017-05-29 | Author:Wilbur Smith

We rode through the night and reached Luxor the following morning just as the dawn was breaking. The guards at the gates recognized us immediately and ushered us into the ...

mobi |eng | 2018-01-02 | Author:Wilbur Smith

General James Barry Munnik Hertzog came out to Weltevreden in a closed car which bore no mark or insignia of his high office. He was an old comrade in arms ...

epub |eng | 2006-10-30 | Author:Wilbur Smith [Smith, Wilbur]

The choice of what to take and what to leave had been nicely balanced, Zouga thought, as he listed and weighed the new loads. He had chosen paper and writing ...

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 ...